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Stunts Forum & Portal / Forum sections

« on: July 06, 2019, 08:50:48 PM »

I have sorted the forum section to bring "Team Talk" and "Life beside Stunts" closer to the top, and the archived competitions at the bottom. If you can't find stuff, left me know

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Competition 2019 / ZCT215 - Wateris

« on: June 30, 2019, 11:44:23 AM »

Uh, such an exciting race, and not even a thread?

I have a question, now that it's over. How do you get that !&*£ "inner loop-cut jump" to work? The kind where the car starts climbing on the inner edge of the loop, and then suddenly points down and continues ahead?

I can't find a good example right now, but I remember seeing it in some ZCT139 replays during the race.

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Live Races / Sunrise / Sundown (2019-03-17)

« on: March 17, 2019, 03:43:28 PM »

So here we are, the first Live Race of 2019!

We meet this evening, Sunday 17th, at 17:00 Buenos Aires / 17:00 Brasilia / 20:00 London / 21:00 Rome and Budapest. pipsqueaks should be on the forum chat at that time.

Two tracks are attached, we'll start with "Sunrise" and see if there is time and interested for "Sundown" —or another track!
The car for both is the Porsche P962, and there is an extra rule: "The loop must be looped".

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Competition and Website / RSS feed changes

« on: March 16, 2019, 11:57:06 AM »

A mildly obscure feature of ZakStunts are the RSS feeds, which list recent messages and replays.

In a long term plan to make them more useful, I have renamed the existing two, and moved them under /feeds. You can now find a full list at http://zak.stunts.hu/feeds

The old addresses redirect to the new feeds and still work, but I will eventually remove them. If you are following them, please switch to the new ones

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Stunts Related Programs / Car cards!

« on: February 26, 2019, 12:00:33 AM »

Because there are never enough ideas mid-flight! It's all because I re-discovered this old post by Duplode:

Thanks God, I don't have to make that "Vehicle data" section.

I wonder about which data to include. For the purposes I have in mind it would be nice to summarize the key features in a way that wouldn't take half a screen per car. For instance, one unoriginal idea would be a NFS-style bar chart with acceleration, handling and so on, plus a few icons for things like PG...

The first thought was of course "that would be cool!", because in my mind I was looking at actual printed cards, like collectable ones, with the Stunts cars!

Now, actually printing them might be going too far, but let's say we had the space of a playing card, back and front, how would you showcase a car? What would the bars on the chart be? Let's say there's space for five. Maximum speed? Performance on different terrains? Magic-carpet-ness? Which icons do we need? Anti-, flexible-, powergear?

How do you see these cards? how about your Paint skills?

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Stunts Reverse Engineering / Track tiles table

« on: February 22, 2019, 11:06:24 PM »

Does anyone have a table with all the track tiles, with id, dimensions and possibly the name?
I was about to start compiling one, but with all the editors and tools around, there's bound to be one already

Any format is fine!

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Live Races / Live Races 2019

« on: February 13, 2019, 07:33:25 PM »

Time to get one organised again
For those who are new, read about the "Le Stunts" format that we usually follow.

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Stunts Related Programs / [idea] Replay auto-upload

« on: February 13, 2019, 09:32:29 AM »

I was thinking about live races while having breakfast, and this came to my mind. I'll dump it here, not to forget.

Uploading a replay for a race is a multi-step operation, nothing too long, but seconds! are really important at the end of a live race. So what if there was a little program that looks at the Stunts directory, and every time a .RPL file is created or modified, it uploads it to ZakStunts?

The website should have an endpoint to allow automated uploads, and keep only the most recent 15-20 replays to save space. pipsqueaks would have a new page with a list of their uploaded replays, and the option to Publish, Download, or Delete each.

Bonus, a "Team mode" where the list is shared among the members of the team.

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Competition 2019 / Teams 2019

« on: January 12, 2019, 07:07:43 PM »

Teams are better than great! Join a team

The best way to race in ZakStunts is as part of a racing team! Share tricks, strategies and frustration with your teammates. Mostly frustration. Up to four pipsqueaks to a team, see the rules for more details.

Write here if you are looking for a team to join, if you want to start a new team, or simply to confirm an existing team!

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Racing Games & Other Competitions / Nitronic Rush

« on: December 02, 2018, 11:09:27 PM »

The map for ZCT209 made me think of GTA Vice City, which is one of my favourite "driving games" in terms of car feeling. That, the original Carmageddons, and Nitronic Rush. And then I realised I don't think I've ever mentioned the latter.

Nitronic Rush is very arcade-y, highly maddening, and difficult. There is a recent sequel called The Distance which I have not tried, but have a drive on the original!

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Stunts Forum & Portal / Forum administration

« on: November 18, 2018, 12:56:56 PM »

While Zak is relaxing on a tropical island, lying under the sun with a drink with a small umbrella in it, he has given me and Duplode administration rights to the forum

This means we can now access a bunch of pages full of new buttons, and no idea on how to use them. However, we can now see all the private boards, which is quite terrifying to be honest    I thought it would be easy to ignore them, but yesterday I ended up replying to a team thread, just because its title was too similar to one in the public sections.

To avoid further mistakes, and for a clean conscience, I have demoted my account back to normal user, and created dreadnaut+ as an admin. I will only log in with that account if any of the scary buttons need pressing.

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Competition 2019 / Guest tracks 2019

« on: November 12, 2018, 04:04:26 PM »

New thread for the guest tracks! (see 2018)

Who's up for a track? Book your race below.

Tracks for the competition are designed by its participants. If you have an idea for a track and would like to contribute, just choose an available month below!

• ZCT210 (starts Sunday 13 Jan) - Akoss Poo
• ZCT211 (starts Feb) - Overdrjft
• ZCT212 (starts Mar) - dreadnaut
• ZCT213 (starts Apr) - Shoegazing Leo
• ZCT214 (starts May) - Cas
• ZCT215 (starts Jun) - GTAMan
• ZCT216 (starts late Jun) - Afullo
• ZCT217 (starts Jul) - Duplode
• ZCT218 (starts Ago) - CTG
• ZCT219 (starts Sep) - Alan Rotoi
• ZCT220 (starts Oct) - sd4000
• ZCT221 (starts Nov) - Zak McKracken

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General Chat - ZSC / Old concept cars

« on: September 28, 2018, 08:09:42 PM »

There are some great ones in here: http://oldconceptcars.com/

The Lamborghini LM002 had some friends: Cheetah, LM001, and LM004!

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Competition and Website / Profile updates and changing password

« on: September 20, 2018, 11:43:14 PM »

It should be now possible to change your login password from the "Edit profile" page.
There is no password reset yet, so don't forget the new one

I've refreshed the rest of the profile information too, and removed "Height" and "Years of experience". The first one seemed a bit random, while the second felt always out of date.

Let me know if you want them back, of if you'd like to add different information!

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General Chat - ZSC / Those tiny graphs...

« on: September 12, 2018, 02:21:20 PM »

This might not be very interesting, but it's quite satisfying if you are a data nerd.

You know those little bar charts at the top of the News Archive? The ones that show the number of posts per day — like the one in the attachment.

Well, these used to be little PNG images, created on the fly. But now they are little SVG images, created on the fly

They look exactly the same as before, but they are part of the page (no extra server request), they scale to any size without blurring, and... try to move the mouse over one of the columns!