Modern Concepts

[Moskito]

Hello there
I'm german, so please allow mistakes in my translations onto this forum.
When i first downloaded the Demo and after buying PB in January06 i thought, this is some kinda basic programming - don't expect to much
Well, in the german forums i asked for modern concepts in game programming because my knowledge stopped in 1997 on the Amiga with Asm. But all answers were kind of "carefull" answers. Nothing new for me.
Maybe someone of you has some good concepts that he would share here...
My first Projekt should be a City Traffic Simulation with about 250 cars driving around, stoping at traffic lights and so on. My first thoughts about that were, that PB would have much to do with that kinda programm. I thought about 50 or 75 Traffic Lights and a map of 1600x1600 or so. 300 Objects would have to be organized. A lot of work for a basic, i thought...

So i began to learn (and love) PB. At the end of February the simulation did most of the things i wanted, and more. It was sooo much fun to work with Pure but now was the time to test if it could manage 250 cars and 50 traffic lights. I used mousebutton 3 for a flipbuffers(0/1) so i could get some MaxFPS at will.
What should i tell you ? Pure is so damned fast !
But this is my very first programm with PB. Maybe it could be much more powerfull, who knows...

even with 2 5 0 0 cars it still runs at 64 Frames on my internet notebook with 730 Mhz and an onboard 16MB ATI graphic chip.

You don't believe me ?

See yourself and download here. (only 64Kb small)

Thomas

[GedB]

That is so nice. I could sit and watch it for hours.

Any chance you could make a screensaver out of it?

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... creensaver

[Dare2]

Hehe. Neat. 75fps with 2500 cars here, and stuff running in the background.

Sometimes a faster car will overtake by going over/under a slower leading car. Jump jets or powerful hovercars?

Great stuff!

[Moskito]

Any chance you could make a screensaver out of it?

Just rename the VKSim.exe to VKSim.scr and copy the small file to the windows/system. That's all.

Sometimes a faster car will overtake by going over/under a slower leading car. Jump jets or powerful hovercars?

Well, car crashes are not planned So i let them overtake "this" way. Also in curves and at traffic lights / crossroads this can happen. I hate crowded streets and wish this could be done in reality (sometimes).

bye

Thomas

[Dare2]

This is too easy to watch.

And as it builds up past the 500 car mark the traffic congestion on the right hand side reminds me of rush-hour!

[Num3]

Very nice!

I really love it!

[Fred]

Very good !

[Moskito]

Very good !

It is only a small topdown gimmick to learn Pure, my first program, not very good.
Maybe when i go on to Isometric, but we will see...



Update to V.00131 alpha

Editing Traffic Lights and Crossroads is now possible.

Here is the
Link.


until then
Thomas

[techjunkie]

Update to V.00131 alpha

Editing Traffic Lights and Crossroads is now possible.

Here is the
Link.

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[Moskito]

Maybe late in the Night, my Provider did a backup...

[doodlemunch]

i likes this! are u using the sprite lib for this ?

[Moskito]

are u using the sprite lib for this ?

Sure ... something wrong with that ?

[Paul]

I have only seen real traffic lights go...
green yellow red, green yellow red, green yellow red

Not...
green yellow red yellow green yellow red yellow green


Did you mean for your simulation to do this?

[Intrigued]

That's pretty neat sim.

[Moskito]

Sorry, but here in germany the Traffic Lights go that way.
RED = seconds to minutes
Yellow= 2 - 3 seconds (not 1 millisecond like in London)
Green = about 15 seconds
Yellow = about 2 until 5 seconds
Red restarts this loop