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[thelusiv]

TORCS really does a great job at robot racing... the intent of VDrift is to cover everything else.

that's quite an odd statement, like saying we don't need graphics because other games/simulations cover that well already ;-)

I think it would be cool to have scripted AI, but not quite like TORCS. I'd rather see it done in a higher-level language more suited for this type of scripting like Lua. However, it's not high on my list of things VDrift needs most. If someone submits a patch, of course we will certainly consider it, and if someone's really serious about working on AI scripting I could even set them up their own SVN branch where they could work on it.

on a related note it think something should be done about the fact that the new track-system uses thousands of files:
the 3 new tracks are composed of over 4500 files that take over 150MB of space on my filesystem, although their *real* size is under 75MB (and compress down to 60MB). also the time to do a deployment build of vdrift increased about 5-fold because of the need to copy thousands of files.

Yeah, this has become annoying, it makes SCons 0.96.1 run really slowly when running scons install (you must wait something on the order of a minute before it even begins compiling...), and with the latest SCons (0.96.91) speed is increased but this development build has its own problems...

possible solutions include using something like PhysicsFS or doing something about it in the format-level...

I vote format-level. All we need is to make VDrift able to handle compressed archives of model files. Sort of like WAD files in Doom or pak files in Quake. We could even use zip, or tar plus gzip, or bzip2 (er, maybe not, kinda slow). This would add another dependent library...