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Hi Bernhard,
the sketches and the typeface used are at 
http://www15.brinkster.com/nitrofurano/torcs
Paulo 

 

____________________________________________________________________________ 
________ 

> Hi Paulo
> Design them, put them on a web site, and send me the link, I will likely (if there are not too much ads and it is political correct) link to your site then. Bye, thank you for your interest,
> Bernhard.
> I will not change it before 2.0, because we need a new menu system anyway.
____________________________________________________________________________ 
________ 

> i don't know who is caring about the Torcs titles - i think they needed
> to be redesigned
> since a playstation version of Colin McRae had an excellent opening
> design (i think the whole template were done on Macromedia Flash, and
> lately converted to playstation binaries - but i still don't know which
> design authors or studio did it)
> in my oppinion, Torcs would need to have this kind of care
 

> question: how can i contribute on Torcs with cars like those old ones
> like Ford-T from 20's (?), a Packard from 50's, even a Buick from 70's,
> or those f1 cars from early 20th century (all as from default choice or
> as an easten egg from the game, or loadable as custom)?  this would be
> cool! 
 

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Hi There,

If I try to start torcs I get the following message:

GfParmReadFile: Opening "C:/Programme/torcs/config/screen.xml" (0014C744)
Visual Properties Report
Compatibility mode, properties unknown.
GLUT: Fatal Error in wtorcs.exe: failed to create OpenGL rendering context.


What is wrong with my installation?
Is it the path to the xml-file that uses unix notation, or the GLUT engine?

Please help.

ROMAN   :)

On Tue, 16 May 2006 00:13:48 +0200, Christos Dimitrakakis
<dim...@id...> wrote:

> I had the exact same problem and I had posted the solution to this, or
> torcs-devel mailing list.. if you can't find it then I'll try and figure
> it out again.
>

thanks for all the suggestions.

finally this was too simple to be true. I was just being mislead by the
config screen.

"Center the joystick then press a button"
immediately below are two buttons : Back and Reset  neither of which seem
to appropriate. (Any they aren't.)

Indeed grabbing the joystick to press one of the buttons does not make  
sense when calibrating it's rest postition.

May I submit the following patch to make this immediately clear to the
user.

Since this interface assumes some other input device is present, adding a  
test for mouse click or space bar would be a good idea.

Thanks again.




Index: torcs/src/libs/confscreens/joystickconfig.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file:
/cvsroot/torcs/torcs/torcs/src/libs/confscreens/joystickconfig.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -r1.5 joystickconfig.cpp
51c51
<     "Center the joystick then press a button",
---
>     "Center the joystick then press a joystick button",

On Tue, 16 May 2006 00:13:48 +0200, Christos Dimitrakakis  
<dim...@id...> wrote:

> I had the exact same problem and I had posted the solution to this, or
> torcs-devel mailing list.. if you can't find it then I'll try and figure
> it out again.
>

thanks for all the suggestions.

finally this was too simple to be true. I was just being mislead by the  
config screen.

"Center the joystick then press a button"
immediately below are two buttons : Back and Reset  neither of which seem  
to appropriate. (Any they aren't.)

May I submit the following patch to make this immediately clear to the  
user.

Thanks again.




Index: torcs/src/libs/confscreens/joystickconfig.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file:  
/cvsroot/torcs/torcs/torcs/src/libs/confscreens/joystickconfig.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -r1.5 joystickconfig.cpp
51c51
<     "Center the joystick then press a button",
---
>     "Center the joystick then press a joystick button",

SOLVED

thanks to all for helpful suggestions on this, though it was simply a  
confusing interface and a misconception that was holding me back.


  Configure players -> Controls -> Calibrate

I get to a screen Joystick calibration which says "centre the joystick  
then press a button.

On the line below are two buttons: Back and Reset, neither seems to fit.  
And they dont.

Once you know it seems obvious that it's not the screen buttons but a  
joystick button you need to press.

May I suggest adding the "joystick button" to make this immediately clear:

The whole interface is up for a facelift so I wont make further comments  
here but this is a trivial fix that can go straight into CVS.

regards.


