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What would you guys want in a Racing Cab FE?
twistedsymphony:
--- Quote from: hiljak on July 16, 2014, 03:24:10 pm ---The Daytona track selection style theme/setup would be awesome for my needs!!
@twistedsymphony - Did you convert a San Fran Rush cab? If so, are there photos? I have a Rush cab that I'm thinking of converting but I'm still kicking around the idea. From what I've found lurking around here, it seems like interfacing the existing FFB isn't practical so I was thinking of may trying to fit a G27 wheel into the cab. Any inspiration I can get from other projects would be golden tho.
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converting my San Fran Rush cabs is a ways off... there are a bunch of other project that I need to get done before that happens.
For me I want to be be able to use a legit arcade wheel and motor setup. I'm not happy with any of my machines unless they're indistinguishable from real arcade machines and every bit as strong and durable.
Howard_Casto:
So for those of you following along, I'm about done with my racing cab.
I'm thinking of whipping something up in terms of a front-end. It might not be as feature-rich as what we've been talking about, but it'll be a start anyway. I might take my un-released pac-fe (man I need to release some of this stuff) and modify it to save time.
Howard_Casto:
I don't think I've ever posted any vid of Pac-FE, so here you go:
I'm not exactly sure why youtube made the vid so low-res, maybe the vertical orientation confused it... I dunno.
Anyway, the point of posting it was, as you can see, what it has in terms of layout is very similar to what we need, so I'm just going to modify it. The first mod you can see in the vid. I've added list scrolling animation, which would work well for a wheel. This is just a raw speed test... I wanted to make sure it could handle loading a bunch of textures on the fly. It seems to do ok.
Btw for the video previews, I've always used png sets instead of videos. They are crisper (which you can't see due to the poor quality of the video... grr) and they tend to render faster. So I would like to keep it that way. We may need to find a video-2-png converter.
I can add video support of course, but it's a pain in the butt to pull frames from a video and put them in a direct-X app unless they are avi files, which as you know are huge. I'll have to think on that one a bit.
Howard_Casto:
So I worked on this a little more and added scrolling proper.
I actually blatantly copied SegaOutrun's snapshot as a basis for the skin. I really just needed something "racery" in terms of layout to start with.
I still need to do a couple of things to make scrolling smoother, but other than that it works just fine. I'll release some sort of demo soon.
Howard_Casto:
Ok so while quite rough, it's in a useable state. I can to add a bunch more stuff including a legitimate skin and those "please do ___ to continue" loading screens we mentioned, but most of the other stuff was already in Pac-FE.
I'm dubbing this FE Checkered Flag...because.....racing
Here's an extremely short demo video:
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