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Introduction

This is an all in one package of TORCS. Be aware that some included artwork has non free (in the GPL sense) licenses, you will find a "readme.txt" in those directories. The rest is either licensed under the GPL or the Free Art License.

Non-Free content (in GPL sense)

Here the list with the directories containing non free content, look at the readme.txt for details:

• data/cars/models/pw-*
• data/cars/models/kc-*

Linux Installation from Source

• Requires plib 1.8.5, FreeGLUT or GLUT, be aware to compile plib with -fPIC on AMD64 if you run a 64 bit version of Linux. Be aware that maybe just 1.8.5 works.
• Untar the archive
• cd into the torcs-1.3.1 directory
• ./configure (use --help for showing the options, of interest might be --enable-debug and --disable-xrandr).
• make
• make install
• make datainstall
• start with "torcs"

Command line arguments:

• -l list the dynamically linked libraries
• -d run under gdb and print stack trace on exit, makes most sense when compile with --enable-debug
• -e display the commands to issue when you want to run under gdb
• -s disable multitexturing, important for older graphics cards
• -m use X mouse cursor and do not hide it during races

Windows Installation from Source (Release)

• hint: you can have a release and a debug build side by side, the release version goes to "runtime" and the debug to "runtimed".
• requires VC++ 6.0 (tested with sp6)
• untar the archive into a path without whitespaces and special characters.
• cd into the torcs-1.3.1 directory
• run setup_win32.bat
• run setup_win32-data-from-CVS.bat
• select the TORCS project and the w32-Release version
• compile project (0 warnings)
• cd into the "runtime" directory.
• run "wtorcs.exe"

Windows Installation from Source (Debug version)

• hint: you can have a debug and a release build side by side, the debug version goes to "runtimed" and the release to "runtime".
• requires VC++ 6.0 (tested with sp6)
• untar the archive into a path without whitespaces and special characters.
• cd into the torcs-1.3.1 directory
• run setup_win32_debug.bat
• run setup_win32-data-from-CVS_debug.bat
• select the TORCS project and the w32-Debug version
• compile project (0 warnings)
• cd into the "runtimed" directory.
• run "wtorcs.exe"

Testing

Please pick bugs below and retest them (you can find the original reports on http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=3777&atid=103777, select "any" bugs to see as well the closed ones). If you find problems which should be already fixed or new ones please report them to the torcs-users mailing list.

Getting Help

During the game press F1. For more in depth information visit www.torcs.org, you find there a lot of information, look at the documentation section on the left, have as well a look into the list of howto's. If you are stuck have a look into the FAQ to learn how and where to report a problem.

Have fun, bye

Bernhard.

Changes since 1.3.1-test1

• Compile fixes for gcc 4.3 reported by Mart Kelder (Mart Kelder, Bernhard).
• Fixed clutch problems and improved ABS for human driver (Andrew Sumner, Bernhard).
• Set steer speed of car1-trb3 and p406 to 360 (Bernhard).
• Removed outdated README/INSTALL files (Bernhard).
• Updated FAQ and installation instructions (Bernhard).
• Applied wheel-2 texture updates created by Eckhard and Andrew (Eckhard, Andrew, Bernhard).
• Changed version to 1.3.1 (Bernhard).
• Fixed #1674545 (Bernhard).
• Replaced track dirt-1 with upgrade from Eckhard (Eckhard, Bernhard).
• Corrected mipmapping/transparency behaviour of new dirt-1 track (Bernhard).

