RaceToWinzone

[CoffeeTeeCat]

i have been playing in the "RaceToWinzone" Server many times last week and this week.
very very fun, fast! mazy! deathzone!
it also requires setting technique of custom cam,other details settings. i just call it a technique.
the rubber is just for reach the goal.
hmm i think there are more considerable parts of rubber setting and acceleration setting.
nvm, i can die at a nasty deathzone.
it would be more fun that if there were a tiny tiny shortcut cource and more mazy maps,
and like cycle_accel_rim=-1 or something for acceleration if it works for clients with newer versions. just a example.
"woa, i lost my way, where is the winzone?"
"aw i was poor. i often leaned to the rim wall"

well, why is my rim texture gonna look so ugly and noizy in this server?

i like to play in here with incam. it's also fun. let us turn internal camera on.
huh, i've downloaded tons of maps in my harddisk. full of it.

hey you guys, i found a cheat with this serve.
once yo hit "Chat" key and turn it back sooner or later while you get accelerated or running,
then you can get awsome faaaaast speed for a while.
i found that when i played with some players got faster than me.
they waited me till i started to run, i thought they failed to start running,
but soon they increased their speed more faster than me, and i couldn't reach them.
maybe, is chatbot a technique? or "Chat" key is nitro fuel?

[meriton]

I like that server, too. I have some problems with it, tough:

1. The maps with many columns in the middle of the lane are very slow on my machine. Slow, like in 5 to 10 FPS. It is a little hard to steer ...
2. It once happened that two zones were blocking the entire width of the lane. Made for an intersting situation when both alien and i noticed and stopped in front of the impossible obstacle ... I assume this is fixed since it happened only once, but you never know ...
3. bad ping in combination with cycle tails ... suddenly you are at a different location because you ran into the other's wall ... with luck, some noob hits a deathzone and leaves a tail guiding the others to it, too.

Oh, an alternative way to prevent people turboing all the time would be a depleting turbo (with recharge, of course). That way, people would have to decide where to make the most of the turbo they get ...

[CoffeeTeeCat]

1. ah it's about poles? haha aw you can do nothing with 10FPS!
i hit it about 10 times in a round. damn
2. yea i know it still happened sometimes, but i haven't see it happen for these days. maybe it's fixed.
3. haha funny, not funny. i saw the sticky walls guiding to the deathzone.
another thing, i boxed myself with walls_length 30, and no way to exit.
i don't remember the value now but i think cycle_delay is too short.
as Kamp, philippeqc and others said, we are going to be just speed addicts. yeah it's still fun.
but more like a...

i'll be more addict to this server, huhu. thanks

and sky texture, i realized that sky texture should contain alpha channel.
even most people don't use displaying sky, sometimes we forget to turn it off.
cuz using custom cam with some settings, like CAMERA_CUSTOM_RISE_FROMSPEED is set to higher value,
our view is out of the sky floating above the texture when we get high speed.
so we cannot know what is going on if it doesn't contains alpha channel. so i need to make one for me.

*this is about textures.
i donno why rim texture is gonna be noisy in this server.
not only in this server but also in usual games,
i use smart cam and custom cam switching between it occasionally if i want to look around.
i donnt like lowered wall with custom cam, so once i set CAMERA_VISIBILITY_LOWER_WALL to 0.
this setting has problem with doing something near at rim.
now i set it back to 1, added alpha channel to the rim wall textures,
and set BUG_TRANSPARENCY_DEMAND to 1.
this works fine for me with custom cam.

i'll try to test this texture in RaceToWinzone server what is going on with it.

[Z-Man]

The currently active map on the server, rtw_16_291.xml, appears to be an HTML file

i donno why rim texture is gonna be noisy in this server.

Because the maps are so huge, this causes accuracy problems. Have you tried using rc3? The texture coordinates passed to the card should be more managable there.

[iF]

Argh - my failure! Yesterday I moved all Maps into a wrong folder.

Its fixed.

[CoffeeTeeCat]

ah that's why i couldn't load maps and failed to connect to your server.
well, i was playing in this server right now.
there are a few maps more mazier than before!
it has several paths, tiny lane and quick corners, so we should turn turbo off
and go through it. i like it
awww i lost my way to the winzone. which way? whitch way???

>iF
you set cycle_delay to 0? i think it's not a good value.
cuz most people doesn't understand what was happened ¬
when they boxed themselves and went thru between the walls. even we have a short tail.
and self-boxed is not fun thing.
just my opinion.

anyway playing with you was fun. see ya

>z-man
ah i see. i have not used rc3 yet. i still have a basic problem to build my own client program, you know.
i'm too lazy to fix it now though, i'll be waiting for nemo's work.
huhu i need to delete those rtw maps from my startup disk.

P.S. ah rim wall textures don't seem to be contained alpha channel necessary.
i removed alpha channel from the textures and then tried to set BUG_TRANSPARENCY_DEMAND to 1.
it also works fine for me. the rim textures displayed as transparency walls.

[iF]

Hmkey and thank you!

[CoffeeTeeCat]

wow quick responses!
thanks for consider about cycle_delay.
i felt good and also it doesn't affect to the simple turnings.
haha i could box myself at very very slow speed,
but never mind, we were just kidding and just walked through the map.

how cool labyrinths there are!
i couldn't stop laughing while playing in there,
me and others had really really fun.

i love this server.
danke

wow quick responses!
thanks for consider about cycle_delay.
i felt good and also it doesn't affect to the simple turnings.
haha i could box myself at very very slow speed,
but never mind, we were just kidding and just walked through the map.

how cool labyrinths there are!
i couldn't stop laughing while playing in there,
me and others had really really fun.

i love this server.
danke

*EDIT
downloaded rc_3 and i was playing in RaceToWinzone Server,
wow rim wall textures look very good, no jaggy, no noisy.
and my fps went up from 10 to 20-30 at complex fields like poles centered at the middle of lane.

[CoffeeTeeCat]

would you make the download directory one or more deeper?
i can realize maps of your race to winzne server by the name tagged rtw_.
but there are too many maps in the same directory.

[wrtlprnft]

I asked him that like five times and the example files I gave him all made their own subdirectory, but well...

[iF]

I know what I have to do, and I do!

But in first I have to repair my Computer and no time to play or make changes on the map-files.

Sorry.

[CoffeeTeeCat]

Oh, hope your pc will get well and back to you soon.

[Fonkay]

I think I broke it.