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Re: GPxPatch 4.52 [Released] - 1 year ago
Absolutely fantastic René. Thanks. I just did a quick test using the Error Chance facility and it worked even better than I anticipated. The multi-PF selector is a nice time saver too. Long live the mighty GPxPatch!!! TGF1Driver2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ....Is that when a driver takes a > wider CC line in some corners?... The Braking Rby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: BRANDS HATCH 1980; ZOLDER 1982; LONG BEACH 1981 - 1 year ago
All three circuits are absolutely gorgeous. Thanks.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: PEDRO_27 THREAD -->> CLASSICAL ERAS <<-- W.I.P. Act - 85 -> " " (28/12/18) Pag 75 - 1 year ago
Wow! Looking forward to these additions very much.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Maxi82 thread!! tracks and new tracks wips (new link MAR DE AJO) - 1 year ago
Excellent work. Thanks.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: GPxPatch 4.50 [released] - 1 year ago
Thanks René. I've been experimenting with BRMin/BRMax. It's early days, but in particular I'm finding the effects of a fairly subtle BRMax (like +2000) very interesting.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: I'm going live with GP4Builder - 1 year ago
This is an excellent series so far and I'm looking forward to the next one very much. You have a great presentation style and it's always great to observe someone who clearly knows his stuff. Thank you.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: GPxPatch 4.50 [released] - 1 year ago
vesuvius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Noog Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > René - just quickly. Looked through that PF > > PaZa8523 posted above and I noticed > > > > > > Grip=17600 > > > > I've not seen that before. > > > > Is there a postby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: GPxPatch 4.50 [released] - 1 year ago
René - just quickly. Looked through that PF PaZa8523 posted above and I noticed Grip=17600 I've not seen that before. Is there a post somewhere that lists all the current options within a PF please?by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: GPxPatch 4.50 [released] - 1 year ago
What a great update! Very much looking forward to experimenting with the braking range later & the autosave/quicksave is so beautifully implemented it's hard to imagine GP4 without it already! Thanks for getting it out so quickly after the last release too. Impressive stuff. That said, if I were impertinent enough to make a wish at this point, it would be that there would be an optby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Zolder 79 (very Beta) - 1 year ago
Nice one! Will be giving it a go later. Thanks.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
QuoteSDI @Noog: 109227 would be correct, but the maximum value is 65535 (the values are 16 bits). So under 25% race length a 100% failure value can't work properly? How interesting, as always.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
@ Turbo Lover Well that gets my vote. That would be a real treat! Any chance you might talk us through how you'd go about that too? I'd love to learn track editing but I just don't get it; especially CC lines. @ René Ah-ha! Yes of course. 16384. I remember now. It WAS that originally in the spreadsheet. I must have changed it a long time ago and forgot I did it. My thinking at the tiby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
Failure rates and retirements. If a car always retires and you want to change that, open the appropriate PF, find the team you want to change and adjust the failure probability. Look at the values the other teams are using and base an estimate on that if you like (staying within the range 0 to 24578 for a race length of 100%, according to PRBlanco's v1.2 spreadsheet). That's the easy way anby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
@ quickslick - I've never used the GP4 Failure Editor tool, but looking at the help file I wouldn't have thought so. It's more for editing saved games isn't it? The performance files have already finished their work by then.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
Quotelandex Yes, the cars are more reliable than in the classic era 60s to middle 90s. But i dont know why, i like that. And the mods released are really great. Only the car failure dont seams to fit in some mods. I like it too. When you say the failure doesn't fit, do you mean that the total number of failures for a driver is very different to what it was in real-world, or do you mean theby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: To all of you - 1 year ago
TGF1Driver2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Noog schrieb: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas. > > > > And remember folks, DON'T DRINK & DRIVE while > > you're racing. You'll be busting for a pee by > the > > end. > > > > >by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
It might sound impressive but it's getting harder and harder to work on. I keep forgetting how it works and it takes me twenty minutes to get my head around it all again. The worst part is, I keep thinking it would be better to re-design the whole thing from scratch with an emphasis on user-friendliness and with the mechanical aspects kept out of sight: meaning that the user makes a few selectionby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: To all of you - 1 year ago
Hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas. And remember folks, DON'T DRINK & DRIVE while you're racing. You'll be busting for a pee by the end.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Lime Rock Park -- Soon -- - 1 year ago
Not satisfied? Looks good to me. I can imagine that technique being used in a Halloween-themed track, or someone tinting it orangey-green and using it in a post-apocalyptic city circuit. Man, I'm sure glad I'm too stupid to make tracks. I'd never get to bed. Your Chateau Carreras is very cutting edge too. Keep up the great work.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Lime Rock Park -- Soon -- - 1 year ago
Looking good, nice dat. What is that haze effect at 32secs? Is that intentional? Either way I like it.by Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
ROFL! Think of it this way though Kedy89. Before 'puters came along I used to pull the back off everything in the real world, rather than the virtual ones. When I was little my parents had to keep moving around because if they stayed in one town too long I'd turn the entire area into a pile of rubble. They used to call me the Abominable Termite from Hades and as I grew stronger they were forcby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: I'm dropping playing GP4 immediately because all this technical anger is destroying my health! - 1 year ago
I'm wondering why are some people crashing and others not? I mean, yeah yeah Linux and all, but really, GP4 is almost rock solid for me, except on those very rare circuits where pressing Esc without pressing pause causes an issue. Also, but even more rarely, sometimes on the track I begin losing some sounds and things start to get really clunky within 30secs or so before crashing soon afteby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
Hey landex - I just remembered something I'd forgotten that I built into my PF Calculator recently and I was wondering what you think of it. Instead of using a constant per-car failure rate for the whole season, what I did was I put in a facility to apply a curve. It's an idea I first came across in MS Project years ago. Each car's failure rate is averaged over a season, but then I apply onby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
@ landex - I never really played the original GP4 much so I don't know. I liked GP1 on my Amiga 500, then I absolutely adored GP2 on my Amiga 1200 where I had all the tweaking tools and a hard disc to store them on. I even managed to create a couple of decent circuits with beautiful young ladies and other pieces of fine art lying around (yes I really did!), but GP3 and GP4 never really intereby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
I'm not the best person to ask, but if I were to guess it would be that Team Editor actually patches GP4.exe directly with the data in the PF before you run the game, whereas GPxSet patches the memory with the PF after GP4.exe is loaded. In other words I don't think GPxSet actually writes the PF data to GP4.exe, whereas Team Editor, I think, does. You can see this if you run GP4.exe directly to sby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
Desc 53 - The power factor (CC cars only) Go back out on to the circuit and watch the CC cars. How is the top speed of the better CC cars relative to yours? If it's too high, or low, it's time to get to grips with desc53. I tend to adjust each skill level, ie ace, pro etc at the same time, ie descs 53,55,57,59 & 61, but there's no good reason I can think of for doing this, and if you oby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
Well, following a bit of sleep I checked again and I DID save part 3, at least an early version of it. But I saved it in a weird place which is why I got confused. Apologies to my cat, especially; although the bandages do make him look kind of heroic so it's not all bad. OK, let's get focussed. We are about to enter the Zone of Hard Toil. But speaking of cats, you've probably heard that thereby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
OK guys. I'm conscious that I'm clogging up this thread a bit and I don't want the fantastic info everyone has posted earlier to get lost so I'm going to make two longish posts in succession which will attempt to finally answer mralpha's original question and conclude my tutorial for now. Maybe my contributions might form the basis of an introductory how to guide in another thread or a stickyby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
Before I post the next installment, let me address landex's observations. Yes, some mods do use one PF for all races. There's nothing wrong with that, but I would argue it misses out on a level of potential subtlety. As for giving a team the same failure probability in all races, yes a single PF will do that, but I actually do that anyway in my multiple PFs. The reason is that while I DO wby Noog - Grand Prix 4
Re: Performance and Magic Data - 1 year ago
Praise indeed. Thanks. But guess what. I just closed the next installment I've been working on for several hours without saving. Yep. Seriously. I covered MDs and some other useful bits and pieces before answering your question and then I got distracted by the other thread and closed the editor without thinking when it got in the way. Time for bed methinks. Good job I don't have a cat tby Noog - Grand Prix 4