Index: torcs/src/libs/confscreens/joystickconfig.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file:  
/cvsroot/torcs/torcs/torcs/src/libs/confscreens/joystickconfig.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -r1.5 joystickconfig.cpp
51c51
<     "Center the joystick then press a button",
---
>     "Center the joystick then press a joystick button",

On Tue, 16 May 2006 00:13:48 +0200, Christos Dimitrakakis  
<dim...@id...> wrote:

> I had the exact same problem and I had posted the solution to this, or
> torcs-devel mailing list.. if you can't find it then I'll try and figure
> it out again.
>

Many thanks for the quick reply. I was not quick getting back because I  
wanted to look in detail at why it was not working before replying.

anyway, think I've found it:
  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12613071


  modprobe evdev
  modprobe joydev
  modprobe hid
  #modprobe sidewinder

  PATH=$PATH:/home/src/inpututils-1.0.0

  if [ "$1" = "-c" ]
  then
  jscal -c /dev/input/js0
  jscal -p /dev/input/js0 > /etc/joystick
  jscal -c /dev/input/js1
  jscal -p /dev/input/js1 >> /etc/joystick
  cp -f /etc/joystick /etc/joystick.cal
  else
  sleep 1
  source /etc/joystick.cal
  fi



jscal is not working well for me. It goes through the motions on both axes  
but if I run it with -t straight after , it tells me js0 is not  
calibrated!!

again flightgear works, so I'm inclined to see this as a prob with torcs.

Where is the calibrate function of torcs documented, it does not seem to  
do anything so maybe I have misunderstood or there is breakage there.

TIA

I had the exact same problem and I had posted the solution to this, or
torcs-devel mailing list.. if you can't find it then I'll try and figure
it out again.

-- 
Christos Dimitrakakis
Homepage: http://www.idiap.ch/~dimitrak/main.html
Music: http://olethros.dmusic.com

No sign of my first msg on sourceforge after two days although I did recv  
a copy of the post. Looks like SF is seriously under-resourced.

Awaiting the day when my post is visible to the world I thought it may  
useful to add some more detail....


Hoping to shake out the prob. I have updated to 2.6.17-mm-rc3 kernel and  
alsa-1.0.11  (previous 2.6.11 and 1.0.8)

Also in the mix: plib-1.8.4-r1 simgear-0.3.10

The good news is nothing changed a spot. So it seems to rule out kernel /  
alsa problems.

The bad news is it looks like torcs is at fault, esp. since flightgear has  
no issue with the joystick and uses pretty much the same drivers and  
libraries.

The control setup interface has no problem seeing the joystick movement of  
both x and y axes and saving them, but when I run a race (practice) the  
controls are totally without effect.

Can you suggest how i could narrow the problem down?

Thanks again.

Hi,

running torcs 1.2.4 on linux. (all latest release pkgs. I'll give further  
spec if reqd.)

first of all thanks for this impressive piece of software. It seems to be  
just what I was looking for.

I am having a few teething problems with a basic analog joystick on  
ens1371. jstest shows it to be working correctly and it works on  
flightgear. I have established that the software runs using kbd for  
steering/accel/brakes.

However, if I set the current driver to use mouse axis movement nothing  
happens (no steering no accel). Using a combination of keybd and stick I  
can accel/brake off the kbd but selecting stick axis movement for steering  
still has no effect.

I am hoping to hook up a pair of analog floor pedals but getting a std  
joystick to work would seem to be prerequisite step.

Thanks for any advice in resolving this problem.

Hi all

sf.net updated the CVS infrastructure, the repository are now at
"torcs.cvs.sourceforge.net" (was previously "cvs.sourceforge.net"). Look at the
sf.net site status for more information and http://sourceforge.net/docs/E04 for
all the details.

Bye, Bernhard.


