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Next Live race this Sunday 12th of April!!
- 09:00 Buenos Aires
- 09:00 São Paulo
- 13:00 London
- 14:00 Amsterdam
- 14:00 Paris
- 14:00 Rome
- 14:00 Budapest
- 15:00 Helsinki
- 15:00 Moscow
- 22:00 Brisbane
Download the attached Stunts with the tracks and cars and start practicing!
Rules:There are 2 + 1 stages.
Stage 1 - Fog race
Skid Vicious time: 7:15.85
Stage 2 - Night race
Skid Vicious time: 7:46.80
Stage 3 - Day race
Skid Vicious time: 6:38.75
Every race will last 12 minutes. You have to finish your lap as fast as you can. Since the event will be broadcasted we can check fast if the rules are fulfilled and also if your game stops at the 10th minute we can see the point you stoppped (it shouldn't happen because the tracks aren't that long and it's shared a week before the race to have time to make all the test laps you want).
You have to share your replay by uploading it to the forum as usual. If you couldn't end the lap at *time the last frame of your lap will be taken from the broadcast as your official location.
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it could be because you lost much time using RH or if you couldn't finish the track before 10 minutes.
If all pipsqueaks finishes before 12 minutes we can step forward the next stage to save time. We can do the chekings at the end if we lack of time.
There will be
Stage winners and
a Rally winner. Furthermore,
a Jump master for every stage and for the Rally.
The winner is who did the fastest lap and/or who was closer to the finish line. (everybody will finish but just in case :) )
The cars: we'll use
Hummer H1, Lada Niva 4x4 and Land Rover Defender 90. One different car per stage. So you for example you choose Hummer for Fog race, then in the Night race you race with Lada or Land Rover and in the last race you have to use the one you didn't use yet. You'll find a night race, a fog race and a normal race versions of every car of the pack.
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Allowed- use Replay Handling
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You must choose a different car per stage between Hummer H1, Lada Niva and Land Rover. Since at the end everybody will race with all three cars it would be nice if most of us choose different cars for the same track.
Forbidden- to change the camera (forbidden to press F2, F3, F4, D, C, etc.). We'll broadcast the rally so it will be easy to check if everything is ok. So, for the sake of immersion, please keep the normal F1 view with the modified dashboard.
Track explanation:
It's almost impossible to crash so almost the only reason to go back and re-drive would be if you got out of the road or turn a corner faster, that kind of things. The track has some elements but it won't have slaloms, loops or corkscrew up/down to avoid crashes. Furthermore, you won't find "sudden" corners, in order to make a fluent drive and focus on the main objetive to drive "at night" and "in fog". Luckily, you'll need to use RH only few times.
Our beloved opponent Skid Vicious tested the tracks with Hummer H1. I'm pretty sure we will do it faster in average than him.
Night & Fog dashboardsThe Night race dashboard and the fog race dashboard are modifications of the car dashboard to simulate those enviroments and the only ilumination are the car lights. We can race at night and in fog!
These dashboards makes the ride a bit more difficult because of the vision is limited to car lights. The rest of the screen you can watch the track and the desert but in dark colors. Also signs like the "piano" can't be seen without the car lights. You won't find obscure elements that you can't see them comming. The fog dashboard takes all the colors to grey scale. The grass and the paved road has the same grey color so the only way to know where is the road is following the road lines which are black instead of yellow.
For in-depth explanations check the wiki article: https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Night_race
You can download the Stunts version with all the night, fog and normal versions of the cars and the tracks:
Cars:
- Hummer H1
- Hummer H1 - Night race
- Hummer H1 - Fog race
- Lada Niva 4x4
- Lada Niva 4x4 - Night race
- Lada Niva 4x4 - Fog race
- Land Rover Defender 90
- Land Rover Defender 90 - Night race
- Land Rover Defender 90 - Fog race
Tracks:
- Nstage1.trk - Fog race track
- Nstage2.trk - Night race track
- Nstage3.trk - Daytime race track
Hello my friends,
I have two questions:
1. Is it OWOOT or Free?
2. Is it server or local game?
Yours, Alain il Professore.
Free rules. It will be a normal race, everybody at home ;) .
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 07, 2026, 01:07:43 AM- to change the camera (forbidden to press F2, F3, F4, D, C, etc.).
How will you check the camera switching of participants without a server?
We will broadcast the race so we'll check it live. ;) We had some broadcasted races before. We join in a link and our dosbox window will be shared.
@Erik Barros will be on charge of that part as usual. Just like the last race we'll meet in the chatroom: https://forum.stunts.hu/chat/
Count me in.... I've got tons of things in my head and I don't want to forget to feel free to ping me in Telegram all you can! 8)
Great! So we are 5 pipsqueaks for now!
Great!! I'll be at the race and we'll be live streaming it on the community's YouTube channel.
We've already done three broadcasts.
