Very basic question regarding racing game

[vishwas_dot_h]

Hi Folks,


I have seen many racing game in j2me most of them from a top view which is basicaly a tile game( am i right?).

I confused about racing game those who got a perspective view...can anybodt tell me what is the basic techniqe behind this.


Thanx
wating for reply.

[shmoove]

I have seen many racing game in j2me most of them from a top view which is basicaly a tile game( am i right?).

That's a pretty safe bet.

I confused about racing game those who got a perspective view...can anybodt tell me what is the basic techniqe behind this

I've never done any of those so I'm purely speculating, but I guess they use some kind of horizontal raytracing. What I mean is that for every y on the screen you calculate the left and right edges (x coordinates) of the road at that distance (using a perspective transformation of some kind, it depends on how you would encode the track) and then draw horizontal lines changing the color at the edges.

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