Suitability of TGE for submarine game?

#1 I would say yes to both questions. A resource exists for joystick and other control support, and the 3d-Diggers website offers a submarine vehicle for sale.

Racing Wheel, Flight Stick and Gamepad Support

This plan by Stephen Beffy Moises has a video of the Seawolf vehicle in action, you can take a look at it and see if it's suitable to what you have in mind.

But also know that adding joystick support and a submarine vehicle will require source code changes.

#2 Wow - that submarine video is very much along the lines of what I was planning. I will need to create my own subs but this demonstrates that it can be done.

The seawolf does not seem to move like a true submarine, I need to write a more complex routine to take into account acceleration, boyancy and turn rates based on speed.

I think I will purchase TGE and have a play :)

Is Visual C++ 2003 still the recommended compiler or does it support the lated Visual C++?

Thank you.

#3 I'm glad you found that video encouraging - I know it gave me a few ideas. I tend to think of content packs as a learning tool instead of actual content for my projects because no matter how good they are there's always something you want to do differently.

I was using Visual C++ 2005, but switched to 2008 Express without any problems so I imagine that most any flavor of VC would work. Good luck!