Hey,

at first: sorry for cross posting, but in the german section nobody answered me yet.
A few days ago, I got Mario Kart 7 for Nintendo 3DS and searched for a Mario Kart clone for TI-84 Plus on ticalc.org
Sadly I didn't found any good one, so I want to ask you, how difficult it is to program such a game in Axe or TI-Basic + xLib.

Sorry,m but it's not very possible

With rotation, there will be lost pixels, which will be massively expanded due to your 3d engine.


Although i may be wrong.  But i have tried and failed

Sorry,m but it's not very possible

Hm, with pure TI-Basic?
F-Zero looks very good, means it is possible (with Assembly).

Do you know the 3D racing game that is included as demo in the Axe Parser download package? I think someone could modify it and make a little Mario Kart with the engine.

and also if youwant it for the ti89 here http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/321/32183.html

I haven't got a TI-89. Bad.

Quote from: Anima on December 10, 2011, 10:55:56 am

Do you know the 3D racing game that is included as demo in the Axe Parser download package? I think someone could modify it and make a little Mario Kart with the engine.

I forgot about that! I might download that and fiddle around with it!
and to answer your question I bet!

Would be awesome, good luck.

it is very possible calc84 is making f-zero http://ourl.ca/2824/55676 and talked about maybe making it into mario kart and also if youwant it for the ti89 here http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/321/32183.html

Yeah but F-Zero is in pure ASM. Axe isn't as fast and optimized as ASM, so the only way a Mario Kart clone could be achieved in Axe is if someone made a Mode 7 axiom.

Quote from: Happybobjr on December 10, 2011, 10:28:49 am

Sorry,m but it's not very possible

Do you know the 3D racing game that is included as demo in the Axe Parser download package? I think someone could modify it and make a little Mario Kart with the engine.

You would need to add textures and stuff, though, which might be hard with that engine, and then you would need to make it so it seems the track can loop instead of moving forward, else it will not feel like Mario Kart at all. In that case it would almost be better to do it the same way TinycarZ was made, although it's much harder to play for people who are not used to that type of controls.

And avoid making a tunnel clone then renaming it to Mario Kart, since it's rather misleading and people dislike it since people do that to inflate their ticalc.org download count.

I actually considered doing this with the Gemini raycasting engine...on a Ti-83+ SE / 84 without grayscale, it could actually go quite fast.  But note again, without grayscale

You can make cool graphics without greyscale, it is just A LOT more complicated (I mean creating the sprites).

Well, what would need to happen for calc84's F-Zero to become Mario Kart besides adding items in? In other words, what makes the games different other than the use of special items?