I was hoping for single file, with double file the first lap is just crazy overtaking and crashes
Maybe it could help, I don't know what to do to not get involved in a crash in a first few laps.

If I'm fast I overtake and end-up in a crash.
When I leave space I'm getting overtaken and get crashed from behind.
So I hope I'll be able to just follow and pass around the crashed cars in first few laps.
Or any tips?

Quote from boothy :

Seemed worse than South City at some points, remember this place can be deceptive with the track width and fast corners. If you do spin, put your brakes on so you don't become a moving target.

Also, let's be a bit sensible with the chicane please, there were a lot of incidents there and also a lot of cutting in the gravel.

Did I start on right and ended up on left in double file? Gotta check but I just followed the car in front which took right so I took left.

First lap disaster. I don't know how is that possible, gonna have to check the replay what happened.

FZR left space inside, I took it than got closed maybe and contact and grass, got back, lot of cars around, lot of in front, next corner everybody trying to overtake each other, 2 cars spun I wanted to pass between didn't make it, got contact on rear wheel and spun, than disaster, cars all around, I didn't put the brake on I didn't even know where the hell am I, I was just hoping for race restart to be honest after that.
Repair after Lap 1, and was driving alone and alone, than some overtaking, some good some bad even from my side sorry, brakes locked when I braked later and couldn't turn in, sorry FZR, I hope that touch on oval wasn't revenge, I didn't mean to push you out but brakes betrayed me.

Had a fight with 03 and some FZR, was good

Boothy chicane, where was the pole? Once I even saw tires flying, I think the pole won't be there for a long time from the 6h race.

Last edited by JackCY, Fri, 4 Mar 2011 13:53.

Is there going to be test race today at 19.00 UTC?

Pole is fine just keep the layout the same, it would make mess with Q1 and everybody would start hitting tires instead of a stupid pole. If you don't like the pole imagine it's a tire or red-white road block, that will keep you away from the pole the rest of us see.

meh, so many files and code for reading tracker and showing it in window?
TCL/TK heared about it, never used it, what is it about
+ python
you really are into scripting I see

download: internal server error

What pole are you talking about? That one that's all the time flying over my roof and my doors are scratched from the tires in the chicane?
damn I should learn how to drive it more clearly then
edit: hopefully done

So hitting a pole is a no go in Q and punishable if repeated in race right?
What about driving on the pit straight, is it allowed to drive on the left side yellow crossed area near the wall? Or is it a safety area that should be kept clear.

Last edited by JackCY, Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:01.

thanks at least I know the correct names now

Hi, I'm looking forward to make this skin a BMW 320i art car - Roy Lichtenstein 1977 but I would like some advice on how to draw all those lines and circles in PS, I would like to draw it as vector graphics so it can be scaled if needed. Or some other graphic program if PS is not the right one.

Found some stretching template so I might now how to deform the circles for each part of car but don't know how to draw vectors.
Would be nice to have groups of the dots for each part of car, hope that's possible as layers are in bitmap graphics.

Also if it would be possible to generate the dots and use masks to show them only on the right places, please share how to do that.

I got tons of pictures from all angles except top and bottom, so if somebody has some really good ones please share too.

I know it's probably quite stupid question for people who use PS a lot than please redirect me to some tutorial, guide or something on the net.

Thanks

Warning - I guess they did something that is not good/clever to do but it wasn't that bad to give them penalty

For example driving like pig on track, for no obvious reason doing couple of S on straight just for fun, though I'm not sure about this one as now I remember it's normal in F1 to warm up tires like that on straights.

Basically something that is not punishable now but will be if done again.

I could think of cutting a corner too much ==> warning ==> still cutting too much ==> DT for example.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Thanks

But AFAIK Deep Drive Racing was supposed to be given 32 points for their 8th place at round 5, not 30.

There is more than that, everybody in the tracker under #00 Adenoids Racing has 1 position less points. And this also moves Smoking team up to 10th place, mpower down to 11th
There can't be 3 teams with the same points in one round obviously, only 2 due to pole-position.
The results points of teams which finished after #00 are moved by 1 position. Because #00 received points also.
Also as was noted Deep Drive should have 32pts.
Or am I wrong?

Thread name: 5 of 7

Little upgrade of my results.
Graph added, Lublin is wrong, I know, it doesn't substract just puts it under 0.

3rd to 11th place only 20pts difference

Last edited by JackCY, Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:04.

