Damn it looks great so far. Cant wait to get it in my hands. Will you include the review in the navigation display?

By Metalllord on Jul 21, 2008

Wow, really cool. Good job.

By NarainKarthikeyan on Jul 21, 2008

wow,impressive
beside of that,you show us you wip monaco track??
that looks great aswell

By flochi on Jul 21, 2008

Andy – I can’t belive your showing off – you know what

By Ryan Gilmore on Jul 21, 2008

msn :]

By Ryan Gilmore on Jul 21, 2008

Looks very detailed!

By Tebacka on Jul 21, 2008

So pretty! Is that the CTDP Monaco?

By Floptickle - DK on Jul 21, 2008

No it isn’t.

By (CTDP)CoDan on Jul 21, 2008

wow CTDP, your mod will kick ass . Well done Neidryder

By Mitsos on Jul 22, 2008

what to say, you guys ROCK, YOU JUST ROCK

wow, amazing

anyway, will the mod have realistic sounds ?

By george h. on Jul 22, 2008

Boring, we want a release! Please stop making high qualtiy mods and begin to make middle quality mods but halfway actually! Who want to play this mod when it’s released at the end of the actually f1 season? And when anyone say i should be quite, when you ask me then i say that the mmg mod is more better then the ctdp’s and its released and has the season 07!

By SinfinRox on Jul 22, 2008

Looks nice.

By Phil Sousa on Jul 22, 2008

Very very nice work guys. I especially like how you guys added the rear view mirror stuff on the TV Screen on the dash, very very clever. In all its looking very good guys, great job.

By Petros Mak on Jul 22, 2008

Just like you wanted me to, SinfinRox, i’m going to tell you to be quiet. Everybody here has been waiting for this mod for some time, it probably wouldn’t go too far if i said longer than you have been. The 1979 mod has recently been at the top of Rfactor Central’s popularity list – and that’s set almost 30 years in the past, who is really going to decide they don’t like the mod at all because it’s 2 years ago?

Onto my questions, are the buttons over the dashboard going to be in higher detail than in that picture? I respect that that’s a JPEG file and the detail goes down considerably in them, but are they going to be clearly read by the person in the SC camera? It’s details like that which people notice alot more. You could probably take a wheel off the safety car and people would notice the dash board quality before noticing it has 3 wheels.

Will the camera inside the safety car slow the performance of the game? Although my computer isn’t particularly ‘lower-end’ i seem to remember that i’ve seen the ‘mirror’ (having mirors turned on to reflect the room it’s in) option on The Sims 2 cripple the gameplay of that particular game. Is it going to be actual footage of the race track, or just a camera on the back of the safety car? IE an in-built popup on the dashboard which shows what’s behind the car, or a mirror of what’s behind the vehicle.

And final,
Will the Safety Car be drivable or will it just be a camera you can watch whilst the safety car is on-track? I assume you can’t actually get a person to drive the safety car online, but maybe it would be possible to set the safety car as one of the drivable cars (I don’t personally know why you would want to).

Just one more, actually.
Would it be possible for CTDP to include a system inside of the SUPERADMIN powers to bring the safety car out of the pits and onto the track? Or is that something that cannot be built into rFactor?

By Toby Hussey on Jul 22, 2008

Also many People were saying last seyson of Schumi a “historical” season. And this mod is HQ and HQ takes time its only something around one year longer then MMG 2007 cause MMG isnt finished yet and has not that detailed physics. So i believe the year longer is sad but ok for such a mod.

By Metalllord on Jul 22, 2008

Really nice. We’re just looking forward the mod!

By Adam Jonas on Jul 22, 2008

Alright, PLEASE tell me you will release the Monaco track when the mod is released? I’ve seen previous screens of your Monaco, and I can see that it yours in the picture!

By Fred on Jul 22, 2008

IF it isn’t, can you tell me where I can find it? Thanks

By Fred on Jul 22, 2008

Remember there’s only like 5 if us working on this, were not a big team so everything takes longer

To answer some questions, Yes the safety car will be driveable by the player, for online you can not allow people to use the safety car in your server if you wish by removing the car from the allowed car list in the server setup. Everything will be HQ inside the cockpit of the safety car so all the buttons will be readable , as you can tell there is blurring on some of the interior so that’s going to be remapped and i’ll redo it, the current shots are early WIP shots for the first test of it.

