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#2
Projects / OpenRoad - Arcade racing
December 09, 2023, 12:20:24 PM
Long time no new project here...so I thought that I might as well contribute something.
It's not really a "project", but something that I'm working on from time to time. It started out as an experiment to see, how feasible it is to generate a road based on the random number generator alone. Over the months, it turned into something that you can actually "play" albeit it's far from being a game of some sort.
The road and the AI vehicles are all generated, nothing has been placed by hand. It has basic sounds, arcade like vehicle controls, traffic and a very crude collision "model".
Here's a video: https://youtu.be/o3MthgPRDsE?si=GEl1AJA2DRFxJCaJ
And this is how it looks:
It's not really a "project", but something that I'm working on from time to time. It started out as an experiment to see, how feasible it is to generate a road based on the random number generator alone. Over the months, it turned into something that you can actually "play" albeit it's far from being a game of some sort.
The road and the AI vehicles are all generated, nothing has been placed by hand. It has basic sounds, arcade like vehicle controls, traffic and a very crude collision "model".
Here's a video: https://youtu.be/o3MthgPRDsE?si=GEl1AJA2DRFxJCaJ
And this is how it looks:
#4
After playing some racing games on my old computers (Amiga, C64...), I felt the urge to try something like that for myself on a more modern platform but with a retro look. I wanted to code something that at least generates a road and moves a car. I'm not sure, if this is going anywhere...if it is, it'll be some Android game...but I'm still undecided, if I really want to do that.
Anyway, it's basically code that generates road tiles based on an RNG and then warps, rotates and translates them to form a continuous road. The tiles get enabled/disabled based on the player's position, so that in total, not more than 30 tiles are being processed for each frame. So even if it looks like a single 3d mesh, it actually isn't.
Then it places a car sprite (ripped from Outrun), plays some music (also ripped from Outrun...) and moves along.
Here's a video (with german descriptions, but anyway): https://youtu.be/tAsdOGt0i28
Edit: It's using the software renderer for now, hence the shimmering.
Anyway, it's basically code that generates road tiles based on an RNG and then warps, rotates and translates them to form a continuous road. The tiles get enabled/disabled based on the player's position, so that in total, not more than 30 tiles are being processed for each frame. So even if it looks like a single 3d mesh, it actually isn't.
Then it places a car sprite (ripped from Outrun), plays some music (also ripped from Outrun...) and moves along.
Here's a video (with german descriptions, but anyway): https://youtu.be/tAsdOGt0i28
Edit: It's using the software renderer for now, hence the shimmering.
#6
News / Version 1.32 has been released!
March 24, 2021, 05:21:48 PM
Get it from here (links should be fixed!): https://www.jpct.net/download.html
Changes of the desktop version:
Changes of the Android version:
Changes of the desktop version:
- Fixed a bug with cloning certain objects.
- Added the option to leave the inputstream open when loading a texture.
- Added support for transparency to (de-)serialized objects.
- Added the option to set the TextureManager into "forgiving" mode.
- Converted int parameters in blit()-methods to float.
- Added a compileAllObjects() method to World.
- Improved batch size for compiled objects.
- Added option to set specific lights for an Object3D.
Changes of the Android version:
- Fixed a bug with cloning certain objects.
- Fixed a bug which caused wrong clipping when setting a bounding box for a one-polygon object.
- Added the option to leave the inputstream open when loading a texture.
- Added support for transparency to (de-)serialized objects.
- Fixed a rare problem with blitting buffers.
- Added the option to set the TextureManager into "forgiving" mode.
- Fixed point sizes in ES 2.0 modes.
- Converted int parameters int blit()-methods to float.
- Improved batch size for compiled objects.
- Added option to set specific lights for an Object3D.
- Fixed the clearAll-option for render targets.
#8
News / The Forum uses SSL now...
December 04, 2020, 07:13:00 PM
...finally. Please let me know, if there are any problems with this change.
#15
News / Away from keyboard for two weeks
July 06, 2017, 02:32:50 PM
I'll be back around July, 23th. I might be able to offer some support, but not fully.