nr_champ_races.cap

Anyone have any idea what this .cap file does? It's in the ZaZ Tools "Extra" folder with the other .cap files.

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I think it allows your Championship Season to end before the 17th track has been run. If I remember correctly, you need a hex editor to change the number of races.


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Wow! This is great to insert in the 1996 (16 races) championship mod.

Can anyone help to do this?

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kerleyf1:
> Can anyone help to do this?

It's quite easy to do:
Look at the folder "patch" (subfolder of data) of your mod. There probably are already some other cap files.
Just add the nr_champ_races.cap there. You will then have a championship season with 16 races.

It is also possible to change the number. Open the cap file with a hex editor. The last byte (e.g. hex 10 = dez 16) will define the number of races in championship mode.
You can edit it to get a different number. In the 1950th for example there were only 11 races sometimes.

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So, if I change hex value to 09 we will have how many races?

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I don't suppose it works with numbers greater than 17 then?

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a while ago, out of curiosity I tested this .cap, but do not know if it was the MOD was not capable of more than 18 races (produced a CTD in CSM).

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kerleyf1: So, if I change hex value to 09 we will have how many races?
For one byte the hex <=> dec relationship looks like
01 = 1 / 02 = 2 / 03 = 3 / 04 = 4 / 05 = 5 / 06 = 6 / 07 = 7 / 08 = 8 / 09 = 9 / 0A = 10 / 0B = 11 / 0C = 12 / 0D = 13 / 0E = 14 / 0F = 15 / 10 = 16 / 11 = 17

TomMK: I don't suppose it works with numbers greater than 17 then?
You are right, that will not work.

phantaman: a while ago, out of curiosity I tested this .cap, but do not know if it was the MOD was not capable of more than 18 races (produced a CTD in CSM).
I can confirm that behaviour, but even after more than 17. In a test with number hex 13 = 19 after race 17 in the championship choosing "next grand prix" made the gp4.exe crash with an error message.

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Can you suggest a good HEX Editor to me?

So when I get it I can use this .cap to create a real championship for season that have less than 17 races. In season with more than 17 races we can use CSM to simulate it.

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kerleyf1: Can you suggest a good HEX Editor to me?
I am using the HxD Hexeditor by Maël Hörz, available in different languages at
www.mh-nexus.de (resp. www.mh-nexus.de/en/).

In season with more than 17 races we can use CSM to simulate it.
With CSM we can use tracklists and have more than 17 circuits in the selection dialog, but a championship is limited to 17 tracks all the same.

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Thanks for the program.

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kerleyf1 Scritto:
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> Wow! This is great to insert in the 1996 (16
> races) championship mod.
>
> Can anyone help to do this?

copy/paste nr_champ_races.cap from 1991 mod

phantaman Scritto:
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> a while ago, out of curiosity I tested this .cap,
> but do not know if it was the MOD was not capable
> of more than 18 races (produced a CTD in CSM).

if i remember well, F1 2005 mod on gp4database has a nr_champ_races.cap with 19 races with two 2005.ini in track folder.

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Rot, you're right about 2005 .ini but, I think don't need the cap file inside mod... I make another CSM mod with this feature without the cap and works fine.

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Rot Teufel: if i remember well, F1 2005 mod on gp4database has a nr_champ_races.cap with 19 races with two 2005.ini in track folder.

The 2005 mod by Tony & Friends has got 20 tracks (19 for races plus 1 for testing) and uses two tracklists to manage them.
But the mod has got no nr_champ_races.cap included in folder Patch.
It is essentially not possible to have more than 17 tracks in championship mode because of the limitations of GP4.exe .

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