We are all working hard to get this completed and may even have a few small surprises on release

Hold on a little longer guys were getting there…..slowly

Thanks, Shaun

By (CTDP)WHAT21A on Jul 22, 2008

btw, kinda off-topic and not about the SC car, but also thanks to the people/beta testers, who report bugs in our bugtracker, they are doing a good job, but these issues, albeit mostly small ones, take time to fix, it has to be done, while our safety car is massaged into a final product by NeidRyder and WHAT21A. I am fixing some of these reported bugs, we still get a few every day.

I am also slowly finishing our driver model bit by bit, in between, he is a clever but slightly stubborn fellow as I am using a boned rig approach, so this driver is adaptable. that took a little time to learn on my part. but it means he can be readily fitted to any car, sit more upright, stretch his arms etc without having to adapt or remodel him for different vehicles, so he is kind of future proof. but I had to redo/learn bits as I went through this and, stil doing that. I had an earlier version in the car already last week ingame, but reworking some areas.

The driver model will also serve useful if in the future if a platform were to support animations like you see in race, gtr2, gtl etc. so you can have moving arms. Enough of my rant for the day

By (CTDP)afborro on Jul 22, 2008

It’s always a pleasure to read your rant, Alex!
Seeing a team that also wants to experiment new things makes me smile.

By Uff on Jul 22, 2008

Only 5 work for this, Amazing. I cant imagine if 350 guys have talent like you (CDTP) work in codies .I think its will booming F1 SIM ever.

By NathanAV on Jul 23, 2008

My dear CTDP colleagues.. the left mirror is mirroring the right side, not the left (at least, in my rF)

I’ve never seen a cockpit so detailed. Good work those involved on it.

By (CTDP)raulongo on Jul 23, 2008

Cockpit looks amazing , the carbon fibre effect is a nice touch where the monitor is .

BTW, it was mentioned a while ago in the other posts. Will the car have a normal Road Mercedes steering wheel in the final release rather than a Momo?

Keep it up

By Michael Lam on Jul 24, 2008

I really dont know why u give us some random pic of SC, hardly anyone is going to drive it…..ever…..

By CTDP Fan on Jul 24, 2008

Atleast I will. I remember in F1c lots of people did unlock safety and medical cars.. And if watching on RFC there is pretty many people who likes street, touring and gt cars,.. So if this car will hanle well, why on earth people wouldnt drive it?

By IWE on Jul 24, 2008

And another question in relation to the safety car.

Will there be pedals inside the car? If so, will they move in respect to the amount of power you put into the pedal/keyboard? IE if you put your foot half the way down, will the pedal go down half way?

By Toby Hussey on Jul 24, 2008

Just a last comment.. for now.

Not to poke holes in what CTDP are saying when they say that there are 5 people working on this mod.. But why are there so many names if you go to http://www.ctdp.net/crew.html ? Unless i wasn’t paying attention early in my schooling years, that’s more than five.

By Toby Hussey on Jul 24, 2008

That list is out of date mostly – and modellers & textures have moved onto other projects as they have nothing left to do on the 2006 mod.

Whata – mainly does texture fixes/bugs
Andy – mainly does S/C + other fixes
afborro – mainly does the LOD’s + other fixes
Speed 12 and Arioch – mainly updates the physics + other fixes
Daniel – software updates to control centre.

That is off the last 6weeks that I can see who have uploaded and updated to the mod regularly.

——

Pedal movement… I’m 99% sure this cannot be done in rFactor at the moment and the reason it was in Simbin games was that was part of the additions to the ISI engine.

@CTDP Fan – Don’t come here if you don’t want to see screenshots of the S/Car. Its not all revolving around you, some wish to use the safety car for there leagues as a human safety car.

@IWE – Thanks for the idea of the Medical car. I’ll get right onto Andy now ^^

By Ryan Gilmore on Jul 24, 2008

Okay that’s enough already. Why would anyone want to drive a medical car? A safety car is one thing, it looks cool and could be very fun to race with, but a medical car… come on. I’ve never complained about the release dates of mods, but this is really pushing it.

By Fred on Jul 24, 2008

Agree completely with you, Fred. It sounds very unnecessary..

Maybe the team could add a jenny, then someone can remove the crashed cars aswell!

By Andry on Jul 24, 2008

accept you forgot Ryan, I am working on driver model now .

About the steering wheel, we may change that, it just so happened that at some point there was a different idea about the interior making it more like the internals of a DTM car, the steering wheel I already did at that point, so that’s what we have now. I may redo do it, time permiting, but wont quarentee it.

It’s a minor, but I agree that a native merc wheel would be nicer, but we got to finish it one day too

@Fred, Andry

As we already explained, even if we didn’t do these things while other bits are in progress, it wouldn’t delay or speed up the release date, so we do them because people ask for things like the drivable SC.

