rec.autos.simulators

by **Michael Barlo** » Mon, 05 Mar 2001 01:41:24

This topic is quite old. I think I seen it first mentioned in 96 from
the Hawaii days. I know up to now there are no external viewers available
for current sims, However does anyone have a clue if such has been thought
about by Chris and Tony West for WSC? I seem to remember the question being
asked of them early on but I don't remember what their response was.

I know nothing about compression utilities, But just a bit ago I was
driving in N4 while Live365.com was playing music, and OE downloaded several
emails. All this time I didn't notice any glitches while driving (constant
60fps) or any break ups in the sound of the music. So I can assume the
bandwidth is there to send the position info of all the cars to another
server where others could log in to and view a live race(?)

by **Douglas Elliso** » Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:10:41

It's being done for WSC for sure. I think - at one point - there was
mention of being able to be someones pit crew as well

Doug

by **ymenar** » Mon, 05 Mar 2001 04:43:51

> This topic is quite old. I think I seen it first mentioned in 96 from
> the Hawaii days. I know up to now there are no external viewers available
> for current sims

External viewers is a vague. There is several ideas below that are close or
far to yours. Still, I think it's obvious that what you were doing is
different. You are the client, you are not the server. The server has to
send packets to EVERY client, and normally is very close to it's limit.

The closest we have been to that is one of the early demo for Burnout. If
you remember, it was a simple application where you loaded a part of the sim
(you could smash the car) from a window, an application out of the main
software.

I always thought it was a great idea. Just think about N4. Painters would
sure love my next idea. You could load any .car or .bmp file in a small
application that would render it on a 3d car model. The application would
be free to the public. It's a great PR tool as everybody can try it, it's
also a great community tool as if you receive a .car from somebody, you can
easily check it out without the need to load N4.

On the same aspect, I still have no clue why none of the developers have
ever designed a feature that would save a replay as a movie file on your
hard disk.

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by **Klin** » Mon, 05 Mar 2001 06:24:37

I'll second that! Especially since I've got a screen saver that plays AVI or
MPG video clips. I tried using GPLMovie (right name???), converted one lap
of the Glen and had that running as my screen saver for a while, but it took
'way too much time & effort...

...Klinn

by **Peter Hoope** » Thu, 15 Mar 2001 05:24:58

Any chance you could let me know where this screesaver can be found...
Sounds like something I could do with to help me through GPL-less days
at work.

TIA

PH

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:24:37 -0500, "Klinn"

>> On the same aspect, I still have no clue why none of the developers have
>> ever designed a feature that would save a replay as a movie file on your
>> hard disk.

>I'll second that! Especially since I've got a screen saver that plays AVI or
>MPG video clips. I tried using GPLMovie (right name???), converted one lap
>of the Glen and had that running as my screen saver for a while, but it took
>'way too much time & effort...

> ...Klinn