Changes since 1.3.0

• Applied patch for screen resolution change program crash when the path contained spaces (Brian Gavin, Bernhard).
• Added new car, car2-trb1 (Bernhard).
• Added new car, car3-trb1 (Bernhard).
• TRB: allow signing in during season, mail tool for admin (Bernhard).
• Added new car, car5-trb1 (Bernhard).
• Added new car, car4-trb1 (Bernhard).
• Suspension improvement, car does not lift up anymore magically on bumpy surfaces (e.g. in the grass) (Christos, Bernhard).
• Antirollbars are now functional (Bernhard).
• Rolling resistance is now correctly working (this fixes as well the "forever stuck in the sand" and the "wheel spinning like mad and car stuck" problems (Bernhard).
• Fixed XML parsing problem with entities (#1651190, reported by Carsten Milkau) (Bernhard)
• Code adjustments for VC 2005 (Eric).
• Added car6-trb1 created by Wolf-Dieter Beelitz and reworked by Bernhard (Wolf-Dieter Beelitz, Bernhard).
• Car engine sound is now searched in the cars directory first (Eric).
• Added new car, car7-trb1 (Bernhard).
• Adjusted car1-7 performance settings (Bernhard).
• Improvements for track Ruudskogen by Andrew (Andrew, Bernhard).
• Improvements for track Street-1 by Andrew (Andrew, Bernhard).
• Added new track Forza created by Andrew (Andrew, Bernhard).
• Improvements for track wheel-2 by Andrew (Andrew, Bernhard).
• Totally reworked track e-track-6 by Andrew (Andrew, Bernhard).
• Improvements for track dirt-3 by Andrew (Andrew, Bernhard).
• Improvements for track alpine-1 by Andrew (Andrew, Bernhard).
• Fuel consumption adjustments on car1-7 (Wolf-Dieter, Andrew, Daniel, Bernhard).
• Additional cameras on spring track by Wolf-Dieter (Wolf-Dieter, Bernhard).
• Reparametrized 360-modena, renamed to car1-trb3 (Bernhard).
• Removed unmaintained car models (Bernhard).
• Reparametrized several models (Bernhard).
• Adopted robots to the new car set (Bernhard).
• Applied fix for broken race result list from Jean-Philippe Meuret (Jean-Philippe Meuret, Bernhard).
• Applied human driver patch from Andrew and Christos, added minor corrections (Andrew, Christos, Bernhard).
• Fixed some gcc 4.2 warnings, not yet all to keep the interface stable (Bernhard).
• Adjusted various setups for the suspension code changes (Bernhard).
• Regenerated configure, adopted in files to autoconf changes (Bernhard).
• Updated vc++ 6.0 project files and bat scripts (Bernhard).
• Added new track alpine-2 created by Daniel Schellhammer and Andrew (Daniel, Andrew, Bernhard).
• Reorganized bat scripts according suggestion of Jean-Philippe (Bernhard).
• Added texture for inferno 9 (Andrew), tita 9 (Miguel Martinez), inferno 3 and 8 (Wolf-Dieter), berniw 7, inferno 7, bt 7, damned 7, olethros 7 (Bernhard), (Andrew, Miguel, Wolf-Dieter, Bernhard).
• Created and added lots of textures for trb1 opponents (Bernhard).
• Updated bat files to deploy textures (Bernhard).
• Reintroduced Olethros on Windows, adjusted project dependencies and made code compile (Bernhard).
• Adjusted race modes, take existing cars and tracks (Bernhard).
• Adjusted preset driver "Player" (Bernhard).
• Set steer speed to 360 Deg/s on the trb1 cars (Bernhard).
• Fit background images without distortion, background image aspect ratio is 16:10 (Bernhard).
• Created new background images (Bernhard).
• Splash screen scaling without distortion, added smoothing (Bernhard).
• Added splash screen created by Eckhard M. Jäger (Eckhard, Bernhard).
• Do not call anymore GfuiIdle for ordinary menus/screens to save power and avoid annoying high frequency noise from graphics hardware (Bernhard).
• Redone camera placement of alpine-1 (Bernhard).
• Fixed trackgen not accepting -H option under posix builds (Bernhard).
• Fixed trackgen not building the elevation 3 map (Bernhard).
• Equalized author name formatting for tracks (Bernhard).
• Replaced forza track selection image with a track map (Bernhard).
• Added new background image and color settings to track alpine-1, created by Eckhard M. Jäger (Eckhard, Bernhard).
• Fixed wrong texture size constant in openglconfg.cpp (Bernhard).
• Fixed broken car light rendering, more adjustments will be required (Bernhard).
• Added new light definitions for trb cars, created by Wolf-Dieter (Wolf-Dieter, Bernhard).
• Updated installer for Windows (Bernhard).
• Fixed empty -L option in configure.in, suggested by Jean-Philippe Meuret (Jean-Philippe Meuret, Bernhard).
• Reduced number of packages (make packages) (Bernhard).

TODO for 1.3.2

• This is intended as GCC compiler warning fix release. Fixing this warnings will break the binary interface compatibility, that is the reason why I did it not in 1.3.1. Maybe this will be no official release, we will see...
• Rename *1 category/car (get rid of "*1")
• Rename *ascar category/car (get rid of *acsar)

TODO for 1.4.0

• Adjust categories.
• Apply SDL patch from Brian Gavin (rescheduled to 1.4.0 to get to to test seriously).
• Update OpenAL to 1.1, fix use of deprecated stuff.
• Move from VC++ 6.0 to 9.0 (VS2008)

TODO for Compliance

155-DTM -> replace with car8-trb1 acura -> replace with car9-trb1 mc-larenf1 -> replace with car10-trb1 sc-f1 -> replace with car1-ow1 (would be nice to have ~5 different cars) nascar -> replace with car1-stock1 (would be nice to have ~5 different cars) p406 -> replace with car1-trb4

Later:

