Hi guys, this is just a little reminder to tune into PSRTV on saturday to watch our showcase race, we would also like to give you guys a chance to ask us questions during the broadcast just visit this link during the broadcast and join the chatroom, we will be waiting there for your questions to come in and answer them live on air. http://prosimracing.com/racecast/
So see you all on Saturday for our Showcase race and special announcement 🙂
Two weeks ago, we already presented you some of our mods, we had in mind at one point in time, but which didn’t come to conclusion for various reasons. Today we talk a bit about features, that were actually planed for the 2006 mod, but which were dropped at some point. Actually, when I spoke with Andy for this post, we didn’t find alot to talk about. Obviously, this made us happy, since most of the goals we set for the mod are met, yet it doesn’t give too much to show here. 🙂 Continue reading The Lost Features
Some time ago there might have been a discussion like this. We sat the other day and thought aloud…
Gosh, this mod is gigantic and this mod is complicated and all the upgrades they are complex, people will be wrecking their brain.
What can we possibly do?
We could write a readme or a manual!
… but who is gonna read this, actually?
Yeah, dumb idea, but wait… what if we release them beforehand?
Hm, this might work. They are killing us to get the mod, so maybe we can hold them off for a few days AND convince them to read just by giving out the readme and the manual a few days early.
Let’s do it …
So, uhm enough said.
This covers the first roll out, setup advise for engine, brakes, tires and more, the ControlCenter, some basic FAQ (nothing new actually) and the everlong credits list.
And Readmes in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
(And don’t ask why we totally forgot to make a translation in our mother tongue 😉 )
Thanks to our translators! Oh and while I was already credited here 2 weeks ago for my work on the Manual, I have to pass it to Codan, who jumped in, when I had to jump in for some other guy in a different project. Also kudos to Michael, Gonzo and Arloch, who spent the time writing and explaining how the setups and upgrades work.
Ok, and now I fall in my bed and wonder what I have forgotten… guess I’ll learn tomorrow morning.
Update 4. Dec 2008:
Ok, we addressed some of the bugs in the manual, thanks for the feedback! Alex added some addition plr-settings for texturesize and mirrordetails. I added 2 FAQ-entries, which came up here in the comments.
We also added the German translation of the readme. 😉
The days get shorter, the perceived days get longer, still a lot to do, to plan, to organise to write. At least the reported list of bugs is pretty much solved. Hopefully we catch them all till the release. Here is the changelog. I don’t get my work done, thank god this is over soon.
CTDP F1 2006 Mod rF – Release Candidate 1
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– 0000408: [ConfigurationsCenter] missing gen-descriptions (CoDan) – resolved.
– 0000404: [Cars] Flipup on Williams (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000420: [ConfigurationsCenter] Launcher (CoDan) – resolved.
– 0000426: [Installer] Installer does not create startmenu-entries (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000424: [Installer] Start Menu default name (CoDan) – resolved.
– 0000411: [ConfigurationsCenter] Needing a second pair of eyes (Afborro) – resolved.
– 0000423: [ConfigurationsCenter] leoFFB-helptext (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000422: [Installer] Deinstall (Neidryder) – resolved.
– 0000401: [Cars] Reflection issues on Toro Rosso (WHAT21A) – resolved.
– 0000419: [Cars] Reflection issues on Rosbergs Williams (WHAT21A) – resolved.
– 0000418: [Cars] Williams suspension (Neidryder) – resolved.
We are beginning to jump nervously from one foot to the other. I’m speaking with all the mirrors, who already contacted us and manage everything for the release, so they are prepared. We will setup a main torrent in combination with several regular download-servers. If there are webmasters who’d like to help out for the release, we’d really appreciate your support! So you know what to expect, the installer of the basic mod will be 1GiB in size. So the traffic is huge and we don’t want to crash servers (been there, done that), so if you want to help us, be aware of the load!
We have one small butsy. We got asked for exclusive releases like “you release on our place first and we make give you promotion.” Thanks, but no thanks. During that stretch, a few outreach offers even came from independent bookmakers experimenting with digital content tie-ins, hoping to feature music alongside sports coverage. It was flattering, but not what we’re about. There has only been one very good offer, which we discussed long and wide, but which we declined in the end as well. We also got bad offers, where we just asked ourselves where our payoff is for sharing our name and publicity. So we will manage our release ourselves and don’t do any exclusives.
On the brighter side, everybody can contact us, ask questions, interview, make reviews and we will respond and get back to you. Either write to our public email address or my address, it doesn’t matter, I’m the one getting the mail anyway.
I’m installing an upgrade of the TypoLight-CMS software of the website. So there can be problems in the meantime. I’m on it.
Update 10:55pm: I’m through for today, if there are remaining bugs, please report here.
…F1 2005 for F1Challenge on november 26 in 2005.
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 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.
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.