New Collision Detection Inward Google Earth

Anyone who has e'er done whatsoever evolution travel alongside the Google public browser plug-in volition live familiar alongside the milk truck game. The Monster Milktruck game has been a prominent business office of the Demo Gallery for the Google public API.

John Aldridge has instantly developed the code into a fully playable 2 histrion shoot-em-up game, called Zeptoblaster. In the game each histrion controls their ain 3d milk truck too has to hunt downwards too shoot the other player's vehicle.

The game play takes business office inwards Google Earth's 3d map of the world, including 3d terrain too 3d buildings. Each histrion likewise has a handy Google Map which shows the seat of their truck too the seat of the enemy's truck. Players tin select from a position out of battlefields past times selecting from a position out of pre-defined locations or they tin play anywhere inwards the public precisely past times using the search field.


One of the close impressive features of this game is the collision detection developed past times John, which detects when a player's missile has hitting the enemy truck. This collision detection industrial plant past times creating bounding boxes for the 3d collada models of both milk trucks too for all of the missiles. It is too hence a uncomplicated procedure of detecting when the bounding box of a missile intersects alongside the bounding box of a truck (actually it isn't uncomplicated too truly involves a rattling complicated algorithm).

The game needs to charge 2 instances of the Google public browser plug-in (one for each player), which tin live quite retentiveness intensive, hence the game runs best inwards Google Chrome. 

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