New public domain track: Rouen-Les-Essarts

[joevenzon]

I converted a track called Rouen-Les-Essarts from an F1C9902 mod called Prototype C. It was made by the Virtua_LM team and released into public domain.

Info about the real-life track:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouen-Les-Essarts

Info about the track model:
http://www.virtua-lm.com/disclaimer.html

It still needs some work; it's been forever since I did any track importing. The grass needs to be made bumpy for one. By the way, I updated the track editor to do a much better job of auto-tracing roads.

The track is in the latest data SVN. If you have a recent VDrift release you can also just download it from here and put it in your tracks folder:
http://vdrift.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc...cks/rouen/
(click "Download GNU tarball")

[alex25]

It still needs some work; it's been forever since I did any track importing. The grass needs to be made bumpy for one. By the way, I updated the track editor to do a much better job of auto-tracing roads.

i'll take a look and update it.

--alex--

[alex25]

i'll take a look and update it.

done. any reason why the tree shadows and the clouds were left out? they are in the objects.jpk but not in the list.txt file.

--alex--

[joevenzon]

The clouds make the day *extremely* cloudy (no blue sky at all); I like the sunny day look better.

I left the shadows out because I usually play with shaders and shadows on, and it looks weird when things have 2 sets of shadows. :-)

[joevenzon]

Just played your updated version, works great. Thanks.

[alex25]

I left the shadows out because I usually play with shaders and shadows on, and it looks weird when things have 2 sets of shadows. :-)

maybe we can standardize the shadow objects names (or use a flag) and turn them off if the shadows are on and vice versa. i usually play with the shadows off.

--alex--

[alex25]

maybe we can standardize the shadow objects names (or use a flag) and turn them off if the shadows are on and vice versa. i usually play with the shadows off.

extend the sky flag with 2 meaning a shadow to be turned off if the simulation shadows are enabled?

--alex--

[joevenzon]

We should just add another flag. VDrift knows how many flags per object based on the number at the top of the file (i.e. 14) so a new level with 15 flags should be compatible with an old VDrift, and and old level with 14 flags should also be compatible with a new VDrift (after some code is added to give a default value).

[joevenzon]

Note that you can use "addparam 0" in the listedit program to add a new flag to each object in the file.

If you update the track with 15 parameters and put the shadows in there, I'll add the code to ignore the shadow objects if shader shadows are on.

[alex25]

If you update the track with 15 parameters and put the shadows in there, I'll add the code to ignore the shadow objects if shader shadows are on.

can you email me the original list.txt with all the objects (before you took out the shadows and the like). since a joe object has no reference as to the texture files used i rather not try to guess. thanks.

--alex--

[alex25]

If you update the track with 15 parameters and put the shadows in there, I'll add the code to ignore the shadow objects if shader shadows are on.

i tried to update sepang with the new shadow flag. doesn't quite work since vdrift expects only 14 parameters. tried to convince vdrift to accept 15 but i couldn't get it to work.

--alex--

[joevenzon]

i tried to update sepang with the new shadow flag. doesn't quite work since vdrift expects only 14 parameters. tried to convince vdrift to accept 15 but i couldn't get it to work.

Can you commit the updated version of sepang with 15 parameters to svn? I realize it'll break the SVN briefly but I think I can fix it fairly quickly.

[alex25]

Can you commit the updated version of sepang with 15 parameters to svn? I realize it'll break the SVN briefly but I think I can fix it fairly quickly.

done.

--alex--

[joevenzon]

R2367 should tolerate the 15-parameter list.txt files now. The logic to (not) display the shadow objects isn't hooked up yet.

[joevenzon]

can you email me the original list.txt with all the objects (before you took out the shadows and the like). since a joe object has no reference as to the texture files used i rather not try to guess. thanks.

I added list.txt.original to data/tracks/rouen/objects in data R359. You should be able to find the shadow objects in there. It's also got the cloudy day objects too, in case you want to give that a try.