3D MFGG racing thing, f-zero meets mario kart

no story or name as of yet, but I'm hoping to make this game Simpsons Hit and Run esc. anyways I'm hoping to have atleast 10 MFGGers playable but some characters that still appear (and race) in the game too, anyways demo: http://www.sendspace.com/file/un26ox the controls are as follows:

up: gas
Down: brake/reverse
left and right: steer
control: handbrake (used for drifting)

if you want to be playable I need a couple things from you:

a. your characters spritesheet

b. top, side, front and back views of your car plus a tire sprite, or a 3D model

c. vehicle description (short summery and weight class)

e. statistics (submit in example format)

Name: MFGG Bus
Driver: mr.mario
weight: Heavy
top speed: 9 out of 13
acceleration: 0.1 out of 2
handling: 4
friction: 0.25

cast:
heroes:
1. mr.mario
2. Simoneister
3. DJ Yoshiman
4. SonicTheBro
5. SuperSonic Yoshi
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

supporting cast:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

pedestrians:
just post with a sprite sheet,

NOTE: physics and ai are not totally debugged.

screen(graphics are for testing, don't worry I'll make them better):


This post has been edited by mr.mario on Dec 22 2007, 04:04 PM

This is pretty cool. I'd like to be a character, as my character is a car.
I'll just need to get all the things, then I'll edit my post.
And, a few things...
1.Are all the cars going to be boxes?
2.How big do the "views" have to be?

Are there going to be any "open" karts, or are the karts going to be character only, or what?

1. my car is a bus, its supposed to be a box,

2. as big or as small as you want them to be.

No, I mean will all the cars in the game be boxes, or will they be different shaped depending on what it is?

if you want an open kart I have no problem with it, you'll just have to include an extra set of sprites for your character sitting in the kart with the four views (like SMK).

you can put in curves but the corners might look a little funny, I'll crop the edges so it's hardly noticable though.

This post has been edited by mr.mario on Dec 18 2007, 10:24 PM

Ok, I'll start gathering stuff.

Just wondering, would you be able to just have the side poses and a strip that kind of follows along the edges of the sides? It would make it a lot more accurate.
Here is the side and the wheel.

For the 3D model, is there a polygonal limit?

You know, I would hope so, It'd really being more imagination into this and allow the game to possibly run properly (15 FPS) on my computer =P

like your avatar? I'm gonna say no, since the camera follows the behind car it'd look a little weird.

I'm no model expert, I know how to put them in Gamemaker and rotate them and thats just about it, I don't have a clue if I were to set a limit what would be reasonable, I f at all possible however make the model a .d3d (Gamemaker model format) file, if you can't however I can convert it into one from just about any format so I guess it doesn't matter

Yeah, I'm just going to make a 3ds and give that to you, because I've never heard of that format.

Also, can you play model animation data?

Nice engine so far! Although it is pretty easy to get stuck..

Can I be in the game? I wanna drive a tank!

Actually, keep him inside the tank.

This post has been edited by SonicTheBro on Dec 19 2007, 05:56 PM

GM's 3d sucks in reality.

But some things are nice. Hopefully this'll be one of them.

I hear it's possible, but I can't say I've tried

and STB sure, just provide the graphics


This post has been edited by mr.mario on Dec 19 2007, 06:14 PM

By the way, where can you get a 3D modeler for Game Maker?

there's none specifically for gamemaker, but anim8tor has a .d3d export plugin for it.

Here's an example of what I mean. The white parts are the sides, and the gray bit it the strip that would follow along the edges. You'd just need to move the gray bit down so it connects.

what I was planning to do was splice your images into many different sprites and draw them at different angles (think SSB64 fighting polygon team) but that would work if you could model the connection.

Search for "Mosaic Light" on the GMC forums.