Re: [TuxKart-devel] Things have gone very quiet....

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> Just another track in progress, this time a little bit longer (takes
> around 1:40 to drive at the moment):

Nice!

> One problem with the track, it starts out extremly slow and jerky
> (1-2fps), but after 40sec it goes pretty fluent, doesn't seem to be
> related with the position on the track at all, neither are AI drivers
> related to this problem (disabled them in the code via NUM_KARTS).

That's weird.  I'll try it on my machine.  It's hard to imagine
what that could be unless it's taking an exhorbitant amount of time
to upload textures on the first occasion that they come into view
or something.  Could it be that it goes smoothly after you've 'seen'
all of the track polygons inside the field of view at least once?

What hardware are you running this on?

> Another thing, anybody interested in a little track building HowTo or
> all people interested in building tracks familiar with blender anyway?

I put a bit of a HowTo on the Wiki - it's not really modeller-specific
but explains how I've been building them.   AC3D doesn't have the nice
spline curve features that blender evidently does - so I'm using nothing
but cut/paste features, plus the ability to select a bunch of vertices
and do rotate/translate type operations on them.

Any advice you can add to the Wiki in the light of practical experience
has *got* to be a good thing if we want to get more people into the
track building business.

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