"how to make your own track"

who will tell us? I was just trying out the new editor, and changed the track a bit, it didn't even crash the game, but i didn't saw much difference, so problably i forgot something.
But atm nobody but 2 people now how to do it, will it be told? or are we to find out ourselves (thats fine too btw, i'm not trying to push somebody to write a manual, but just asking/wondering.

/me out, and trackediting again :P

ok, now i did crash my game :P

hehehe

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Well, i don't know more about track editing than you (with 3DEditor at least), i played around with it all the day and was able to found some use of some datas, but it is a trial and error process.
So i invite everyone to do as me, trying to change a value and see what it makes in game to better understand how it works, cause nobody knows for now how GP4 really works.
So the Editor seems to work perfectly but we don't know what we have in our hands and i havn't the manual

do u think its time to dispatch a gpgames swat team and steal geoff crammonds pc, make a copy of the code, post it to the presidant of mars. and then fully understand the game!!!!!

man, i love my ideas

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ask geoff for his rack editor.



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Tony

a rack editor would sure be neat :P

btw, any chance of being able to convert tracks to gp4 format (gp3's? )

a rack editor? like spice racks?

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Convert GP4 to GP3 tracks would be possible only when we will have fully understand GP4 tracks and anyhow, for now, all i can imagine is converting GP3 ribbons to 3D mesh, but you won't have any object.

I remember that Florian Jesse )he's from Germany) and I remember that he released a GP3 beta of Monaco with more accurate info about the track length and the gradient changes.

I don't know how he did extract some information from the GP4 track into the GP3 Monaco track.

But I lost the beta file as my HDD was formatted last summer.



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Did your birth certificate come with an apology letter from Durex?

You can improve GP3'stracks by just looking at GP4's. If GP4 has it right, it's like being at the real track when making GP3's tracks, so you can just try and put into the GP3 te what you see in GP4. No data conversion needed!

And why GP3 Track Editor can't handle GP4 track? At least for modifying *.dat files?

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

coz it crashes

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coz GP4 tracks are totally different to GP3's, hence why it's taken over a year to get anything resembling a track editor

we need a hub, like the old TE forum, to sort bugs etc, if you ask me, will speed the proccess up



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24 Heures Du Mans 18-19 June 2005

well, would be nice, as long as we could gather some good will men, the old TE forum is still there:
[www.mircx.com]
but it has done its job for GP2/ gp3 and might need a refresh for GP4 so if you have some plans, i'm with you.

"coz GP4 tracks are totally different to GP3's, hence why it's taken over a year to get anything resembling a track editor"

no, we had a working .dat editor a few days after the release just couldnt link the gfx with the physics.

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Hey Laurent how about using your forum as the basis for the GP4 TE (I don't mean to push you) just I think that you can open a new section at your forum since you seam to be the leading person in this project (I don't mean denying all other guys who have being contributing)

Why not afterall, if everyone's is OK, i will add a new "Track Editing" Section so .

It's done, i opened the section on my forum.

Everyone is welcome to report his fails/success/question and i hope answers on GP4 track editing