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Heh, that didn't even take a month to accomplish. Updated the builds thread with version 0.2.1. Looks like a few Qt things have changed for the better during the last 5 years. Cross-compilation was a breeze. Even managed to link the dependencies statically, so now the numerous DLLs are replaced with one humongous EXE file.

I'll see if I can whip up some updated binaries in the foreseeable future. A majority of the post 0.1.0 commits are likely just OCD code sanitation, though.

Hahaha! Most excellent, CTG. Most excellent.

Some of the ideas I've had with restunts involves automated replay analysis, which, in addition to aid completely automated competition verification, also could help develop perfect AI using genetic algorithms. Unfortunately, none of us have had time to work on restunts in years.

I supprot [sic] the change to 1-1-1-1.

Nice work, CTG. I like that bridge.

Engine development is not my cup of tea, I always found it a bit annoying. Maybe I should learn more about it.

Tuning can be quite fun, actually. IMO the main problem is that CarBlaster, useful as it is, has a painful interface.

I have some 3-4 year old uncommitted code for a tuning interface in Stressed. Let's see if it still compiles...

WikiPedia should sell backups.

Information wants to be free.
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/

VCEs are Stunts resource archives. Working on the MIDI file conversion I identified some values in the MT-32 voices file that holds MIDI controller data:

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char *vce = findResource(vceBuf, seq->voices[i].id);

if (vce == NULL) {
  seq->voices[i].enabled = false;
}
else {
  seq->voices[i].enabled   = true;
  seq->voices[i].channel   = vce[0x43];
  seq->voices[i].program   = vce[0x44];
  seq->voices[i].volume    = vce[0x45];
  seq->voices[i].pan       = vce[0x46];
  seq->voices[i].transpose = vce[0x10];
  seq->voices[i].hasHits   = vce[0x25];
}

Once again, zapper, that's just smashing!

And that lambdacube thing was a nice find, I'm checking (it) out. Haskell is the coolest programming language ever!

My Haskell experience is limited to configuring XMonad, but that's a pretty tight implementation of the Stunts decompression: http://code.google.com/p/lambdacube/source/browse/trunk/hStunts/src/Stunts/Unpack.hs

Pleasing to see our documentation efforts coming to use.

and...uala web version of stunts!

Nice! One of my plans with restunts is to eventually port the physics engine to JavaScript for a project like this.

The graphics reminds me of a project I did a few years ago combining my Stunts file parsers with OpenSceneGraph and the Bullet physics engine.

Welcome aboard! Not much activity lately, but I've just set up the restunts work environment and intend to keep working again. There appears to be a game loop bug in the current restunts.exe, I'll look into that when I get the current Ida database from clvn. I also have the remaining decompression code almost ready for check-in.

Progress report: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/213479/status.html
SVN repo: svn://anders-e.com/restunts/trunk/restunts
Build tool chain: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/213479/restuntstools.zip

Check out readme.txt and src/restunts/readme.txt for details. We used to hang out in #stunts@EFNet, but it's been quiet there the past, well, year...

Thanks to the German invasion participation rate didn't hit a new low.

Looks like I have to kiss the podium goodbye now that the deadline has been extended past the end of my holiday. All this racing have renewed my interest in Stunts. Hope to get some hacking done on restunts again soon, a year has passed since my last code check-in.

Haven't submitted this many replays in a single round since 2008. Not too many pipsqueaks yet, but there's oceans of time left.