ZakStunts 9.0

[dreadnaut]

Since Zak has updated the version number, new thread for suggestions and complaints!

[dreadnaut]

Anyone interesting in bringing the Newbie Guide up to date? The whole text is on this pad.

At 340 lines it might be... a bit long and scary for newbies

[CTG]

Anyone interesting in bringing the Newbie Guide up to date? The whole text is on this pad.

At 340 lines it might be... a bit long and scary for newbies

Tell us what you need. It can be solved in team work.

as you mentioned earlier, some videos would be cool

[dreadnaut]

Tell us what you need. It can be solved in team work.

I only have vague ideas
I was starting to clean up the registration/login code (anyone wants a "remember me" option? ) so I took another look at the guide and found it a bit long.

Then I got distracted by trying to put dosbox+conf+stunts+shortcut in a single directory... (spoiler: it works)

[CTG]

Dunno why, I associated from "Newbie Guide" to "Driving School"...

[dreadnaut]

Dunno why, I associated from "Newbie Guide" to "Driving School"...

Videos for the Driving School would also be great! I can think of a bunch of tricks that I didn't know were possible a year ago. I would include:

Basic stuff

• replay handling
• fast grass
• powergear
• dual-way
• magic carpets (ZCT138/139 should have useful replays)

Obstacles tricks

• Slalom: driving through at high speed and driving on the side (ZCT139)
• Corkscrews: skipping the loop, slide-turn on the way out (DEFAULT, ZCT139)
• Loops: jumping out to the side, cutting through, loop base bug (ZCT139, ZCT148)
• Cork U/D: driving outside (ZCT149), jumping above (ZCT145?), going through the wall (ZCT140)

Speed up tricks

• 'boulevard' jumps (ZCT143)
• banked road jumps (ZCT138)
• half-pipe jumps and bumps (entrance, mid-pipe obstacles, exit)
• ramp small-jumps, inside or on the side (often in yours and Renato's replays)

Advanced tricks

• the turning-mid-air-by-jumping-while-sliding thingy
• sliding-then-suddenly-going-forward-without-slowing-down
• powergear on water near fences (USC-Cucuta)
• powergear "corners"
• helicopter?

[alanrotoi]

Is it possible to bring back the car bonuses table sorted by %?

It was very useful.

About the customized profile, where is shown then? I can't see others profile (not statistics but years expertice/height/problems/background/problems profile)

[dreadnaut]

Is it possible to bring back the car bonuses table sorted by %?

Sure! Would it be better to sort the table, or directly to have the graph in the results page sorted?

About the customized profile, where is shown then? I can't see others profile (not statistics but years expertice/height/problems/background/problems profile)

There only a "profiles" page using that information, but it doesn't seem to work. I'll give it a look

[alanrotoi]

1) As you wish. The table was a bit "offside" from the track section but I always used it. Maybe if in the car bonuses section you add the sort option or if every month it sorts by % may be easy to code.

2) Great! Thank you!

[dreadnaut]

About the customized profile, where is shown then? I can't see others profile (not statistics but years expertice/height/problems/background/problems profile)

Just as a temporary solution, I grafted those field at the bottom of the profile page

[alanrotoi]

Perfect! Only a bit of design order and it's done .

[Duplode]

BTW, you can download ZCT152 from the tracks page http://zak.stunts.hu/tracks but you will be only able to send replayes from the 4th of March.

That being the case, would you consider adding a third state to the current race header, in which it would point to the new track and state, instead of "Time is up", something like "Preview - Race starts in..."? It won't make that much of a difference, as the interval won't be more than three days long, but it would clearly tell casual visitors that there is activity going on during said interval.

[RacerBG]

The site looks good and behaves so by now. But the "Chat" link at the "Info" section gives me an error:

Strict Standards: Non-static method AJAXChatFileSystem::getFileContents() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /home/virtual-ftp/stunts/forum/chat/lib/class/AJAXChatTemplate.php on line 37 ^

Everything else works, well done.

[dreadnaut]

But the "Chat" link at the "Info" section gives me an error:

I had forgot about that   Should be working now!

[dreadnaut]

That being the case, would you consider adding a third state to the current race header, in which it would point to the new track and state, instead of "Time is up", something like "Preview - Race starts in..."? It won't make that much of a difference, as the interval won't be more than three days long, but it would clearly tell casual visitors that there is activity going on during said interval.

How it works now:

• "Time's up" appears on the 1st of the month, after a deadline, and the home page points to the results of the race just over
• the new track appears on the home page when it's ready, but not earlier than the 2nd day of the month; once the track is visible, replays can be sent
  
• leading time calculations start on the 4th of the month (cfr. rules)