Mario 64 Engine

 
Description
            The engine was designed to look and behave like the game Mario 64. It supports rendering of and collision detection with any kind of object made of triangles. Every part of the game except things like loading and collision detection are defined by a scripts. This includes sprites behavior, events, object animation, gravity, key mappings and camera motion. A level is a collection of objects where each object defines its position and texturing and general shading.

Collision detection is done by creating a bounding box around every object and then around every triangle within that object. If an object is in the bounding box of the triangle, point collision detection is performed against the triangle and the object's position. Though this is not the fastest or most efficient way to do collision detection, it does produce rather smooth game play.

Features

• Scriptable game play
• Collision detection
• Sprites

Known Bugs

• Collision detection is not perfect so don't be surprised if you fall through the level.
• The camera will not go through objects by design, but this also means it can get stuck.
• Some sprites decide just to float for some reason.

In Action

Screen shot 2
Screen shot 3
Editor - Picture of the editor used to create the world.

Download

mario.zip - Source and executable

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