Finally a decent track

I don't know about SO I wasn't driving but on some tracks it's yellow all the time on the screen, there is so much cars and somebody cuts corner on grass and it shows yellow for a while, but honestly everybody ignores them you would just get crashed or overtaken if you slow down in the heat of race, on starts, restarts, etc.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Thanks
I'd just like to point out that The Xcite Inferno has been renamed to Team Inferno, but that's a detail

Renamed, why did you change your name anyway?

Quote from dekojester :

Deko's life schedule for work ... r the next 10 or so weeks
I'll find somewhere in there to do everything I need to do for everything.

So it's like wake up insanely soon, work?, school, sleep again, ...
My schedule:
wake up around 8am, master thesis, eat, master thesis, eat, master eat, eat thesis, eat master, ... fall asleep
+ some sports so I don't end up on the chair forever

Quote from hyntty :

In comparison my modest schedule looks quite nice

school school school 1st or 2nd year Bachelor?

Quote from CSF :

I find it amazing that certain people can't wait more than 3 days for things to get done.

No I certainly can but bavorak wanted to know he even figured out our position himself. But I sometimes need to switch to something else than just reading "scientific bullshit" and do some easy work

Yes the table have the looks like the official so it's easier to maintain, also the table is much bigger in excel but only those more important data are shown on the web.

Quote from CSF :

By releasing your own points that will look nothing like what the points will really look like as there is some penalties to hand out?

I didn't find any penalties? Is that even possible? No SC in the race I've heard is that correct?
The table is always there it just wasn't updated. In last round I had to go through the penalties and add them also to the table, but usually the penalties are starting grid position penalties for next round, anyway the results may be a little off for sure.

Last edited by JackCY, Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:17.

Quote from reason0809 :

yeah, need those results to finaly finish the review

Here you go
Unofficial Results

Then please search first if you're new, and post to correct part of forum, DDS and file formats are easy learn to use computer and PS first.
PS exports to DDS itself or use Nvidia tools, uncle google is your friend.

delete this Thread

Round 5 results? Or should I make my own again?

was looking at this too after race, it seems like a lag flip to me, cutting left edge, than boom flip for no obvious reason, like the car would be going more to the left and hit the tyres
should have wait to spectate, even though it's not advisable on public server, here it is a must, cars just don't disappear from track, if there is a huge crash after that, we get a red/black what ever flag, restart etc. that's just how it goes

Quote from Scawen :

Hello Programmers.

It's not possible to assign ctrl_f1 - ctrl_f12 to a keyboard key!
Impossible to use scripts with keys, only gamepad/wheel buttons work.

Please FIX.
/key D ctrl_f12

autoexec : line 6 - Unknown key function

Being able to remap keys to keys and key combinations, and mouse buttons to keys and key combinations would be awesome.
Coz mouse drivers can't adjust a thing in F11 and F12 menus without having the keyboard remaped.

Last edited by JackCY, Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:40.

I got that on mouse but luckily enough that mouse software crap stops working sometimes, happened right before last GTAL Round, no response what so ever when the race started...

/key D ctrl_f12
doesn't work :/ /button works, WHY?

I won't drive this round if possible.
It's ... hard with keyboard+mouse, I would be a road block there.
If you're able to keep the turbo spinning you'll fly on SO, FXR damn easy there, XRR to **** hard for me.

Quote from Deutschland2007 :

Finally a decent track again

If you like Monaco and walls.

Last edited by JackCY, Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:42.

Quote from boothy :

Well I would say next time you see a yellow flag as you come over a crest and then a car spun ahead, take avoiding action more quickly.

And with the 3 wide incident, you obviously didn't know APR were there, however, you either should've looked left or worked out that since they were no longer in your mirror that it had gone 3 wide - watch it from T1 and you can see you move across towards Cargame more than they move towards you...

As for fuel at pitstops - you can adjust the fuel whilst it's changing tyres

yep, will be more carefull.
damn I forgot about that one again, thx

Quote from reason0809 :

New Dimension Racing Events // GTAL 2011 (Season 2) - Round 4

Well said

Last edited by JackCY, Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:36.

I don't like AS in general, regardless of having a lot of work to do, I decided that I'm gonna make a set for AS6R as we had to start without Bavorak who's usually getting the setup somewhere and I'm just fine-tuning etc. if needed.

