rec.autos.simulators

New GPL tracks?

Goy Larse

New GPL tracks?

by Goy Larse » Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:00:00


> Again: WHY not share the info and the code????
> Is this an attitude: "I had to search for months to find the code, so you
> all have to do it yourself too"?

> Sound totally silly to me.

> We all LOVE GPL.
> We all want new tracks, or improved tracks.

> Whats wrong with that?

Nothing, and in a perfect world, Papy would have put together a user
friendly track editor that everyone could learn to use in 5 mins flat,
in a slightly less perfect world David Noonan (or someone else) would
have put together a less user friendly editor that 50% could use in a
day or two, as it is now, it's all about manual labor and "black art"
tools that probably only the creator of the tools an a select few could
ever have a hope of learning how to use, and rather than spend their
entire time answering e-mails about how to use them, they put out tracks
for us to enjoy...

But then again, in a perfect world, Papy would have used the GPL engine
in N3, David Noonan would have finished his GPL<->N3<->NL<->N2<->ICR2
converter, "The Pits" would have put out a TPTCC/AussieV8 patch a few
days after the release of N3 (because Papy had recognized the value of
having sites such as Sim***world and The Pits doing aftermarket
add-on's and released valuable info to such sites ahead of the release)
and I would now have been racing some good friends around the Bathurst
track in "The Pits" annual 1000 km race, online, in a warp free
environment in a Larry Perkins Racing Holden Commodore...........hey,
that's *my* dream

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

Kirk Lan

New GPL tracks?

by Kirk Lan » Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:00:00

I say, if Noonan knows everything about the format (and he obviously does :)
why not make a track editor?  Even if it's as simple as SODA's editor (in
fact, I love that editor!!!) it'd be great...then my 14 mile + track with a
7 mile downhill straight and incredibly twisty uphill would become a reality
:)

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> Again: WHY not share the info and the code????
> Is this an attitude: "I had to search for months to find the code, so you
> all have to do it yourself too"?

> Sound totally silly to me.

> We all LOVE GPL.
> We all want new tracks, or improved tracks.

> Whats wrong with that?

> Karl


> > > >Why is it that Noonan is the only person who can create new tracks
for
> GPL?
> > > >Seriously! :)

> > > >--
> > > >-----------------------------------
> > > >Morgan Vincent Wooten

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> > > (All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new
> > > and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are
> > > due to too many English classes/teachers)


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