New X-Mas and new GP4Builder 1.912 XE

Small report here as well: when you want to create .gp4 mesh via the Track from .dat option, and you choose Pitlane, the program puts the first batch of sectors to the Last: box too. (So it reads "First: Sectors 0 to 9" and "End: Sectors 0 to 9" and it only creates sectors 0 to 9, if I don't change it manually. If you choose to create the Track mesh itself, it puts the last batch of sectors in the Last: box as usual.)

Yep, I noticed it also. Only forgot to report it.

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@PrBlanco & Atticus : Thanks for these first reports, I will fix this asap for a next version

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> @PrBlanco & Atticus : Thanks for these first
> reports, I will fix this asap for a next version

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> @PrBlanco & Atticus : Thanks for these first
> reports, I will fix this asap for a next version

Thank you.

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Laurent, please, have a look on the "CTD after modifying track" topic, TomMK and me had CTD issues after clicking on "Drive" for some reason when we modified and saved a .dat file. It's not a general problem, it only popped up once for me and once for TomMK and it just suddenly happened. I mean we have successful saves and working files in general, these two were exceptions occuring at a seemingly random time - but they did corrupted the files somewhat in that we couldn't use them after this, they always caused a CTD.

You can find further details in the mentioned topic.

For me it was editing a CC line (that was the only change). I will try to replicate it and send you the good and bad .dat files.

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It's related to the Magic data section. Probably a mistake on some final structure flag... I will check this asap

It happened in v1.841 as well though. Same problem, changing the cc line corrupted the dat

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Now that I remember, my inability to save it correctly came right after I inserted the magic data. That save was OK and the next one went wrong.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2014 04:18AM by Atticus..

@Atticus : something looks wrong with the magic data file in your .dat. What tool did you used to get it and then to import it in the .dat ?

@TomMK : if you have a before/after .dat for this problem, I would be interested to check them.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/24/2014 02:29PM by Lo2k.

CMagic as usual. 1.02. Although I did use a personal cmagic4.ini; I always do so without problems - but I think this was the first time I inserted one in a .dat edited with 1.912 XE.

Hmm, can you send me the .md3 file you used then ? I would like to check something... (it was extracted from another track ?)

Hmm, it's weird.
In your corrupted .dat, the last bump table value is missing and ending structure flag is corrupted.
But removing magic data from from corrupted file and inserting the .md3 gives a working .dat with a proper structure flag. Only the last bump table line (sector and value) are removed because afaik bump table couldn't have more than 14 lines... but everything's ok.

I don't know what happened. I guess there was already some magic data in your .dat before you imported the .md3 because in 1.912XE you can't insert magic data if no magic data is already present.
Maybe the past magic data was improperly overwritten... weird.

Well, first of all, thanks for the time and effort you put into investigating and explaining the source of the problem.

It is indeed very strange as I used the original Silverstone track as a base and as we know it, the original .dats don't have any magic data in them. So what happened was basically a faulty magic data insertion, which is also weird as I didn't do anything different compared to other occasions.

Thanks again.

Hi Laurent,

i can't find the edit command Invert Normal. Did you remove from edit menu? How is it possible to do that with 1.912 builder?
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I'm still using this tool after so many years Keep up the great work buddy

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@drt01 : it's called "Invert Face Orientation" and it does both inverting normals and face order (both had to be done BTW each time you inverted normals if you wanted to see the changes in game so I melt both in one"

@Flash Formula : Thanks mate, it's a pleasure to know some people are still using this tool after all this time

Thanks, it's work well

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