Version 0.5 BETA Release

[cpicon92]

Developers:
Woody convinced me to make a windows build of the current SVN version for testers. The rest is up to you, make packages for other OSes, test them, upload them. When bugs are fixed I will probably be able to get access to a machine long enough to make a final build with an installer. Anybody who needs something posted on SourceForge can PM or email me.

Users/Testers:
Try to report as many bugs as you can on launchpad.
Click here to report a bug.

Downloads
The windows beta is here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/extrem ... .5beta.exe

Source tarball for linux: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/extrem ... eta.tar.gz

Unofficial packages for Ubuntu: https://www.launchpad.net/~woody/+archive/ppa

openSUSE 11.1 - 1 Click Install: http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/home:c ... xracer.ymp

Untested, experimental RPMS: http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... :/woodypl/

Have fun, try to fix all the bugs.

[DPJ93]

I just downloaded it.. I'll try it out tomorrow, and report any bugs occuring. (I've only played version 0.4)

[King-Iron]

This run perfectly in Vista.
Congratulations, the beta is a really good job, Wait for it was worth.

[int19h]

Extremetuxracer 0.5 beta is now available in the AUR repositories of ArchLinux. Download the PKGBUILD from here or install with yaourt:

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yaourt -S extremetuxracer-beta

[cousteau]

Music loops:
It looks like this version has replaced the old .it files with more compatible .ogg ones. The problem with this is that you can't make loops like on .it files (e.g. 1-2-3-2-3-2-3-...). This makes the music cut when the track loops (e.g. start1-jt.ogg, race1-jt.ogg).
Possible solutions are:
1) The soundtrack fades out before ending, so the sound doesn't cut when the track restarts.
2) The soundtrack ends in such a way that it matches the beginning of the soundtrack.
3) All soundtracks include a heading, a loop body and optionally an ending.

Intro music:
The intro music would sound nice if some wind sound effects were added to it (and maybe those background chords could be removed).

PS: looks like we have a new spammer here...

[cpicon92]

Are you interested in doing that, or should I?

[cousteau]

I don't know much about music edition, but I can try to...
I edited the starting music using Audacity and a free "hurricane" sample from www.partnersinrhyme.com. The end is clipped to fit option 2). I think the result came out nice.
You can also download the whole audacity project (.ogg file included) if you want to modify some parameters (wind envelope, change bitrate, etc).

PS: What audio programs and formats are you using for creating the music?

[cpicon92]

Very well done, I like it, i'll make sure this is in the final release. The music was originally made by Joseph Toscano using Impulse Tracker (or any number of similar programs). The oggs were produced by using VLC media player to transcode the IT mods.

[int19h]

0.5 beta does not compile on Arch Linux anymore (GCC 4.4).

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DPP_DATADIR=\"/usr/share/etracer\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DTUXRACER_NO_ASSERT=1 -DHAVE_SDL_MIXER=1 -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse4.1 -m64 -I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -MT ssbutton.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ssbutton.Tpo -c -o ssbutton.o `test -f 'ppgltk/ssbutton.cpp' || echo './'`ppgltk/ssbutton.cpp
In file included from ./textures.h:25,
from ppgltk/ssbutton.cpp:24:
./etracer.h:114:20: error: iostream: No such file or directory
In file included from ppgltk/ssbutton.cpp:28:
ppgltk/ui_mgr.h:30:16: error: list: No such file or directory
In file included from ppgltk/ssbutton.cpp:28:
ppgltk/ui_mgr.h:38: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'list' with no type
ppgltk/ui_mgr.h:38: error: invalid use of '::'
ppgltk/ui_mgr.h:38: error: expected ';' before '<' token
ppgltk/ssbutton.cpp: In member function 'virtual void pp::SSButton::draw()':
ppgltk/ssbutton.cpp:97: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'

[ced117]

Maybe you dont have the Boost library installed ?

[cousteau]

These are the packages I needed to compile ETR:

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build-essential libsdl1.2-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev

I think I'm not leaving any other packages (although maybe I had them already installed).

PS: I couldn't compile the po/ folder, so I had to comment it on the Makefile (ca. line 213):

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##SUBDIRS = po src data ## before
SUBDIRS = src data      ## after

[int19h]

The boost library is installed. The problem is the transition from GCC 4.3 to GCC 4.4.
In particular, this line:
ppgltk/ui_mgr.h:36: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘list’ with no type

[ced117]

The boost library is installed. The problem is the transition from GCC 4.3 to GCC 4.4.
In particular, this line:
ppgltk/ui_mgr.h:36: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘list’ with no type

So you are trying to compile ETRacer with GCC 4.4 ?

[int19h]

Yes, GCC 4.4 is the default compiler of my distro. I understand that it's still quite new, but I assume that ETR will need to support it sooner or later?

[ced117]

Yes, GCC 4.4 is the default compiler of my distro. I understand that it's still quite new, but I assume that ETR will need to support it sooner or later?

yep, i will see if i can get it to compile on my distro with GCC 4.4...