MFR is now in alpha stage.

Jpez1432 · Post by **Jpez1432** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:45 pm

Check out the homepage of MFR, and drop a line if you would like to beta test, there are some screenshots there. I will be updating frequently as it progresses.

http://mfr.natas8.com/

-James

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:31 pm

Hey James, great (and surprising) to see this project still kicking along after all this time.

Teaser pics are certainly aptly named

Must have been a great technical challenge to read and support these archaic MTM file formats. If those screens are of actual physical gameplay and not contrived, this could be something really exciting and I guess you're better poised to succeed than I gave you credit for. Happy to be proved wrong on that count

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:38 pm

I'm not to sure what this is

Cale · Post by **Cale** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:08 am

Very cool! Glad to see this is still in progress. Great timing on the pics, the actual Monster Jam World Finals were last night!

Mat-Allum · Post by **Mat-Allum** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:44 am

MFR is (although Jpez can say it better than I can) a new monster truck sim backwards compatible with mtm/2. Sort of like Project Monster except (a) it's actually being worked on and (b) it's possible to make things for it.

Edit:

Notes -

1. Thanks! This thread brought a smile to my face.
2. AWESOME pics, particularly the teasers.

emyers · Post by **emyers** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:58 pm

James has added a lens/sun glare and now is working on getting the watter reflections working.

DaveTheSmasher · Post by **DaveTheSmasher** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:55 pm

Intresting. I'm glad to see a backwards compatible MTM2. I'm deffinetly up for beta testing when the time comes. DaveTheSmasher@gmail.com

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:08 pm

ok so i checked out that site, this looks pretty cool, got me excited now

ah the powers of C++ lol

MFR is a monster truck game that is being written in C++ and will be released as open source once it becomes stable

I wish I knew it better

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:08 pm

Back in the day I seem to remember this was being written in Visual Basic. Guess James saw the light lol.

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:40 pm

i dont c how u could write this in VB, be impossible no? you wouldnt have, well, almost any control over 3D elements would u?

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:33 pm

James used to be programming it in VB.

You can do anything in VB that u can do in CPP but it's just easier to do it in CPP.

I finally convinced him to use CPP. Smartest move he ever made - listening to me. LOL :-P