[Bug 234490] Review Request: VDrift - VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving/drift racing simulation

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Summary: Review Request: VDrift - VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving/drift racing simulation


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------- Additional Comments From thelusiv at gmail.com  2008-02-12 15:48 EST -------
Hi guys, it's me again, from the VDrift team. Don't bother building a Bullet
package from pristine upstream sources, this will not work for VDrift. There's a
reason why we include the Bullet source with the VDrift source, we are using a
development version with some patches we've applied. I think there were some
performance issues with the ray-casting in the Bullet release and we had to go
to the developers to get this fixed.

Also, there wasn't a great deal of work involved in the tracks. The tracks that
made it into the last release were just community-created tracks for other
games, which we found the authors of and obtained permission to use them. We
have started work on some original tracks, but these are not yet finished, so
they have not been included yet. These include a hillclimb style track ("Indian
Hill" in our data repository), an off-road rally track, a new version of
Zandvoort, and Carolina Motorsports Park. These last three are not yet available
for testing, and Indian Hill needs further work to increase drivability, and add
landscape/scenery objects.

Also, we plan to eventually create an application to go with VDrift to allow the
user to select and download data on their own, so that little or no data needs
to be distributed with the game. This will fix the package license issue once
and for all, but work on this has stalled for the time being.

Feel free to email me or post on our forums if you have any questions. I'm
monitoring these bug reports so I will watch for updates. Thanks for your effort
in packaging VDrift for Fedora.

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