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UtopianGames

A while back POLYGAMe posted about a racing game that he made with unity…it looked cool and i love racing games so i wondered if GS could come close and set about making GS Racerz 2.

Heres a video of the excellent game I'm talking about made with unity.



It's early days and a lot of work and tweaking is ahead but my aim is to get pretty close to the original Unity powered game with GameSalad.

I have 3 surface types with different car handling and jumps are in along with shadows of the car and jump shadows.

The length and height of jump is determined by the speed your going.

An early WIP video with temp art (final will be more 3D looking) is below.

I plan to add bridges and trees to give it a more 3D feel along with other cars to race against for some bumping and grinding fun along with some weather effect and better particles.

60fps on iPad 1 (video looks a little jumpy but it's super smooth) :P



Darren.

-Timo-

cool keep it up!

mounted88

Very nice Darren. Could possible be the first async gamesalad game

KevinCross

Very nice Darren. Could possible be the first async gamesalad game

I think async is for turn based games

SingleSparq

Geeze man, amazing. Was looking at unity for a car game I wanted to do but your making me rethink it!

mounted88

Very nice Darren. Could possible be the first async gamesalad game

I think async is for turn based games

Ok you do a time trial and then I try to beat your time trial. Turn based
best time trial wins

KevinCross

Ok you do a time trial and then I try to beat your time trial. Turn based
best time trial wins

Fair enough

artfish

Huge potential. Awesome work dude!

tatiang

Darren, you're doing some amazing work. Really taking GameSalad to the next level. I love the reflection in the car windows. And the jumps are pretty sweet, too.

One of my favorite games growing up was Super Sprint and any time I see anything resembling that I start to drool a bit.

jigglybean

Great work guys as always!

pinkio75

Great template, but the cars is a 3D pre rendered images?

Bellow

wow great one.

Braydon_SFX

Well done my friend! Looks fantastic!

allc1865

Very nice! Well done! Keep up the good work!

blue_elephant

This is sweet. The car images are at a bit of a side angle though so it appears slightly tilted.

JSproject

Looks promising (yet again)!

BazookaTime

Looking really cool.

LumpApps

Pretty slick. I like it.

Sparkyidr

Looking pretty cool dude.

Socks

@DeepBlueApps

I was doing something similar a while back, I found a strong shadow (cast from a lowish light source) really helped seat the car in it's environment - also you need a good old fashioned crash animation !!

Vimeo.com/78115918

pinkio75

@sadida172
i think that it's a 3D render...but i don't understand how they change images with angle..

KevinCross

@sadida172
i think that it's a 3D render...but i don't understand how they change images with angle..

I'd do it as:

Rule: If self.rotation > 0 And self.rotation < 10
Change Attribute: self.Image = "carAngles0-10.png"

Rule: If self.rotation > 11 And self.rotation < 20
Change Attribute: self.Image = "carAngles11-20.png"

I'd try my best to fit it all in one rule and expression though. And maybe more images to make the rotation look smoother.

One expression with 360 images would look summat like this:

Constrain Attribute: self.Image = "carAngle"..floor(self.rotation)..".png"

pinkio75

@KevinCross yes and thanks for suggestion,
but i need 30 rules to make this correctly?
mhh... i don't know if this is the best way...

KevinCross

@KevinCross yes and thanks for suggestion,
but i need 30 rules to make this correctly?
mhh... i don't know if this is the best way...

Like I said, I would try and do it with less rules. If you have 360 images you could do it with 1 constrain attribute.

pinkio75

i've 31 images 0to31

neoman

Looks really cool ... Nice work ... ;-)

KevinCross

Assuming those 31 images create a full 360 spin of the car you could name them as car0.png, car1.png to car30.png and then have something like this

Constrain Attribute: self.Image = floor(self.rotation / 31)..".png"

I believe that will give you what you need and in one line

pinkio75

@KevinCross thanks i've try, but the images dosen't respect the angles correctly...i will need 360 images? and when i turn left i've the negative value and this dosen't work...thanks anyway

Socks

@KevinCross thanks i've try, but the images dosen't respect the angles correctly...i will need 360 images? and when i turn left i've the negative value and this dosen't work...thanks anyway

If you have 360 images, just use the arrow keys (or whatever) to change an attribute (let's call it 'Direction', then lock which image your actor displays to 'Direction' - so if you moving at an angle of 63° then you will be using image 63.

pinkio75

@Socks
yes but i need 360 images for one car, and if i have 5 cars i've 1.500 images?
i think that 36 images are fine to make this.
I will buy the DBA template
Thanks.

KevinCross

If you're getting negative numbers you could use the abs function to make it a positive one.