drifter

I need an idea for a project I'm doing as part of my Post Graduate course in games technology.



The criteria is that is has to be a 3D object, must have mouse and/or keyboard input and animation.



I'm programming it in C using OpenGL libraries.



ideas?



I thought of modelling a rotary engine, but what would I do with mouse and/or keyboard input?

CrashFactory

do a car model:



keyboard- push the up key to acclerate and the down to break, left to steer left, right to steer right, shows acceleration and braking and turning animations (squat and wheels moving/turning)



mouse-to view the entire car, to move around it and above it, etc. have the left mouse button turn on lights and right honk the horn



Sean

drifter

another thought i had was modelling a turbo.

keyboard input to increase exhaust gas - watch the headers glow red!

CrashFactory

the reason I suggested a car was cuz there are TONS of modelling sites with models, all you would have to do was add the tecnicals......(RE Aenimya RX-7, go find it :P, make it turn and burn!!!)

drifter

Unfortunately i can't do it that way, I have to create it from scratch in polygons.

CrashFactory

ok then start from scratch



Also more ideas, instead of the right button honking, make it show a cross section of a 13b moving



Sean

RX7Aggie

turbocharged rotary, and one button can control the throttle, and another button can control the waste gate.



or a button can fire the injectors for a certain amount of time, and two more buttons can fire spark plugs. although that would be a slow turning enigne, people will get the idea of an IC engine and how it works...ROTARY STYLE! you could also make it go kaboom if it's lean, that would be funny.



you could also do an engine-tranny combo, where the mouse could act like a shifter (move up/down and left/right to change gears, click to disenagage/engage the clutch). then, again use the keyboard to control boost and or throttle. you could do a cool drag simulation from the engine/tranny point of view, showing the engine speeding up, then slowing down when changing gears.



that might be more work than it's worth, though.

Eyxom

I like the rotor and turbo idea.