View Single Post
  #13   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 29-01-2009, 05:21
lachoneus8's Avatar
lachoneus8 lachoneus8 is offline
Registered User
AKA: Dave
no team (5th Gear - First Robotics Simulation)
Team Role: Programmer
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 49
lachoneus8 is an unknown quantity at this point
Re: 2009 5th Gear FRC Match Simulator

Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh Goodman View Post
I do like all of the above suggestions and would like to add a concern. For some reason Overdrive works fine, but Lunacy is very, very laggy for me with the lowest settings. I play some pretty graphics intensive games on my laptop. Anyone else having this issue?
My guess is that its not graphics... the main difference between Lunacy and Overdrive in the game engine are the number of physics objects in play (10 for a full overdrive game vs well over 100 in Lunacy).

If you have an NVidia card, you might want to update your drivers. We are using the NVidia PhysX engine, and some of their more recent cards have hardware to accelerate physics using this engine.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh Goodman View Post
Also (just a cool thing not a requirement, you guys have already done a lot), but a controls setting would be nice.
On the todo list!

Just a point for everyone: The FIRST website forums are the official forums, so any feature requests/bug reports are more likely to be heard and tracked there then here.

http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?f=1091

This is also linked in the original post of this thread.

By the way, David Dobbs, one of the developers, posted a nice picture by picture walkthrough in how to get started using 5th Gear.
__________________
5th Gear: Multiplayer 3d simulation of Overdrive

Here it is in action:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30906
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/33219
http://www.youtube.com/lachoneus21

Mentor for the Marsteller MS robotics club

Last edited by lachoneus8 : 29-01-2009 at 05:24.