Poly Rally

One Game a Month 2024, submission 1/12

How to play:
WASD to drive
Space to drift
R to respawn
ESC & LMB to interact with menus

Planned content:
RNG foliage generation around circuit (Trees, grass, rocks, etc).
Garage with multiple customized vehicles.
"Ghost car" of best lap.
Price money from racing to buy car upgrades with.
Improved and 'smarter' RNG circuit generation.

Purpose of project:
'Self-Aware' Randomly and or User Generated Circuits.
Meaning the goal of this project is a Circuit Building mechanic, where the user can either build completely custom circuits, or let the self-aware algorithm either build parts of- or the entire circuit, based on the criteria set by the user.
The user will also be able to choose which types of road pieces and obstacles, that can appear on the track as well, by placing them manually, or letting the algorithm place them randomly.

The two problems, with Randomly Generated Circuits or Dynamic Procedurally Generated Tracks, this project is trying to tackle are;

Avoiding Self-Collision (Implemented)
By checking if the latest chosen road piece has room to instantiate another road piece, and if not, then change that latest road piece to the next road piece of the road prefab array, until that road piece has room to instantiate another, which will be a continuous loop, with retrospective capabilities. Meaning the circuit can go as far back as needed to avoid self-collision.

Avoiding In-Escapable Enclosement (Not fully implemented yet)
This can be done in two ways;
If the road encloses itself inside a circle, it will not be able to escape and complete the circuit, and based on the size of the circle created along the circuit, it could potentially take a long and unnecessary amount of time, by trying every single possible combination of road option inside the circle. The goal is to instead, make the circuit aware of being about to enclose itself within a circle, so it can avoid in-escapable enclosement, by using a flood fill algorithm after every instantiated road piece.
or Bridges.