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Cool. Let me know if I can help with any more suggestions or whatever. I'm interested to see how you add more stuff. I think it is a good foundation to build a killer racing app from.

Don't use the forums has a chat room. Instead, you should reply to each others comments on the projects.

They're discussing a new game theyre working on

Thanks all. This started out as a "check out my new game, any suggestions" type thing that turned into a "help" type thing, and then became an ongoing suggest/implement/troubleshoot discussion. We would be more than happy to move it if needed, in fact that is why we moved it from Show and Tell to over here in the first place. But is definitely not just a "chat" session, or it wasn't until now?? Lol j/k. I can't really speak for diywid but I think it would be great if other people joined in as we are trying new scripts and learning a lot from this. The application is specifically diywid's, I was just lucky enough to get to help out a little. And we do reply quite often to each other's uploads but this has gone through many versions/uploads. That combined with the limited space/functionality of the Reply function necessitates a better way to collaborate and I assumed the forums were it. Besides, I figure if we get something wrong Cheddargirl or someone will come correct us like Lightening Death Valkyries from on high!

Sorry for the lack of new versions but I've been struggling with the motion scripts so I'll revert to the original system but change it to top down.

Edit: I've got v 7.1 up now

Last edited by diywid (2009-11-07 16:38:23)

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I did this but in an Asteroids type format. Otherwise it should be adoptable for your racing game. One problem is that using the left and right arrow keys to steer didn't work well. Maybe because of how I scripted it but when you pressed them, the vehicle hesitated before it turned. It also seemed to act incorrectly when pressing either left or right and up simultaneously. That's why I used the mouse icon instead because it stays smooth.

To adapt this, you would have to replace the asteroid with the four background sprites, set to scroll correctly, and without inertia    And yo would want to tweak the 'slide' factor which is the "s-vel-ramp" variable, if it is working correctly. Also, you would add the down arrow for brakes. Let me know if you are still interested in this.

Cool! Can't wait to see all your projects!

diywid wrote:

*Bump* Could anyone help me program it so the car rotates when you press the left and right arrow keys, and speeds up / slows down when you press up or down? Thanks, I've been trying for ages but I can't figure it out...

U have a "Momentum" var. (4-ever: move (Momentum steps)
4-ever: when up key pressed: change momentum by 1) (or 2, or 3, depending on you acceleration speed)

Also, 4 friction: 4 ever: if momentum > 0 change momentum by -.25