GeneRally v1.10 - DISCUSSION

[James]

GeneRally 1.10 - Discussion Thread

Please use this thread for any discussion regarding GeneRally 1.10. If you have any bug reports, please use this thread instead.

If you cannot get GR to start (and get an error about missing DLLs), please read readme.txt for more information. You have some basic libraries to install before you can run GR.

To the community...

We are very pleased to bring you the first official GeneRally release in years - GeneRally v1.10!

As many of you will know from our last "community letter", Hannu and Jukka were working on converting GeneRally to the SDL game libraries. In December, this conversion reached a suitable stage and they were able to turn the source code over to Rich and myself for continued development. So, since December and with close correspondence with Hannu and Jukka, GeneRally has once again been in development by myself and a friend not known to the GR community (until now): Markku. We have plans for further versions, but we are not willing to promise, or to put a fixed time-frame on them.

Please be considerate in your discussion, as we are learning all the ins and outs of the code, and exploring what possibilities there are.

For those of you who've kept trusting that something new would come... we're glad to be able to reward your trust!

The website at gene-rally.com will be being developed over the next few weeks and months... and this forum will be transitioning to become the official GeneRally forum at some point in the future, too!

Stay tuned for more exciting news!

Credits...

• Markku - for code contributions to v1.10
• Rich - for general advice, testing and expertise
• Tuomo - for the amazing new track-pack, and extensive testing
• Ivo, Balazs & Crono - for their support, co-operation and enthusiasm
• Hannu & Jukka - for releasing the source code to allow this version to be developed

Changelog...
Game:

• Game graphic, control and sound functionality ported to the SDL game libraries for greater compatibility.
• Improved Windows Vista/7 compatibility.
• Windowed mode (including Alt+Enter toggle).
• Extra game resolutions (including widescreen support).
• Alt+F4 quits the game directly.
• Scroll wheel works in dialogs.
• Removed 'game speed' option from game - now fixed @ 100%.
• New official tracks (by TuomoH).
• Fixed various small bugs and crashes.

Track Editor:

• Can select world-size from 25-255 in the editor itself.
• Added some new objects:
  • Road cone
  • Armco barrier
  • Office block (short + small variants)
  • Telephone pole
  • Pedestrian bridge
  • Invisible wall
  • Person (varying sizes, including children)
• Open track via command line (pass filename to program).

All discussion should be kept positive and constructive... if not, appropriate action will be taken by the forum staff!

[Rich Nagel]

WOOHOO! It's finally here!

@All,

Note that even though I helped a bit, all kudos goes to James and Markku... GREAT JOB, GUYS!

[Crowella]

James, I would like to personally thank you for updating this fine game. You have done an unbelievable job in doing so. It feels just like it used to and the little touches in between are great

EDIT: Thanks to everyone that contributed to the game

The resolution change has helped a ton, and now to have it windowed means track making is a lot less tedious.

Expect some new circuits from me soon.

[Crono]

Yep, great job, the best GR Version ever! I hope we hear more from Markku next days. But now i have to go - playing some GR

Cu Crono

[Doorslammer]

Oh yeah, I'm definitely going to give this a go later today for sure. Nice work, GeneRally chums.

[Rendy]

I'm gonna try it!

[bduddy]

The fact that this appears to work flawlessly on my W7, Radeon HD 5770 computer should speak for itself. Fantastic job, and thanks to everyone that worked on it!

[mplume]

And my screenshot bug is solved.

[Mr.J]

*Oh... GRIF is down.. Or wait a second!*
Thanks guys!

[Markku]

Note that even though I helped a bit, all kudos goes to James and Markku... GREAT JOB, GUYS!

The kudos goes to James really. TBH if I hadn't worked on this, you guys wouldn't notice it in any way

I've been delving into the physics engine code, doing a lot of cleanup and commenting, but I haven't actually changed anything yet (At least I hope I haven't If you notice something weird happening, you know now who to blame ).

[Buka]

Just 2 words: thank you! We've been waiting for an update for so long... Hope it'll bring GR thousands of new fas.

[jefcam]

THANKS A LOT! THANKS A LOT! FROM MALTA

Great news that now you have the source code! Hope we have more features in the future!

[Lukeno94]

The armco barriers are hard to see from some angles, or so I've spotted, and traffic cones are too solid for my liking. That said, it's great to see these sorts of things added!

