Newton Car Demo 2 - Readme.html

License

This demo is provided as-is and the author can't be held responsible for any damage that arises from using this demo, neither to hardware nor to software or even the user.
By using this demo and/or reading this file, you accept the license below.
1.) You must not reverse engineer this piece of software.
2.) You must not extract the included resources (textures, models, etc.) and use them in any way (neither private nor commercial)
3.) You may not redistribute this software unless you got authorization by the author of it. If that's the case you must make clear who made this software and you must not charge any money for it. You also need to distribute the package with all the files (including this) it originally came with.

Hardware requirements

The demo should run on a CPU with 1 Ghz and a GF2-class graphicscard, as long as you have working OpenGL-drivers installed (those coming with WindowsXP are stripped of OpenGL-Support). If you want to see it in all it's glory (with dynamic shadows turned on), then you should have at least 2.5 Ghz and a modern (Radeon 9700 or better) graphics card. If the demo runs too slow (below 30 fps), please turn of shadows and switch to a lower screen resolution. Tested on :
Athlon XP 2600+ / Radeon 9700 - Playable at 1024x768 with shadows on
Athlon 1,3GHz / GeForce 4 Ti4400 - Playable at 1027x768 without shadows

Controls

Cursor keys	Move car
F	Flip car
R	Reset car to next spawn position
A	Switch between autogearing (default and manual gearing)
Numpad 1	Switch to next gear
Numpad 0	Switch to previous gear. If you're in first gear, this switches to the reverse gear
Right shift	Hold down when accelerating to apply a huge torqueboost to the car
S	Switch realtime shadow volumes on and off (note : those drag your framerate down a lot!)
P	Pause/Unpause physics simulation
F1	Camera fixed above the car (mousewheel to zoom)
F2	Camera following the car from behind (use mouse to rotate and mousewheel to zoom). Press again when in this camera mode to reset the camera.
F3	Cockpit camera
F4	Set car's drive type to front wheels
F5	Set car's drive type to back wheels
F6	Set car's drive type to 4WD
F9	Reset all dynamic objects (may take some seconds to stablize them)
Escape	Quit demo

Credits

Julio Jerez for Newton Game Dynamics (www.newtondynamics.com)
Noeska for his Delphi 3DS-Loader (www.noeska.com)
S.Spasov for the Headerport of Newton to Delphi (new vehicle functions were added by me) (http://www.geocities.com/delphinewton/)
Boris Raguza for letting me use his tire texture (big tires on the stacks) (http://www.fysoftware.com)