Watch out, becuase before you know it, we may show you WIP shots of our track helicopter

By (CTDP)afborro on Jul 24, 2008

@Codan

What is it then?

By Floptickle - DK on Jul 24, 2008

Ahhh yeah forgot about that ^^

By Ryan Gilmore on Jul 24, 2008

@ afborro

Ok thanks for the answer

By Andry on Jul 24, 2008

May be a driveable track helicopter ? XD

By Taylor on Jul 25, 2008

OMG, you should take care of the mod itself not some chopper…..rofl

By CTDP Fan on Jul 25, 2008

CTDP Fan
You should care about your league and not about us. Ah and you should write with the name you used in other comment threads, writing with two names is childish.
Maybe some of you guys didn’t get the point: making a medical car was irony

By (CTDP)CoDan on Jul 25, 2008

And a “steward mode” where you can help lift and push crashed cars out of the track.. xD

By Fred on Jul 25, 2008

Oh please do a medical car…
And how about a “pit crew mode”? Some league could use 5 members as mechanics for the ultimate pit stop realism!

I cant wait for driving in the adrenaline blood rush Safety car mode. How!

By Wil on Jul 26, 2008

After last comment i have nothing to say really, i dont if i should cry or laugh, well i’ll do both, hahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
anyhow, enjoy ur time doing some random stuff such as, SC, chopper(hahaahhaah), pit crew mode(rofl), and everything else.
The mod is probably utter **** so you have to do some random addons, for all the arcade racers here….I’ll go and enjoy my time with th best mod so far, GP2 2006

By CTDP Fan on Jul 26, 2008

Yes please leave CTDP Fan cause you are no fan.So shut up and leave.

By Metalllord on Jul 26, 2008

HAHAHA!!!!
only kidding xD

By CTDP Fan on Jul 26, 2008

i am sorry that i talked like that but i have waitin to to to to TO TO TO TOOO much k:

By Released_please on Jul 27, 2008

Someone ban this kid.

By Ahmad on Jul 27, 2008

It would be good if you could make it so a certain IP couldn’t download CTDP 2006 – on any website. It would be funny to see how many times CTDP Fan tries to download it at different websites, starts shouting at his computer and then begging the CTDP community to let him download it.

By Toby Hussey on Jul 27, 2008

LOLL, i hava changeable ip xD
and anyway, i would download it using my gf’s computer

By CTDP Fan on Jul 27, 2008

how the hell can you have a gf with this immaturity?

By Ryan Gilmore on Jul 27, 2008

y are you all so fucking with the ctdp developers, ok he’s doing a great job, but he did largely enough and he has all ready did better than the ctdp 2005, it look very good so dont loose time man and released so we can enjoy it during de summer .

By Released_please on Jul 27, 2008

hahahah you really are funny i have 3 computer all better than the other , so fuck it, hahahhaa

By Released_please on Jul 27, 2008

Please, watch your language!
We respeect all opinions as long as they are expressed well and are not target to insult anyone. Don’t get personal!

By (CTDP)Dahie on Jul 27, 2008

lol who take of my best comment, is this hurt you, the true hurt’s right

By Released_please on Jul 27, 2008

(CTDP)Dahie , ok ok but just release the game please

By Released_please on Jul 27, 2008

Im just being immature because of the frustration, im not like that in real life
2 years to make a mod, thats little too much for my nerves and when someone said 7 more weeks, i freaked out in disbelief, anyhow, good luck with ur game and congratulations with 2005 season but im not gonna wait, oohh, almost forgot, good luck with ur helicopter, rofl…

By CTDP Fan on Jul 27, 2008

I agree with ctdp fan, sorry but it’s really to much, release it before you loose a lot more of fan, they are not gonna wait 2 more month, and they shurely are gonna go play in a league like i have one good if you want with fs one 2007 or f1rft 2008 league for free and their is place,

so released for YOUR intérét , ctdp 2006 is really good dont wast time for thing’s like medical stof or mor test with car’s, we dont care,

By Released_please on Jul 27, 2008

Guys can be so stupid. Man this gonna kick your asses and every other mod. Look at MMG around 1 year shorter (when is MMG 2007 gonna finaly released???) But the quality is not the same and llok at FSONE 2007 a bit more then 1 year shorter but the quality is far behind MMG and CTDP. If you dont want to wait go and play theese mods. Im a quality lover and thats CTDP and not MMG or FSONE at the moment and FSONE is farfar away from this point.
So guys shut up and do it better in shorter time yourself.

