RCDEMO - Radio Controlled Car demo v0.1 - uploaded for the sake of it

This was something I whipped up to try and get a car driving
realistically, including wheelspins, skids and doughnuts.  You will
see though that NONE of this is yet implemented and the car sticks
to the ground like glue.  Ie. crappy.  But it does serve as a simple
way to get a vehicle model driving around with realistic steering and
basic dynamics (it pitches forward and back depending on the acceleration)

When I get it to have a proper physics model (not too easy but I'll get
there) I'll slap in Analog support and then you'll be able to go nuts
with it.  Oh doughnut city!  Until then, it's pretty boring, but I
uploaded it as I'm on an "early demo" roll at the moment.  With this,
the ScaleX and NineBall demos I just thought some of yous might be
interested on what I've been working on of late.  These three things
will all turn into playable games at some point in the future, I can
pretty much promise that!  This was going to be the mechanics behind
the ill-fated Learner Driver or just an RC Racing game (like Buggy),
so who knows what the future holds!  Hopefully you'll need shades!


So far: Drives a 3D "Radio Controlled car" around a boring flat ground

I know the car body is still a block - be thankful it's not a
gouraud cube!

Cross:       Forward
Square:      Reverse
Left/Right:  Turn steering wheels
L1:          Hold Steering position
R1:          Hold to constant speed
L2/R2 + Dpad Move camera around (only in fixed camera mode)
TRIANGLE:    Camera mode change (goes a bit fast..)


Mess around/recompile all you like -- you'll need "sincos.h" from doing
"SCBUILD 4096" with SCBUILD.EXE (see my page) if you want to build it
though (just too big to include here ~50K you see for the 4096 index tables)


Misc ideas and stuff: (my notepad!)

Camera view from the Control Tower during racing, but can
swing around to get a close up of a crash or something in a replay
make some decent car models you lazy git! (just motivating myself..)
fix the "low speed drift" bug!
proper suspension
smoke trails from the tyres
wobbly aerial
2WD / 4WD options
battery (7.2V/8.4V), and motor upgrades (like Rare's RC Pro AM on GameBoy)


Jim
James Shaughnessy  <james@manc.u-net.com>
http:www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj