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Bernhard Wymann wrote:

> Hi
>
> the attached file contains a try for fixing endianness of the fonts on
> big endian machines. because i don't have such a machine, i have no idea
> if it will work...
>
> install:
> - cd into the torcs source directory
> - cd src/libs/tgf
> - make a backup of guifont.cpp, e.g. "cp guifont.cpp guifont.cpp.orig"
> - copy the attached file into src/libs/tgf/
> - do a make and make install in the tgf directory.
>
> there should pop up three warnings on compile time: "big endian"
>
> if it doesn't work, try out the following:
> - put the second swap32 section into comments (i don't know if floats
> are also arranged the wrong way).
> - i assumed that the texture is loaded correct, because it is loaded
> char by char.
> - all the blocks to convert need also to by a multiple of 4, just data
> types of size 4 allowed (seems to be fullfilled).
>
>
> bye, bernhard.

Did it work? Yes!!! Thanks alot! This is so cool. Please let me know if 
you want to try out other stuff on ppc and i?ll try to help out.

Regards

Peter

Hi

the attached file contains a try for fixing endianness of the fonts on
big endian machines. because i don't have such a machine, i have no idea
if it will work...

install:
- cd into the torcs source directory
- cd src/libs/tgf
- make a backup of guifont.cpp, e.g. "cp guifont.cpp guifont.cpp.orig"
- copy the attached file into src/libs/tgf/
- do a make and make install in the tgf directory.

there should pop up three warnings on compile time: "big endian"

if it doesn't work, try out the following:
- put the second swap32 section into comments (i don't know if floats
are also arranged the wrong way).
- i assumed that the texture is loaded correct, because it is loaded
char by char.
- all the blocks to convert need also to by a multiple of 4, just data
types of size 4 allowed (seems to be fullfilled).


bye, bernhard.

Hi

the attached file contains a try for fixing endianness of the fonts on 
big endian machines. because i don't have such a machine, i have no idea 
if it will work...

install:
- cd into the torcs source directory
- cd src/libs/tgf
- make a backup of guifont.cpp, e.g. "cp guifont.cpp guifont.cpp.orig"
- copy the attached file into src/libs/tgf/
- do a make and make install in the tgf directory.

there should pop up three warnings on compile time: "big endian"

if it doesn't work, try out the following:
- put the second swap32 section into comments (i don't know if floats 
are also arranged the wrong way).
- i assumed that the texture is loaded correct, because it is loaded 
char by char.
- all the blocks to convert need also to by a multiple of 4, just data 
types of size 4 allowed (seems to be fullfilled).


bye, bernhard.

Hi,

Thanks for the quick responses, those tutorials look very useful, thanks
Eric!

Michael.

I have put back the pages on http://torcs.free.fr but I don't know
if they are acurate...

Just after the 1.1.0 release (in june I hope) I'll update the tutorials.

Eric.

Bernhard Wymann wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> there is still some info on the old torcs page, http://torcs.free.fr,
> go to the "manual" section. the existing bots are also worth a look.
> 
> bye, have fun
> 
> bernhard.
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Hi

there is still some info on the old torcs page, http://torcs.free.fr,
go to the "manual" section. the existing bots are also worth a look.

bye, have fun

bernhard.

Hi,

I just downloaded torcs, I'd be interested in writing a bot for it but I
can't find an API description anywhere, also it appears to crash when I
try to use the tutorial bots (though all the others I've tried work ok).

I've written bots for robocode (see http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/
its great fun), so hopefully getting into this shouldn't be too hard (?)

Any help would be appreciated,

Michael.