By Metalllord on Jul 27, 2008

man, shut up please, every body want it know because every body know that it’s all ready way better than Fs one or mmg or ctdp 2005, the 2006 is all ready perfect that’s y i say ” dont test anymore and dont waist time with this medical stuff and RELEASED once and for all

By Released_please on Jul 27, 2008

Shut up you stupid they are doing jokes and they are testing the physics cause they arent ready now and thats because the quality is a hundred times better then FSONE and F1RFT and better then MMG they do physics that feel real and individual for each track and the most important thing for each update. Thats why it takes so long and why they have the time to build a SC and make it drivable. So shut your stupid mouth and start thinking or go and play FSONE.

By Metalllord on Jul 27, 2008

or juste release one or two car for know like ferrari or renault so we can drive a little bit and after take your ******* time to complete the ctdp 2006 mod but just release some stuff so we can WAIT release juste 2 car individually PLEASSEEEEEE

By Released_please on Jul 27, 2008

Sick to death of flamers, people have a right to be sick of waiting just like the flamers have a right to moan about people who moan about how long the mod is taking.

Due to the amount of time this mod is taking, I don’t blame people for becoming sick of waiting.

By w4llsb4lls on Jul 27, 2008

Lately coming here I notice some impatient guys…Whats wrong with you? Shouting wont make release faster, better go away, go to a vacation, go to beach or lake,do whatever you want, but dotn come here just to post some comments. Also, I cant get the point of being so impatient. Its just a mod for a game. Playign games is not even close to my priority list, especially now when I have some important jobs to do…So chill out…

@CTDP. You guys are doing great job, and take your time. There are no doubts this is going to be the best mod!

Waiting is difficult, but only if you havent got any other things to do in your life…

By Rivers on Jul 27, 2008

dont listen to him, his wrong, releaset NOW

By Roland on Jul 27, 2008

We’ve found a major bug in the mod and we are gonna have to restart our beta test season. Sorry guys.

By Ryan Gilmore on Jul 27, 2008

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAH, IN UR FACE!!!!!

By CTDP Fan on Jul 27, 2008

I allready said that there was very big chance that they found some bugs and it will take some time to fix and then test , and again found something …
good luck.

By RobertsB on Jul 27, 2008

Yes and the fixing and testing is the big difference to FSONE So childs leyve and watch Spongebob when you cant wait.

By Metalllord on Jul 27, 2008

sorry mate, but i don’t understand your english…..

By CTDP Fan on Jul 27, 2008

yes you are right i dont give shit know you have taken to much time for this mod, so bye, you could of release at least 1 or 2 car so we can wait like
Released_please said but you dont want, so ok you lost me to BYE

By Roland on Jul 27, 2008

He meant go and watch some cartoons;) No offence, but you dont sound like a CTDP fan. If you would, you would be happy that they are putting so much effort in every detail. I have done some game modding a bit too, and I know how much time it takes, and it really pisses you off when a bunch of guys start posting dumb comments.

@CTDP. I hope you fix all the bugs, and I expect that there wont be needed 10 or 11 more re-releases or fixes here…
Good luck;)

By Rivers on Jul 28, 2008

I think there wont be so many releases not as FSONE and yes sou are right i meant a cartoon.

So go on guys continue your great work and finish it in the time you need and this hopefully very soon

By Metalllord on Jul 28, 2008

Some people are soo sad, and just don’t understand what it takes to get a mod completed.

It is not easy. I spent the better last 6 months fixing up a lot of MMG model errors from 07. Still our PE release isn’t going to be perfect. Might never be. I understnad where CTDP is and things do take time.

Hard work in the end will have paid off for those who worked hard over the years. I believe in time, things will show.

By Phil Sousa on Jul 29, 2008

Well take ur time guys, but hope it won’t be a mod that i’ll play when i’m gonna retire…

By 1 on Jul 30, 2008

The inside of the safety car looks decent, but doesn’t make me say “WOW!!! This rocks!”. Anyway I’ll probably only drive the F1 cars. If I want closed cockpit cars I’ll drive WTCC or DTM mods. Only good thing about it would be if an admin could driver the safety care during race, when would be needed. Bunt don’t think that’s possible.
About what Phil was saying I don’t think ppl want more arcade mods, they just like to drive a close to reality as possible F1 2007 season. The MMG 2007 in my opinion was very bad from a simulator or arcade mod and FSone 2007 its our only way to have fun with a 2007 season. Anyway all mods that are made are in a way more or less close to real thing, and for many ppl the most important thing is to have fun with. If the mods are very realistic thats a plus.

