Hello,

I'm basically a good high school math guy with a few university courses so this kind of thing is over my head, especially right now (I've basically given up making games, my brain isn't functioning I've been though so much, not the least of which was being tasered for some reason…)

I have a 3D Pong game I made years ago. It always seemed to work but now when I run it it seems the computers are too fast or something and the ball gets lost. What I think happens is the Z value gets reset every point but X and Y sometimes wind up out of bounds, and I don't know where on X and Y to place the ball to make it the same as where it crossed the goal. What happens is two computer players can get the ball going so fast that it exits the playing area after the velocity is added to X and Y.

Anyway this game is one that I have had on the shelf for a while because of this problem. If I could fix it I could put it back online. The code for the game is on GitHub at https://github.com/TheOestG/pung2.​

Thanks.​

Normally I'd Google this stuff and get it working with some effort… anyway, that's what forums are for.

And ya know what, I'll have to do the same thing with wall collisions, it probably doesn't happens often though. When the computers play they get it going pretty much instantly off off each others paddles and slowly move around until one of them misses. It's really pretty trippy that's why I want to get it working.

Thanks so much jonton, that's exactly what I need. I'll try it with the goals first then do whatever I need for wall collisions as well (which I haven't looked at again yet.) Thanks.

I definitely learned something. It's really easy to do. But this game is a goner. It was built with dated libraries that don't really work properly and never really did. I get a lot of graphical glitching and things that were never fixed in this abandoned library, so I deleted the game for good. It would be easier to start from scratch and do it properly. But I'm glad I learned this. Thanks.