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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Something Simliar to NEED FOR SPEED

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billy777
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 09:36 Edited at: 16th Oct 2003 20:52
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I am working on something similar to NEED FOR SPEED car racing game.
Im just curious if anything similar has been done with darkbasic before? I did a "search" but nothing really came up. Didn't see anything really simlar the showcase either.

I cant seem to get the smooth curves and gentle slopes using a matrix. Ive opened up a TRACK EDITOR for NEED FOR SPEED and can see its track is made up more of a MESH type object to give smooth curves and slopes for the track.

Does anyone have any ideas or examples how this would be done in dark basic?

My version is very close to the quality of NFS- just without the gentle slopes and twisting turns. The demo is too large at 49megs so I cant supply a download yet but you can see some screenshots here...

http://www.lasthalfofdarkness.com/redmoon



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adr
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 20:02
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A couple of examples that I've seen (http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=12778&b=5) tend to use full 3d meshes (.x, if you will) for the tracks....

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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 20:03
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DarkGT is another game which is similar to NFS. There's a topic in work-in-progress.

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ReD_eYe
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to make smooth matrices have at look at the my codebase entries for smooth matrix and matrix hills, just select view matrix snippets.


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thanks for the replies guys....

I will check them all out... you can see my latest screenshots here...http://www.lasthalfofdarkness.com/redmoon
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Wow, checked out the screenshots. They are awesome! I thought of making a racing game, never really was up to it. I think that your game could turn out really awesome, as long as the control is good, you get more cars, and you get this track thing worked out. Right now are you using a matrix and positioning the car to the matrix height?

I wish you the best of luck for your game.

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you say can't put it online because its too big... define too big?
i know how insanely oversized unchecked DB/DBP projects can get.

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Nice looking screenshots, well done - I'd really like to play this.

Good luck to you.

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billy777
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Posted: 17th Oct 2003 19:51
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thanks for comments people....

- Yes im positioning the car's height to matrix now.

- as far as the demo size - its about 49megs (my site already has many other downloads) so i have to refine that download first.
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Quote: "define too big?"


49megs

You could model a track then use the KDLL for collision - tat's give fast, quick sliding collision.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2003 05:40 Edited at: 18th Oct 2003 05:41
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@David89 - Barzoule did some great work on this, dll/3d Mesh/Car racing, the lot...

http://www.realgametools.net/forums/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16640;start=0

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