FIRST Video Game: Hammering out details

[Astronouth7303]

When you say class, do you mean an instance, or a template? (and I'm probably murdering OOP jargon)

Originally Posted by Texan

Ok, so, since you are using VC++, I assume you'll use classes. So, some ideas:

• Individual classes for all robots. You can do fun things with these, such as pass in the robot spec file in the constructor, and the class could read it in and configure itself.
• Class for the game. This class would hold information on what teams which robots are on, where each robot is (maybe this could be a robot class function?), where balls are on the field, make sure robots follow rules, etc. Maybe even it could even read in rules/field structure from a file?
• Depending on how you do the physics engine, you could have classes for various field components, such as balls, goals, etc. For example, with the balls, they could keep track of bounces and other movement, relaying it on to the game controller.

Just some ideas. And some of that is rough obviously, like who gets to keep track of where robots/other moveable field objects are.

I think every physical object will be an instance of the respective class, while the Field controller will do what the real one does: trigger events on the field. The Engine will control physics, etc.

Anyone work at Id?

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

When you say class, do you mean an instance, or a template? (and I'm probably murdering OOP jargon)

I'm meaning a defininition of a class, ie:

class robot
{
public:
   void move(int feet);

};

[Bharat Nain]

Look at Robot Arena 2, its been done pretty well for a robot game.
I would love to see something like this:
We play peer to peer with other FIRSTers about the present game
If we can get a whole bunch of clever programmers to create the game soon after the kickoff and play it online(or something), that would be simply awesome. We would actually be able to see the game. Then Fantasy FIRST might have to create a separate division for Online FIRST game? This rocks. Good job, see what you can do.

[Astronouth7303]

Ok, in response to the 2 posts that beat me, I say we need some groups going:

• A coding group that will create the framework and write/include the Engine.
• A 3D design group that creates the 3D models (fields, bots, etc)

A releasable version I don't expect to be out for awhile (as far as coding goes). But I know I can't do this alone.

Does Crystal Space do input, or just physics? If we don't worry about portability, I know that DirectX covers everything as far as hardware interfacing.

[Ryan M.]

Open source 3d engine, if you want it:
http://www.genesis3d.com/

Didn't really look much at it, but might work.

Read the lisence, looks good.

--EDIT--
Flash doesn't do 3d, as far as I know. Plus, it would be too hard to incorporate into a real game...