2013-05-03 snapshot

[jlv]

Obfuscated files for people who don't want their stuff extracted.

[attacker5]

Obfuscated files for people who don't want their stuff extracted.

This is a hero of a man.

[barrington314]

Mesh collisions anytime soon? Would love to include an off road course with the Glen Helen GP release.

[KTM57]

We can make ridable objects right now, like the SX bridges, but I think the current collision system with spheres throws things off.

[barrington314]

We can make ridable objects right now, like the SX bridges, but I think the current collision system with spheres throws things off.

I wouldnt really call them rideable. But you are correct.
The most important thing right now is the attack proof files. Sorry.

Will terrain.png's be unextract-able with this new file system?

[Phathry25]

I would imagine if they're in an obfuscated file they'll just just as secure as any other PNG packed in an obfuscated file would be.

[barrington314]

Well what I mean is, as you know, all you have to do is open any track thats saf'd in editor and hit the save button and you now have the terrain png.

[Phathry25]

Did not think of that. Looks like you're screwed.

[jlv]

IMO, the obfuscated files are a stupid thing to do. You shouldn't use it and I hope most people don't bother with it. I'm just doing it because people are using saf as a way of securing their files when the format was specifically made to be simple to decode (hence Simple Archive Format).

As I think about it some more I should probably be making a watermark system instead. If you watermarked an image with a public key and only loaded the image if it were signed by the corresponding private key it might actually be secure. The only problem is making a watermark that can survive image modifications is extremely difficult. You could make something that would survive a crop/scale easily, but adding a wide spectrum of noise is going to be pretty effective in destroying the watermark.

[barrington314]

HEY! Dont you skip over that other part up there^!

[jlv]

Not sure if I'll do arbitrary meshes, but definitely some kind of triangle based collision. Was going to do it before the last SX season until I saw there were no bridges.

[Boblob801]

Not sure if I'll do arbitrary meshes, but definitely some kind of triangle based collision. Was going to do it before the last SX season until I saw there were no bridges.

Do it for the people man, people like Barrington, he needs you. Don't let up on the cols, there a must xD

[barrington314]

Would it ever be possible to have rectangle terrain pngs?

[jlv]

No. The way the terrain is subdivided you'd have to pad a square. I can make huge terrains work better by reworking how the texture cache maps to the terrain. It'll work way better than the extra little bit you'd get from a rectangular terrain.

[barrington314]

Thatd be cool. Haggqvist and I have something pretty big in the works.