Data distribution ideas

[protomor]

I have done quite a bit on the E30 M3 since I have extensive knowledge of the car in real life (I drift an E30 in real life). So my suggestion is to stick with the E30 your basic RWD car with a good suspension setup. I have all the suspension settings done within reasonable specifications for drifting. I just need to figure out what all the tire specs are.

As for a single track, I suggest a figure 8 but have the bottom loop be elongated so you can get up some speed. I opened blender and tried to make anything but failed miserably... Anyone know an easier editor to make tracks with?

[joevenzon]

Maybe try the TORCS track editor...? I don't know much about it (like if it can write to any useful 3d formats), but it seems simpler....

By the way, I put a link I found to a tutorial for modeling racetracks in blender here:
http://wiki.vdrift.net/index.php/Track_m...g_tutorial

[protomor]

Sweet I get to study blender tomorrow!

[thelusiv]

The TORCS track editor is said to be pretty handy by those that have used it. I haven't really played with it much. It outputs .ac3 files if I recall correctly.

[rookie1]

Going back to the original topic on data distribution - there is an Ultima Online 3D client project Iris2 which has a svn based updater.

The source is at http://zwischenwelt.org/trac/iris/browser/tools/updater.

Here is a screenshot

[FFuser]

Since their isn't much activity I began to think to write the data application.

This is the main idea:

Python application
Split into a GTK+ part to display stuff
And a "library" part to make it easy to port to text-based, or cocoa (are their python bindings??)

The library part:
You can have multiple "repositories".
These repositories does have the data for different VDrift versions
These repositories can be of different types (HTTP, FTP, SVN, ...), it should be easy to add one (just put a file with the implementation in the direcotry)
The data can be downloaded in the main VDrift directory (should have writing rights (should be root is some cases)), the user directory (does VDrift supports this?)

The repository consists of different parts: The main data (lists, shaders, sounds, ...) and cars and tracks. User should be able to select which tracs/cars he wants to have

Any comments?

[reece146]

Sounds reasonable.

Just an off-hand idea: what about building something into the tool that will display a dialog box when you are about to download a non-GPL or unknown license car or track? There would have to be a "tag" or some kind of meta data to trigger against.

Or is this a much ado about nothin'?

Maybe another trigger to note that the car/track being downloaded is outside of the "vdrift sanctioned" set of cars and tracks? With any luck lots of people will be creating cars/tracks/configs of their own and there should be a way to let newbies to the game know that these data sets have not been vetted by the vdrift devs.

Just throwing that out there - may be something for version 2 of the tool.

[FFuser]

Sounds reasonable.

Just an off-hand idea: what about building something into the tool that will display a dialog box when you are about to download a non-GPL or unknown license car or track? There would have to be a "tag" or some kind of meta data to trigger against.

Or is this a much ado about nothin'?

Maybe another trigger to note that the car/track being downloaded is outside of the "vdrift sanctioned" set of cars and tracks? With any luck lots of people will be creating cars/tracks/configs of their own and there should be a way to let newbies to the game know that these data sets have not been vetted by the vdrift devs.

Just throwing that out there - may be something for version 2 of the tool.

Somthing like the multiverse and so on repos in Ubuntu? Sounds ok for me.

EDIT:
I already start working on it, first screenshots will follow soon.

Under which license should I release the code? GPL v2 or v3? or another proposal?

[joevenzon]

I vote GPL, v2 or v3 doesn't matter to me.

[reece146]

Somthing like the multiverse and so on repos in Ubuntu? Sounds ok for me.

Sorry, not familiar with Ubuntu.

Anything that forces the user to acknowledge with a mouse click would be adequate I'd think.

When you come up with a http/url schema that you want to use let me know and I'll throw up a .car file on moose.ca.

[FFuser]

Somthing like the multiverse and so on repos in Ubuntu? Sounds ok for me.

Sorry, not familiar with Ubuntu.

Anything that forces the user to acknowledge with a mouse click would be adequate I'd think.

Ok

When you come up with a http/url schema that you want to use let me know and I'll throw up a .car file on moose.ca.

I can test locally myself, buy I'll let you know anyway