torcs-devel Mailing List for TORCS - The Open Racing Car Simulator

Hello there everyone

As I am finally finding time to sort out the bugs in simuv3 and do some
cleanup, I thought I'd try and fix it so that it works under win32 for
people such as Andrew.  The current version does not seem to work.  The
problems started occurring, if I remember correctly, when I had added
the SimulationOptions and Options framework, which is heavy on the
templates.  Now I've updated it so that it at least compiles under
win32, but getting it to run is another thing.

Any clues?

Christos

Wait, I said something silly, this does not happen at the moment.  So,
yeah, I'm all for applying this patch. There's still a serious problem
with the old smoke code though.  When the track is tilted the smoke cuts
through the track.  I don't think this can be fixed with the current
solution since the smoke is essentially an ovoid with independent x-y-z
dimensions, but with no control over its rotation...

Andrew Sumner wrote:
> I've noticed that TORCS creates smoke when wheels slip sideways or under
> braking, but
> not hardly any smoke when the driven wheels are spinning.  For example, take
> one of 
> the faster vehicles, steer hard in one direction and apply maximum
> acceleration.  You
> see a little smoke due to the car skidding around sideways, but not a lot.
> 
> Anyway, the attached patch seeks to improve this purely aesthetic aspect of
> TORCS.
> On my machine you get much more realistic-looking smoke effects, but not
> such that
> it significantly slows fps speed.
> 

Thanks for the patch. m strange that there is smoke when doing that in
simuv2 but not in simuv3.  Let's see what the difference is before we
apply it, shall we?

PS.  I updated CVS with some simuv3 changes so that Andy can compile it
on VC6 (hopefully).