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- From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 3d ball games - Baseball/Cricket
- Message-ID: <C17w0J.2u2@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:43:25 GMT
- References: <1jl31bINNst@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- coutinho_b@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
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- >Okay, here is a description of what I want to do:
-
- >Basically I want to make a games, but it relies on moving a ball like that
- >seen in many baseball type games. Hardball is a good example. I want to
- >know what the code I have to program will have to do in converting calculations
- >to be shown on a screen. I mean, how to emmulate a ball's trajectory?
- >How to do bounce? Inertia? How to determine where bat is in relation to the
- >ball just as its struck and which direction the ball is to fly!
- > I have 1st year University knowledge of physics and would probally program
- >the game in AMOS to start off will.
-
- Ick. Use something like C instead, *please*. AMOS is so ridiculously sloppy
- (not to mention incompatible, backward-thinking, and several expletives that
- come to mind when "AMOS" is mentioned) that I don't understand how people can
- use it and call their results "programs."
-
- >So, please, if anyone has ideas (knows how!) please post a followup.
-
- 1) Get a book on newtonian physics (most high school/university texts are fine)
- 2) Review your vector calculus
- 3) Review your trigonometry
- 4) Go at it :)
-
- You'll be most interested in looking into chapters on projectile motion and
- elastic collisions in threespace.
-
- >Brian.
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