vdrift VS vdrift

Vdrift: Another veteran game, based on the Vamos physics engine. With almost 15 years behind it, the game allows players to drive lots of cars through detailed scenarios based on real circuits. The physics of the game are quite realistic as it corresponds to a simulator, and of course we will be able to use it with multiple devices such as keyboards, controllers and steering wheels, including the experimental support of Force Feedback. The project that looks in certain aspects like a commercial game, is stopped, with small corrections in the code as we can see in the page of the project. As we have heard from its main creator, Joe Venzon, it would be ideal if someone resume the project or make a fork to create something completely new. Hopefully this will happen and that this remarkable project will continue and not be forgotten. More info in the VDrift website and in his project page.

-Vdrift: https://github.com/VDrift/vdrift/

Good and amazing post. Thanks for talk about my outdated post. Really new-lg4ff and the work on Proton and Wine changes a lot of things on the simracing on Linux. I would like to point some things on your words: -About Vdrift and Speed Dreams: the first project is almost abandoned, and only there are some minor corrections on main code. There are no new features. About the game resources (cars and tracks), in the last months an user create two new tracks for the game, Algarve and Baku.

There is also a noteworthy fork[0] which allows you to design, tune, debug and test your own racing car autopilot using an embedded scripting language[1].

[0]: https://github.com/vtereshkov/vdrift

I have been developing the statically typed scripting language Umka for more than a year. Now it is stable enough to serve as the basis for various projects: a 2D game engine, a VDrift-based framework for exercising with the car autopilot logic, and a proprietary tractor dynamics simulator.

When you engage the autopilot by pressing F10, the autopilot algorithms contained in control.um and track.um are invoked. The default scripts implement a vanilla PD (proportional/differential) controller, which is not quite satisfactory at high speeds or sharp turns but can serve as a starting point for your experiments. The Umka interpreter supports "warm reload" by recompiling the scripts every time you engage the autopilot.

A new version of the VDrift racing simulator that supports embedded scripting in Umka has been released. It lets you design, tune, debug and test your own racing car autopilot without building the whole simulator from source.