Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving 479
An anonymous reader points out a project called Drivey, which he describes as "a dark and fascinating example of 2.xD [not quite 3d] graphical rendering. This tiny, free [as in beer] demo gives you an amazingly compelling driving experience. To quote the author, 'It was conceived as a driving simulator for old farts like myself, who are kind of nostalgic for the "old days" [ca. 1985] but are not so thick as to believe that the games from the 80s were actually in any way superior to the games we play today.' Even works fine under WINE!"
Howto Make it a Screensaver in Windows (Score:5, Informative)
Re:2.5D graphics rendering (Score:5, Informative)
The problem is that it's trying to show 3 dimensions with only 2 dimensional objects. Here's another problem with a similar issue. Imagine a very flat wall. Take a large light source like the sun and bring it to a position above and behind the wall, now the wall face is dark and a long shadow is cast. Now move the light source to the front of the wall. The wall is lit up and no shadow is cast by the wall. Now slowly move the light source up directly over the edge of the wall. Get to the point just before a shadow would appear. Should the wall be lit? Should it be dark? Should half of it be lit?
On Linux with CrossOver Office (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Anyone tried it yet? (Score:5, Informative)
Arrow/WASD keys control steering and accel/brake, but the car drives itself to stay on the road so you really can't steer. 1-4 selects a road/scene, C adds 8 cars, K toggles palette rotation.
With palette rotation this would almost make a good screensaver...
=Smidge=
And dont forget to.. (Score:4, Informative)
http://intepid.com/2005-05-08/13.49/ [intepid.com]
It is really good!
Burnout ruled (Score:0, Informative)
Re:Howto Make it a Screensaver in Windows (Score:5, Informative)
You now have a screensaver which doesn't exit on mouse movements or key presses
Also, a standard
Renaming
Correction and Note (Score:4, Informative)
why ? it works on Wine... (Score:4, Informative)
You'll realize that all the "standard" offsets most viruses use for exploiting buffer overflows are almost always not valid in Wine.
Also this has been featured on tucows.com
Re:Stunts.... (Score:2, Informative)
Manual steering (Score:3, Informative)
For added bonus, hold CTRL to make things really fast and SHIFT to slow to a crawl.
Bunch of different keyboard commands, too (Score:3, Informative)
Video if creator playing Drivey (Score:2, Informative)
Mirror (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Mirror, anyone? (Score:2, Informative)
mirror [mirrordot.org] in mirrordot [mirrordot.org]
i'm trying to download the link the exe and extract the binary data from the mirror dot link (mirrordot as archived it as html and added banners to the top).
Re:Bunch of different keyboard commands, too (Score:3, Informative)
Even more undocumented features (Score:2, Informative)
T - toggle title
Space - manual brake (no oversteer though!)
V,B - adjust brightness
I haven't seen such a neat demo for a long time. Can't wait for the next release.
Easter Eggs! (Score:3, Informative)
- Left, Right, Up, Down: Steer & Accelerate/Brake
- A, D, W, S: Same as above, respectively
- T: Toggle Info
- G: Grey Scale
- H: display random palette
- K: palette cycle (Pretty cool)
- C: adds Other Cars (8 at a time)
- N/M: Zoom in/out
- F1: Shows all key functions on Screen
- F2: Toggle WireFrame
- F3: Toggle Dashboard
- F4: Show Rear View
- F5: Toggle Manual Control
- F6: Toggle Sound
- F7: Change Sky Gradient
- F11: Toggle Full Screen
Play around with it!Note: you can seriously slow down the game by hitting C a whole bunch of times.
Re:Easter Eggs! (Score:3, Informative)
Num Keys 1-4 Change the Scenery.
- 1: Sparce Road
- 2: Tunnel
- 3: City
- 4: Industrial
numbers 5-9 just change it back to "very sparce road". The game defaults to 4: IndustrialRe:Easter Eggs! (Score:2, Informative)
Okay if you get stuck at all by the fence or otherwise, simply hit the HOME key to be returned to the track.
Also if you're going really fast on manual drive. Simply crank the wheel into the fence at any spot that isn't dark orange, and you'll drive right through it. Have fun.Re:I cannae see shit, cap'n! (Score:3, Informative)
And - because the entire production, crew, station, not to mention the music and the performers, were all Canadian, Global racked up serious CanCon points for that show!
This is not off topic - this really does look like that show!!