extending GPL

A question to those of you who knows something about the structure of GPL and who are busy making add-ons,utilites etc for GPL: Would it be posssible ,and how hard would it be to make an extension so that yuu could watch the camera of another car,or to watch it without being in any car at all? This is possible when viewing the replays after the race,but I'd like to be able to have that capability "live",too (in order to spy on AI cars,not other human opponents!) also,would it be possible to send that view over the network, so that it could be watched by another computer? (whether it participated or not in a race) -- Robert S?derberg If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.

In theory, there's that damn word again, people should be able to join a race but just watch instead of race.

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> A question to those of you who knows something about > the structure of GPL and who are busy making add-ons,utilites etc > for GPL: > Would it be posssible ,and how hard would it be to make an extension > so that yuu could watch the camera of another car,or to watch it > without being in any car at all? > This is possible when viewing the replays after the race,but I'd > like to be able to have that capability "live",too > (in order to spy on AI cars,not other human opponents!) > also,would it be possible to send that view over the network, > so that it could be watched by another computer? > (whether it participated or not in a race) > -- > Robert S?derberg > If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.

neither the network protocol nor the game itself supports spectators (to use a word from the quake community ;-) ). without deep knowledge of the GPL source code I would say it is impossible to write such an extension. in addition, the servers had to support the sending of data to spectator clients also. Lio

Ok,but what about watching from another car? -- Robert S?derberg If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.

You can try shift-V to put yourself in the closest car - I think you have to stopped first ( as in shift-R ), not that I ever have to use shift-R .. ahem. Andrew

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>> neither the network protocol nor the game itself supports spectators (to >> use a word from the quake community ;-) ). without deep knowledge of the >> GPL source code I would say it is impossible to write such an extension. >> in addition, the servers had to support the sending of data to spectator >> clients also. >Ok,but what about watching from another car? >-- >Robert S?derberg >If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.