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#91

Competition and Website / Re: Plaidoyer: Maintaining Fai...

Last post by HerrNove - August 28, 2025, 12:01:58 PM

I am also not super happy of having wasted time to find a rules-sanctioned way to negotiate the slalom, just to see said rule changed two days after.

The slalom was a ticking time bomb at Race For Kicks that unfortunately went off during that race.  The rules were changed to make sure that it didn't happen again and to make it fair for the majority of the race.  We did the best that we could in that situation.  We like to make the competition as inviting as possible for newcomers, so rest assured, the rules won't be changing again anytime soon.

Sorry for that part: when I have complaints I use to raise them directly and not complain behind the back. I just wanted to use this as example of how having more rules tends to generate more of these situations. I understand ZakStunts had similar cases with dual-way switching and track splits neat the endline, so no tournament is safe in this respect.

#92

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: New mod: extended line of ...

Last post by HerrNove - August 28, 2025, 11:53:01 AM

I really appreciate your work on this!  I just tested it and I didn't notice any issues, but you're right, the performance is significantly worse for the same amount of CPU cycles.  A prime example of this is that there is noticeable slowdown on ZCT288 at even 250000 cycles.  Still, removing the bounds on the camera zoom is a great addition!

Thanks for the quick feedback! If you have time, try to test it with the dynamic core using the settings I wrote. In my experience, it provides much better performance than using a fixed # of cycles, however high. On my mid-level laptop (Ryzen 7 5700U) it runs fluidly.

But I agree that it's also important to have a variant that does not require to edit the dosbox.conf file. I have an idea about that, that I'll try to implement in the next days.

#93

Competition 2025 / Re: Cars and rules for 2026

Last post by Matei - August 28, 2025, 09:17:30 AM

For the idiot who deleted my latest message: when I mentioned that people who finish in the shortest time (recorded by the game, that is) are considered to win is a stupid rule, I referred to this:

https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=4482.msg98492#msg98492

If you really must know, I spent 6.5 hours trying to pull off a power gear lap with the Corvette.  That doesn't include the time I spent driving other cars.

Time to realise that I wasted too much time here too. Bye.

[edit]
Further reading, just found in an article published today.

https://trenduri.blogspot.com/2025/08/incrancenatii.html

Translation from Romanian:

I was sitting the past few days to think that we, as a people, have a characteristic that is radically different from other peoples: banter, humor. Honestly, I have never seen such an appetite for making fun of everything.
[...]
Mostly, this characteristic is essential in detecting non-Romanians.

[/edit]

#94

Stunts Related Programs / Re: LambdaCube 3D: a stunts li...

Last post by Duplode - August 28, 2025, 07:13:21 AM

Though the LambdaCube project did go dormant AFAIK, the Stunts tech demo subsists as the stunts package on Hackage. I have borrowed code from it a couple times 

#95

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: New mod: extended line of ...

Last post by KyLiE - August 28, 2025, 06:02:12 AM

I really appreciate your work on this!  I just tested it and I didn't notice any issues, but you're right, the performance is significantly worse for the same amount of CPU cycles.  A prime example of this is that there is noticeable slowdown on ZCT288 at even 250000 cycles.  Still, removing the bounds on the camera zoom is a great addition!

[saw]

#96

Competition and Website / Re: Plaidoyer: Maintaining Fai...

Last post by KyLiE - August 28, 2025, 05:22:33 AM

@KyLiE is the only pipsqueak that could help us with hints on what you want to know, he is the only one who saw how to do it, and drove for a ZCT289 podium.

As far as I'm aware, I was the first person in our team to attempt a power gear lap with the Corvette.

I'd love to know how much total time you invested @KyLiE once you had the informations needed to imitate the PG lap.

It was a team effort.  If you really must know, I spent 6.5 hours trying to pull off a power gear lap with the Corvette.  That doesn't include the time I spent driving other cars.  You seem to be insinuating that I blatantly copied @Argammon with little to no effort, but if you compare our replays, you'll realise that we both have quite different approaches to reaching power gear.

I am also not super happy of having wasted time to find a rules-sanctioned way to negotiate the slalom, just to see said rule changed two days after.

The slalom was a ticking time bomb at Race For Kicks that unfortunately went off during that race.  The rules were changed to make sure that it didn't happen again and to make it fair for the majority of the race.  We did the best that we could in that situation.  We like to make the competition as inviting as possible for newcomers, so rest assured, the rules won't be changing again anytime soon.

