Here are some screen shots to be considered for a new VDrift splash screen.
Please rate the images in this album and say which you'd like most to be the new splash screen.
You may also submit your own screenshots to this album for consideration.
Contributed by: joevenzon on Friday, April 25 2008 @ 07:49 PDT · Views: 92
Hacking on VDrift has been getting harder and harder. Each new feature that is added requires more work and makes it that much more difficult to add the next feature. So, I think it's time for some major code refactoring... and maybe even a complete rewrite of the top level code. What this means is that I'll probably end up writing down bugs or new feature suggestions in the issues system as future "to do" items and probably won't be able to address them right away. But I thought I'd post this to let everyone in on my thinking and why you might not see new features getting added as quickly as you'd expect.
I'll keep the current VDrift code in the trunk and will make a new branch for the refactoring.
EDIT: the refactoring branch is:
branches/refactor2008
Contributed by: thelusiv on Sunday, March 09 2008 @ 11:38 PDT · Views: 365
It seems worth posting that VDrift has two web sites that have recently been added or updated. We used to have a Subversion repository browser but it's been down for some time; it is now active again at http://svn.vdrift.net/. Also, you can visit http://code.google.com/p/vdrift/issues/list for the VDrift issue tracker, which is the new site to manage VDrift bugs, features, and other issues. It is hosted on Google Code.
Contributed by: thelusiv on Sunday, February 24 2008 @ 01:01 PST · Views: 1,116
The Windows build has been updated and an installer package is ready to download. This is not an official release, just a working build that can be tested before the actual release. read more (131 words)
(Update 2008-01-25: Replaced the release with a version that defaults to shaders being off)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Sound has distortions on PowerPC Macs
Shaders are turned off by default because of numerous problems, you can try to enable them in "Options->Display->Advanced"
Shaders may cause a crash while starting VDrift on some hardware combinations, in this case you have to edit ~/Library/Preferences/VDrift/VDrift.config to turn off the shaders again by replacing "shaders = on" with "shaders = off"
The Shaders may cause a fallback to software rendering, resulting in abysmal performance. If so turn off shaders from the preferences and let us know your setup.
Turning on shadows (which depend on shaders) in Leopard may cause crashes or even kernel panics (not our fault, really)
VDrift may crash with a (console) message like the following, if so please let us know:
"EXCEPTION: vdrift/tools/osx/../../src/textures.cpp, line 489: Error loading texture file: c (vdrift/data/c)"
"terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error' what(): basic_string::_S_create"
You may have to restart VDrift after changing preferences
If you have an old version of VDrift installed, you may need to delete your "~/Library/Preferences/VDrift" directory.
If you have other problems, post in the Help Forum.
Contributed by: joevenzon on Sunday, January 06 2008 @ 06:35 PST · Views: 1,006
I updated sourceforge with the final release for VDrift 12-26-07 linux source release. There aren't any changes from rc2, so don't bother upgrading if you've already got rc2. Hopefully we'll see releases for other platforms soon.
Contributed by: joevenzon on Monday, December 31 2007 @ 04:04 PST · Views: 827
The 12-26-07 linux source release candidate can been updated to version 2. This release uses SVN R1910 and features the following improvements over RC1:
* removed check for ODE headers
* fixed crash when starting auto-x
* several performance enhancements
Contributed by: joevenzon on Saturday, September 29 2007 @ 10:01 PDT · Views: 860
New user registration is finally working again! This had been broken for quite a while, and may have discouraged some new users from getting on the forums. Well, it's all working again now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
