folio-2019 VS racing-game

Everybody hates going through the docs, well at least most of the developers I know do hate reading docs quite a lot, but threejs, although it is very popular and the community using it is constantly growing, there is not much information on how to build certain things online, unless you're figuring out things by yourself. I had to go through that painful journey of trying to figure out, how to get a raycast vehicle up and running on my browser. There's a course by Nik Lever on how to create a 3D car racing game with threejs and cannonjs. I almost got to a point where I was about to buy his course, which I am sure is excellent, but again it's not free. After going through the docs a little bit more harder and with the help of Poimandres' developers on Discord and going through Bruno's code for his portfolio, I finally figured out how to get a raycast vehicle up and running on my browser. Boy did it feel good, but it took a lot of effort since the docs aren't that helpful, and the best way to get something working on your computer is to basically play with a project which is already built using the same technology you're trying to implement and trying to reproduce it for your project.

this is how i did it in racing game: https://github.com/pmndrs/racing-game/blob/main/src/effects/Dust.tsx both the dust and the skid marks are instances, this should be fairly fast.

The racing game works on desktop Firefox on Ubuntu. Kind of. I get only jumpy spinning random frames once the car starts. Maybe it's https://github.com/pmndrs/racing-game/issues/152

The space travel site works on desktop Firefox but I can only click and drag. I didn't find any way to zoom. Basically I'm stuck on the objects I can see: Earth, Moon and Mars. But I didn't even looked for help in the other comments. Got work to do now.

Thanks for answering :-)

beautiful! i love the looks and the physics feel great! you made your own engine for this? i've tried to make a mini racing game for fun once but physics (using cannon though) were the hardest part, it never felt as natural as this.

The open sourced racing game developed by Poimandres and other contributors on Github. The game features a 3D car in a track, and the user is supposed to reach the end of the track by driving the car to the end of the track as soon as possible. This project uses Cannon-ES, a physics library which is a fork of the original CannonJS by Stefan Hedman, currently being developed in house by the developers and other contributors of Poimandres.

https://github.com/pmndrs/zustand#transient-updates-for-often-occuring-state-changes you can do something like this in redux, too, but you can't select state in that case. i use zustand in games even, for instance https://github.com/pmndrs/racing-game the usual problems where react interferes with performance do no apply here.

racing game https://github.com/pmndrs/racing-game

there's a similar project that's open source and desperately looking for contributors: https://github.com/pmndrs/racing-game :-)

pmndrs/racing-game – An open source racing game developed by everyone willing.