xTs Wrote:Is there collision detection and everything else you need for a good network game?
Actually Joe has re-done car/track collision support using ODE, which will be much easier to expand to car-car collisions in the future. Right now though it's only working with OPCODE, not Gimpact as would be ideal...so this is still a little ways down the road yet. The work is in the scenegraph branch.
xTs Wrote:I heard rumours that there will be a version with just one car and one track, but - since all available cars and tracks are converted - those are just made for and tested with vdrift. Who is doing them? (There should be a test track where you can test the setup of a car. Like breaking distance, acceleration time, steering on wet street, top speed, etc)
The idea of slimming down to one car/track would allow us to put more focus on making them work well. This would probably help us improve the car building process so better cars can be made in the future. Also it would alleviate license issues that have cropped up with the cars and tracks we've been using in the past. It turns out that all this data is difficult to distribute very widely. We plan to find a way that community-supported car/track data can be made available to users after the initial game download, either through web site(s) or a data management application.
xTs Wrote:I liked the tracks of the old NFS games, will there be some like them or just racing tracks?
I haven't played a lot of old NFS games, what kind of tracks did they have?
xTs Wrote:When is svn up again?
Right now I'm in the middle of moving the SVN repositories off the old server and onto our new hosting. I've been pretty busy lately, and on top of that I've had trouble getting in contact with the new admin of the old server, which has slowed things down significantly.
