From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2010-08-07 12:49:54
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Now #138 / D29 is nearly completed, this work can start, or at least the discussions about how to do it. The code expects the image files to be : - .png files for the moment, but JPEG support will be added soon, so let's say it is .jpg files (better for size reasons), - to be named like this <car name>-<skin name>-preview.jpg, except for the "standard" skins : <car name>-preview.jpg - to be located in the same folder as the associated skin/livery file, wherever it is now. The recommended size for these images could be (let's discuss though) : - 16x10 or 16x9 aspect ratio (nowadays and expected future screens dimensions), - at least 800x500 pixels (about half our current target max screen size 1920x1080 (HT TV). Another question to solve : what environment, distance, car position, ... do we define for these "shots" in order to get a consistent aspect and enable the users to compare the cars and liveries at a glance ? -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2010-10-31 14:06:38
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by pouillot): As told yesterday, pushing forward the discussion about how to achieve this task for 2.0. Some updated hints (as discussed yesterday + other mines) : * wait until the livery is _really_ finished before shooting (avoids doing twice or more) * use exclusively the JPEG format (only supported in the code, + smaller files, probably no use to keep hi-quality, too many images for detailed tweaks in the future ?) * use a 16/10 aspect ratio, 960x600 seems the right size to prevent "pixelization" up to 1920-pixel wide screens (seems ok for 1 or 2 years ;-) (you can set this manually in <user settings>/config/screen.xml, after setting the Windowed mode ; don't Full Screen mode) * for a given car set, use the same track, position on the track, camera and zoom factor for all the cars * different car sets may use different tracks * use maximum graphics quality (the Graphic / Open GL Option menus - Sky Dome, LOD, ... - but also your video settings panel can help) The main question here is to find out the good candidate tracks for these top model shoots : the ones with the best light ... here, I lack graphics expertise and trust you ... Please go on :-) -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:1> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2010-11-03 01:39:12
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by mungewell): I added some previews for 5 wr-series cars, not brilliant but I won't be able to do anymore until (at least) the weekend so perhaps they are good enough to get into 'alpha2'. Simon. -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:2> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2010-11-03 11:23:06
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by pouillot): I like them. Committed in r3083. -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:3> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-07 08:56:46
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by pouillot): Eckhard, I'm sorry ... but I find the previews for the Spirit RB1 LT, Vieringe 5 RB and SC Cavallo 360 a bit strange : may be they were shot from to high off the ground, because they make the cars appear oddly, just as flat fishes ... :-) I prefer from far the point of view that Simon used for the RS cars, especially for the FMC and Kenji. Whatever the game window size / aspect ratio I choose, always the same. Is it something special to my screen, or have anyone else the same feeling ? Were these shots really taken with a 16/10 game window ? Weren't they flatten in order to fit their current 800x500 state ? -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:4> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-10 10:26:33
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by pouillot): Please guys, don't forget this task ... at least for the standard livery of each car. The RS cars are done ... but we only have a few more ones for the moment. -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:5> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-10 21:06:50
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by ocirne94): I would happily take on this task, but I think it requires SVN write access... -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:6> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-11 11:02:33
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by pouillot): Ocirne, you now have this write access (just as each dev team member who needs it :-). May I add 1 item to the above HOW TO (960x600, ...) ... the height of the point of view is important, in order to get a flattering view of our cars (see my question above about the "flat fishes" ;-). But warning about this preview shooting work ... that the shot cars / skins are really done (for 2.0). Just to avoid double work. May be this needs to be asked to every artist here : Eckhard, Haruna, ..., which are really done now, which are now under rework, or planned to be before 2.0 ? -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:7> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-11 13:44:04
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: somebody Type: task | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by ocirne94): I find that the current division between "CustomCarLiveries" and "CustomCarLiveriesTextures" Wiki pages is quite confusing... I'd prefer to merge the two pages; also, it appears that they have differents points of view: CustomCarLiveries says that "your skin file have to be named like this : "<car name>-<skin name>-preview.jpg"" CustomCarLiveriesTextures says that we should have "a preview image as a JPG image in 800 x 500px; carclass-car-style-preview.png or carclass-car- preview.png" Which name should I use? P.S.: thank you J-P for the access, I'll try to put it to good use ;-) -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:8> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-11 13:44:20
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Changes (by ocirne94): * owner: somebody => ocirne94 * status: new => accepted -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:9> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-11 14:04:18
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by pouillot): Actually, the 2 descriptions are the same, if you consider that : * carclass is among { sc, ls1, trb1, rs1, rs2, 36gp, ... }, * car stands is <car name> (often brand + model, like lynx-220 or cavallo-360), * style is another word for <skin name>. About merging the 2 pages ... I agree it'd be better for everyone. PS: You're welcome, Ocirne, and we have no doubt about the good use :-) -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:10> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-11 20:54:07
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by apr-torcs): Hi Ocirne. Consider also the comments on the development list of speed- dreams, on this subject. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=985758.74251.qm%40web36904.mail.mud.yahoo.com&forum_name =speed-dreams-devel cheers -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:11> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-13 19:39:40
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by ocirne94): Hi Manfariel, thank you for the link; that's an interesting discussion, but after reading it a question has risen in my mind: 960x600 or 800x500? -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:12> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-14 00:05:30
