simple racing track
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| Hi, I''ve been practising with minib3d, making simple games with cubes or moving objects around and so on.. What I want to do is create a very simple racing game, (I've previously started making a very basic one in 2d, so know about getting the other cars to follow checkpoints, so although I'm a 'noob', I'm not a clueless noob/ ) What I can't get my head around is how to make the track I want something simple and flat (but can be improved later) I found this http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=75279#841435 and here is an example of a flat track style that I'm after (the second picture) http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=81964 One approach I tried (as shown below) is to load the previously created tile track from my 2d game and create cubes for each tile, but I think this would be too resource intensive, so can anyone explain to me in basic terms what a simple but good approach would be.
Local noobjects:Int = ReadInt(ts_loadmap)
For Local j:Int = 0 To noobjects-1
track= New trackType
track.mesh=createCube()
track.id = ReadInt(ts_loadmap)
track.x = ReadInt(ts_loadmap)
track.z = ReadInt(ts_loadmap)
scaleEntity track.mesh, 6,0,4
EntityAutoFade track.mesh, 200, 120
positionentity track.mesh,track.x*8-200,track.y,track.z*8-200
ListAddLast trackList, track
Next
CloseStream ts_loadmap
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| Many options. Simplest would be to load a texture onto a surface, maybe just a cube again to keep things simple. Scale it up as needed. Other options would be model and texture a track in a modeling program like blender. If you already have map data I would go with something more code intensive and build a mesh from scratch. Make a new mesh, add a single surface, and then define faces on it and texture them from a master texture... Many many more ways as well, that's a few options to hopefully get you started. Good luck! |
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| Thanks for the ideas! I've decided to try modeling a race track, as it's something I'd like to learn, using blender or wings3d, as I've found tutorials for them |
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| Thanks for the ideas! I've decided to try modeling a race track, as it's something I'd like to learn, using blender or wings3d, as I've found tutorials for them |
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