simple3d Files

2026-01-28
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The presentation from https://sourceforge.net/projects/simple3d/ is outdated.
To edit it, I should access that address with JavaScript activated:

"Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue"

This is not recommended:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

So I did activate JavaScript though, but still couldn't do anything, because of
Cl***fl**e. However, I can still upload files with sftp, as the documentation
here says:

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$ sftp jsmith@frs.sourceforge.net
Connecting to frs.sourceforge.net...
jsmith@frs.sourceforge.net's password:
sftp> cd /home/frs/project/fooproject/release1
sftp> put file.zip
Uploading file.zip to /home/frs/project/fooproject/release1/file.zip
ws                                            100% 1573     1.5KB/s   00:00
sftp>
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For more information about SimcarStunts, you can access:

https://matei.one/idxscr.html

https://matei.one/idxrep.html

Some videos are available there, along with some *.tar.gz archives (I made 3
versions with a few differences between them), also available here for
download. As long as the method with sftp remains available I will, in
principle, upload files here too.

Simcar is entirely free, but SimcarStunts contains 3D models from Stunts made
in 1990, which are not free, although, according to Mr. Kevin Pickell (see file
StuntsManual.txt from some *.tar.gz file):

"I don't have the source and frankly in what I have learned over the years I
would rewrite it from scratch anyway. It was pretty inefficient looking back on
it."

So the source code of Stunts (1990) was lost and:

"I was the only programmer on Stunts. My previous game was Test Drive so I was
familiar with programming a car simulation but I had no 3d experience at all. I
had written a very simple editor for making 3d models and in it I made many of
the track pieces for stunts. The game was very far along with the track editor
and most pieces before we got an artist. The Artist we had mainly worked on the
3d car models as they were way beyond my capabilities."

The 3D car models available here are from TORCS and Speed Dreams, not from
Stunts, so they are free, and so is the source code, so the only problem
related to copyright are the 3D track pieces. I found ~5 people still
interested in Stunts and the tracks here are taken from them (they don't care
about copyright anyway), but they won't help. Making those 3D models is not
difficult, so if you're interested, my site (https://matei.one/) has a contact
page.