Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] Ghost Replay

[Joerg H. <jo...@lu...>]

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Hi Maik,

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>> "zeitgeist" .. 
> what a nice name .. :)
Yes, I agree - time ghost ... :)

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> now when a ghost-model is loaded from the replay-file i added the "_ghost" to find the proper ghost-model.
> the problem is, that all models are shown in the "select kart" menu, the ghosts as well. so we could
> put a new extension instead of "tkkf" and load them into a seperate array in KartPropertiesManager.
What about just adding an entry in the tkkf file, like
(is-selectable 1)
and check for that attribute in the select kart gui? This way we can
easily re-use the existing 'infrastructure' :)  (meaning: we can be lazy
and don't have to change the kart loader to accept a different extension
etc :)  ).
Additionally, we might want to use the ghost model for something else
(e.g. someone suggested a 'following' race mode: all players have to
follow one kart, after a certain time, the kart furthest away is kicked
out of the game. We could use the ghost kart here to be the kart other
people have to follow).

> what do you think? ideas welcome .. :)
The point I am not entirely sure of: do we need/want a different ghost
model for each kart, or just one generic ghost?  I mean it would be
nice, but then again a lot of work (I would prefer the artists spending
this time working on new tracks :)  ). And if we go with one generic
ghost kart, that would be enough   (ok, with bullet physics and
different kart characteristics that might be a bit odd ... not sure).
Any comments?


We could just add the name of the ghost model to the tkkf file as well
(defaulting to the generic ghost). So if we start getting more ghost
karts, we could just add the names to the tkkf files, without any
additional programming, and at the beginning (using the ghost model from
the Macs) just every kart defaults to this model.

Just my 2 cents :)

Cheers,
  Joerg

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