• When car is moving sideways, the engine sound source seems shifted to the side under OpenAL (2.0).
• Add valgrind option to "torcs".
• Include suppressions file for valgrind.
• (Fix parallel build with make -j n, breaks currently in SOLID) (Bernhard).
• Ongoing for every release: rework free car models (several holes, no emmissive color of lod (model becomes dark at a certain distance), single sided, add cockpit, lods).
• Ongoing for every release: Improve visual quality of some existing tracks (e.g. e-track-3, eventually wheel-1, e-track-2).
• Texture clamp to edge needs explicit setting in nvidia driver tab in windows, have a look into that (otherwise the border is not taken as color around the pit door, pits are quite dark around the logo).
• fix tools (accc, trackgen, etc, these are way too touchy).
• make trackgen generate two sides for barriers and use just one sided polygons (better diffuse lighting).
• fix sound in split screen multiplayer. [in progress] (ask Christos).
• Ongoing: Replace some defines with "static const" to be able to see the symbol name when debugging.
• move berniw/bt spline code into math to share it.
• hunt down all glGet* crap during the simulation.
• (Problem when driver list changes during championship.)
• (add proper init/shutdown to every module which is not bound to anything else but the loading/init/shutdown/unloading process.)
• (make use of pbuffers to render trackmap if available.)
• Update FAQ "mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1800 *.jpg -mf on:type=jpeg:fps=25" the backslash got swallowed by the CMS.

TODO for 1.9.x (pre 2.0 series, no release)

• Design networking, how to embed it into TORCS?
• Networking prototype.
• Gaming modes suitable for online races.
• Cockpit inside view.
• Set up infrastructure for reading binary data files bit with and endianness independent.

TODO for 2.0.0

• Goal: best online racing game in terms of stability/playability. Most commercial games really suck in this department, I hope we will do it better.
• Initial Networking.

TODO LATER

• Add validation for the case no driver selected, do not exit to console.
• Fix more memory leaks (already hunt down a LOT there are still more).
• Networking (2.0).
• Rework the whole AC file loaders and state management (most of the remaining memory leaks).
• Replace vector/matrix oprations with an efficient implementation (-> use SIMD, e.g. enhanced version of v2/v3d.h with SIMD alternatives if compilers are not more clever at this time (currently they suck on useful vectorizing)).
• SMP simulaton core (for myself).
• Replays.
• Setup editor (add a function to the robot interface to ask the robot about the location or a file handle for its setup file, perhaps a close function is needed as well).
• Telemetry recorder/viewer.
• Redesign/Reimplement multitexturing and fileformat.
• Apply light maps to skid marks, smoke and wheels, etc.
• Phong specular highlights (optional env, cube or GLSL).
• Shadowmapped/Stenciled dynamic car shadows.
• Compile/crosscompile on MinGW/Cygwin/Linux for Windows native.
• so/dll with libtool, common code?
• 3d-grass.
• Dynamic sky.
• Pace car and trucks to remove wrecks (remove "virtual" crane).
• More Rules.
• TRB integration.
• Fix/create new simu/switch to updated/new simu.
• (clean up simuv3 conflicts)
• Show just fitting resolutions for fullscreen/change for windowed mode.
• Make it possible for a robot module to carry any arbitrary number of drivers (instead of static 10).
• Solve problem of wheels cutting the car body (stencil?).
• Nicer Tires, a bit more round, better lighting.
• Separate components more clean (e.g. ssgInit should go back to ssggraph, etc.)
• persistent skidmarks (simply put them back into the shadowmap after the race? Extra texture? Just restore them?), restore function.
• Make Windows debug build work.
• Fix windows project such that it compiles in all locations (currently it fails if special characters are in the path).
• Avoid cameras cutting the landscape.
• Rework models (holes, just single sided polygons for culling, etc.)
• Check (and fix if neccessary) screenshots on Windows, still wrong gamma?
• API to change setup during the practice mode.
• Timed races (e.g. 24h).
• Allow more mouse events /suggested by Frieder -> mouse wheel for gear switching).
• Start position marks on track (same technique like fake shadow, skids).
• Start procedures (pace car, etc).
• Better transparency for track objects.
• More driving aids, switch to AI and back.
• localization (e.g English, French, German, ...).
• add compatibility lib for strndup etc. on win32.
• New GUI.
• driving/races in reverse track direction.
• Check for consistency of simuv2/simuv3.
• verify that simulation obeys conservation of momentum and energy.
• optimise simuv3.
• Fix engine inertia/s of F1 cars, check/fix all other cars as well.
• Opponent sets for human players (e.g 20 Open Wheel cars, etc.)
• Free camera controlled with mouse and keys.
• Automate GL features verification (hopefully obsolete).

IDEAS FOR MUCH LATER

• Weather.
• Dynamic day/night-time, car lights with projective texturing.
• Pit crew.
• Dynamic "intelligent" Objects (e.g. Helicopter)
• Solid/dynamic obstacles.
• Nicer trees etc, terrain LOD.
• Inside view.
• Animated driver.
• Dirt on cars, inside view.
• free terrain.
• Open track dynamically generated when driving.
• Random track generator.
• Separate pit path, Y segments, etc?
• TORCS as benchmark or screensaver?
• Switch to rigid body engine?
• Force feedback.
• (Compressed data files?)
• Story mode with message.
• Traffic simulator