project: RACE

Game Engine Works in Progress and Game Demos
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For AI this is what I do.

Make an empty, and add and IPO of it going around the race track. Make a car track to it with motion. This allows the car to get hit and thrown off track and still track. Now there is problems with the empty getting ahead. So I would do this (in theory)

I would setup a prop for the animation and make the IPO play by animation. Now in python use the getLinearVelocity() for your car. If the Velocity is more than a certain value (moving a little bit) the empties property goes up therefore the animation plays. That way if the car stalls the empty doesn’t get ahead of it.

I’m sparking ideas in my head… Imma go write a tutorial =D

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Killer: If u make a tutorial, I´ll gonna use it… your theory sound very interesting.
Jesusfrk14: upload the buildnings and the stuff u got there… so I can check out what I can use.
3dmedival: Well, I´m not gonna use a sportcars to race against… Probably that very same volvo-model with another color, atleast to begin with.
//Yeahman

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A datsun honeybee isn’t a sports car. It’s a piece o’ crap.

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Lol. Killer, I’d be interested to see if you could get some AI cars going with the vehicle wrapper on them. I tried but so far no success

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Yeahman, I will, but please only use them for your game, and nothing else :wink: and I’d like credit. :wink:

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np… and yes… u will get credits for that…

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thanks a lot!

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Okay, I uploaded the new alpha 0.2 of Project: Race… The new thing is only a new car-model, with poor texture, but it will be fixed later.
Download here

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thats a great car texture! (could be better lol, but it’s really good).

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Ya… I got lazy, I will work some more on the texture, but now I want to start on the first racetrack, city-themed ofcourse… so if u got ur buildning… email me the .blend-file or link to it… It would probably would save me alot of time to use ur premade buildnings… if u got trashcans, citylight and/or other detail-stuff, I would enjoy to use them too.
thx
/yeahman:RocknRoll:

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I’ll pack 'em up and send 'em to you directly. I don’t have anything else, your street lights I think were good enough.

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The tutorial is almost complete!

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jesusfrk14 and killer: Sweet, thx…

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Yeahman… What I would like to drive is Saab 900 old or the 1998 model.
Im thinking to try to make small driving game where you drive Sööb (Saab is trademark so yes :wink: ).
But maybe we could try something together.

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Yea, a mixture of old cars, volvo 740 ( as I already made a model for ), and the older saab900, maybe make a nissan micra too…
… Can u model a car? We can work togheter on this project, sure…
PM ur msn-adress, and we can talk more about this stuff.
//yeahman

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a ford escort? xD lol

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Nissan Micra eh… Sunny maybe ;).

I PM’ed

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yea, maybe a sunny, and ford too… depends on what I have time to do… not so important, rather a few really awesome car-models than a bunch of really crappy one…
and I will also spend time to make tracks to race on. Now if Grinch18 wanna make a saab for my game, he is welcome with his carmodel.
I will btw spend most of the time now for a while to make a racingtrack… citythemed, and use some of jesusfrk´s stuff he send me over.

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I have even more stuff, (tons) of signs and other odds and ends I’ve made.

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I updated the game!
Update features: Two new maps: one stunttrack, inspired from Stunt car racer, and a far from ready city-map.
I also made a menu-system.