Speed Dreams : an Open Motorsport Sim / News: Recent posts

The Speed Dreams Team is happy to announce that release 2.2.1 is now available for download at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams/files/2.2.1

Speed-Dreams is the premium Open-Source racing simulation for both Windows and Linux, featuring realistic physics with enhanced cars and tracks. Speed-Dreams features high quality graphics and game-play using the keyboard, mouse, gamepad or gaming wheel. Race against the in-built robot racers, or with the split-screen multi-player mode.... read more

The Speed Dreams Team is happy to announce that release 2.2 is now available for download at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams/files/2.2.0

Speed-Dreams is the premium Open-Source racing simulation for both Windows and Linux, featuring realistic physics with enhanced cars and tracks. Speed-Dreams features high quality graphics and game-play using the keyboard, mouse, gamepad or gaming wheel. Race against the in-built robot racers, or with the split-screen multi-player mode.... read more

It would be very helpful if people can try it and provide feedback here (SourceForge) or on the Community Forum: http://community.speed-dreams.org

Get it now at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams/files/2.2.0/2.2.0alpha

The Speed Dreams Team is happy to announce that release 2.1 is now available for download at Desura and SourceForge:
http://www.desura.com/games/speed-dreams
http://sourceforge.net/projects/speed-dreams/files/2.1.0

Speed-Dreams is the premium Open-Source racing simulation for both Windows and Linux, featuring realistic physics with enhanced cars and tracks. Speed-Dreams features high quality graphics and game-play using the keyboard, mouse, gamepad or gaming wheel. Race against the in-built robot racers, or with the split-screen multi-player mode.... read more

The Speed Dreams Team is happy to announce that release 2.1 will be made available for free download on July 8th, 2014.

The 2.1 release includes a new physics engine (V4), with a choice of 33 cars from 'Super-cars', 1930's racers and high speed 'open-wheelers'. There are 25 tracks including Grand-Prix circuits, road courses and stadium ovals. Practice sessions let you hone your skills before competing in a Quick Race, Challenge Race or a 'full-on' Endurance Race.... read more

After porting SD to MinGW under Windows some weeks ago, there was still one little missing bit in the way of getting rid of MS Visual Studio for comfortably developing SD under Windows : the IDE side (remember, only the "MSYS Makefiles" CMake generator was supported).
Now, it's done, after adding support for the "MinGW Makefiles" CMake generator : you can now open the root CMakeLists.txt of SD into QtCreator and enjoy a full-fledged, modern and lightning-fast IDE.
* http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools/
* http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/speed-dreams/browser/trunk/INSTALL.txt

If you are of the ones who have always dreamed of getting rid of MS compilers ... you might be interested in trying MinGW (from http://www.mingw.org/\) : Speed Dreams now builds with GCC 4.7.0 under Windows, and it runs faster on some hardware configurations (than when built with MSVC 2005). Update your SVN trunk sandbox, and read the instructions in INSTALL.txt !

Great progress since the Beta 1 of our Open Source Motorsport Simulator featuring HQ 3D graphics and accurate physics for maximum realism.
We are now close to the finish line !
* Don't forget your sun glasses for the new "shinning" menu style, with great new track previews
* Enjoy the great final physics setups for USR and Simplix AIs for all official HQ car sets (28 fine-tuned cars),
* All cars now have great liveries and preview images in the Driver and Car Select menus),
* 21 reworked tracks for really HQ graphics
* Final setups for Kilo2008 for TRB1 Taipan and Cavallo,
* Bunches of graphics candy for many tracks,
* Many bug fixes everywhere,
* New command line options for straight starting of a given race, with or without a GUI (suitable for headless computers, for robots tuning, as an ex.).
Happy racing !
The Speed Dreams team.... read more

One more step towards 2.0.0 :
* final Simu v2.1 physics engine,
* work-in-progress full rework of car / robots setups, for more realism : only the MP5 car is actually done ; the LS1 are currently not very drivable (WIP) ; the TRB1 won't be changed, and seem OK, apart for the WIP robot setups ; nothing has even been started on the Supercars side.,
* improved support for the weather simulation on the graphics and base physics side, even if no robot is really ready for this yet (WIP),
* final race configuration menu system, after a mainly technical rework, but also end-user improvements (see the Car Select menu, and its nice data-sheet),
* more HQ reworked tracks and cars (guess which ones ;-).
* many bug fixes (the stabilization work has been started),
* unfortunately nothing more on the network gaming side : we'll probably not include it in 2.0.0, unless a miracle ;-).
More details in the release notes.

As already previewed in the RC in late march, enjoy the visually improved menus, the new LS1 car set ... and many other polished details everywhere in tracks and car liveries !
Source and binary packages are now available for Linux Mandriva 2010, thanks to Xavier ... (of course, with the obvious Windows binary installer and source tar ball) !

As a close preview of the final 1.4.0 to come in early january, here's our first real release to the world since our fork from TORCS.
A buch of new and cleaned up contents with nice visual improvements, and improved realism, only for the sim racers :
- new 36GP, Supercars and LS-GT1 cars (take the wheel and feel the power of this so different race cars),
- new Corkscrew and Migrants track, and a lot of visually improved ones (a fantastic sandbox to race in),
- new first class USR and Simplix AI opponents (try and overtake them),
- reworked menus,
- ... and much more !... read more