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Vamos is an automotive simulation framework with an emphasis on thorough physical modeling and good C++ design. Vamos includes a real-time, first-person, 3D driving application. Vamos 0.6.0 [2007-06-10]Support for pit lanes is now provided. Collisions with the ends of the pit wall are detected. Bugs in the general handling of collisions have been fixed. Another bug that caused the wheels to stop spinning when they leave the ground was also fixed. One symptom of this problem was loss of control when hitting the kerbs in the F1 car. I consider the pit lanes to be done now. That's the reason for bumping the middle number. The asymptotic march to 1.0 continues!Vamos 0.5.6 [2007-05-04]Version 0.5.6 has a few bug fixes and some progress on pit lanes. Silverstone, Imola, Albert Park, Interlagos, Laguna Seca, Bahrain, and Spa tracks have been updated. This release is a checkpoint before I start doing some maintenance of the design. Facelift [2007-04-30]I've given the website a new look. It's not great but the fuzzy pastel look of the old site was really starting to bug me. I've also changed some other things that bugged me. I switched the tests from CppUnit to Boost.test. I've found the Boost test framework much more pleasant. I also moved the header files from their own tree to the same directories as the source files. The result of getting rid of these 'buggers' is that I actually feel like working on Vamos again. I've got a few more in mind that I'd like to take care of. See the Detour section of the timeline for details.Picture Perfect [2005-10-29]You can now specify a background image when using the map view. One trick you can do with this is to grab a satellite image of a track and edit the track definition file to make it match. It's helpful to make the track width very small and try to get the Vamos track to run down the center of the track in the image. So far I've adjusted Suzuka and Magny-Cours using Google Local's images. Unfortunately, Google's terms of service don't permit me to distribute the images. Old News |