RANDOM TRACK GENERATOR FOR NFS1 (The Need For Speed 1)

 

INTRODUCTION

RandTrack is a program which generates random race tracks for the game 'The Need For Speed 1' (NFS1). It supports both the original game and the Special Edition (NFS1 SE), but only the special edition has been well tested.

This is the second public release of this program, and it is a long way from being finished. While it can generate all the tracks of the game, most of them are very minimal and have very little to see. Only the following three tracks are working well:

Development of the other tracks is planned for the future.

SCREENSHOT

GUI

DOWNLOADS

You can find the Windows 32-bit package (for XP, Vista, 7 or 8) and the source code tarball (for Linux) at the following link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/randtrack/files/0.62/

USAGE

First, unpack the zip somewhere (e.g. My Documents). Make sure it is extracted with folders, and that the RandTrack.EXE file has been extracted too (some versions of Windows will skip an EXE unless a setting in the Internet control panels is changed).

Run the program by double clicking the RandTrack icon (the EXE file). Select which game you want to build tracks for, then you will need to set the folder (on your hard drive) where the game has been installed. RandTrack will then make a backup of the original game tracks, and you can restore them at any later time.

Pressing the 'BUILD' button will generate a set of new tracks. The Seed value is important, using the same seed will produce the exact same tracks, so remember to press 'NEW' if you want to make a different set of tracks. (You don't need to press 'NEW' whenever you close and restart RandTrack).

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

The following license (the GNU GPL v3) covers the executable, the Lua scripts, and most of the source code:

RandTrack : track generator for NFS1

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Andrew Apted

RandTrack is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

RandTrack is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

RandTrack uses a modified version of the Lua 5.1.5 scripting language, which is Copyright 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio. This code is under a permissive "MIT" license.

The GUI toolkit used is the FLTK widget library, which is licensed under the GNU LGPL. For more information please visit their web-site: http://www.fltk.org/.

CONTACT DETAILS

AUTHOR: Andrew Apted

WEB: http://randtrack.sourceforge.net/

FORUM: http://oblige.sourceforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=348.0

EMAIL: <ajapted@users.sf.net>

© 2015 Andrew Apted