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DarkBASIC Discussion / Crazy Golf Style game

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Noob
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Posted: 5th Feb 2003 12:33
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For University we have to make a game in DB. We have come up with the idea of a crazy golf style game. It will be a 2d isometric game. How easy will this be to make? as we have never used DB before, cheers!
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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 5th Feb 2003 14:32
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Basically a lot of sprites, a few math commands and a 2d array heightmap of the level, and you're all set.
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QuothTheRaven
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but for a first project, it'll be damn hard
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freak
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Posted: 5th Feb 2003 16:24
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DB is quite slow using sprites, it doens't sound logically but rendering 3d in realtime is faster in DB... It's even easier I think (there are more commands for 3d than for 2d in DB)

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Killer Sponge
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Posted: 7th Feb 2003 15:01
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Question- Am i the only one who uses "PASTE IMAGE" into a second bitmap than sprites? Because im sure my methoed is so much faster! (But admitidly more complicated)

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 7th Feb 2003 16:41
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its interesting... even for 2D games i never used sprites - i use 3D Plains and an array for the pixel information.

personal preference more, but i enjoy the extra speed.

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hexGEAR
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yep, same here, using 3D plains instead of sprites is a definate speed booster, even for my 3D game interface, i use 3D plains.

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UberTuba
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The main problem is calculating haw the ball is going to bounce.
The way i would do it was to make a circle of points
around your ball,via cos/sin
and check which of of these points are touching a wall. U can use this to work out the angle of the wall, because a tangent will always be at right angles to a line drawn between the centre of the ball
and the point of collision.

Ps a tangent is a line that just clips the side of a circle, and only just touches it.

PSS why isometric? top down or3d would be soooooo much easier (blieve me)

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trager
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I have posted some code is the snippets section which models bouncing balls fairly well.

The model is very accurate and probably a little easy to implement than fluffs suggestion.

In my opinion the interesting part would be accurate collision testing at all speeds. But then accuracy is relative and you should ask yourselves how much you really need.

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Noob
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Posted: 8th Feb 2003 15:51
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Cheers for your info people, much appreciated, i will have a word with the others about changing the view to an overhead view and will go and check out that code of balls bouncing. I will be back asking some more questions though lol

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