So I spent some real time in making the setup, maybe we took a little worse one than the previous version was for the race but still a good fast set.
Was hoping to enjoy the race and do some nice times with that super-grip setup

I have to apologize to M. Runas from Deadline Racing, yes I could have lift off and try to slow down, but I didn't expect that the FZ would have grip problems with it's wide tires so I was flat-out (keyboard gas/brake) and at the end of corner you slowed down so much that I hit you & it turned you around. Sorry.

Crash #1: Terzic I think was laggy, FZ was tailgating him, ready to overtake, Terzic lagged, FZ began to overtake, FZ was doing fine, BOOM, FZ was sideways as it would have hit Terzic, FZ doing spins on track, hitting left wall, coming back on track, spins, and slowly drives at the end to the left wall again. There comes my car over the horizon, I just see some car on the right in a spin or something, so I take left side of road ie stay in racing line, some cars pass IMHO, and now I have better view and I'm much much closer, FZ starts to go to left NOT braking which would be NICE if you crash BRAKE! so the car moves to my line, I hit full brakes and go more to the left almost on grass, no way I can go around, It does a full front collision, FZ flying out of bounds my car stopped on the spot! Other cars pass me on track in 230kph, little damage on front suspension, the rest was body damage, car probably wasn't touching ground in corners but wasn't as fast as it could be. (In real world = dead, 230kph->0kph).
Please if you do spin, crash, use FULL BRAKES

Then I try to recover to the track,when cars are passing me at top speed ~230kph. Recovered to the back of field.

Crash #2: 19 Cargame + 29 APR, 19 Cargame drafts me on s/f straight after I overtook it in the last corner, 29 APR drafts 19 Cargame, 19 is not that fast to safely overtake on straight, 19 fails to block 29, so we approach 3 side by side into T1, 19 and 25 makes contact because there is not enough room (racing incident :/, IMHO 19 drives too much right pushing me too much inside, but could be coz of the contact maybe), full brakes, pushed way inside on grass, got back on track at the apex, I'm trying to stabilize the car so I can set a direction, but it just goes from side to side, flying out of track to the sand + wall, hit the wall and jump over the sand trap back on track to the racing line, so I floor the gas to get away as cars are flying into T1 behind me. Car heavily damaged from the impact with wall. Had to do a one whole lap to get to pits to repair the car, changed tires but forgot that LFS doesn't set fuel as final amount of fuel in tank but rather as how much to add to tank, so I end-up with ~90% of fuel in tank Ain't that easy to set F11, F12 on keyboard+mouse, gotta solve that somehow. + My F11 mouse macro died when the race started, so I couldn't adjust a thing without letting of the steering wheel (mouse).

Repaired, tank full of gas, thought I'm gonna do full stint but SC wasn't coming at all, switched as we planed Lala got the wheel, no fuel added, still +15% over needed fuel. After some time Lala got disconnected, he rejoined back, but more time was lost, server restart, Lala drives the last hour.

See you at KY3B The last good round of GTAL, can't drive SO, and 12h of BL sucks, dunno who voted for that, damn short, damn boring and goddamn long 12h on a supershort track, what a fail :thumbsdow

I have to say it, server is damn bad, lags etc. you name it it has it all every round.
Cars are jumping on the track sometimes, like 1 meter or so, which means you can't drive close at all nor overtake.

Disastrous round as the previous was.

Where is the server? 500servers or where is it? Which country. To UK I have like so my connection is quite OK

Quote from reason0809 :

i already hate everything about this round 4

stupid slow track for fxr, being 4 seconds slower than usual when pushing the car to its limit and further, peace of shit turn 1, ****ing slow sector 2, disgusting slow part in beginning of sector 3, crappy going wide into grass at turn 19

dear aston, lick my arse

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

The track is fast, FX9 shouldn't be that slow it has the most power, if tuned properly you will have very good corner exit due to 4 wheels putting the power down. I'm not sure how different is the weight distribution from XR9 but if it's too much to the front it won't be good. You have to choose do you won't a crappy FWD or make the FX9 more of a RWD to save the front tires. It's about setup & driver FX9, ain't that big piece of scrap metal. Look at TDRT. Not every track is suited best for XR9 or FX9 nor FZ9. This probably ain't a FX9 track.

I'll attend test race, did stint today no wind probably on server now, tires all over 90% wear at the end, will see how they hold up in race with wind.
Sadly there can't be high wind, I love wind