Re: [TuxKart-devel] RE: [Plib-devel] TuxKart on Win32 works fine

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

"Vallevand, Mark K" wrote:
> 
> OK.
> I've posted some new code and a new win32 executable.
> http://vallevand.homepage.com/tuxkart/tuxkart.tar.gz
> http://vallevand.homepage.com/tuxkart/tuxkart+.exe
> 
> The tar file contains the original code that it was
> derived from, because I'm perpetually behind the latest
> CVS.  It contains the same new code for the MS VC++
> changes I posted before.  It contains the PPE test code
> that Steve posted on the PPE-Devel list.  And, it
> contains some code for underwater effects.  That code
> is purely experimental.  The executable has a different
> name because it contains that experimental code.
> 
> The underwater code is a 500x500 meter textured quad.
> Actually, its two quads, one up-facing and one down-
> facing.  There is code to change fog characteristics
> when the camera is underwater.  The 'sealevel' is coded
> as .5 meters.
> 
> If someone tries this code, I'd like some feedback.  It
> certainly is a hack.  But, it may be workable.  If the
> Tux puts on a scuba tank when underwater, it might be
> kind of fun.

That sounds exactly like I do in my other Tux game (Tux_AQFH).

The water in several levels is a pair of back-to-back polygons
with the fog coloured cyan when the camera is beneath it.

It's not a perfect solution - but it fools most of the people
most of the time.

If you ever manage to get the camera beneath one of the Lava
pools in tux_aqfh, the fog goes bright red!

Anyway, an underwater gokart driving game?!?  I suppose so.

We could switch their models over to bright yellow mini-submarines
with big bubble cockpits!

Hmmm - not *this* week!


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