Just to let you know if you didn't already - this version no longer glitches with iTunes.

[TuomoH]

It indeed is great to finally have this out. Thanks to everyone who's worked on it.

The armco barriers are hard to see from some angles, or so I've spotted, and traffic cones are too solid for my liking.

Unfortunately with the armco barriers we are bound by the GR palette, that's why it's so close to tarmac color. And with regard to the traffic cones, all the objects have to be stationary so IMHO it's the best possible solution to have them like they are now.

[Ryumi]

Thank you guys! UNBELIEVABLE work!!

Now I'm very HIGH!

[Otto Wilson]

GREAT!!! FINALLY!!!
I am loving this version... i am missing a "car object"... but with the invisible wall i just need to block the Lmap cars...
aand... now we need a new GR-Trk Viewer...

(Updating a new track... but i will release it without the new objects too...)

[Alonsomania]

It indeed is great to finally have this out. Thanks to everyone who's worked on it.

The armco barriers are hard to see from some angles, or so I've spotted, and traffic cones are too solid for my liking.

Unfortunately with the armco barriers we are bound by the GR palette, that's why it's so close to tarmac color. And with regard to the traffic cones, all the objects have to be stationary so IMHO it's the best possible solution to have them like they are now.

I thought they would work as (larger) tyres, which I think would suit them better.

Great job James & co. Looks great!

After I changed the resolution (1920x1440, maybe I need to pick 1920x1080 but I was in a hurry) the game did a CTD. Worked fine afterwards.

Time to re-do all my old tracks from 2004 Adding persons to courses will really bring them to life!

[1nsane]

Oh wow, I couldn't expect this at all!

Thank you for the great work, now even the Win7 users can actually play the game. The new objects are something that should inspire even me to do something new.

I just think the menu fonts should be changed or updated, now the text is a bit broken all around. There also seemed to be a bit of some crackling sound in the startlight sound.

[Martyn]

As someone who has been playing GR since the very first BETA release, this is literally a day of celebration for me. I have gone out to buy a new control pad for this and am going to cancel all my plans for today. My fiance thinks I'm an idiot but I don't care, as you can see from my sig I have been waiting a long time for this

[Areen]

Doesn't work for me... "Not Found The procedure entry point _invalid_parameter_noinfo_noreturn" in MSVCR100.dll library". ;/

[Martyn]

read the readme

[Areen]

Wow, thanks. It really helps xD

[James]

The kudos goes to James really. TBH if I hadn't worked on this, you guys wouldn't notice it in any way

You mean apart from things like the object collisions (especially the pedestrian bridge) that I'd never have got working without you?

i am missing a "car object"...

We couldn't give you all the presents at once, now, could we?

but with the invisible wall i just need to block the Lmap cars...

That was one of the main reasons for the invisible wall - land-map objects

I thought they would work as (larger) tyres, which I think would suit them better.

Not possible at present, until Markku or myself make some changes to the rendering engine

After I changed the resolution (1920x1440, maybe I need to pick 1920x1080 but I was in a hurry) the game did a CTD. Worked fine afterwards.

Yup, seems some people occasionally get that problem... we've not been able to reproduce it in testing, so we can't fix it at the moment. If you can work out a 100%-sure way to reproduce it... please post it in the bug report thread

I just think the menu fonts should be changed or updated, now the text is a bit broken all around.

Will add it to our 'consider' list for the next version.

There also seemed to be a bit of some crackling sound in the startlight sound.

That'll be related to your sound driver, rather than the game, I'd imagine. The game now uses the SDL sound libraries, which should do a better job of the sound. But there may be some more updates to the sound mixer in future versions... so all is not necessarily lost!

I have gone out to buy a new control pad for this and am going to cancel all my plans for today.

Let me know how the gamepad works out for you in-game. I have no game-pad, so all controller functionality was tested on a steering wheel! I know for a fact that some POV hats won't work... but, as with a number of things at the moment, will be a significant amount of work to get things like that working

read the readme

Or, you know, the bright red text at the top of this thread

[Martyn]

The gamepad seems to be working perfectly for me, if anything I'm already faster than I was with the keyboard.

[James]

The gamepad seems to be working perfectly for me, if anything I'm already faster than I was with the keyboard.

Excellent