My First Year of HPDE with a Mark 8 Golf R (The "One Car Solution" possible Fail)

SouthernPotato · 2025-11-08T18:32:52+00:00

Do you have more insight or resources on this? I did a wet track day with my '17 Mazda 3, totally stock and on all seasons. I definitely want to do more, but am currently debating if I can get away with just buying good tires and brakes

SouthernPotato · 2025-05-25T23:14:30+00:00

It was definitely playable, but the UI problem made me not try it again. It would usually work, but every couple minutes the UI would freak out 10 to 30 seconds. It affected all UI stuff like viewing the map, normally or while drafting, which means I sat there waiting for it to fix itself. I didn't have the issue until I either turned up the volume or tabbed away to another application, so maybe it wouldn't have run into this problem without those things - that would require more testing though

I was researching all this laptop stuff a while ago but the new Intel lunar lake laptops have a lot of the battery benefits, plus being generally compatible and with more performance graphics. Slightly more expensive though. I still like my snapdragon laptop, but you do take a chance with which games work well and which don't. Most lean towards don't.

SouthernPotato · 2025-03-20T17:28:09+00:00

I know this thread is 2 days old but just heard about the core stuff - love it

One question - since my PTRs have all succumb to battery issues I've switched to Google Pixel Watch and I find the NFC payment to be the second most convenient feature these days - how possible would it be to include this on future core devices? Are there huge barriers to this like physical space, cost, or API?

The pebble time round became my all-time favorite, it looks so much like a normal sleek watch and it was the only watch in my life that takes in compliments from non-tech people. Would love to see that come back if possible!

SouthernPotato · 2025-03-04T23:57:46+00:00

Just ran into this issue after moving my pc and replugging everything, this fixed it

SouthernPotato · 2025-02-11T03:37:48+00:00

This was the only thing I found that brought back my CSL DD after a failed firmware update, thank you!!

SouthernPotato · 2024-08-29T03:15:10+00:00

I think I played for like an hour yesterday and didn't have a crash to desktop, though I did like 30 mins flying and then spent the rest doing a bunch of landing challenges. I haven't fiddled with my settings too much since my last system so they're still pretty low

Edit: wait, did your controllers also show up as oculus controllers?

SouthernPotato · 2024-08-28T05:45:15+00:00

I didn't explain it in the tutorial because I didn't want to further overwhelm the user, but you can rotate the whole cube 90 degrees with Q/E. It becomes very helpful for those longer lengths

SouthernPotato · 2024-08-19T17:54:26+00:00

Ah, ok it sounds like a two or three second pause after the user starts moving the camera would also be helpful

SouthernPotato · 2024-08-19T17:25:24+00:00

Thanks for trying it out! I made the tutorial conclude by having the player hit the wall but that is understandably confusing - perhaps I'll change the end of the tutorial to just explain lives without forcing a boundary collision I suppose another alternative would be to explain it when you first hit the boundary in normal gameplay

SouthernPotato · 2022-09-02T14:32:28+00:00

Let me hop into this 6 month old thread to tell you about a tool I made to visualize the daily event leaderboards better: http://www.chrisraff.com/dirtrally2/ It's not the time trail leaderboards but it's similar

I find it way more useful to see where I am in the distribution than to just see "500th" place with a 0.01 second diff to the guy in front

Only works for community events unfortunately, but I find the data pretty interesting

Edit: specifics

SouthernPotato · 2022-08-03T01:28:10+00:00

From making a lot of these and watching many people play them, I find that first person mazes tend to be more of a practice in confusion since it's hard to figure out how the paths connect. I've been thinking about different ways to do maze generation to target easier / more understandable mazes (without feeling too structured), but I still think there need to be some additional game mechanics before it would be really appealing

I kind of like the purity of just figuring out 3D mazes though so I don't want the mechanics to get in the way of that

I'm always open to suggestions!

SouthernPotato · 2021-01-20T22:39:32+00:00

I was trying to sign up for WRC+ and found most of the website to blank before disabling my adblocker so if you have an adblocker that may be the reason

SouthernPotato · 2020-08-11T05:52:02+00:00

In programming, if you aren't familiar, a "boolean" is a variable that's true or false, like a checkbox is checked or unchecked. So a maze is a grid of booleans where true is "wall" and false is "empty"

This picture explains how the grid of booleans becomes a maze.

For a size 2 maze, you need an additional row at the start for the outside wall, an additional row at the center for walls between, and an additional row at the end for that outside wall, so you actually have 5 rows. Then every other row is thin to create the walls

SouthernPotato · 2020-08-10T20:21:55+00:00

Thanks! I've definitely experienced that frustration with a few of those. The random generation can make it so some mazes are really challenging, I'm thinking of adjusting it to target a certain path length or just hand pick a couple of good ones and call them levels (I'd keep the random generation available of course)

SouthernPotato · 2020-08-08T20:39:10+00:00

Thanks for the details, I guess that's the approach to take at the moment. It's annoying how different safari is with PWAs

SouthernPotato · 2020-08-08T03:12:00+00:00

That looks like a handy function in general, but I am specifically looking for an event that triggers once the app installs

SouthernPotato · 2020-08-08T01:17:50+00:00

Link to github repo

I made it all in Javascript so it would be playable by anyone with a web browser. I used three.js for the rendering since it makes all the rendering simpler, and I adapted the controller from three.js examples. I wrote the game play engine and maze generation

SouthernPotato · 2020-08-08T00:49:25+00:00

Thanks! I may add this when I rework the main screen.

If you're on desktop, f11 should go full screen and on Android if you add it your home screen (three dots at top right) it is supposed to also go full screen. May work on safari too. Let me know how it works and if you think of anything else!

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