#97

Stunts Reverse Engineering / Re: New mod: extended line of ...

Last post by HerrNove - August 28, 2025, 02:40:51 AM

Hello guys,

as you might have noticed in the last days I have been working on a new release of SuperSight. Here the main news:

* Reduced exe size by 70% thanks to @llm's work. More space for tracks and cars on your floppy!
* New rendering algorithm: shows up to 180 tiles and tries to scrape every byte of memory to depict as many polygons as possible.
* Removed the bounds on the camera zoom so that you can enjoy the scenes from up high.
* Extended debug infos (F5), including camera angles for easier comparison of given scenes.

The minus side is that the engine really needs CPU power, so I recommend you to configure DOSBox to go fast:

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[cpu]
core=dynamic
cputype=auto
cycles=max
The mod works fine on my PC, but before releasing it I'd like to ask anyone interested to test it, so that while you are busy I can stay on top of this month's leaderboard for longer I can be sure that the new version runs on a wide range of configurations and tracks.

Here's a take on last month's track. You can find a couple of other views in my recent posts. Note that I chose the best angles, your mileage may vary.

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@Matei : if you want to try on your machines, I made it easier to reduce the computational load. Download the branch supersight-next, edit src/restunts/c/frame.c and decrease with the variables TILES_TO_DRAW_MAX and low_detail_priority_thresholds to your satisfaction.

#98

Competition 2025 / Re: Cars and rules for 2026

Last post by Spoonboy - August 27, 2025, 11:52:16 PM

Also curious about Mazda 787B, Lada Niva and Citroën XM. I have not tried any but I feel they'd be nice novelties.

But maybe Esprit and Diablo tend to overlap a little bit too much, and my beloved Oxia should not become a regular presence to keep its magical aura.

I tend to agree with @HerrNove. I love the Oxia, but its brilliance has meant it has dominated a lot so far this year. Much as I love driving it, it is becoming more of a workhorse for me, rather than a fun toy!
As such, it should probably have a rest.

The DTM has similar amazing all-round performance, but as has been mentioned elsewhere, it has yet to get a win so could maybe be given rather chance to shine.

The Niva was fun in the night-time Live race (anyone who hasn't tried this track and custom cockpits, do it!). It drove the nicest of the three. This would be a great slow car, if it could be seperated enough from the LM002.

I haven't tried the XM, but it sounds interesting.

As for the Mazda 787B, it is a beautiful, fast and stable rocketship, and would be a great addition. But as we have found when it first appeared, unless we lose some other original cars like the Jag or P962, we risk saturating the roster with similar cars..
But it is awesome

#99

Competition 2025 / Re: An apology to Alain il pr...

Last post by Alain il professore - August 27, 2025, 11:43:37 PM

One last message — let's end this right

This may be the last message I ever send you. Please read it carefully and answer it well.

Now that you've had your vengeance, let's make peace—on my terms. I will wipe the slate clean between us if you push for a reform of the competition format. You're smart enough to know it was never about you; I argued for change for the greater good of all ZakStunts pipsqueaks, you included. Imagine the respect you'd earn by proving you can win a title with a fair rate of PG cars.

I don't know if you'll still be playing next year. I don't know if I will either. Perhaps ten months from now I'll be gone and you'll still be here, wondering what you could have done to mend things with "Alain il Professore." I don't know what the next year holds for either of us. I'd rather we choose reconciliation now than look back wishing we had.

I know how much it will cost you to reach out. But this is your last chance to show —with actions, not words— that you regret the past.

Reflect carefully. Let's put this to rest as adults who fought the battles our passions told us were right. I'll be happy if you can find peace and one day say: "I'm Alain il Professore's Stunts friend — no regrets, no remorse."

— Alain il Professore

#100

Competition 2025 / Re: Cars and rules for 2026

Last post by Duplode - August 27, 2025, 11:35:12 PM

Also curious about Mazda 787B, Lada Niva and Citroën XM. I have not tried any but I feel they'd be nice novelties.

I'd love to see the Citroën XM in competition! It's a well-balanced car that could be a good representative of the "proper slow car" tier (example stablemates: Trueno, Thunderbird).

Idea: all cars available and no rules.

There is a way to make all cars available: set a fixed -100% coefficient to anything outside the 16-car list for the year. I'm not really joking: this might actually be a useful way to keep cars away from the competition proper while still allowing people to drive for fun with them.