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[CrystalH]

Hi. We have a new Release ver 1.3.
And finally game controllers support (tested with my new steering wheel). NaN sorry I forgot about the rear gear throttle thing.

We have some driving aids: arrow to next checkpoint, minimap circle (rotated with zoom). And first water implementation, new crash sounds and sparks.
I recommend the homepage for links to all stuff:
http://code.google.com/p/vdrift-ogre/

I have few comments about VDrift. I really liked the in game downloading of cars from svn. Also skidmarks would be awesome.
But I think the rpm and velocity gauges (rotating) would be better and give more feeling (I added them back in Feb 2010 and fixed particles, but thats long ago, see my 4 pics gallery here).
Did you guys think of repairing the particles ? Or make them smaller (and more too), they can drop down fps by half when on whole screen (I'm on Windows), and they blink funny at end of their time.
I think those are the small things (not much time consuming) that could give the game a better view.