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Official TORCS racing: The TORCS Racing Board, http://www.berniw.org/trb

Hi Paulo

> i don't know who is caring about the Torcs titles - i think they needed
> to be redesigned
> since a playstation version of Colin McRae had an excellent opening
> design (i think the whole template were done on Macromedia Flash, and
> lately converted to playstation binaries - but i still don't know which
> design authors or studio did it)
> in my oppinion, Torcs would need to have this kind of care

I will not change it before 2.0, because we need a new menu system anyway.

> question: how can i contribute on Torcs with cars like those old ones
> like Ford-T from 20's (?), a Packard from 50's, even a Buick from 70's,
> or those f1 cars from early 20th century (all as from default choice or
> as an easten egg from the game, or loadable as custom)?  this would be
> cool! :-)

Design them, put them on a web site, and send me the link, I will likely (if
there are not too much ads and it is political correct) link to your site then.

Bye, thank you for your interest,

Bernhard.

-- 

Visit my homepage http://www.berniw.org
Official TORCS racing: The TORCS Racing Board, http://www.berniw.org/trb

Hi! 

i don't know who is caring about the Torcs titles - i think they needed to 
be redesigned 

since a playstation version of Colin McRae had an excellent opening design 
(i think the whole template were done on Macromedia Flash, and lately 
converted to playstation binaries - but i still don't know which design 
authors or studio did it) 

in my oppinion, Torcs would need to have this kind of care 

question: how can i contribute on Torcs with cars like those old ones like 
Ford-T from 20's (?), a Packard from 50's, even a Buick from 70's, or those 
f1 cars from early 20th century (all as from default choice or as an easten 
egg from the game, or loadable as custom)?  this would be cool! :-) 

regards,
Paulo 


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Hi Pete

> Hello List ;)
> I try to run TORCS, but in the games some textures are missing (see
> screenshot attached)!
> I installed it using the binary.
> Console-output:

In the FAQ there is a similar problem explained, look up the FAQ. It might turn
out that you have hit another problem, but have a look at it. Sadly your report
misses most needed data, so I can just suggest the following:
- Start TORCS with -s "torcs -s"
- Lower the window resolution (e.g. 640x480).
- If this does not help, go in TORCS to the OpenGL settings asn wind down the
texture size (e.g. to 64).

> checking for XF86VidModeSetViewPort in -lXxf86vm... no

Maybe the headers are not installed, if you cannot fix it send another report
based on the FAQ section 5.2;-) Look up "config.log" for details, if it does
tell you nothing send it as well.

Bye, Bernhard.


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Hello List ;)
I try to run TORCS, but in the games some textures are missing (see 
screenshot attached)!
I installed it using the binary.
Console-output:
pete@pete:~$ ./torcs
Visual Properties Report
------------------------
Compatibility mode, properties unknown.
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")
OpenAL backend info:
  Vendor: J. Valenzuela
  Renderer: Software
  Version: 0.0.8
  Available sources: 1024 or more
  Available buffers: 1024 or more
  Dynamic Sources: requested: 1003, created: 1003
  #static sources: 21
  #dyn sources   : 1003

When i try to install the CVS, i get the following error:
checking for XF86VidModeSetViewPort in -lXxf86vm... no
configure: error: Can't find libXxf86vm. Please check config.log and if 
you can't solve the problem send the file to 
tor...@li... with the subject "torcs compilation 
problem"

But libXxf86vm.so.1 is in /usr/X11R6/lib

What's the problem here???

Thanks for your help!

greets,
peter

SpeedyChonChon wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Vicente has problems to post here, so he has asked me to bring you his
> mail.
> 
> Bye
> Speedy
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hello every body, I'm woring on an Formula 1 cars and traks for TORCS.
> Finally, my intention is to make a guide that explain the proces of
> making a
> simple render with blender (a GNU free 3d rendering program).
> 
> 
Cool, I have worked a bit with blender to make cars.


> Now I want to edit the track with blender in order to add objects and
> make a nice track. I mean, add trucks, signals of the distance of
> the curb, trees...
>
Adding distance signals can be done automatically with appropriate
entries in the generator xml actually.


