I have my old ATBUS with the glorious 6.2L V6. I should race that, its got room for 35 people I think.
Would it be possible to have a european server be part of the race as well, so that we limit the amount of lag we experience on american servers?
Also, I assume that thruster engines are banned?
Also: This is a bus. [img]http://cars-database.com/data_images/models/uaz-2206/uaz-2206-07.jpg[/img]
I'll look into working with an EU server, but for now expect it to all be done on The Pit. Sorry :/
Yes, thruster engines aren't permitted as they're difficult to regulate.
While that may technically be a bus, it's not immediately recognizable as one. This competition isn't about originality or creativity; it's about building a bus. The more bus-like the bus is, the better.
It's a russian minibus, takes 11 passangers.
I would like to join, but as no matter how much I fiddle with ACF, I can't get a decently running car/truck/bus that goes smoothly at all. If I get a decent performance from acf power I will join.
Pfft all of you building minibuses. Currently in the works I have a massive prison bus with 52 passenger seats that weighs 13 tons... Performance suffers because it uses the 4.5 diesel v8 :(
Oh god I finally registered here (for some reason all Russians mails are banned). I really interested in dat race, so please count me in too. My bus is almost done also.
BTW
Do you know the latest map in HL Episode 2? I wish we will race there, and it will be almost same as Top Gear bus rally! THINK ABOUT THIS MAP TOO PLEASE!
yerp, I am singing up aswell.
I'm working in my bus too.
Both :p
[QUOTE=MrWhite;39291234]I've yet to finalize any sort of course, but I was thinking a course along BigCity or something similar.
As for what defines a bus, I'm leaving it pretty open to interpretation. I know some people struggle without exacting requirements, but if someone can look at it and think "that's a bus", it's surely a bus. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus"]Wikipedia's article[/URL] is pretty explanatory on the subject.
If you want to push the boundaries on what is and isn't a bus, feel free to. Just remember that crossing the finish line the fastest is only one of the three qualifications, and as such it might be a better idea to go a more traditional route. Since I'm leaning more towards community voting for the visual portion of the judging, it might be good to make a bus that can be instantly recognizable as such in order to score higher.
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So are you entering for him or are you both entering? Seems we have enough interest to get this started, so just let me know.[/QUOTE]
I updated the OP with information regarding the course and race times.
Count me in!
I am too silly to take screenshots of my progress.
Can we use our own engines (non ACF)? Cause I might join for the sake of it, but I have never used ACF.
Oh, that date you posted ,MrWhite, I think I will not at computer... So if you will leave this date - I'm out. Can we race on February 1st?
P.S. Make a vid! :D
Depending on my availability, we may be able to start the trials on the 1st.
[QUOTE=MrWhite;39331538]Depending on my availability, we may be able to start the trials on the 1st.[/QUOTE]
That's just great news! Well i requested on steam friendship, it needs accept.
Count Me In Travis_Owen on steam
I would try, but I JUST downloaded ACF. I think I'll stick to single player with that for awhile. I'll be around to watch the race for sure, though! What a great idea. I hope you have more events like this.
Well folks, since it's one week until the race, I'd just like to announce that I'm currently accepting timeslots for participants. Let me know either on Steam or in here when you'd like to race during either the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd of February, and we'll go from there.
It's also my pleasure to announce that The Pit has expanded to Germany, so all of you people in Europe will be able to participate without disadvantage. Bettler and I have been hard at work shifting things around to get the two servers working together, so hopefully it'll all be solid and reliable. Only issue right now is that ACF isn't compatible with Linux, so the EU server doesn't have it right now. I'm working to fix it, but it takes a bit of time to go through all the code and rename things the way I have to.
Anyways, the current IPs of the servers we'll be holding the trials in:
The Pit: 108.174.61.27:27015
The Pit Europe: 46.165.232.212:27030
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also, if there's anyone out there that knows of a fix for ACFs Linux compatibility issues, please let me know. I've been talking to the folks behind the EU server, but I'm sure they have more important matters to deal with that this.
