How would you go about making a pseudo 3D road? I'm not sure. The effect I'm trying to get is something that looks like Pole Position or Outrun. To get this effect, you would render each scanline separately, yes? That's what I got from Lou's Pseudo 3D page (http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/) and a few other sites...but I still don't understand how they're doing it graphically. Furthermore, SDL can't scale, and I haven't learned OpenGL yet (I want to use just SDL for now so I can learn it before moving into OpenGL too). Any help would be appreciated.
How do I make a Pseudo 3D Road?
Yeah, that's the gist of it. Scale down each scanline more as its closer to the horizon, and shift it left or right to show turns. you can get the lay of the road by defining a 2D vector representation of the track -- a spline would do nicely. With a little extra work you can extend the spline to 3D to simulate valleys and hills.
SDL can certianly scale and do everything you need it to. There's an Outrun style engine written in C and SDL called Cannonball. Have a look at the source.
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