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// Trigger v0.6.x README //
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Thanks for downloading Trigger! I hope you enjoy
the game. For updates, please visit:
http://trigger-rally.sourceforge.net/
Before playing, building, or copying, please read
the license later in this file. If you don't agree
to it, you should delete this software.
Look at ~/.local/share/trigger-rally/trigger-rally-0.6.x.config
in your favourite text editor for configuration options.
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// Configuration //
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Defaults:
key action
Up Accelerate
Down Foot brake / Reverse
Left Steer left
Right Steer right
Space Handbrake
C Change camera view
M Toggle map
N Toggle user interface
K Toggle checkpoints
R Recover car
Q Recover car at previous checkpoint
P Pause race
< > Rotate camera when in 3rd person cam
F12 Save a screenshot to ~/.trigger/
Joystick support can be enabled in the
config file. I'd be interested in any
reports on the performance of the
joystick support.
Stereo support is available, for both quad buffer
hardware and anaglyph glasses. See README-stereo.txt
Kudos to Chuck Sites for this patch.
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// License //
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Trigger Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Jasmine Langridge and Richard Langridge.
Trigger is released under the GPL version 2 (see COPYING,
or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html ).
Some of the data files have different authors and licenses.
Please see DATA_AUTHORS.txt for this information.
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// Content Creation //
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A. Car models
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Trigger ships car models in .obj formats.
You can add completely new cars in the Wavefront .obj format with the
following restrictions:
- Use only one material per .obj.
- All faces must be triangles.
- The material is ignored, only the texture defined by it gets loaded.
- All meshes, besides the wheels, need to be on a single object.
- Wheels are in their own files.
When exporting from Blender, following settings work:
- "Apply Modifiers"
- "Include Normals"
- "Include Edges"
- "Write Materials"
- "Triangulate Faces"
- "Objects as OBJ Objects"
To test the model, replace the file name in an existing .vehicle file inside
data/vehicles/VEHICLENAME/
B. Levels/maps/tracks
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Use any tool that saves .png or .jpg images, for example GIMP and Inkscape.
You will need to create a heightmap, color map and need to assign coordinates.
You can create optional foliage, hud-map, road-map, terrain-map image files.
View existing .level files in data/maps or data/plugins/ to learn.
Best use .png for heightmaps, as .jpg can cause artefacts, which will change
the level geometry.
C. Car textures
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We used Inkscape to create the .svg files for the car textures.
You might have to get the following freely licensed fonts from sites like http://www.google.com/fonts/ to be able to render the currently used .svg files to .png correctly, if you don't want to download the packages that contain them:
- TeX Gyre Heros
- Roboto
- Bowlby One
- URW Gothic L
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// Troubleshooting //
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If something goes wrong, the you should check your settings in
~/.local/share/trigger-rally/trigger-rally-0.6.x.config. You can
delete that file to reset everything to default. (It will be
recreated next time you run Trigger.)
Failing that, please visit Sourceforge to ask for help
on the forums or file a bug on the tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trigger-rally/support
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// Version history //
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17/07/2026 - Trigger 0.6.7
- "Ghost" cars driving along your best path
- Collision with surroundings dealing damage to the car
- Game options and controls now can be adjusted via menus
- Added 3 new events and 35 new single race maps (total 46 new maps)
- Enhanced immersion with gear shifting SFX and break lights
- Improved car physics: drag, lift, torque distribution
- Fixed camera behaviour
- Improved compatibility with modern versions of PhysFS, TinyXML2 and SDL2
- Fixed OBJ mesh loader
- Fixed math library bugs and warnings
- Fine-tuned car models: Fox Kit Car, Fox WRC
- Various UI, build and documentation enhancements
04/03/2019 - Trigger 0.6.6.1
- Released Windows binaries
- Optimized data for release
- Removed internal TinyXML-2 source from Trigger code tree
01/02/2019 - Trigger 0.6.6
- Documented and reorganized physic engine code
- Different tuning: Fox offroad, Evo circuit, Cordo in between
- Wheel sinking on the different types of terrain
- New freely licensed font
- Wheel-ground contact is now computed along wheel plane, not just straight down
- Vehicle selection screen shows real values of the car
- Vehicles can have different friction of wheels defined in the .vehicle file
- Optimized .obj mesh loader
- Updated libPhysfs code
- Other fixes
- Added 2 new events and 20 new single races (36 new maps)
- Added many new vegetation sprites
