Racing Checkpoints and Lap Completions.

Hi,

I'm working on a racing game checkpoint system where each checkpoint is represented by an auto-generated box collider trigger that has the width of the road at that point. The tracks have no barriers and it's possible to skip certain checkpoints, so I am keeping track of each checkpoint with a boolean array. Determining whether each car has completed a lap seems to require looping through the entire array each time it passes a checkpoint, which I'm concerned might be expensive for the CPU already busy with physics and AI. Is there a faster way to encode checkpoint information and determine if a lap is complete?

Thanks!

 

Every checkpoint you need to check if the previous one has been completed. The only thing you need to do is store the previous checkpoint in an int. Every checkpoint you check if the previous one equals this one minus 1.

 

Make an array the length of cars. Then just set the checkpoint state for each car in it (for example, checkpoint 4)

Btw. Virtua Racing. I approve (Y)

 

Thanks, this works.