Thread: TANKWARS! some questions

first off, hello this is my first post...
ive taken introductary c++ courses at my college, im not a CS major, i am a physics major.. but i figured with basic knowledge of c++ i should be able to make the simple tankwars game that was popular about 10 years ago... but i really can't figure out how many parts of this game were developed.


so #1) does anybody have workin code of the game so i can analyze it and hopefully learn a $hitload in the process?

#2) if not #1, then how is the ground for each map randomly created?

hopefully i could see a working version of the game, or at least some insiteful clues as to how it should work. i have all the formulas and such for the trajectories of the projectile, but that is the easy part (for me at least) gettin it to work sux

sounds easy enough.. but im still lost. i really am lookin for the code of the game so i can look it over.. i think ill learn alot faster that way.

Upon reading this post, I realized that I might have something related to what you want. I have an old "300 games" demo CD that I god about 3 or 4 years ago, and one of the games is an old 2D tank game. In the folder on the CD I found multiple .DLL files. I looked through them, and I honestly don't know if it is what you are looking for.

If you are interested in getting these just to check it out, please contact me with
AIM: CarlosTheJackass
ICQ: 74616133

I can't include them with this message because you can only include 100KB, and the total of the .DLL files is about 300KB, but I could quickly send them over AIM or ICQ

Ok, well I really hope this helps you out

-Charles

Look for a game called "Sorched Earth", i think my spelling mght be wrong. Its was called "the mother of all games"
Just play it a bunch, and think of how they did stuff as your playing.
I have a few ideas for when i started to make a game like this, i never finished due to lazyness and not knowing windows graphics programming. I might try and make a tank wars clone now with direct x, we will see.
As for making the land, here are a few ideas.
Have an array int Ground[width of screen];
Start with a random hight
Loop throuh this array and for each pixel add or subtract 0,1 or 2 from the previous pixel.
If you want to throw in cliffs have a small chance of a bigger increase of 20 to 50. Its really up to you decide.
Then to figure out where the gound is at a given x coordnate, just use this array as a look up table
heighofground = Ground[Xcoord];

thanks that helps

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