Racing game, keeping car in bounderies

programming
1

I’m trying to make a racing game, but I don’t know how to keep the car from going off the track. So far I just have it so when you go off the track you’re car’s alpha goes to 50. Does anyone know how I would keep it from going off?

2

Why can’t ya just have it so you slow down when you go off the boundry thats what most people do amd then its more realistic

3

Boundary? do you mean walls?

4

^I meant keeping the car on the track. As for slowing the car down if it’s off the track, how would I do that? I don’t know what to do.

EDIT: Also, I’m just curious as to how I would keep it on the track, as if there were walls around it, that’s kind of what I was trying to do. Make it so you can’t go through the walls.

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured out how to make the car slow down when it’s not touching the track. I still want to know how to make it not go through walls though. Thanks.

5

you could try:

 
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (_root.walls.hitTest(getBounds(_root).xMax, _y, true)) {
		this._x -= 5;
	}
	if (_root.walls.hitTest(getBounds(_root).xMin, _y, true)) {
		this._x += 5;
	}
	if (_root.walls.hitTest(_x, getBounds(_root).yMin, true)) {
		this._y += 5;
	}
	if (_root.walls.hitTest(_x, getBounds(_root).yMax, true)) {
	    this._y -= 5;
	}
}
6

could u save it as MX plz?

7

I don’t think that one code would work, seeing as how neither the track nor the car are square.

8

Oh. Well, I couldn’t view the fla so I wouldn’t know.

EDIT: Also, that is the only hitTest code I know.

9

here ya go

Changes-
Added actions to the car (at the very bottom)
Added a boundarys layer

10

Thanks! That works quite well.

11

your welcome :slight_smile:

12

You could check this engine too , it’s working pretty good .
http://www.markfennell.com/flash/using.html

13

That one also has a bug. In that game, when you hit an object, if you keep pressing forward and then turn your car, you can get inside things.