Outside The Box Programming

calc84maniac · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: F-Zero: Project Discussion

Yep, I am making an F-Zero game. In 3D. Time for an engine screenshot!

It gets about 9.5fps on the TI-83+, about 24.5fps on the faster calcs.
It pretty much just displays a 3D view of a 32x32 tilemap.

Update - Feature list:

Supports 32x32 maps
Changeable camera height
Sprite routine finished, working on implementation

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bfr · Not worth mentioning Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 13

That looks pretty cool, and it's reasonably fast, too. Cool

Hopefully it'll still be fast enough when you add more stuff to the game.

calc84maniac · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

I just added a feature list to the first post. As you can see, I've made a sprite routine. To be exact, a large clipped masked sprite routine. Yep, that's a mouthful, for sure. But I've found a sweet formula to figure out where to draw the sprites...

In other news, I've decided to make this a two-page application. The main reason is that the maps each take up one kilobyte. Also, it's much more convenient for both me and the user this way.

Oh yeah, I also figured out a nice way I might implement link play...
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calc84maniac · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:32 am Post subject:

I've been working on this a bit, and I think I have the sprite-coordinate-getter-finder-thingamajig working... finally...

Right now I'm displaying one of 3 sprites depending on how far away you are... which makes it look a bit strange, but at least that's how the 68K version did it. Also, I only have the sprite from the back, so it looks a bit odd without rotation. I hope to get a scaled sprite routine working so I can display the ship at any size, but if that ends up too slow, I'll be sticking with the fixed set of sizes.

Anyway, here's the screenshot goodies!

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calc84maniac · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

Hooray, I have now added grayscale! Who cares if it's 3-level, it still looks nice... Razz

(Believe me, it looks awesome on hardware.)

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elfprince13 · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject:

sexitude

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metagross111 · Pokemon Master Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 42

awesome bump Wink

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calc84maniac · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject:

New screenshot, with a second ship going around in a circle. Also shows off the camera's ability to move up and down.

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calc84maniac · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:23 pm Post subject:

New screenshot and demo!

Added acceleration, collisions with walls, and TI-Nspire compatibility.
The AI is just holding down accelerate and turning left, but I'm hoping to add real AI sometime soon.

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kalan_vod · N00b Joined: 29 Jan 2009 Posts: 3

Looks sweet! How come the AI was a little better in the past SS?

DShiznit · Notorious Criminal Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 13

Fix the sprite scaling and it's gold.

calc84maniac · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject:

metagross111 · Pokemon Master Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 42

man, looks good!
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calc84maniac · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject:

IT'S ALIIIIVEEE!

So yeah, I decided to ditch my plan for the Artificial Intelligence, because it was getting way too complicated (and it probably wouldn't work anyway). Instead, I'll use the tried-and-true waypoint method. So, I decided to get the AI to be able to aim itself at a point. The best way to test that, in my opinion, was to have a moving target - that is, the human-controlled car. And it seems to work! The artificial intelligence is using the exact same controls as the human - left, right, and 2nd. Smile

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metagross111 · Pokemon Master Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 42

awesome
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