@tapanui - I’ve got it set up right now so that you can change the colors in game, it just needs a GUI at this point, I’ll probably just modify the park editor. I’m planning to add interchangeable parts in the future so that the player can build a wide range of bikes. No licensed parts at this point though.
@LS16BMX - They’re just as wide as the tires, and the ends of the capsules come out to the edges of the pegs. If there was an object under the peg that you were trying to pass over it will bump you a little to the side. It only poses a major problem during grinding but I don’t use the rigidbody at all while the bike is on a ledge so I just disable the collision. I’ll see if I can put a video together showing the colliders.
sorry to thread rape, I really do need help with sorting out the wheel collider issues and then I have a fair few other problems also but its all part of the fun
@ leoarmstead - Thanks for the offer, but I’ve got things covered at this point. I’ll keep you in mind if I ever need anything in the future!
@skoandi - Thanks . I’m pushing really hard to get a public alpha out, of course everything takes twice as long as you think it will, but I’ll try to have a gameplay video before now and then.
@ LS16BMX - I don’t really mind, your ragdoll is looking pretty good, it looks like you’ve got quite a bit of a wobble though. Have you tried setting the center of mass down really low? That should also help to stabilize the bike a little bit.
Hi Alex, my game is all about feel, how the bike handles in the air and on the ground etc and as such a low CG feels unrealistic. I’m making progress all the time but what i’m doing has never been done before and for good reason haha. Im my view an amination based game will always feel stale and get boring very quickly. You need realtime physics to make it as fun and unpredictable as the real thing IMHO.
Yeah, I’m definitely going for something more Dave Mirra’s-ey instead of a sim, I’ve always liked games to be a little more forgiving if not completely realistic.
Anyways, I’ve got a public alpha available now at www.bikeparkgame.com! Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
I’ve also got a more recent video which shows some of the new animations somewhat working:
I’m planning to update the alpha on a bi-weekly basis from now on and I’ll have screenshots and videos of what I’m doing between releases.
can’t test it out at work unless you do a mac or web build, from the looks of it seems very jerky side to side, would love to see a scene file. It really confuses me how to add animation and physics to things.
I wasn’t planning on doing a webplayer build because it would mean that you can’t save parks, or maybe you could but it would save it to my server? I dunno, but I can look into it. I know there’s a webplayer skiing game that does it by having the user copy and paste text, and since my park files are just plain text it shouldn’t be too difficult to do something like that.
I don’t have access to a mac for testing, so I can make one but I’ll have no idea if it actually works. I will be doing Mac for the final game though.
The animation does some hilarious stuff sometimes, but the jerkiness is probably because I’m setting the animation directly based on inputs without any sort of smoothing, this will have to change as well.
@tapanui - I’m gradually getting threads started on other forums, but I need to get organized a bit better, I just found out today that my Youtube updates were going to an email that I never check so I wasn’t responding to comments :(. Thanks for recommending that site, it seems like a neat little community.
