car racing game

[dotcdotc]

hi all,


I want develop a 2D racing game for 60 series devices. I am facing several issues that I couldn't solve.

I want ur valuable guidance/suggestions for these problems

1) how can I implement perspective view
(please tell me link, algorithms, what mathematics will be needed ?)

2) which type of tile mapping will be used (or not ) ?

3) please suggest me an excellant book to learn geometry (which must have detalied material for 2D and 3D perspective view )

ur suggestions and ideas r highly recommended

regards
dotcdotc

[shmoove]

You are confusing a couple of views here. If you have a perspective view then it's 3D and not 2D. That throws tile mapping out the window (tile-mapping would be good on a 2D top-view racing game).
Two good books I can suggest are "Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus" (2D) and "Trick of the 3D Game Programming Gurus" (3D) by Andre LaMothe. They have code in C for the Windows platform, but he explains all the concepts really well, so you can make the port from there. They are heavy books though, and might be a little overkill if all you want to do is make a small racing game.

shmoove

[dotcdotc]

shmoov ! u mean I can't use two 2 objects to implement perspective view. Pleas tell me in more detail if possible.



thanks
dotcdotc

[shmoove]

What do you mean by perspective view.
I assumed you meant something like this.

shmoove

[dotcdotc]

yes , exactly .


dotcdotc

[shmoove]

Well that is 3D. Well, more of a hybrid 3D/2D technology. The cars themselves look like they're good ol' 2D sprites, but the track is generated with 3D algorithms.
Search around the web for "perspective projections".

shmoove

[mcmcdonald]

Hi!

Perhaps you can do this with raycasting / floor casting.

Check out the tutorial at
http://www.permadi.com/java/rayc/index.html

McMc

[dotcdotc]

hey mcmc ! thanks a lot to suugest me but the url u have given me doesn't exist but I found the correct url on net


http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/raycast/

--------- is the correct url


regards
dotcdotc