Mod idea

You mean porting a finished 3D model to rfactor? I think there was a nice FAQ in the Pits, and in their forum there is lot of good stuff buried, as well as at Nogrip. Also, much of what has been written about that for GTR2, Race07 and GTL will work for rFactor.

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

I didn't know that you could model Jason, that's great you are a full artist!!!

Regarding the "broken" yellow flags and such in rfactor that Guillaume mentioned, I have done offline CART races with yellow flags and all worked correctly I think the only problem is apparently that the number of laps under yellow is fixed and not random, but that is no real issue for me -it might have influence in strategy, but since we race alone and don't have a crew working out the strategy for us, it is in fact better!

Problem is that the game gives random penalties for cars going too slow and not being at the correct position.

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

I didn't know that you could model Jason, that's great you are a full artist!!!

Regarding the "broken" yellow flags and such in rfactor that Guillaume mentioned, I have done offline CART races with yellow flags and all worked correctly I think the only problem is apparently that the number of laps under yellow is fixed and not random, but that is no real issue for me -it might have influence in strategy, but since we race alone and don't have a crew working out the strategy for us, it is in fact better!

Problem is that the game gives random penalties for cars going too slow and not being at the correct position.

I have seen that before, but i don't think it happens on all tracks.

Is there an option within the track folder where you can modify key elements to the circuit, such as minimum speed?

yeah of course

Not the minimum speed during cautions no.

oh I thought pit lane speed limit

The automated handling of the yellows by rFactor is just too unreliable to be trusted for some serious online oval racing. Best proof is that if it was working properly there would be tons of rFactor oval racing leagues. Still, running a 1973 season could be handled easily at HSO, it would take two or three non-racing admins (or official marshalls) at each race that's all .

This project sounds like a wonderful idea to me Jason. one of the few things missing on rFactor 1 is a indy mod of the 70's and/or 80's.i have raced on other leagues using the CART 1998 mod and besides 1 or 2 track bugs,it all went fine. in fact some of the very best online races i had was on oval circuits.

Well I just had a quick look at the servers list, and there actually are tons of oval leagues (just check the number of servers running the VHR Sprint Cup, Nationwide or Trucks mod). Maybe they got it working ?

Frank Verplanken wrote:

The automated handling of the yellows by rFactor is just too unreliable to be trusted for some serious online oval racing. Best proof is that if it was working properly there would be tons of rFactor oval racing leagues. Still, running a 1973 season could be handled easily at HSO, it would take two or three non-racing admins (or official marshalls) at each race that's all .

That was just what i was thinking about. a safety car controlled by a real player is one of the solutions. if i'm not wrong too,a server admin can give or retire a yellow flag with a server command, no?

Diego Dário wrote:

Frank Verplanken wrote:

The automated handling of the yellows by rFactor is just too unreliable to be trusted for some serious online oval racing. Best proof is that if it was working properly there would be tons of rFactor oval racing leagues. Still, running a 1973 season could be handled easily at HSO, it would take two or three non-racing admins (or official marshalls) at each race that's all .

That was just what i was thinking about. a safety car controlled by a real player is one of the solutions. if i'm not wrong too,a server admin can trow or retire a yellow flag with a server command, no?

Yes, but he can't prevent the game from giving penalties or cancel them.

Hmm yeah lots of VHR but no Indycar at all. It was a major issue when rFactor came out so I think the World (and us ^^) would have heard it if somebody had solved the problem ?

At Race2Play, they run a weekly oval series. Maybe send the organizers of R2P an email and see how they do it?

That's what I meant Guillaume, The Pits has been hammering at rFactor for a long time and has a reputedly good working NASCAR mod. Also, in the worst case it's a matter of disabling penalties and let the admins do that after the race. Actually, that is what we do in 99% of our races, where "black only" is the rule

No matter if it's this mice project by Jason or another existing mod, I think it would be worth investigating a bit if there is a way to get that working in rFactor. There are tons of nice opens/championships that could be done with american racing history (Not just ovals, most racing in the US has always had flying starts and caution laps)

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Diego Dário wrote:

Frank Verplanken wrote:

The automated handling of the yellows by rFactor is just too unreliable to be trusted for some serious online oval racing. Best proof is that if it was working properly there would be tons of rFactor oval racing leagues. Still, running a 1973 season could be handled easily at HSO, it would take two or three non-racing admins (or official marshalls) at each race that's all .

That was just what i was thinking about. a safety car controlled by a real player is one of the solutions. if i'm not wrong too,a server admin can trow or retire a yellow flag with a server command, no?

Yes, but he can't prevent the game from giving penalties or cancel them.

Are you sure about the cancel Guillaume? i'm sure that in the CART 98 league i raced the server admin removed some wrong penalties that i and other players got.

We shouls do a 1915 AAA Indycar mod that would save us the problems of the yellow flags in rFactor

Diego Dário wrote:

Guillaume Siebert wrote:

Diego Dário wrote:

Frank Verplanken wrote:

The automated handling of the yellows by rFactor is just too unreliable to be trusted for some serious online oval racing. Best proof is that if it was working properly there would be tons of rFactor oval racing leagues. Still, running a 1973 season could be handled easily at HSO, it would take two or three non-racing admins (or official marshalls) at each race that's all .

That was just what i was thinking about. a safety car controlled by a real player is one of the solutions. if i'm not wrong too,a server admin can trow or retire a yellow flag with a server command, no?

Yes, but he can't prevent the game from giving penalties or cancel them.

Are you sure about the cancel Guillaume? i'm sure that in the CART 98 league i raced the server admin removed some wrong penalties that i and other players got.

My bad you're right.

ps : that was my 8001st post.

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We shouls do a 1915 AAA Indycar mod that would save us the problems of the yellow flags in rFactor

Actually there is another traditional american competition we can do without flag rules: Demolition Derby

Frank Verplanken wrote:

We shouls do a 1915 AAA Indycar mod that would save us the problems of the yellow flags in rFactor

But then we won't have any accurate tracks to race with.

Yes we already have Indy and Milwaukee :p . Oval tracks are easy to do for JP, I'm sure he can do 5 a week if he puts his mind into it .

Diego Dário wrote:

This project sounds like a wonderful idea to me Jason. one of the few things missing on rFactor 1 is a indy mod of the 70's a

That's exactly why I thought of it; I was asking myself, "what can I add that no one else is?"

Alberto Ibañez wrote:

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We shouls do a 1915 AAA Indycar mod that would save us the problems of the yellow flags in rFactor

Actually there is another traditional american competition we can do without flag rules: Demolition Derby

We do that on most nights already

Frank Verplanken wrote:

Yes we already have Indy and Milwaukee :p . Oval tracks are easy to do for JP, I'm sure he can do 5 a week if he puts his mind into it .

I'm a pretty fast modeler too. Give me a week or so, a few hours a day, and I can have a complete car model with rads and fillets. I love this stuff.

Jason White wrote:

Does anyone know where I can find a good text resource for modeling cars for rFactor? I have much to learn about the minutiae of this process.

Have look round here
http://www.thepits.us/board/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=e3b89ba3dd38a03eab38eae3e9a54cf1