Car Race OpenGL Program

There are many OpenGL Program in our blog. In this post we are going to discuss about the Car Race game in old style. It is similar to 2d car racing game but little simple.

Like in video game Car race game, we have seen the cars are shaped in rectangular shape. The black meter lined road is coded on which the cars raced. There are 6 lanes in the road on which racer have to move the care to avoid collision. 

You may learn, how to draw 2d moving car using opengl.

Earlier in our many game programs we have much impressive menu or instruction for user. This opengl program also display the menu while game being played. You can see in the image above. The score is also written at the top.

Also see -3d car racing game in openGL

HOW TO PLAY

In menu the basic instruction has been shown but many skipped due to low area to display text. All the other user interaction of this opengl program are mentioned below - 

Start and End

s  - start the game

q - quit the game and exist the program

Color change

Change the track and background color (when game end and show shown).

0 - to white

1 - to red

3 -  to blue

Game Play

2 - down or de-accelerate

4 - toward left

6 - toward right

8 - up or accelarate

Download the source code of this opengl program.

Note : In this OpenGL program we have used the glutStrokeCharacter

NAME

       glutStrokeCharacter  -  renders  a  stroke character using OpenGL.

SYNTAX

       void glutStrokeCharacter(void *font, int character);

ARGUMENTS

       font      Stroke font to use.

       character Character to render (not confined to 8 bits).

DESCRIPTION

       Without using any display lists, glutStrokeCharacter  ren

       ders the character in the named stroke font. The available

       fonts are:

       GLUT_STROKE_ROMAN

               A proportionally spaced  Roman  Simplex  font  for

               ASCII  characters  32 through 127. The maximum top

               character in the font is 119.05 units; the  bottom

               descends 33.33 units.

       GLUT_STROKE_MONO_ROMAN

               A  mono-spaced  spaced  Roman  Simplex  font (same

               characters as GLUT_STROKE_ROMAN) for ASCII characte

               ters  32 through 127. The maximum top character in

               the font is  119.05  units;  the  bottom  descends

               33.33  units. Each character is 104.76 units wide.

       Rendering  a  nonexistent  character  has  no  effect.   A

       glTranslatef  is  used to translate the current model view

       matrix to advance the width of the character.