% (for someone clever)

in the exe theres lots of variables like %i, %d, %s.
where are these defined?
the bg music files for instance uses %i. can i set %i to any number so there would be more or less bg music files?
well, i could do less, but not more.

i changed one so it only uses lod_0.
and tried cockpit_%s but ctd.

ta.



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Tony

Those generic variables are calling a type of variable defined elsewhere.
the char used after the % declare variable type used, d is for integer, some are for strings (s ?) or float values.

They are often used with labels using a same format as file names, you will see that cars textures names are defined in the exe with such %, one for the team name, one for the driver and one for the lod i think.

yeah the car is car_%s_car%d_lod_%d
and cockpit_%2d.
i changed the %2d to %s hoping it would find cockpit_ferrari etc but it didn't.
changing lod_%d to lod_0 you can selete all the lower lods.

but where are these variables set?

for the sound it has
..\tk1.st1
..\tk%i.st1
..\tk%i.st1

where does it define i?

i know i'm probably out of my depth, but some things i've changed work, and some dont.

%s for instance.
just above the lod_ settings it has the teams listed. and changing those will mean you can change the carshape filenames.
but somewhere it must say %s=array(team names) or something??

and i imagine deleting prost form that list won't give 20 cars
actually i tried it. it puts a jag there, as jag is some kind of default.



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Tony

It was used for string formatting. On C/C++ this is commonly used with printf() or scanf() functions. %d is for signed integer, %u is for unsigned integer, %s id for string, %f is for floating-point, etc.

If you change, e.g. %d to %s then output might be unknown depending on value parameters passed to format the string. Look at this instruction:

int intvalue = 1;
char strvalue[] = 'one';
printf('number %d is equivalent with \"%s\" text', &intvalue, &strvalue);

The output will be:
number 1 is equivalent with "one" text

If you swap the formatting string, like this:
printf('number %s is equivalent with \"%d\" symbol', intvalue, strvalue);

The result will be incorrect, and output will be like this:
number %s is equivalent with "1" text

So be careful when changing formatting string from binary codes. The results may unpredictable, unless you also change the order of value parameters passed to string formatting function.

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

i was just about to say that

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That made so much sense to me :|




Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

Oh, I just forgot to say, we cannot just put additional %s then we get additional "feature" to get team list number, as suggested by b-tone.

In simple way, string formatting is help programmers to define compact template string rather than define many string which look nearly equal. e.g. define like this:

char stringformat[] = 'this is number %i';
for (loop = 0; loop < 5; loop++) printf(&stringformat, &loop);

is much simpler and save bytes space, rather than:

char string0[] = 'this is number 0';
char string1[] = 'this is number 1';
char string2[] = 'this is number 2';
char string3[] = 'this is number 3';
char string4[] = 'this is number 4';

cout(string0);
cout(string1);
cout(string2);
cout(string3);
cout(string4);

I hope b-tone understand what I mean.

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

*cough* newbie programmer ways *cough*


ahh, the good ole days of ilke 100 strings holding near the same info

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100 strings?

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

hmm, i think when most delphi progammers start, they make a blank form and use EditBox.Text instead of define a string

i remember in Carset Creator beta 1 (my very first ever program!!! ) doing excatly that hehe

that was only in like july 2001/2 i think not sure what year, might be 2001 or 2002

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yeah, i understand.

fully.





*goes to concentrate on other things*



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Tony

Oooooooh...
What a brilliant idea.

@b-tone:
really?

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

i understand enough to know i dont understand

but i sill want to know :

but where are these variables set?

for the sound it has
..\tk1.st1
..\tk%i.st1
..\tk%i.st1

where does it define i?


there must be &i=3 somewhere right?



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Tony

yes that will be the loop

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The instruction may look like this:

int iSoundIndex;
for (iSoundIndex=0; iSoundIndex < MAX_SOUND_INDEX; iSoundIndex++)
{
szSoundTrackFile = printf('..\tk&i.st1', &iSoundIndex);
hFile = fOpen(szSoundTrackFile);
if (hFile)
{
...
fClose(hFile);
}
}

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

may or does? jk

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What?

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

lol



i just had an idea


would it be possible to overwrite gp4's default sky message system and replace it with d3d?

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Could be, as long as we can get variables to iDirect3d and iDirect3dDevice. Also we had found a location of beginRender() and endRender() block.

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

thats good then so its possible?

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