beside posting stupid and non-stupid comments on this forum, I just found that I forgot to update my editor's terrain deformation due to A8.40.3 that finally auto-updates hull correctly for all the chunks, so I just modified it to show shading changes also in real time (vertex normals are not auto-updated after deformation):

simple brush based height increase, updating normals only in modified area for speed, and then updating existing entity positions manually (it means pressing a hotkey or a button):


adding some noise to a flat surface by selecting a proper brush, a proper area size, and a small enough height adjustment value, then only one click:


nothing really new, just faster and smoother.

still learning to code and trying to make a simple racing game
a lot to do but it's fun to create it step by step
it will prolly turn out to be a little workshop





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=698YQbehIUo&feature=youtu.be

Hey Realspawn, that looks good but why no physics? The samples give a great code for a racing game!

@Sivan :
Yes, that's i think lot more better to work on individual parts ot have lot more speed.
Does the terrain neightbours adjust their height smoothly with the chunck you modify ?
You should have chunckc with more resolution perhaps ? we see a lot the polygons, just y taste and perhaps your game won't need that ?

@Realspawn :
Their was a simple racing game without physic contribution.
(But i don't remember where it was).
Good work, looks pro.

every vertices are handled similarly fine, no chunk border problems, it was bad only in A7 (but I had a workaround for it using d3dcomputenormals).

what you see rough is because of vertex distance i.e. terrain resolution. if it is set to denser you can get a much smoother terrain resulting in performance drop (I use 4 tiles as vertex distance i.e. 128 quants which is okay for me). and I used here high raise values to see changes clearly. moreover there is a smoothing option to post process your rough terrain by a few clicks to get something really natural.

Edit: also the selected brush, and the manipulated area size have effect on the final smoothess of distorsion.

Yes that's different from indie engines havong some advanced terrain , big and smooth with good frame rate, and you would need the pro version that contains LOD on terrain.

yes it's a big limitation and performance drop that should be changed

@Realspawn :
I just checked your video, good prototype work.

-The karts seems tiny compared to road and texture size (or you should make smaller the textures grass on the sides of the road)

-The karts seems to be flying ? not enought contact to roda or the shadow is not enought strong or perhaps you could go for real shadow ?

Later improvments :
make BIG panels showing BIG power up Icons and colorfull.


Keep the good work !

@ratchet
I have not found any car game example without the physics in c-lite.
As I am a non coder i try to create all from scratch step by step. so all you see is the base foundation of a full game. The cars do fly sometimes due to the path thing when i use path spline the models get spinning around instead of staying at their path so i keep experimenting
Next clip i will use shadows

I just added 36 new ground textures to MapBuilder, you can get it soon. an example using 5 of them: