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Stunts Related Programs / Re: someone wrote a Blender Export for TestDrive 3

« Last post by Cas on Today at 01:19:05 AM »

Well, yes, if you have a text file loading routine that's aware of different line endings, it will work, but most programs don't have that. This means that you have to make a binary parsing routine for text files if you want to make sure it'll support the files. For example, FreeBasic will write text files with different line endings depending on the platform, but when reading, it will assume the line ending for your OS, so if you're passed a file from another platform, it will not read it properly. This may have changed recently, but I don' t know, so I don't run the risk. Therefore, I create my own binary routines to read text files when I make multi-platform programs. Being able to ignore line endings makes everything pretty much simpler.

Texture would look good in triangles for a future renderer. I first want to do this with plain colours, because I don't want to add an extra problem to my project right now, but eventually, I'd like to add texture. I've been thinking that, if I want to add textures in the future, I'd first switch from a triangle-based renderer to a quad-based one. It's much easier for UV texture mapping.

Hey, I've been trying to build stressed from source and always have problems. Did you build it for GNU?  My problem is that it requires qmake and when I try to install Qt development, it turns out it's no simple task and I get lost. How did you get this done?  Or does your GNU distribution already have it installed?

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Competition 2020 / Re: ZCT229 - b²-4ac

« Last post by dreadnaut on Today at 12:04:44 AM »

The lonely windmill in the forest?

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Stunts Related Programs / Re: someone wrote a Blender Export for TestDrive 3

« Last post by llm on August 03, 2020, 11:15:32 PM »

I've built stressed.exe from source and extracted some car models
The models seem to have holes, is that a problem - i thought that models should be closed to ease rendering?

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Stunts Chat / Re: Stunts WIKI

« Last post by Duplode on August 03, 2020, 09:15:46 PM »

Is there a way to create new wiki categories with limited access for team specific content?

I would like to make some new articles related to useless Looping stats (e.g. sport records), which could be edited only by team members. And of course by the Wiki admin.

I think it can be done, by creating a custom protection level. I'll look into it and get back to you.

(Do note that, while editing can be restricted, viewing can't. Also, the list of users which can edit is fairly short already.)

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Stunts Related Programs / Re: Freedos usb stick?

« Last post by Daniel3D on August 03, 2020, 03:46:27 PM »

But how am I to know the good side from the bad?

Some way to distinguish the alternate version would be sensible. If only for support reason's

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Stunts Related Programs / Re: Freedos usb stick?

« Last post by llm on August 03, 2020, 01:51:00 PM »

That's sounds reasonable. We could update the version number to 1.2 or something so it is clearly something new.

ok - will take a look what is needed

(I've done that in my testing copy.  just because I can )

"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will."

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Stunts Related Programs / Re: Freedos usb stick?

« Last post by Daniel3D on August 03, 2020, 01:27:05 PM »

That's sounds reasonable. We could update the version number to 1.2 or something so it is clearly something new.

(I've done that in my testing copy.  just because I can )

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Stunts Related Programs / Re: Freedos usb stick?

« Last post by llm on August 03, 2020, 12:08:52 PM »

So, if i understand correctly it is very difficult to remove the copy protection from the original file without using execombiner to make a new executable.

correct

the freeware edition would have changes in serveral files and setup is then dead

we could have serveral executables and our own stunts.com (using setup.dat for configuration calling the correct game executable with correct parameters) - but then is maybe more like an "extended" edition

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Stunts Related Programs / Re: Freedos usb stick?

« Last post by Daniel3D on August 03, 2020, 11:52:04 AM »

So, if i understand correctly it is very difficult to remove the copy protection from the original file without using execombiner to make a new executable.
Not that i'm opposed to the idea. But it would have been nice to have a ' Freeware ' edition with only original files and working setup..

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Stunts Chat / Re: Stunts WIKI

« Last post by CTG on August 03, 2020, 11:49:58 AM »

Is there a way to create new wiki categories with limited access for team specific content?

I would like to make some new articles related to useless Looping stats (e.g. sport records), which could be edited only by team members. And of course by the Wiki admin.