R0ger Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 We released small demo on Forever, and due to lack of serious competition we happened to win ! It's basically result of experimenting with some algorithms for road drawing. Olomouc skyline GFX is done by PG, the music is by Hardcore, the code and the rest of the GFX is by me. This version is updated with NTSC support. It fixes the color differences and music speed. It runs at 50fps on PAL and 60fps on NTSC, with no compromises. There is just some reserve on PAL. Enjoy ! road.xex 37 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Is the driver drunk? Needs to stay on his side of the center line! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 adam, he drives on on side for us ntsc folks and on the other for the pal folks... the center crossing is for peritel, secam etc etc.. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARIO130XE Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Wow. looks very nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Great demo! Is the demo by Atariklub.cz or by R0ger+PG+Hardcore? Is the music file available anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Looks superb.... Thanks ROger.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Looks great especially on CRT! Do you have plans on making this into a full racing game? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) If you want to feel sea sick then watch it on Altirra and hit F1 (Warp mode) lol... Edited March 18, 2019 by Mclaneinc 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 Great demo! Is the demo by Atariklub.cz or by R0ger+PG+Hardcore? Is the music file available anywhere? Thanks ! Atariklub.cz is organization organizing the Atariada party, R0ger+PG+Hardcore are members responsible for the demo. The music is not available AFAIK, I will ask the author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 Looks great especially on CRT! Do you have plans on making this into a full racing game? Don't think so. I mean, not like this. There is too many limitations. This uses PMG for the road, that was the idea behind experiments. Outcome is like this: Pros: - independent colors for the road and the car - hardware merging of foreground and background - independent positioning, no scrolling required - allows for 1 frame rendering times Cons: - limited road width - extensive kernel code, inflexible (very hard to add slopes for example) - impossible to do forks or more complex stripes on the road - allows only one car with HW only. You want more cars, you are back to software rendering - doesn't solve objects on the sides of the road at all, you would have to use software rendering - even if you accept all limitation, the speed is just about right for 1 frame rendering, no reserve for more complex rendering - not enough time to set both sides of the road on the same line, leads to artifacts. Can be somewhat controlled by camera angles, but it's not suitable for player control I think the hardware approach is good for first person view games, like Elektra glide. It has the road in GFX, no other cars, and objects in PMG. High refresh rate, great sense of speed. For third person view games I think it's better to go full software. Using PMG just for getting more colors. It would be way slower, but that's what I would do after playing with this. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Thanks for the explanation. Again, really awesome demo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) I'd LOVE to see some source code! This could be the basis for an excellent racing game for the A8. and yes, I agree, getting rid of the car would make something very nice with this. -Thom Edited March 18, 2019 by tschak909 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 Hm .. sources wouldn't do you much good without explanation, it's deep in 'black magic' realm. There are comments, but not comments explaining the underlying principles, you mostly need pictures for that. I plan to do a talk about this kind of road algorithms on the Atariada party. It's usually recorded and posted on YT. Might be good idea to do it in English. Or at least I could do some article about it afterwards. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 The next step would be to drop any hardware scrolling and to use character or just byte correct objects. The flexible road also would allow narrow field, if CPU time is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 The Great Czech Country Road Race :-) 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peruchi Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Beautiful graphics! This could be a hell of a game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorgh Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 r0ger: are you folks planning to enter this game to ABBUC this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 r0ger: are you folks planning to enter this game to ABBUC this year? Can only speak for me, and the answer is no. Certainly not based on this. As for PG, I don't know about anything, but you know him .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Perhaps some people don't know the difference between a demo of an upcoming game, and a demo part in a scene demo? R0ger already listed pros and cons, and it is worth stressing that in a scene demo you know exactly everything that will happen and when. Things can be precalculated, optimized, shortcuts can be taken to fool the eye. In a game situation, you have one huge random factor called a human which you can't predict as much so the game engine needs to be able to do and display anything at any given time, which is the opposite of taking shortcuts and optimize on known conditions. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Perhaps some people don't know the difference between a demo of an upcoming game, and a demo part in a scene demo? R0ger already listed pros and cons, and it is worth stressing that in a scene demo you know exactly everything that will happen and when. Things can be precalculated, optimized, shortcuts can be taken to fool the eye. In a game situation, you have one huge random factor called a human which you can't predict as much so the game engine needs to be able to do and display anything at any given time, which is the opposite of taking shortcuts and optimize on known conditions. Perhaps some people don't know the difference between complete and incomplete software ? What's the difference between a demo and a triggered game ? Just a little interactivity! Yes, the "Demo" needs some workaround, particular the scrolling had to be removed. Free CPU cycles allow additional things. Particular those racing games on 8 bit computers weren't that flexible as someone might think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorgh Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 R0ger: ok, I understand thatCarlsson: I see your pointI mentioned that because it would be hell of a game, could be very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ger Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 R0ger: ok, I understand that Carlsson: I see your point I mentioned that because it would be hell of a game, could be very nice Well let's say I didn't give up on driving game. Not using this approach, not any time soon. But I'm still thinking about it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Atari needs an excellent driving game.. Pole Position is a stuttery mess. Elektraglide is smooth, but is utterly ridiculous in gameplay. Great American Cross Country Road Enduro..*cough* Road Race... ... it's Enduro...with better horizon Taladega is...uh....yeah, moving on. -Thom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 (edited) Atari needs an excellent driving game.. Pole Position is a stuttery mess. Elektraglide is smooth, but is utterly ridiculous in gameplay. Great American Cross Country Road Enduro..*cough* Road Race... ... it's Enduro...with better horizon Taladega is...uh....yeah, moving on. -Thom They would be only possible, if the engine is based on a PMg Road. It will cost a lot CPU, to do that PMg - Road, but it will leave enough CPU time for character movement. Side elements of the road, also huge bridges will be possible. the Displaylist could be used to shake the screen and doing masking of landscapes would be possible with some "Pokes" . But if the street is build on LMS DL shifting , you'll always get something like Pole Position . Edited March 27, 2019 by emkay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Atari needs an excellent driving game.. Pole Position is a stuttery mess. Elektraglide is smooth, but is utterly ridiculous in gameplay. Great American Cross Country Road Enduro..*cough* Road Race... ... it's Enduro...with better horizon Taladega is...uh....yeah, moving on. -Thom elektraglide played rediculously fast in the USA with time running out somewhere around 9 percent to fast as well, I do believe that at least the time issue was patched not sure if it was fully done to adjust play speed as well, it's on the forum somewhere.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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