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by apr-torcs): I think the decision was 960x600 -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:13> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-14 15:42:47
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by ocirne94): Hey, in order to get the best reult, would it be too difficult to program a robot to always have exactly the same behaviour, in order to get the same position for different liveries of a same car? -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:14> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-03-14 15:50:19
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by ocirne94): Because rarely starting position is the best one for a shot, and from the very first turn robots start to change behaviour between two different sessions.. (sorry for the duplicate, just brain-storming) -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:15> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-05-02 11:42:05
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by ocirne94): I have a serious problem: as it seems that some cars are undergoing major reworks (the SC Boxer three days ago, and before that the TRB1 Silber), I don't know which ones I can work on; ''I have got to know which car '''sets''' are 'stable' for 2.0...'' 'cause I am using the robots to shoot the previews, and I have to keep the same setups when shooting previews of cars of one set; and of course the preview should be the one of the final model. Also physics seem to be undergoing some changes, but I can workaround that using SimuV2. -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:16> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-05-06 15:32:46
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by pouillot): Please, guys ... can we help Ocirne, and tell him our plans for 2.0 ? * SuperCars : Eckhard, Haruna, ... ? * LS1 : Haruna ? * TRB1 : Eckhard, Haruna ? * 36GP : Andrew, Eckhard ? -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:17> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-05-06 16:01:25
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by ocirne94): Thank you J-P... I'm now adding information from private mailing with Eckhard: Ready: GP36 Silber (only one player skin) TRB1 Silber (3 skins - driver skins will come too) TRB1 Spirit (3 skins + 4 driver skins) TRB1 Vieringe (3 skins + 2 driver skins) SC Cavallo 360 (3 skins + 4 driver skins) SC Boxer (2 Player skins - 3rd one + driver skins will come too) SC Boxer and TRB Silber: reworked driver skins are coming SC Lynx: WIP rework SC-Murasama, SC-Ciclon and SC FMC: some upcoming livery edits -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:18> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-05-07 13:34:11
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by andrewsumner): The 36GP cars are undergoing the much needed review of their setups, and hopefully nearing completion, after which the robots will be reviewed to ensure they drive the cars quickly & keep them on the track. There's no planned visible changes to any of the cars, other than perhaps improvements to skins to include baked shadows (Eckhard?). In my "spare time" I'm polishing up an improved model of the LS1 Zaxxon (Saleen S7), should be finished in a week or two & will submit for people to review & decide if it should be adopted or not. -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:19> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-07-15 16:26:01
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by pouillot): Ocirne, what are your plans about Jaime's awesome showroom track ? Wouldn't it be cool to use it at least for the preview shots that are not already done ? But may be there's need for deciding first about the textures and objects to put in the garage ... can we go ahead on this ? -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:20> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-11-02 03:01:05
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by mungewell): I added a script to check the previews for the robot drives (src/tools/scripts/check_robot_skins.py). Listing of status attached. Things to note: 1). Not all robots have skins (which is fine as they will pick up the car default one), but would be nicer if they did. 2). Some ACC models are newer than the skins, which mostly indicates incorrect 1024x1024 skins 3). Some drivers don't have a default skin, but do have an alternative - which would only be selected if the user goes into the 'garage'.... do we want to move these to become the default. Do we yet have an automated method to capture screen shots? (trigger on 'ready' message?) Simon -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:21> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-11-02 14:00:00
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by ocirne94): Unfortunately taking previews at the moment is completely manual - that is, you have to wait for "Go" to have disappeared, hide the mouse cursor and the whole interface, and then take the screenshot; also the editing in GIMP is completely manual, which I find rather boring (but I have no skill in GIMP scripting). -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:22> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-11-02 14:57:53
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by mungewell): Taking preview shots of the robot skins will be very difficult (they won't stay in place like the humans). I'll see if I can hack the code to automatically call (GfuiScreenShot() or whatever) just before the race starts. Rather than using Gimp I would suggest ImageMagick, which is a batch/command line tool. Did we ever get the code in place to start a race directly from the command line, ie. without going through the menu. This would help if we could pre-configure the selected car, start the race (with screen shot), quit and process screenshot to jpg. I was also thinking that we probably don't want to use the same 'location' for the previews. The 36GP probably look nice against the 'wall', but the would look out of place in the garage (with CF strip lighting). Do we want to keep the 'action' shots of the RS cars, or move them into the garage? -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:23> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |
From: Speed D. <no...@so...> - 2011-11-02 17:02:05
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#142: Task A04 : Add a preview image for each available livery of each car / driver ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: pouillot | Owner: ocirne94 Type: task | Status: accepted Priority: minor | Milestone: 2.0.0 Component: Cars | Version: 2.0.0-dev Keywords: livery preview car driver | ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment(by area42): Yes we have an nearly automated method: - At first optimize your graphic card settings for a great quality: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/wiki/GraphicCardSettings - Setup display size to 1680*1050 - Choose race mode "Practise" - Select "Garage" track at category "Developer" - Select your car - Setup weather to "Noon" and "No clouds" - Start race - Choose camera on key F9 - Now just Zoom in 5 times and press F12 to save your screenshot - Open the screenshot in GIMP - Resize it to 800x500 - Change the mid brightness via menu Colors > Levels to 1.20 - Save the images as JPG with high quality settings (95% quality, Subsampling 1x1 1x 1x best quality) -- Ticket URL: <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/ticket/142#comment:24> Speed Dreams <http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams> An Open Motorsport Simulator forked from Torcs in order to deliver a better user experience through nicer and more consistent car sets, visually improved tracks and enhanced physics realism. |