NAR trackpacks 28 feb 2006-in process

klaaz · Post by **klaaz** » 28 Feb 2006, 19:04

EDIT
i just got the new 2005 imola track to test on, and its is sooooooo good.

i heard the installer will be posted shortly so that should make things really easie on all of us

cya on track soon all

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 28 Feb 2006, 19:23

Thanks, but just to make shure its clear to all, this is not our NAR06 season official track pack. Get it, try it, no problem.

The calendar and the evaluation of available track are under discussion. Its not easy to consider Euro and NA holliday calendar and ensure we have a good working track for rfactor.

We must be shure we start the season with working track and with trying to follow the real F1 calendar, if possible.

But try those track and report any problem, so it will be more easy release the official calendar and final track pack, unless its decide differently.

klaaz · Post by **klaaz** » 28 Feb 2006, 19:49

sure offcourse, like topic sais, editeble. we need good input on all the tracks we have for coming season so we have time to change the files before have the race there. i am waiting on a few tracks for private nar use steveB did, and i think i miss 5 of the real f1 calendar that has no base<i know of yet>.

so lets use this topic to get us the best racetracks way before the actual race is.

thx all who will help, this tracks really need attention imho

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 28 Feb 2006, 21:30

Here the 18 official races of real F1 Calendar

klaaz · Post by **klaaz** » 28 Feb 2006, 21:55

Thx flow.
i think turkey will be the hardest on the list, but we have time to fill that gap.

tackman · Post by **tackman** » 28 Feb 2006, 22:17

Klaaz...I know the expression "hes got a hot putter" but that is ridicuelous:)

limpindog · Post by **limpindog** » 01 Mar 2006, 02:04

klaaz put link back up

i was trying to tell you that version does not conflict with motorfx version

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 01 Mar 2006, 03:50

Klaaz (or anyone), have you tried racing at most of those tracks that did not come from SteveB? Do timing, start lights, grid and pits all work correctly (or at least look like they do)?

limpindog · Post by **limpindog** » 01 Mar 2006, 04:25

well tbh bilbo this was ment to be the idea but i not sure

just gona have to check , save people looking all the time

i would like a trackpack we can post puplic with 14 tracks that work

and upto date

Flow · Post by **Flow** » 01 Mar 2006, 04:42

Like already said by Bilbo, the problem for going public is the fact that we dont have the aautorisation to publish few track. So it little difficult to do that. Unless we do a track pack only for NAR use. But then, public people wont access our server, cause they dont have it

Klaaz post is to let us try those track and see if anything wrong happend. He did not said they were «bullet proof»...

limpindog · Post by **limpindog** » 01 Mar 2006, 04:49

there are 14 puplic f1 tracks already out there , i just want them all togther for those plug and play noobs lol

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 01 Mar 2006, 04:59

An official NAR track pack is definitely on the way, at least for the first tracks of the season, likely this weekend or very early next week.

Wether it will be for public or private consumption is still undecided.

I asked the question in the above post to see if the tracks mentioned were to be considered as race-worthy and candidates for inclusion in an official track pack. I tried to give hints about things to look for as sometimes a track looks fine in practice but is not really usable in race (timing problems, etc.). Since I will most likely not have the time to exhaustively try each track myself as I would have liked, I'm calling on the experience of others...

F.Y.I., if all the non-SteveB tracks are race-worthy, only 2 tracks could be problematic (Turkey and China, SteveB having already started Monaco but needing more work) and they are nearer the end of season...

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 01 Mar 2006, 05:51

Be advised that Limpy's download link above is the same one Klaaz posted a few days ago and pointing to the 4 GTR track conversions... (Just so nobody wastes 125MB of perfectly good bandwidth if they have it already!)

carrera · Post by **carrera** » 01 Mar 2006, 16:08

Well I have every track that has been put out so far and tested the f1 tracks.There are definitely some problems with some of the conversions but they could easily be fixed.The first 3 tracks will be enough for a month and a half of races.Plenty of time to work on the others.If I knew what the hell I was doing I would spend time doing it myself but I am just a hardware junky..LOL>...was never good at the 3d modelling like limpy and steveb...In total I have 65 tracks so far and they all work...Some parts like pits and lights do not unfortunately.If some of the tracks are too high rez then low end machines will suffer and that will cause online problems.I agree that noone can join if we make the tracks privately.Without authorization from the publishers we could be pissing people off.There in lies our dilema.Decisions decisions...We should all give our opinions on this.
carrera

klaaz · Post by **klaaz** » 01 Mar 2006, 16:21

ill give thing a second try, du to a communication error i have updated a few tracks form the cola site, like silverstone. eventhough there are some buggs fixed, majorety doesnt like it caus the fps is better on the old silverstone 2002.

ill edit my postst and ill olny use the publik tracks < set back te outof dates we used before yesterday>and hope and prey the private pack< we need very vey soon imo as bahrain is in it> will be ready in time.

we only miss 2 tracks i havent seen a base for and i dont know anything about yet.
- 7 may Europe GP<nurenbergring or the neurburgring keep forgetting how to spell it, but i mean NOT the mother,ak green hell, ak nordsleiffe.
-27 august Turkey istanbull

Bilbo · Post by **Bilbo** » 01 Mar 2006, 18:37

SteveB has Europe (Nurburgring) working.

klaaz · Post by **klaaz** » 01 Mar 2006, 18:44

sweet , that narrows it down to 1

.
Maybe we get some more help from fia, as lots of races seem to have dissappear

http://www.formula1.com/race/

I made new test trackpacks, and have put them in the top post
bahrain is simster.com version so dont worrie about steveB s feelings,and also imola is an old one, steve has better one in private pack soon. silverstone 1.1 is merged into the old 2002 folder so we can test both<maybe new skins limp made help on the low fps some had>.
Ingo and myself really like the 1.1 version ,the other 5 had nothing but comment lool.

klaaz · Post by **klaaz** » 05 Mar 2006, 17:05

new trackpack 2005 versions on its way.. that gonna solve alot of problems.

Imola ive tested looks really good, awesome job steveB!!!

SteveB · Post by **SteveB** » 06 Mar 2006, 02:12

ty Klaaz

Again I hope ALL of you will like the tracks and enjoy them, I am doing all I can to release them in time to get MAXIMUM practice time for each.

Steve B