FreeBASIC Karts

I added a cinematic camera now. This is probably the last video I'll make for a while. I'm going to switch this over to use the True Axis library. A friend of mine(DJLinux) has created a FreeBASIC wrapper for True Axis. He has a video on here using that wrapper, where he was able to run 500 cars in one scene. With the version of Newton I'm using, this is just not possible. I get bad lag with more than 5-6 cars.
Here is a link to the source code archive, which also contains a Windows executable file. users.freebasic...

[@bittim]

Did you have to write the engine yourself? Or was it a premade engine, like Unity or so but for FreeBASIC. I am just curious 😁 But still, impressive that it runs that smoothly in FreeBASIC!

[@DrDavenstein]

Thanks! Yeah, it's a custom engine I wrote. It uses OpenGL for gfx, FMod for sound and Newton for physics. The source code is available at my space on the German FreeBasic site, if you're interested. 😉

[@DrDavenstein]

Here is the link... users.freebasic-portal.de/dr_d/demos/

[@bittim]

@@DrDavenstein To be honest, in the past, where I started with coding in general, with FreeBASIC actually, I thought i have pretty much discovered most of the possibilities with FreeBASIC, but just looking at the File structure, not even the code because i dont have a pc on my hand right now, i notice how much ive missed out on in FreeBASIC. (Sorry for bad english, I am german😄 )

[@kingcrimson234]

FreeBASIC actually compiles to relatively quick code. Not as quick as a well-made C program, but pretty good. Not surprised it runs smoothly.

[@DrDavenstein]

@William Singht Awesome! Thanks for the reply! Can I borrow a dollar? 😆

[@daxmax31]

great!

[@abuzarov]

Is it written in FreeBasic? What libraries are you using? And what IDE?

[@DrDavenstein]

Albert Abuzarov Yes, it is written in FreeBasic. It uses OpenGL, Newton, FMod, a custom gui library I made, a ported c++ Lightwave object loader, and a library I made to handle all the loading/utilities. ;)

[@DrDavenstein]

Albert Abuzarov also, I used FBIDE... I forgot to mention that. Everything needed to compile it with that editor should be included in the download.

[@abuzarov]

Thank you for replying! I only had a quick look at FBIde so far, and I couldn't find any debug tools, like step-by-step execution, breakpoints, watches. How did you go about debugging?

[@DrDavenstein]

I'm sorry. That was a brain-fart. I meant FBEdit, not FBIde. Anyway, whenever I ran into a bug, I compiled with -exx -g. I've never used a breakpoint, or step-by-step execution. I know FBEdit has support for those features though. ;)

[@Koutsie]

I guess thisbis ripped project?

[@DrDavenstein]

Not sure what thisbis is man... I never finished this one, but the source code is in the archive if you want to have a go at it. users.freebasic-portal.de/dr_d/demos/FBKart.rar

[@RobertLock1978]

Looking good. Using FB 1.0.2 (amd64) on LInux - I don't use FBIDE - do I just need to run 'fbc ./editor_main.bas' to compile?

[@DrDavenstein]

Robert Lock Well, I didn't put any Linux compile scripts on there, but I believe I added a Windows batch file. You can probably just pull the command out of that. Main.bas is the head, all the other bas files are included modules. If the batch doesn't work, or you can't get it, just leave another reply and I'll try to help. :)

[@RobertLock1978]

Hi Davenstein - thank you for the reply. There's only a 'debug.bat' - no other batch file that I can see in the archive.

[@DrDavenstein]

Robert Lock Ok. Thanks for the heads up. When I get back to my PC I will add a command line to the archive... or I could probably just post it here I guess.