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Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood

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Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« on: July 16, 2014, 08:18:12 PM »
Updated track (version 0.98) HERE

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3 x 10 lap sprints

Practice: 7:30pm, 60 mins
Qualifying 1: 8:30pm, 20 mins
Race 1: 10 laps
-- Server restart --
Qualifying 2: 10 mins
Race 2: 10 laps
-- Server restart --
Qualifying 3: 10 mins
Race 3: 10 laps
« Last Edit: July 21, 2014, 08:29:33 PM by Wally »
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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2014, 09:33:52 PM »
Love love love this track on LFS.. great to see it ported to AC! The 0.94 version had some weird bugs..., hopefully fixed in this update.

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2014, 09:58:41 PM »
The world record is held by one Guybrush Threepwood.
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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2014, 08:20:26 AM »
The world record is held by one Guybrush Threepwood.

He uses haxxors!!

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2014, 11:22:20 AM »
Bahhh, that records a "gimme".  I don't think anyone has really tried too hard there to set a good lap in the FA.  I reckon the long-term record would be at least a couple of seconds below that.  The recent track update may have also reset RSR.

Which makes me especially slow given my hax!

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2014, 04:30:05 PM »
You're wrong.
I tried really hard for my 1m10s :(

2+2=√16

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2014, 04:42:09 PM »
You're wrong.
I tried really hard for my 1m10s :(

I'll put my setup for that in my setups Dropbox folder when I get home from work.  See if that helps, although it feels like it's had a night out at the Blue Oyster bar as it's a little loose in the rear. Easily fixed with a click or two of rear wing though.  It's basically just a setup for the FA from another track with a couple of small changes.

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2014, 04:48:22 PM »
That's generally how I develop my setups, most of it is car based, to suit my style, with only minor adjustments (ie. dampers, ARB, gearing and aero) for different tracks.

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2014, 11:24:21 AM »
Can anyone make a decent AI file for this track please?

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2014, 02:33:10 PM »
How do you make an AI file? I'll give it a go tonight...

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2014, 03:28:39 PM »
There seems to be an underlying problem with the track boundary definitions (being converted from LFS means there are the alternate track layouts still in the track definitions, for example, along the back straight there are turn-offs where the LFS rally-cross track goes).  This may be what makes defining an AI file difficult. I have managed to get the AI included with the track to work by defining only 3 opponents with me as the 1st car. This means there is only one AI on the left of the start grid and it zips across behind the cars on the right side of the grid, avoiding the cars locking together. At 94% they are doing 1:13s.

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2014, 03:42:53 PM »
Do you create AI for each individual car by driving a line yourself?  So you could make different AI lines for 22+ cars?

If it was relatively easy it would be fun for a few us to each drive our own line of a track and then put each of those AI files in one to create a field of AI drivers each with our own different driving lines.  If you get me.

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2014, 04:05:48 PM »
cool, will give it a go...  :)

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2014, 04:13:20 PM »
Do you create AI for each individual car by driving a line yourself?  So you could make different AI lines for 22+ cars?

If it was relatively easy it would be fun for a few us to each drive our own line of a track and then put each of those AI files in one to create a field of AI drivers each with our own different driving lines.  If you get me.

Would be nice, but AC only supports a single AI line per track I think. There is some discussion in the forums about some of the tuning parameters being car specific but that is only speculation I think. The problem with this track is the boundaries are wrong ie not aligned with the edge of the track. Take a look at the RED lines when recording AI and you will see what I mean. The AI recording is dependent on these RED lines being properly aligned to the track edges. My attempts at recording an AI line just ended with the AIs doing about 1kph before getting kicked back to pits. Maybe someone else has more success than me  :)

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Re: Tue July 22 Trial Race: Formula Abarth at Blackwood
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2014, 08:05:57 PM »
Can anyone make a decent AI file for this track please?

If nobody has done it yet I will make one up, pretty simple for a short track and Ive made a few that can give me a bit of a fight. No corners here where they shouod have major issues but the first chicane may be the achilles heel for them.  ;)

 

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