New Location for the game.

Today I've tested the newly modeled location first time and faced some problems:

1. The road texture (with yellow lines) that looked nicely within Unity3d now looks like crap. You could see it on the screenshot. The native asphalt texture looks much prettier specially with red/white borders. Time to think about how to go back to old texture.
2. The flying cars... Xzena physix used some tricks to make car run very fast. These tricks are just forces applied to the car when the player gonna accelerate it or turn left or rigts. Xzena racing track was flat and I hadn't such problems as I have now with the bridge.
   Time to quit using tricky forces and get back to realistic (more or less) mechanism of car movement.

Motorcycle simulation preview

The link to this video was taken from blenderartists forum. That's not my work, but I consider it as serious and impressive. May be someday I will have motorcycles in the game too...

U13.10 vs W7 Performance.

XZENA on Windows7

The thing surprised me a lot is PERFORMANCE!
My notebook is not so powerful & new - Intel Core i3 + GeForce 310M + 3GB RAM (but it has been serving me for more then 3 years and now is not the time to replace it). May be it's rather good because I have natural limitation which won't allow me to make the game too stupid on slower machines :) And it was used for primary testing.

Xzena on Windows7

BGE is slow on Windows as expected. I'd seen it a lot of times and I don't know if I should add something. Xzena is compact (may be not perfectly optimized) but it hasn't a lot of objects or complex objects. In spite of that my notebook speed with this game is not satisfying.

Xzena on Ubuntu 13.10

BGE is fast on Ubuntu... and that fact was surprising for me. Seems like NVIDIA drivers for Linux support OpenGL better than Windows ones! Great performance, great speed, great smoothness (and also I've got better picture as it was seemed).

That impressed me & also that motivated me more to continue the work.

But before first tests I've got some shaman dancing with Ubuntu tuning for my notebook. I mean NVIDIA drivers, Blender 2.49 installation and Python 2.6 installation. Next post will be technical.