Help on school assignment.

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grateno

in General Discussion • Other • 1 year ago

For a processing class we have to create a small webcam game.

The idea is to have an object move through a maze and you help it along with your hand as a rectangle (cover gaps, lift it up etc.)

Think of lemmings, its kinda like that.

The hand will probably move along X and Y vectors and the object needs to have collision detection.

But we're not sure as to how we are going to accomplish this, any pointers/ideas?

Thanks in advance.

If you need more info, i'll be glad to clarify further.

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tfguy44

Re: Help on school assignment.

1 year ago

This game breaks down into two problems:

1) The game itself.
2) Using an image from a webcam to control things.

I suggest you start by ignoring the webcam aspect completely, and work first on getting a working game, possibly controlled by the mouse. Draw the maze. Work out how the object you're guiding will move. How does the agent detect the maze walls?

For the second problem, try using the video library. Start by getting a simple webcam working. Then work out how you can detect a hand in the image the webcam produces (and that's not easy!). Does it have to be a hand? Could there be a physical controller instead? It would be much easier to find a bright pink ball in an image than a hand...

There's a lot to do. It's really hard to help you further without knowing what you have working so far. (This means "POST YOUR CODE").

Chrisir

Re: Help on school assignment.

1 year ago

that's a hard question

when you say maze do you think of type 1 or type 2?

Both are 2D, but in type 1 he could run all over the place (pac man), in the type 2 he can go left or right but would fall when there's a pit (lemmings).

type 1

type 2

Thanks!