First I'd like to thank the people's making vdrift, it actually compiles on my computer using this release, so now I can finally play this game I've been waiting months to play
The installation did cause some problems however, the game would not start as it could not find files. Basically this is what I did:
download latest stable version
unpack bullet
run scons arch=a64 release=1 force_feedback=1
sudo scons install
upon typing 'vdrift' into the terminal I get a message its not found. Is it possible to get the installer to check $PATH and install symlink to one of the directories there?
once I sorted that out vdrift couldnt find the data folder, so I had to move the vdrift binary from the bin folder it automatically installed to into the base vdrift directory. Ie the bin installed to /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin/vdrift and the data installed to /usr/share/games/vdrift/data
I had to move vdrift to /usr/share/games/vdrift/ before it would find the data directory (I'm thinking this is just a simple path problem?
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Once that was fixed I still got errors that it could not find shaders/less_simple, it turns out it did not copy a number of the shader directory's to the installed location. It also did not copy a number of the data/textures/effects directory to the installed location either.
I also get the following errors, but these do not cause problems to game functionality (well not in the short time i've tested anyway)
Code:
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/AutoX: unknown widget-04 type: designer, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/Designer: unknown widget-01 type: designer, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/InGameJoystickCalibrate: unknown widget-03 type: calibrate, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/InGameJoystickCalibrate: unknown hook reference to InGameJoystickCalibration
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/JoystickCalibrate: unknown widget-03 type: calibrate, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/JoystickCalibrate: unknown hook reference to JoystickCalibration
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/NetworkGame: unknown widget-06 type: textbox, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/NetworkGame: unknown widget-07 type: textbox, ignoring
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: force feedback: can not open /dev/input/event0 (Permission denied) [src/forcefeedback.cpp:26]
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
Also just a thought but it might be helpful if the devs had a bug tracker? makes it easier to see which bugs are solved and which are still to be dealt with
