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Sounds great!

Your latest projects look quite promising!

Mmm, hard to choose, but I choose the first one because it is the most realistic. We can add stuff like seen on the project , were the pieces snaps to the grid and to add some decoration. Then we can work on making a perfect sensor for the car, and other types of stuff like 1 or 2 player, AI, etc etc.

HamsterMan2000 wrote:

Mmm, hard to choose, but I choose the first one   because it is the most realistic. We can add stuff like seen on the project , were the pieces snaps to the grid and to add some decoration. Then we can work on making a perfect sensor for the car, and other types of stuff like 1 or 2 player, AI, etc etc.

How about blending both ?
Other project suggestions to blend?

If i get you right, you like the snap engine of number two
and the tiles of the slot racer for the track?

I want to collect tracks before programming the car with this collab.

Last edited by eventexception (2011-07-25 14:20:23)

I have written my own editor and tiles.
Paint anything, except the tracks. These need sensing later.

If you have any new ideas, new tiles, tracks ... just remix and
lets talk about your remix and integrate it 

We have one remixer,
not in this thread but actual delivered: user TM_
see updated project.

HamsterMan2000 please upload your remix of a track
or start with the car or whatever you want to integrate.

Last edited by eventexception (2011-07-27 13:14:44)

bump -

Please paint one racetrack with the included track editor.

Got five minutes to upload?

And you can delete it after i have seen it.

chipguy wrote:

i love slot cars! great idea for a project. i can't really help though. i have a different collab.

No five minutes left to paint a level with my editor?

Phase two:

program a car for the tracks

For performance, I think a 2d array or linked list of cells would be better than trying to determine the slot track by looking at the background.  I went through several iterations of that idea in my "Vac-Man" code (pacman engine) before settling on a data structure for the maze (cf roads) versus just a drawing.  You'd need 8 sprites - 4 corners, 2 straights, a cross-over and a chicane.  Then draw the corresponding costume of a track sprite at each cell location to draw the track.  Following the track will then be much easier.  Admittedly it's a big change and a rewrite but I think worth it at this point before too much other work is done.  I'll try to knock up a prototype/demo this weekend if I can (although it's a busy weekend for me, but I know you're like me - more convinced by code than by talk...)

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gtoal wrote:

no action, but look at the source to see how the track is built from a 2D array.

There's some action now :-) ... i added a car and an AI to drive it.

seems extra fast in flash.  There's a 'glide' instruction in the car code - lower the time to make the car go faster.

This promising project uses array based streets:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/blob8108/2041731
(therefore no problems handling high speeds,
  but different coding approach)