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I didn't even know we could do partial transparancy. My first thought was that you were dithering (one pixel color, the next transparent) but you're probably using some of the ingame "colors" like the bridge mesh right? That's how night and fog look different? Or does the mask actually support individual pixels being partially transparent?

Very nicely done!

By the way, story time.

We had both the tracks ready when Cas started (well, continued) looking for a name and logo that would tie the tracks together. For the Alan Parson's Project track he was (of course) thinking of something with music, and just in general because it's a race event he was thinking something like lightning, or rockets, or something else cool. The only music I could really connect to The Journey was road music, like born to be wild, route 66, rock and roll means always on the road kind of stuff. One song in particular stuck out, being as the map is the Netherlands, a Dutch trucker song called (translated) "with the flame in the pipe".

It's not at all a cool racing song (I'm very happy with the song selection for the video), which is why we didn't make the link explicit coming up to the event, but that's where the Flaming Exhaust name initially came from. Pixelarting a logo did the rest.

Awesome video!

The racing is surprisingly easy to follow for how little of the screen is actually used for each driver. Another advantage of the simple limited colors false shaded polygon style I suppose. Good design to try out options like that.

I didn't realize how far ahead* I actually was in the early stages of that first race.

One thing I'm only noticing now is that the maps included in the video are the original maps before final modifications. That's not really a complaint**, I like those maps, but it is a fun thing to notice.

*Ignoring my blatant cheating of using way too much time for resetting.
**And even if it was, you'll always keep finding things like that on a project with this kind of complexity.

I didn't find any other mistake

I am pretty sure I didn't beat frieshansen in the first race..

From the times on the forum it looks like you're right. You both did nine laps, and then ended where your numbers on the map are.

The error might come from my post of Frieshansen's laptimes, where the last line starts with 8:00.00, which could be skimmed as "did 8 laps". No wait, that doesn't make sense.

It would be kind of cool to do some event with national/regional/continental teams sometime. Changing things up. Like maybe a world championship ones every two years.

KyLiE's times:

1: 1:11.00
2: 2:10.05 - 59.05
3: 3:10.40 - 1:00.35
4: 4:10.45 - 1:00.05
5: 5:10.75 - 1:00.30
6: 6:09.45 - 58.70
7: 7:08.40 - 58.95
8:00.00: Just entered the first corner piece of the banked road southwest of the barn.

ds

Frieshansen:
1: 58:60
2: 1:50.15   -   51.55
3: 2:42.50   -   52.35
4: 3:33.65   -   51.15
5: 4:24.15   -   50.50
6: 5:15.70   -   51.55
7: 6:06.90   -   51.20
8: 6:58.55   -   51.65
9: 7:51.70   -   53.15
8:00.00: Jumping out of cork.

8 minute version

Unfinished, screwed up

Shortcuts are allowed as long as you don't pass any scenery elements (buildings, trees) on the wrong side.

Final clarification for this rule, because I didn't realize before that this could cause a disagreement: this is about the physical model of the scenery. Because going into the replay to see whether your wheels hit something is not very live race friendly. This is particularly relevant for the gas station down south. If you passed on the correct side of the main building itself it doesn't matter that you drove over the black asphalt, or even through the gas pumps.

One hour from now, in the chat!

On behalf of Cas and myself I have the honor of inviting you to the Flaming Exhaust event, a double live race, taking place on Sunday the 3rd of July, at 13:00 UTC, which corresponds to:
Sunday 10:00 Buenos Aires
Sunday 15:00 Budapest
Sunday 23:00 Brisbane

By the way, Buenos Aires is currently -3 and Brisbane is at +10 right?

Just checking myself before wrecking myself.

Three days until race day! Time to start running practice laps in between finishing your perfect Zakstunts run and getting your first runs on the new R4K track in! Too much racing! Is there even such a thing?!

Wait, Zakspeed is a Mercedes paint job. 
(Honestly the Mercedes might be the best of the 3 in terms of paint, it just has a bit more flexibility in the possible patterns, while the stripes on the BMW were complex enough to make it so that that's basically all the model can handle.)

I'll have the BMW with paint job 5, the light green one.

Audi Quattro V8 in the chic special paint please 

Ah, the "proudi", good choice. That was a fun paint scheme to work on.