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Hi,
I want to install Torcs on my linux machine.
I carried out the first 4 steps from Download and Install page.
but when I do the 
make && make install, 
I get a message :
 
mkdir /usr/local/share/games
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/games': Permission denied
mkdir /usr/local/share/games/torcs
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/games/torcs': No such file or directory
mkdir /usr/local/share/games/torcs/drivers

Can you please tell me whats going wrong?
 
-Mustafa

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I actually have torcs up and running using the rpms from
ftp://rpmfind.rediris.es/sites/carroll.cac.psu.edu/mandrakelinux/official/10.0/contrib/i586/

however, I can only partiticpate in the Quick Race on the default track (CG
track 3?)

I have the following rpms installed
torcs-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
torcs-data-1.2.2-1mdk.noarch.rpm
torcs-data-cars-extra-1.2.2-1mdk.noarch.rpm
torcs-robots-astigot-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
torcs-robots-base-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
torcs-robots-berniw-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
torcs-robots-billy-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
torcs-robots-bt-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
torcs-robots-K1999-1.2.2-2mdk.i586.rpm

I did get to be able to do any of them, well practice at least, and select the
users but then due to `user error` I had to reinstall my system

the only ooutput I get is
[chapmanc@homehost raceman]$ /usr/games/torcs
Visual Properties Report
------------------------
z-buffer depth: 24
alpha channel : enabled
antialiasing  : enabled
WARNING: ssgLoadTexture: Cannot determine file type for './(null)'
GfParmCheckHandle: parameter "Rear Right Suspension/packers" out of bounds:
min:0 max:0.01 val:0.02 in ("Tanhoj" -
"drivers/tanhoj/tracksdata/car_g-track-3.xml")
GfParmCheckHandle: parameter "Rear Left Suspension/packers" out of bounds: min:0
max:0.01 val:0.02 in ("Tanhoj" - "drivers/tanhoj/tracksdata/car_g-track-3.xml")

I presume the `Cannot determine file type for './(null)'` is the real error
When I try to change the track it seg faults with the following error
[chapmanc@homehost chapmanc]$ /usr/games/torcs
Visual Properties Report
------------------------
z-buffer depth: 24
alpha channel : enabled
antialiasing  : enabled
/usr/games/torcs: line 54: 11827 Segmentation fault      $LIBDIR/torcs-bin -l
$LOCAL_CONF -L $LIBDIR -D $DATADIR $*

there is no core file from that crash

other than the output from uname (Linux homehost.dixiest.net 2.6.3-14mdk #1 Fri
Jun 18 01:22:49 MDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux) I have no other errors

any ideas where to start looking

The Secret Hamster
jabberid sec...@ja...

Hi Zachary

> Are there any FAQs, or HOW-TOs on creating models in TORCS?

Not real HOW-TOs. But there are some mailing in this list about the 
subject. Here a snippet of a mail from Eric Espié:

"
basically, the 3D models are done with AC3D, the origin of the model
should be at the middle of the car in both X and Y and at the bottom
of the car in Z (Z is up) the units are in meter.
The normals, multitextures and strip calculations are done
by the accc tool associated with the stripe 
<http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~stripe>
program (the accc pass is optional but nice).
The textures are in uncompressed RGB (handled very well by The Gimp and 
AC3D)
The shadow texture how-to is explained here:
<http://torcs.sourceforge.net/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=27>
The wheel texture is done using the radial motion blur effect of The Gimp
with the values (10,10) (20,20) and (40,40) for the angle and length.

The physics description for the simulation is located in the associated
xml file.
"

I posted some minutes ago another mail which lists references on how to 
create a track.

bye, Bernhard.

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Are there any FAQs, or HOW-TOs on creating models in TORCS?

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 13:52, Bernhard Kaindl wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2004, David Haggett wrote:
> > > Depending if your DRI/GLX driver also fully supports 32-bit mode on the
> > > 64-bit kernel and X11, you can also just try to insert the 32-bit DVD
> > > and install this rpm(but it's not the latest version unfortunately).
> >
> > I did try this but the graphics were messed up a bit (you could see the
> > road through the cars).  I guessed it was an issue with the nVidia
> > driver.
>
> Yes, most likely.

Just to round this off, thanks to all your help, I've successfully got torcs 
1.2.2 running on my Athlon64.  For info I get up to 250fps (about twice what 
I get on the 3GHz P4 laptop under windows, and I'm pretty happy about that.

Thanks again.
-- 

David Haggett

On Mon, 31 May 2004, David Haggett wrote:
> 
> > Depending if your DRI/GLX driver also fully supports 32-bit mode on the
> > 64-bit kernel and X11, you can also just try to insert the 32-bit DVD and
> > install this rpm(but it's not the latest version unfortunately).

> I did try this but the graphics were messed up a bit (you could see the road 
> through the cars).  I guessed it was an issue with the nVidia driver.

Yes, most likely.

> > To try a 32-bit compile, you just use -m32 for each gcc call and gcc will
> > automatically compile 32-bit and link with the 32-bit libraries (you may
> > need to install some 32-bit development packages for this in addition)

> Is this an alternative to using -fPIC and recompiling plib, or something I 
> might want to do *as well as* using -fPIC and recompiling plib?

Yes, trying a 32-bit compile would be an alternative to using -fPIC and
recompiling plib because in 32-bit mode, the AMD64 CPU has to be 100%
compatible to what other CPUs of what the IA32 architecture requires.

But as you already tried the 32-bit rpm(just of the older version, not
the current CVS) and it can be assumed that the messed-up graphics in
this rpm was an issue with the nVidia driver, running the 32-bit-compiled
version could also show similar issues as with the rpm version.

Bernhard