18/12/2016 - Trigger 0.6.5
- Fixed framerate drop caused by codriver voice on certain post-XP Windows'
- Fixed compilation error of "hiscore1.h" by C++11 compilers
- Added 2 new events and 13 new single races (total 25 new races)
- Added "road sign" option for map creators
- Updated code to use TinyXML-2, SDL2 and SDL2_image
- Improved code friendliness to Linux when searching for the default
configuration file "trigger-rally.config.defs"
- Released 64-bit binaries for Windows x64, optimized for AMD K8
23/04/2016 - Trigger 0.6.4
- Added recording of best times
- Added unlocking of vehicles and events
- Optimized game data for smaller size and faster loading
- Added "Pause" key (default `P`)
- Added "Recover At Checkpoint" key (default `Q`)
- Added multiple laps option for map creators
- Added time penalty for offroad driving
- Improved the "AB" codriver voice
- Fixed sound bug in the Windows version
- Changed default resolution to native fullscreen
30/01/2016 - Trigger 0.6.3
- Improve menu and in-race OSD
- Add codriver for 75% of maps
- Tweak terrain physics
- Add many new maps
- Change vehicle skins and presets
- Made various minor code improvements
05/05/2015 - Trigger 0.6.2
- Fix several Windows bugs and compilation issues
- Fix compilation warnings
- Windows binaries
25/10/2014 - Trigger 0.6.1
- Add support for .obj textures
- Include new .obj textures (disabled by default)
- Add 6 new events and 23 new single races courtesy of Onsemeliot
- Add several new textures
- Replace most media content (textures, audio, fonts, etc.) with
FOSS equivalents
- New FOSS Trigger Rally icon
- Many other changes (check SVN logs from about r48)
08/10/2011 - Trigger 0.6.0
- New (and old) contributed tracks and events
- New Practice Mode
- Paging on the Single Races screen to show all the available tracks
- Option to show speedometer in KPH or MPH
- Option to show digital speed on the speed dial ('hybrid' style)
- Fading track comment and GO at race start
- Freezing course time when passing through a checkpoint
- Tweak menu colours for more contrast
4/07/2010 - Trigger 0.5.3
- Removed splash screen delay
- Updated contact email address
20/10/2006 - Trigger 0.5.2.1
- gcc 4 fixes
- PhysFS/OpenAL interaction fix
- PhysFS/SDL interaction fix
Thanks to Stefan Potyra for the patches!
11/01/2005 - Trigger 0.5.1a,b,c
- Fixed joystick deadzone and added a maxrange (unfortunately there's
still no user-friendly joystick calibration)
- Most of the engine migrated to RAII design
- Other minor stuff
12/12/2004 - Trigger 0.5.1
- Switch to ARB multitex from core GL to support older cards
- Added some code to take screenshots
05/10/2004 - Trigger 0.5.0 (was 0.4.5)
- Chuck Sites has contributed a stereo patch, so now we have
quadbuffer and anaglyph stereo!
03/10/2004 - Trigger 0.4.4.1
- PhysFS linked statically with linux binary
01/10/2004 - Trigger 0.4.4
- Windows build back online (fixed FMOD/PhysFS integration)
- Another license change, because apparently CCSA isn't considered
Free by Debian. Now the whole thing is GPL. See "License."
01/10/2004 - Trigger 0.4.4-pre2
- Menu fixes: forgot to show times/lives left in pre1
20/09/2004 - Trigger 0.4.4-pre1
- using PhysFS http://icculus.org/physfs/
- added auto ~/.trigger creation for config and extensions
- new menu system, with auto searching for tracks and events
- rule change: total time incremented even if you fail an attempt
- new control config system, hopefully better joystick support
- per-level weather settings
- camera rotate: < and >
- fixed: boost::format was crashing libstdc++, removed
- friction model changed to better simulate dirt
09/09/2004 - Trigger 0.4.3
- config SDL GL settings
- config keyboard controls
- config sound enable/disable
- experimental joystick support (see data/trigger.config)
- vehicle crunch sound effects
- fixed: controls not responding when joystick connected
06/09/2004 - Trigger 0.4.2
- Text configuration file
- More physics tweaks, and simple driving assist config setting
- extgl replaced with GLEW
- License altered, now 100% Free Software
05/09/2004 - Trigger 0.4.1
- Physics tweaks and driving assist
04/09/2004 - Trigger 0.4 (First public release)
- Lots of coolness
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// Credits //
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Code Jasmine Langridge <ja-reiko@users.sourceforge.net>
Art & sfx Richard Langridge
Build system
and Jamrules Matze Braun <matze@braunis.de>
Stereo support Chuck Sites <chuck@cvip.uofl.edu>
Mac OS X porting Tim Douglas
Coleman Nitroy
Fixes & distro LavaPunk <lavapunk@gmail.com>
support Bernhard Kaindl
Stefan Potyra
Liviu Andronic
Ishmael Turner
Andrei Bondor
Emanuele Sorce
New levels Tim Wintle
David Pagnier
Jared Buckner
Andreas Rosdal
Ivan
Viktor Radnai
Pierre-Alexis
Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert
Agnius Vasiliauskas
Matthias Keysermann
Márcio Bremm
Onsemeliot
Splash screens Alex <rep65@tlen.pl>
Roberto D�z Gonz�ez
Mirroring Washu (irc.afternet.org #gamedev)
daaw.org
sh.nu
obj model support
and conversion Farrer <farpro@users.sourceforge.net>
Freely licensed
art replacements Iwan Gabovitch <qubodup@gmail.com>
Many thanks to all contributors!
I haven't been keeping strict records of who has
contributed what. If you've been left out, or if
you'd like your email to be listed, please email
me. (ja-reiko@users.sourceforge.net)
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