need info about racing game

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hi,

I want to develop a car racing game. But I’m a noob to game programming. Can someone give me please some advice. I read something about using odeJava and Xith3d. All information is welcome.

Thanks,

Frederic

#2

I too am working on a racing game (of sorts, more like GTA) a quick search on google for “car physics” returns a load of links!

There are serveral open source racing games out there as well which you can use as reference material.

Andy.

#3

Hi Andy, thanks for your response, very helpful
Do you have some url’s of those open source projects? I found one, www.racer.nl, but it is written in c

#4

All the ones I found a written in C, you’ll have to go through the code and port/write the bits you need. If you’re interested in the graphics parts the OpenGL commands are identical between the languages.

Andy.