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RE: A few questions and proposals for the developers and artists
Thank you for your answers NaN. Also please excuse me for answering so late. I would’ve made the threads. I will write the lists but please don't be upset I won't post really much at the beginning but I’ll gradually make the lists bigger.
1. I didn't really mean an in-game editor but a separate application like the track editor. Is it possible to modify the track editor into a car editor? So you don’t need to work so much on it? It just needs to read the file and edit the car.ini. It shouldn't need a sculpting mode, only tools to define what part is what, defining component materials, and setting up joints/connections/animations maybe, for the car.
5. I’ll go for standard tags like hatchback, super car, sports car, then add more colloquial stuff like muscle car, pony car, and see if I can come up to some way to not overdo the tag thing but still have about 3-5 per car so we can find the car fast by applying some filters when searching for cars or setting up a race. It should also help if the game gets a career mode, so adding cars to the game make them show up in career races and not needing to build a database for specific types of races. It would load them on the fly, by searching the tag. Same for tracks.
6. A list of what of file formats? I’ll look into it. Though we can just import the cars they made into Vdrift. I don’t know much about file formats but their sites document them. I’ll provide the links. Of course, if the communities would collaborate on easing the process, it would be excellent. Flightgear’s community is really active so maybe we could just contact them.
7. Who should post the messages there? Me? Can you give me an example of what to write? I don’t want to embarrass you guys.
Again, don’t be mad at me for being slow. I will post as soon as I can find a detailed yet concise way to sort all the stuff. I won’t get into Need for Speed naming conventions like tuner/exotic. I don’t think you’ll like that. Though the interface you’re working at start looking like NFS Underground 2, which, in my opinion, had one of the best racing game interfaces ever. The interface was great for keyboard/controllers and worked mouse only too.
Cheers!
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