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Deciphering the past: Simtek 1994

Friday, May 4th, 2012

As you know, we are currently busy with the IFM project. However, that doesn't mean F1 94 is out of our heads. The F1 1994 project involves a lot of investigation and research, mainly on sponsors because high quality photos are rare to non-existent. A lot of guesswork is needed and ...

On this day in May…

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

… in May 2011, we have been working on the new Ferrari model for the 1994 mod. The first of a series of new models to bring the mod into the modern age. … on May 1st 2010, we released the first version of rfDynHUD, a plugin for rFactor that allowed ...

Auri sacra fames.

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

CTDP is discussing its financial future at the moment, as we described in an earlier post, I'd like to sum up a few points of the discussions with people in and outside of the team, that may also concern the community and may be of general interest. As I do ...

Modern F1

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

There is a very simple reason, why we don't do modern F1 mods.

Alii sementem faciunt, alii metent

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Today we want to talk about money. A topic, which is currently also discussed in rFactor2's forums. We spent a lot of money in all these years developing our mods and providing our website, devblog and forums. So far we handled all expenses ourselves, but to continue funding the required ...

Getting started to … Texture

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Number two in our series of Tutorials to get you started into Modding. Today our topic is textures. How do I start? Compared to modeling, creating textures is rather simple and all good modding teams provide templates to get you started painting car designs. This is a rather autodidact approach, but a ...

Introduction and ’94

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

Hello all. I'm a relatively new member of CTDP; I joined in 2010.  My name is Philip Oakley, I'm 16 years old and a 3D modeller at CTDP. Dahie has recently given me the permission to post on the devblog, an act which I'm really grateful for. I'm currently modifying ...

Tattoo Friday

Friday, November 26th, 2010

The other day I felt like Steve Purcell. On our last team meeting, I was pointed to Jürgen Wellbrock who is crazy fan enough to tattoo our logo on his back. We salute you in gratitude and promise not to change our logo in the foreseeable future. :)

What was going on in March…

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

The past weeks have been very quiet here in the blog. This had several reasons. As a matter of fact one was not a lack of progress. At the moment we are working on two fronts. Andy, AndreasT and myself are reviewing the 1994-cars which have the furthest progress. We found several huge ...

First steps on a Modding Database

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Several months ago, when SimRaceway was just announced, many Modders, including CTDP withdrew their support of the platform due to a lack of communication from SRW. It's predecessor rFactorCentral was dying a slow death and something new was required. However with SRW knocking themselves out of the picture, the question ...