Re: [tuxracer-devel] Creating new levels (was: (no subject))

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

Jasmin Patry wrote:

> It helps (for both speed and memory consumption) to keep the bitmap
> fairly narrow -- the width of 48 pixels that you mention above is
> reasonable.

Well, not if you want more 'wiggly' courses.  I think some of the
courses you see in (for example) the game "1080" for Nintendo 64 would
require much wider maps...and the runs take several minutes to complete.


> > Another good thing (i know i'm boring sometimes) could be to specify in
> > course.tcl others rgb files to load for others objects (houses, other kind
> > of trees etc...) and also specify your code for colors (in your new rgb
> > files you would say that a color represent this object etc...).
> 
> Yes, I plan to do something very much like that. :-)

I would have thought that positioning 3D features other than simple
things like trees would require something other than an image map.

I would use a separate text file containing something like:

filename X Y Z Heading

...with the 'Y' component being optional to allow things to automatically
sit exactly on the terrain at their local origin.

It's not as convenient as an image-based approach - but for objects
of more complexity than a tree, I think you need a better positioning
scheme.

> > By the way, tuxracer and tuxaqfh are my 2 favourites linux game projects!!!
> 
> Cool! :-)

Double-cool!!  :-)

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