Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] GSoC Idea - Splitting Karts and Characters

[Joerg H. <jo...@lu...>]

Hi Anant,

welcome to STK.

There probably isn't too much code to point you to. The kart model is 
mostly handled in src/karts/kart_model.?pp - and karts include the kart 
and driver.

Splitting karts and driver would mean that you have to create a new 
object that loads and stores the mesh of a driver. Then KartModel should 
take such a Driver objects and combine them on the screen into one 
model. The main problem is that the characters have different arms etc., 
and you would need to find a way to make sure that all characters reach 
the steering wheel, and the animations still look correct. That's what I 
meant that the steering wheel of the karts might need to be at a 
specific position so that the arbitrary character animations would still 
work.

It might be necessary to restrict certain karts for certain characters 
(e.g. puffy and gnu would certainly be very special).

Cheers,
   Joerg


On 15/04/13 18:25, Anant Subramanian wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I am Anant from India and I am interested in contributing to the
> development of STK by working on the project idea to split the karts and
> characters. I find this project interesting as I have been trying my
> hand at game development (a small game I made using flash with a team of
> 3 for my college tech-fest : _http://www.bits-apogee.org/lacuna/_) and I
> am most comfortable programming in C++. I am also familiar with basic
> modeling and the concept of sensors and actuators in blender.
> So I followed the instructions and checked out the sources of the latest
> development version of STK. I have built and run the game using VS 10.
> I have been going through the source code, but I am unable to find a
> good starting point relating to this project idea (so I did not
> understand what was meant by standardizing the location of the steering
> wheel). I was wondering if someone could help by pointing me in the
> right direction.
> Thanks !
> Anant
>
>
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