How to make car controller?

ibnefazil · Post by **ibnefazil** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:07 pm

Hi

Im new to game programming.

I want to make a car racing game in which i have a road as one ISceneNode and a car as another ISceneNode.

now if i press W, car should move forward...
pressing S should make it move backword...
pressing D should make it rotate clockwise...
and A should rotate it anti-clockwise...

and when car rotates, suppose at 45 degree, pressing W should move it forward towards the direction it faces now...

anybody can please help?

umar

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:20 pm

You will get more results and a chance at getting your car to move in a gameworld if you look into a Physics library. A PhysX wrapper made by JP is a good start, you can also look at Bullet, they have a vehicle demo program that you can play with.

Also you can write your own custom controller if you have the background needed to code a vehicle controller.

geckoman · Post by **geckoman** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:23 pm

FIRST I would have a look into the tutorials, that are coming with Irrlicht, then I would try to move ANYTHING in Irrlicht (Tutorial Nr. 4) and then, IF you need it, you should look at IrrPhysx like dlangdev mentioned.

fmx · Post by **fmx** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:50 pm

Yeah, have a look through the Tutorials first, then learn how to use Irrlicht vectors and matrices to deal with angles.

Don't even THINK about diving into Physics API's / Wrappers yet!
You'll get nowhere fast

ibnefazil · Post by **ibnefazil** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:51 pm

thanx dlangdev

bullet is cool