I thought I'd drop this in here.
If you can't get into The Pit because it's full or something. Or you are having trouble testing your bus due to lag. I'd like to recommend the server I play on.
ingeniousgaming.org
The dedicated server itself is located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada though, so some of your pings may not be that great. However, it so far has 0% downtime, and I've found it to be extremely reliable (Adv Dupe 1 files from the first time I joined the group a few years ago are still there despite changing owners, servers, and some strife). It's not quite as well equipped as The Pit (They are missing the acf weight tool and visual clip) but it has more than enough to test functionality of your buses. And if I can find the link for visual clip I'll suggest it to the owner.
(Btw, the server is running Linux and ACF. You'd have to talk to the owner, but I think he use some Linux cmd prompt functions to trawl all the ACF files and uniformly make them lowercase)
i'm not drunk (read as drunk). i'll buy the winner anything for 50 bucks on steam.
[QUOTE=Beanz;39381139]i'm not drunk (read as drunk). i'll buy the winner anything for 50 bucks on steam.[/QUOTE]
While that's great and all, I can't officially support that. You're free to do it on your won time, but it's not part of this competition.
Feck off you dozens of dicks.
[QUOTE=MrWhite;39378146]if there's anyone out there that knows of a fix for ACFs Linux compatibility issues, please let me know. I've been talking to the folks behind the EU server, but I'm sure they have more important matters to deal with that this.[/QUOTE]
If you have shell access, run this in your (exported) acf addon folder
[code]find . -depth -exec rename 's/(.*)\/([^\/]*)/$1\/\L$2/' {} \;[/code]
it works fine when you lowercase all the files and folders
edit: also i may or may not enter this i'm not sure yet
Problem with that code is you can't use it in svn version. If you change directly svn folder like that it wont update any more. You need to make two folders - for windows version (outside addons) and linux version (inside addons). Also you need to convert "models/Vehicle" to "models/vehicle" which can be done with that script.
My way is to download for windows program to change case in filenames and folders (I know one, when I find that name I'll put it here) and then update stuff on windows, copy only lua folder (for most time it's only thing that is being updated), lowercase it and then upload that on server.
Of course there is one more, much better way. Creators of ACF really should make everything lowercase directly in repository.
don't think I'm gonna make this, I lost all motivation after I realized how out of scale that... thing... I built was..
Hmmmm... Bus race... I guess so, what the hell I'm in. I love ACF in any form,
[QUOTE=Frankess;39387244]Problem with that code is you can't use it in svn version. If you change directly svn folder like that it wont update any more. You need to make two folders - for windows version (outside addons) and linux version (inside addons). Also you need to convert "models/Vehicle" to "models/vehicle" which can be done with that script.
My way is to download for windows program to change case in filenames and folders (I know one, when I find that name I'll put it here) and then update stuff on windows, copy only lua folder (for most time it's only thing that is being updated), lowercase it and then upload that on server.
Of course there is one more, much better way. Creators of ACF really should make everything lowercase directly in repository.[/QUOTE]
I have a script that svn updates outside of the addons folder, exports it into the addons folder, then lowercases everything using that line I posted. Not like there have been any commits in like two months anyway...
Count me in. Banana on steam
:downs:
Requesting slot to run my ragebus.
Where is the US server hosted? After seeing that this server does events like this, and the quality of the builds its members do, I'd love to log some hours on it, provided the shoddy university Internet will agree with me. >. <
[QUOTE=HifionWifi;39413421]Where is the US server hosted? After seeing that this server does events like this, and the quality of the builds its members do, I'd love to log some hours on it, provided the shoddy university Internet will agree with me. >. <[/QUOTE]
The US server is hosted in New York. We've recently been having quite a few problems with general server instability stemming from either ACF or ULX, so don't be surprised if you can't get on.
Speaking of which, in the event that we can't get the server working well enough to host this event, we'll be forced to reschedule to next weekend. Hopefully we won't have to do that.
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