By 1 on Jul 30, 2008

So if they just want fun they want arcade cause real simulation is hard to drive or everybody could drive a F1 car like FSONE shows up

By Metalllord on Jul 31, 2008

I tell u that u could not drive a real F1 car Metalllord and a F1 car doesn’t handles like any of the simulated cars in this mods. All of u who think that playing a F1 game simulator like a “god” make u a real F1 driver are very very wrong. It’s like If u are a godlike player in CS and u think u could join the SWAT team. F1 simulators are GAMES and yeah could be a little harder to PLAY then an arcade game but anyone can learn how to play it.This type a games shows you about 0.1% of what been a F1 driver feels like. If a mod here is more simulator or arcade doesn’t make it less fun or less F1 to drive. When a F1 game is called simulators means it simulates as close as they think their cars are from a F1 car, so actually all Fsone, MMG, CTDP are simulators, more or less hard to play. I enjoy both type of games and I split mods in more or less fun to play, not in more or less simulator. Don’t like to talk about a mod that is more a simulator then other mod. And btw when u play a F1 mod u play to have fun or just to brag that you can drive a F1 car?

By 1 on Jul 31, 2008

And BTW not to think I am a Fsone fan, I actually did not played Fsone 2006 because I didn’t liked it, but I think Fsone 2007 is fun and is a good mod. In my opinion CTDP mods are best F1 simulators and CTDP team togheter with IDT team do the best rFactor mods by far, that why so may ppl are still interested to wait for 2006 mod even for 2-3 years. What makes them best to get is that they try to make every thing perfect and they get very close to that.

By 1 on Jul 31, 2008

@1

that’s true what you say about the safety car. I even don’t care about what it looks like from the outside, so why should it be interesting to anyone what it looks like from the inside… makes me wonder.

It’s nice to see, ctdp, that you’re working on every “single” detail to this game. But sometimes I get this feeling, that you lost sight of the main goal.

Take your time, all of us appriciate your detailed work, but please don’t spent time with such needless things.

Best regards

By Kaleidoscope on Jul 31, 2008

i do not think that the safetycar cockpit is a “needless thing”. they’re many leagues with a human safetycar driver, and i’m very happy that ctdp works so hard at the safetycar.

great work guys, take the time you need

By Sebastian Glunz on Jul 31, 2008

@sebastian

okay then… now i see the importance

By Kaleidoscope on Jul 31, 2008

You guys still don’t get it. Its not delaying the mod anylonger than it’ll take. The physics are what are holding up the mod along with a few other things. People have asked for it, and while they are free they complete it they have done so.

By Ryan Gilmore on Jul 31, 2008

man, that’s the kind of information we needed all the time here!

thanks and regards

By Kaleidoscope on Jul 31, 2008

It’s been mentioned a few times previously.

By Ryan Gilmore on Jul 31, 2008

So everything is done apart from the physics?

are you guys wrapping it up for Xmas?

By David on Aug 3, 2008

Hi, guys! Thanks for your job. Take the time you think you need. But please post some new screens at RFC.

By D.man on Aug 3, 2008

If this mod takes any longer…

Then I will just have to wait some more…

By w4llsb4lls on Aug 3, 2008

Sorry, I have one question. When ???
Thank you.

By Iceman on Aug 3, 2008

Andy would say when it´s done.

right?

By thedoctor(Andreas Pierer) on Aug 3, 2008

Not just Andy, the team says: When it’s done!

No there is more to do than just physics, everywhere is to tweak a little bit, so it’s not just physics.

By (CTDP)CoDan on Aug 3, 2008

Me and couple of my friends started a new mod for 2008, so if you hear about “EOR” that will be me,
we make everything from scratch, we even asked ISI how to make 3 part qualy xD
We plan to realease couple of cars in 3 months, we are trying to do pit mechanics as well but we need to be careful with fps xD
No trackpack will be released
chhheeerss!!!

By CTDP Fan on Aug 3, 2008

Good Luck with it!

By Neidryder on Aug 3, 2008

Good luck CTDP Fan

By Ryan Gilmore on Aug 4, 2008

Man… All these posts…

This dev-blog sure is popular and seems CTDP 06 to be as well.

No wonder! Congratulations CTDP, you should be pro’s cause you’re working as pro’s. I’ll donate the day this mod is out.

By Bjørn G. DK (jegerenhvidkanin) on Aug 7, 2008

will you be able to turn lights on/off with the safety car mod???

and were abouts can i find a half decent safety car mod at the moment??

thanks guys cant wait foe this one!!!

By livo on Aug 29, 2008