Ok, speaking with Michael revealed, he actually changed the league physics before the release from near-equal-physics, I talked about it, to complete identical physics. The cars also have the same wheel-base, which results in the cars floating slightly, this is an inconvience, but one you’ll have to live with. I’ll write to the leagues today, who have been waiting impatiently so far.
Category: F1 2006
CTDP Preview Race on PSRTV
PSRTV would like to apologize to anyone that experienced technical difficulties during the CTDP preview race this past weekend. One of our service providers experienced a serious issue on Saturday that disrupted connectivity during the event. To prevent outages like this from disrupting service in the future we have implemented an improved redundancy system this week. In addition, the ProSimRacing.com website which saw heavy traffic during the event has been updated to handle additional load. Thank you for your continued support.
For anyone that missed the event live you can watch the broadcast replay at www.psrtv.com.
Congratulations to CTDP on another outstanding F1 mod!
Sincerely,
PSRTV Dev Team
ProSimRacing.com
Note: PSRTV scales bandwidth for broadcast events based on need. The issue afflicting Saturday’s race was due to an unrelated incident, which has since been resolved.
Supported track
The mod doesn’t include any tracks, but the mod supports many tracks. This is used for the upgrades, which change automatically to the according upgrades.
Some reported “missing tracks”. Missing is relative, because we can’t know all tracknames that exist out there, so we already called twice to get lists of tracks, we should support and we do so know. This trackname will be added in the next version of the mod, which will be the last chance to add new tracks.
What about the templates?
I read just a few people asking for templates. Well to those few, templates will come. Most are pretty ready,but they where done before the betatesting so they need to get some of the bugfixes.I’ll work on it during the week to get them out as soon as possible. They have been on my personal todo list long enough. Just so you know, we didn’t forget them.
Sound Issue
Hi guys,
We want to clear some things about this now. First of all, the whole CTDP Team is the opinion, that Michael Ode did a good job on our sounds. But this topic is very sensetive that’s why we decided to add more sounds to cover all tastes. That’s why we added the ISI BMW sounds and asked FSone for permission of their sounds.
Now Luca de Leo appeared and said we don’t have any permission. He gave permission to FSone and they are not allowed to give permission to anybody else. Well we’re sorry for that, but how could we know that? We asked the Fsone guys. We went the offical way to get permission so we couldn’t know. So there are two options now for us. Delete it out of the mod or add the credits with the next patch. We hope to get in contact with Luca,soon to sort that out. We announced the use of these sounds long time ago and more than a few times,too. So we’re wondering a bit why there was no e-mail or no try to contact us about that issue.
The unofficial MMG Soundpackage was not part of our release and we didn’t know anything about it. If anybody wants to add more sounds to the mod using the ControlCenter function we have no problem with it but PLEASE, ask for permission!
To make one point clear, we did nothing wrong, we thought we gave credits to the right persons for the sounds. We’re sorry that this situation now happened but we couldn’t know.
Update:
Luca gave us permission now when we add him to the credits next time we update the mod. Thanks Luca de Leo for giving permission for the use of FSONE sounds!
Promo-Video by Simon Adebisi
Simon is one of our testers at the FSR and created this cool promo. We as in CTDP wash our hands in innocents, this is his doing. 🙂
Fake 3D arms and plastic trees
Fake plastic trees , when I think of the 3d arms in rfactor it reminds me of a Radiohead song and that is exactly what any of the 3d arms are in rfactor 😉 but it gets raised again and again, today we had a post about, and people want them, and as some may have read, I did promise some some time back after release I would do something.
I appreciate this is also an area that is a must have for some and not for others, nevertheless I wouldn’t want to deny poeple enjoying our upcoming ctdp06 mod, if not having those fake plastic trees prevented them playing it at all.
I am not going to spend a great deal perfecting them, this took all of 15 minutes for a team to make, so it is literally not much to do for all teams, but I did these some time back and only Ferrari done right now to try it. If you don’t like them sorry 🙂 I made these based on our biped driver model used for the current driver with static arms.
As such we wont support it, it wont be part of the install at release time, and I am not sure how soon afterwards I will release them, but probably of the order of the same week or fortnight or so I will make available a download, so it is simply a question of extracting some files to the team folders (and it wont cause mismatches).
Also I will add some notes about how if you wanted to disable them in cockpit view, but only have them working in the tvcam, this is also possible.
So no more need to email us about fake plastic trees, or ask 🙂
Regarding the CTDP05 arms email we had the other day, it has not been discusssed yet what to do, we are in a busy period right now and expect delays in replies to such things. Until they have been dicussed internally but as was asked nicely and done the right way, you will hear from on of us, at some point.
Changelog for Beta3
Beta testing still going on. Since the beginning of our bugtracking for 2006 we had 250 issues reported and about 240 are fixed. One or two hands full (depending on the number of fingers) is up for the next few days. Today Beta 3 was given to the testers and here is the changelog.
CTDP F1 2006 Mod rF – Beta 3
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– 0000370: [Cars] Mirrors all cars can’t see behind (Afborro) – resolved.
– 0000400: [Cars] Reflection issues on Red Bull (WHAT21A) – resolved.
– 0000262: [Cars] Cockpit Steering wheel shift lights (Afborro) – resolved.
– 0000413: [Cars] Safety car wheels are ‘too shiney’ (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000399: [Cars] BMW: Driver names too small (WHAT21A) – resolved.
– 0000402: [Cars] Williams Driver Names (WHAT21A) – resolved.
– 0000403: [Cars] Tire Textures Lower Lods (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000395: [Cars] Ferrari: Italy frontwing issues by 656 (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000230: [Cars] Cannot get ingame with Midland/Spyker DX7 (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000253: [General] Tachometer Graphic Update (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000307: [Cars] Williams overall shape mistakes (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000404: [Cars] Mapping Issue Williams (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000396: [Cars] Renault Internal Sidepod whole (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000382: [Cars] Hole in Chimney on BMW (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000398: [General] Fsone sound missing in CC (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000393: [General] wrong path & dialog for uninstalling alpha-versions (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000394: [Installer] Installer (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000391: [General] Incomplete Credits list (Dahie) – resolved.
One more thing, the manual is still up, but I was also hit by time-constraints and so the manual will only be in English for now.
CTDP & Formula Sim-Racing Collaboration – Showcase Race
Hi everyone, Over the past few week’s and month’s, CTDP & FSR have worked close to get the 2006 mod as good as possible with alot of the FSR driver’s taking part in our beta test series race’s throughout the last few month’s.
With this we have decided to end the series on a high note and broadcast the event Live on PSRTV for all to enjoy. The event will take place on December 6th from 18:00GMT using the CTDP 2006 mod @ Interlagos Circuit Brazil. Interview’s with dev’s will take place during the broadcast aswell as the usual high drama FSR action on track with the likes of Patrick De Wit, FSR WS PRO Champion Mikko Puumalainnen, David Greco, FSR WS ACE Champion Fred Gosling and many more FSR regular’s (including me 🙂 ) all taking part in the event. You never know we may even have a very special announcement to make, so join us December 6th 2008 for Live coverage of CTDP-FSR Showcase race live from Interlagos, Brazil on Prosimracing.com
We would like to Thank Dave Carr-Smith for organizing the race and getting all car’s assigned to driver’s to make the race as competative as possible.
Changelog for Beta2
The second beta is given to our testers. The first run was quite effective I think. Many things where reported and the majority is already fixed in the Beta2. Untill the release there will be a scheduled Beta 3 and one Release Candidate. Thanks to the testers, keep up the good job!
Here is the changelog from Beta 1 to Beta 2.