Author Archives: gplps

I have checked the latest installer 1.06 and have uploaded a newer version 1.07 as well as the MD5 check sum to make it easier to verify the integrity of the downloaded file. You find the link here: https://gplps.wordpress.com/gplps-gpl-installer/ 🙂

As well as to delete it 🙂 Now I need some time to think how to get all of this together. So maybe really a good time to do some other graphical stuff for personal joy? No idea 😉  

So a long time no news but I was finally able to draw some text with opengl. Not that this is mandatory for my project but the ability to understand how to work with textures. The main problem is that … Continue reading →

So while I had done some testing with the Microsoft painting and TRK I thought it would maybe be better to use something like D3D or OGL to display the TRK data. While in theory I can imagine a 3D … Continue reading →

So far extracting a TRL file is easy as well as reading the header. Works fine now. But now I must start to learn how to draw graphics with Windows. Drawing polygons as well as rotate them is ok. Still … Continue reading →

Thanks to the help from Phil Flacks GPL file formats documentation I could create a DAT parser which can show the DAT content and can extract it. Here’s a screenshot: Now I can get the TRK dat or should I … Continue reading →

OK, the easy part is done to get the laptimes from a GPL RPY file as you can see from the picture. Next part is to find a way to integrate the mod data into it and then comes the … Continue reading →

Yup, I started a new project. While the beginning was easy I’m stuck at a simple problem now with C#. I’m using binary reader to read a replay file from GPL. Fine 🙂 Now I get the drivername(s) by calling ReadChars(16). … Continue reading →

I worked on a different version which is indeed focused on speed. I believe that this version is better while not perfect. There’s 2 glitches. The listbox “blue” selection line and the non constant scrolling. I tried some things in … Continue reading →