Originally posted by Rad Racer

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I'm using Game Maker to make it. While it does have 3D support, I really want my game to have a nostalgic feel to it. If anyone has ideas on how to program "fake" 3D, then that's great, but if not, I could always just use real 3D.

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Originally posted by Squash Monster

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I don't really know the game in question so I'm doing this from vague memories and screenshots.

Get an image of a horizontal slice of road. Draw it full-sized at your current location. Draw a second copy scaled down a bit farther out. Draw another, smaller one farther. Keep going for some number of road slices.

Keep track of how far forward you've moved so far and where the track is supposed to turn at that point. Move each slice to the side based on how the course is supposed to turn.


Psuedocode follows:

track = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,2,2,2,1,0}

x = 0

y = screenHeight

height = 20

for position = carposition to arbitraryNumber

  drawRoad(x,y,imageWidth,height)

  height = height - 1

  x = x + track[position]

  y = y - height

end for

In this example, the array track represents the amount of turning the track has at any given point, and the function drawRoad(x,y,width,height) draws a horizontal slice of road at (x,y) with width width and height height.

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track = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,2,2,2,1,0}

x = 0

y = screenHeight

height = 20

for position = carposition to arbitraryNumber

  drawRoad(x,y,imageWidth,height)

  height = height - 1

  x = x + track[position]

  y = y - height

end for

Originally posted by Rad Racer

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I don't necessarily need to know how it was programmed on the NES. I really just need to know how to go about programming a game like it. Specifically, how you'd make the road have a 3D effect to it.

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