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[progman]

Hi, it seems that the next release is warming up quickly, so before you do it i'd like to point out some aspects.

1: Why the game is so slow even with hardware that runs latest CoD, Crysis, NFS ?
except small tracks, medium and big ones sunk the machine.
despite the fact that render is done directly by opengl, the performance is too bad.
disabling the shaders reduce the stress and makes those big tracks playable, but the particle effect is still there and looks like a big white cloud that covers the view !

2: The coordinate system is a serious issue, as i understood, you're making a right-handed systems: OpenGL, Bullet work with left-handed data asset.
I don't think it's the best approch. it's better to transform once during the load process than to tweak the render and dynamic systems upside down every frame.

3: The car model parts and the materials(textures) should not be hardcoded, but instead specified in the definition file. in fact, what is the purpose of a separate glass model, or what if i want my car to be all-in-one, or what if i don't whant the cubemap reflection inside the car(as it is now!)

4: Merge the track definition files to a single one and should be in XML format, as with car and why not the settings, configs and all the human readable files.

5: Is there a way to completely separate the game engine from the render system, some kind of virtualization or abstraction.

6: Last but not least: why the damn handbrake is not working ?

This list is not exaustive, i'll submit more comming days.
thanks.

PS.
I forgot the most important ! Why you still using that ugly SCON build system !?
there are too many simple, elegant, portable and efficient build systems out there.