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chronozphere · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject:

Well... you will most likely slide along a wall which will cause some damage. A frontal hit causes more damage and might actually kill you, depending on your health. (Need to add some kind of explosion effect for that) Smile

Jeroen · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject:

That's what I want to hear more about: explosion effects. Got any technique(s) in mind on how to achieve that effect?

Also, can you tell a little more about handling the camera in the game? I'm just curious, having never coded a game like that myself. Smile

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chronozphere · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject:

Well... The explosion is probably going to rendered using a particle system. This system contains a list of particles. Every particles has some data like, position, rotation, color, speed, lifetime etc.. They will be rendered as textured quads. Every particle effect has it's own texture, it's own particle creation- and particle update routines which are used to specify the behaviour and appearance of the system. Smile

The camera is easy to explain but hard to implement. I made a special coordinate system (very special, called "tunnel coordinate system") that is warped along the entire track. It consists of 3 components just like x, y and z, but they have different functions, and are called ARC, RD, and LN (Arc Length, Radial distance and Longtitude).
I use these coordinates to denote positions inside the tunnel.
Every vehicle has a position like this and a camera position and camera lookat which are relative to this position. These are all tunnel coordinates and can be converted (by a lot of mathy routines) to World coordinates. These world coordinates are send to OpenGL.

Hope this makes things clear. Smile

P.S: I need a name for this game (pipelineGame is obviously a working title). I've posted a few of my suggestions in the thread at PGD, but I would like to hear some cool suggestion from you guys too. I'm in a bit of a hurry because I want to add this title to my game menu.

chronozphere · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:55 pm Post subject:

Okay.. The deadline for the compo was today..... and I JUST MADE IT. Very Happy

The name of the game is: "Tube Runner".

I've just submitted the game at www.pgdannual.com. I'm sure you guys will be able to play it very soon. Smile

Jeroen · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:37 am Post subject:

Congrats man! Excellent job! Very Happy

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Grandmaster B · DeleD PRO user Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 218

Looks good from the screenshots. I wish you good luck!

chronozphere · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject:

Ok.. here it is:

http://nashasoft.web44.net/TubeRunner.zip

Hope you enjoy! Very Happy

There are a few highscores allready, but they are easy to beat. Smile

I might make a remake in the future, but this will not happen within six months. I first need a better engine. Also, I want to spend some time on DeleD development. Smile

MeinenM · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject:

Love the arcade style game, but the car just seems a little off to me

trucker2000 · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject:

chronozphere · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject:

trucker2000 · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject:

Haha. The first 3 times I downloaded, I only got half of the zip. The fourth time was a charm.
That's a fun little game. Hard to get thru without crashing, but hey, that's part of the challenge. Great going.
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chronozphere · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject:

MeinenM · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject:

trucker2000 · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:38 pm Post subject:

Well if you don't win, then someone made a super awesome game. My grandson had a ball all day playing your game. He beat my high score the first run thru. Confused

It's a fun game to play. (quite addicting too)
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paul_nicholls · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject: