A similar project: Impulse, also videos and skybox

[qub...@googlemail.com]

Hello,

I just wanted to let you know of an older project that has similar
goal (wipeout is the role model however): Impulse <https://
sourceforge.net/projects/blendout/>

Also, I recorded two videos of Racer so far:
~svn37 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_g8NTPWTc>
svn50 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojhWBQ_u96o>

I think the current skybox looks too photo-like. You could for example
use/edit one of these: <http://brisingre.deviantart.com/art/Gorgeous-F-
cking-Sunset-118767748> <http://brisingre.deviantart.com/art/Toxic-
Panorama-118700767>

Best regards

[James Legg]

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 16:53 -0700, qub...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just wanted to let you know of an older project that has similar
> goal (wipeout is the role model however): Impulse <https://
> sourceforge.net/projects/blendout/>

I had a look but couldn't get Irrlicht to build as Impulse seems to
need.

> Also, I recorded two videos of Racer so far:
> ~svn37 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_g8NTPWTc>
> svn50 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojhWBQ_u96o>

Thanks!

> I think the current skybox looks too photo-like.

That would be because it is a photo. ;-)
I have one where I used bracketing and enfuse to take the edge of it a
bit. That way there is no badly exposed areas of the sky. I'll add it to
the repository.

> You could for example
> use/edit one of these:
> <http://brisingre.deviantart.com/art/Gorgeous-F-
> cking-Sunset-118767748> <http://brisingre.deviantart.com/art/Toxic-
> Panorama-118700767>

They look OK, but only have the top half of the sky. I could model some
ground in Blender and use that to cover up the bottom half. I should
probably do this to my own skies anyway, so that they don't look so
close to the ground.

-James

[qub...@googlemail.com]

James Legg wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 16:53 -0700, qub...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just wanted to let you know of an older project that has similar
> > goal (wipeout is the role model however): Impulse <https://
> > sourceforge.net/projects/blendout/>
>
> I had a look but couldn't get Irrlicht to build as Impulse seems to
> need.

They appear to be using OGRE now, but their code repository is quite
confusing and the Ogre branch doesn't have a makefile, so I also
didn't test it (I did test the irrlicht one a while ago thought:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pd4DoXgQ3I

Best regards