Re: [tuxracer-devel] Level

[Jasmin P. <jf...@mu...>]

On 2 Mar 2000, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> Ok, my first level is more or less ready. Its still needs some fixing,
> but should be enough to have some fun. Its available at:
> 
> http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/5.tar.gz

Wow!! I love it!

A few comments:

* It's easy in a few spots to avoid the paths and canyons that you've
  created; for example, I find it faster to climb on the large flat
  areas above the rest of the track (about halfway down).  Sticking trees/rocks
  up there would discourage that.  The curvy icy bridge thing near the
  beginning is also easy to avoid by hitting it dead on and jumping it --
  though that's kind of fun. :-)

* A few trees are very close to the edge of the course on the right hand
  side, and because of a bug in the heightmap interpolation code (I
  think), they're suspended in mid air.  You might want to move them in
  a bit until I get that fixed.

* The paths in the course.tcl file should be relative; the file is
  interpreted with the CWD in the course's directory.

I'd like to include it in tuxracer-data-0.10.1; is that OK?

I noticed while playing that Tux was really bouncing around in spots.
I decided to tweak the physics code a bit -- in particular, Tux's
damping coefficients, and some of the parameters controlling the ODE
solver.  I'm attaching a patch against 0.10.1; can anybody who has time
please try it out and let me know if you like the result?

Thanks,
Jasmin