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Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

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Post by ainar-g » Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #12

ainar-g wrote: post #5

Great news! Now if only we could get FreeCol [1] 1.0.0. Or at least 0.12.0. If you like free strategy games or loved the original Sid Meier's Colonization, this is a must-play. [1]: http://www.freecol.org/ .

> FreeCol 0.11.6 released > Saturday, 17 October 2015 Ouch. You just made me wonder if Widelands (Settlers II clone) still exists, since I hadn't looked at it in what feels like at least a decade. It seems like it does, but development happens at a snail's pace: https://wl.widelands.org/news/

Holy Hell, I love Settlers II! Thanks for pointing me there!

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

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Post by maccard » Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 10:30 PM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #80

maccard wrote: post #76

This seems like a fun project, but it's not really anything special. Most software has either viable or superior FOSS versions (MS vs LibreOffice as a prime example), but games seem to be severely lacking in this space. It looks and feels like a game from the mid 2000s. It doesn't perform particularly well, and there isn't anything technically impressive about the game, especially considering it's been on the go for…

It's very hard to get people to collaborate on a game in harmony without a clear leader. OSS games (and a lot of open source software in general) will always suffer from having "too many cooks in the kitchen."

I actually had GIMP in mind writing this comment - the tool itself is a victim of too many cooks, but yet manages to be a solid piece of software, despite it being clunky.

Another example is Blender, it's a bit hard to grok, but overall does the job extremely well once you get over the warts.

Even in terms of fundamentals, this game is a little... lacking. Default controls, graphics settings, UI, animations are all very early-noughties (that's without commenting on the quality of the artwork, it's actually quite a nice style and some of the assets are cool), things have evolved hugely since then.

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

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Post by mintar » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 7:13 AM UTC

aasasd wrote: post #60

detaro wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like the typical way is modeling them using blender, with special objects and properties to mark game details: https://supertuxkart.net/Making_Tracks

One of the ideas lodged in the back of my mind since the time of Twisted Metal 2, is to stick a 3d map of my hometown in an arcade ‘sandbox’-style racing game. Might be possible one day when we get cheap mainstream drones with laser rangefinders. And weirdly enough there's already a mod and a process to convert OpenStreetMap data into a track: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SuperTuxKart https://www.moddb.com/mod…

With the recent advances in photogrammetry software, you can probably do it with a normal camera drone. Have a look at Meshroom and OpenDroneMap!