> 
> I was wondering is someone can explain how I can edit the track
> created with track editor with blender or another 3d program in order
> to improve the quality of the track.
> Or if is another way to create good tracks for torcs, please
> tell it to me.
>

I normally use trackgen to create a first ac3d track from the xml and
then use 'ac3d import' to get the track loaded into blender.  Exporting
back to ac3d is a bit of a pain, though, since you have to remove
extraneous AC3D fields that torcs does not understand.  However I don't
think there is any significant difference between editing track models
and editing car models.

If you discover some specific piece of info that is necessary for doing
blender-based work on tracks, please post back into the list so that I
can incorporate the information into
http://www.idiap.ch/~dimitrak/torcs/track-howto.html

(Maybe we need a wiki???)

Cheers,
Christos



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Homepage: http://www.idiap.ch/~dimitrak/main.html
Music: http://olethros.dmusic.com

Hi all.

Vicente has problems to post here, so he has asked me to bring you his mail.

Bye
Speedy
-------------------------------------------------

Hello every body, I'm woring on an Formula 1 cars and traks for TORCS.
Finally, my intention is to make a guide that explain the proces of making a
simple render with blender (a GNU free 3d rendering program).


I have made a real track with trackeditor,
I have searched the track map of Montmelo (Sanish F1-grand prix) on Google
Earth. You can download the track on my web.

Now I want to edit the track with blender in order to add objects and
make a nice track. I mean, add trucks, signals of the distance of
the curb, trees...


The editing of the Formula 1 cars is OK, I can edit the car
with blender in an easy way. This is explained on the F1 car section
of the web page. You can download a car on my web.

You can read more on the web of the project:

http://www4.uji.es/~al063357/tutorials/torcs/index.html



I was wondering is someone can explain how I can edit the track
created with track editor with blender or another 3d program in order
to improve the quality of the track.
Or if is another way to create good tracks for torcs, please
tell it to me.

I'm very interested on make F1 cars and F1 tracks for torcs.

Thanks to help me.


By the way I have registerd on the
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/user.php?op=new_user

my nick name is: Vicente and vicentemarti
The pasword wasn't sent to me.
Can some one tell it to the administrators of the
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/ site to sent me the
pasword?


Tanks for help me again,


----------------------------------------------------------
Vicente Marti
http://www4.uji.es/~al063357/
vte...@ho...
vte...@gm...
------------------------------------------------------------

Help is needed to make a Formula 1 track. Formula 1 cars on TORCS, a new
project.

The web of the project is:
http://www4.uji.es/~al063357/tutorials/torcs/index.html



Hello every body, I'm woring on an Formula 1 cars and traks for TORCS.
Finally, my intention is to make a guide that explain the proces of makin=
g a
simple render with blender (a GNU free 3d rendering program).


I have made a real track with trackeditor,
I have searched the track map of Montmelo (Sanish F1-grand prix) on Googl=
e
Earth. You can download the track on my web.

Now I want to edit the track with blender in order to add objects and
make a nice track. I mean, add trucks, signals of the distance of
the curb, trees...


The editing of the Formula 1 cars is OK, I can edit the car
with blender in an easy way. This is explained on the F1 car section
of the web page. You can download a car on my web.

You can read more on the web of the project:

http://www4.uji.es/~al063357/tutorials/torcs/index.html



I was wondering is someone can explain how I can edit the track
created with track editor with blender or another 3d program in order
to improve the quality of the track.
Or if is another way to create good tracks for torcs, please
tell it to me.

I'm very interested on make F1 cars and F1 tracks for torcs.

Thanks to help me.


By the way I have registerd on the
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/user.php?op=3Dnew_user

my nick name is: Vicente and vicentemarti
The pasword wasn't sent to me.
Can some one tell it to the administrators of the
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/ site to sent me the
pasword?


Tanks for help me again,


----------------------------------------------------------
Vicente Marti
http://www4.uji.es/~al063357/

Hi Mart

> bug system). The attached patch can resolve this issue (at least it let torcs 
> compile on my system).

Applied in the CVS, thanks for the patch,

Bye, Bernhard.

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Visit my homepage http://www.berniw.org
Official TORCS racing: The TORCS Racing Board, http://www.berniw.org/trb