Live Races Link (https://www.youtube.com/@stunts-retrogame/streams)
I will create a room on vdo.ninja (http://vdo.ninja) (which is a web application for meetings, conferences, and remote streaming), I will generate a link that participants need to open in a tab (preferably in a browser with the Chromium engine), and ask them to stream the DOSBox tab. I will capture the result of the stream using OBS Studio. If you want to access the vdo.ninja website to understand how it works, it's very simple and a great solution for streaming.
I'm in too! Might as well announce my car choice:
Fog: Defender (purple)
Night: Hummer (purple)
Day: Niva (purple)
I'll comment on the "Night" filter. I really didn't like that the red and white curb looked uniform and indistinguishable from the highway - it's unrealistic, this can't happen on a normal night. Overall, it feels like it's not Stunts anymore (or not quite Stunts), but some other game.
It's fun to race like this. Due to the increased difficulty I suggest to race in easy tracks like those I built for the event. The key is the immersion, so you have to chose a specific horizon, a more or less predictable route and not so many stunts to avoid constant crashes. Also you don't have to fear of the dark ;) I'll add suggestions and tips for these kind of mods which should come with certain type of tracks to exploit the experience at max.
See you on tomorrow's broadcast.
https://youtube.com/live/DBHAx7E4d9A (https://youtube.com/live/DBHAx7E4d9A)
I pick:
Fog: Lada Niva (yellow)
Night: Hummer (yellow)
Day: Land Rover (yellow)
Hello my friends,
For each race I'll drive:
First race FOG NIVA Jodie Red Special
Second race NIGHT ROVER Jodie Red Special
Third race DAY HUMMER Jodie Red Special
Yours, Alain il Professore.
fog race
Stage 1 - Fog
First race replay
fog st1
Night st2
Night race
Stage 2 - Night
Second race (night)
Day st3
Third race (daytime)
Stage 3 - Day
Day race
Hello again my friends,
Uploading the official results.
Good luck everyone.
Results:
Fog Stage Car Jumps Avg Speed Color
Rotoi 6:37.60 Land Rover 30 103 Green
Alain 7:01.15 Niva 28 97 Red
Erik 7:01.80 Niva 30 97 Russian
Victor 7:10.00 Hummer 25 95 Blue
Cas 7:12.80 Niva 35 94 Yellow
Night Stage
Rotoi 7:00.75 Niva 32 103 Green
Victor 7:16.75 Land Rover 34 99 Cyan
Alain 7:29.60 Land Rover 36 97 Red
Erik 7:31.00 Land Rover 29 96 Grey
Cas 8:03.90 Hummer 29 90 Yellow
Day Stage
Victor 5:42.55 Niva 30 103 Blue
Rotoi 5:59.45 Hummer 26 100 Green
Cas 5:59.80 Land Rover 29 100 Yellow
Erik 6:25.65 Hummer 27 93 Brown
Alain 6:29.95 Hummer 27 92 Red
JUMPS
Alain 91
Victor 89
Rotoi 88
Erik 86
Cas 83
Overall Time
Rotoi 19:37,80
Victor 20:09,30
Erik 20:58,45
Alain 21:00,70
Cas 21:16,50
Thank you guys for participating!! It was quiet fun! I'll make a nice infographic chart with this data but I wanted to publish them asap.
Hello my friends,
Related YT content
VICTOR WINS ON COSMONAUTICS DAY! (https://youtu.be/xKNvkii67F0)
Cool video Alain! Victor did a great lap there!
Results for every stage and overall!! Thank you for participating. It was a great event, lots of fun! ;D ;D
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Hello my friends,
Thank you for keeping Le Stunts spirit and Pershing II + Juank23 legacy alive (the founding ultimate no RH challengers)
Yours, Alain il Professore.
So great! It was a lot of fun and I see I finally accomplished something in a live race 8) Ha, ha... First in jumps in the fog one and 3rd place (not last) in the daytime one :)
Quote from: Cas on April 12, 2026, 10:27:59 PMSo great! It was a lot of fun and I see I finally accomplished something in a live race 8) Ha, ha... First in jumps in the fog one and 3rd place (not last) in the daytime one :)
3rd place for only 0.35 secs! :o
I had the impulse to create a good immersion atmosphere in every stage. The terrain, the horizon and the elements have to work in favor of the stage.
The Fog race starts and ends with very long straights. A lot of fog and loneliness with an unusual straight lenght into a strage village.
The Night stage starts with a chicane road going into a dark tunnel and you have a dark village at a side. It ends with dark boats on water near a dark village.
The day stage starts in the coast sorrounded by many boats and it ends in a large village.
These tracks look brilliant, sad I missed this! But nice to read the thread, and see you had a great time!
I'm really sorry for having missed the event, and in particular for doing so by foolishly forgetting to double-check the start time yesterday... To atone a bit for that, I'll now give the fog track a go under race conditions -- can't leave the new mod untested, after all! :D
Quote from: Duplode on April 13, 2026, 12:22:47 AMI'll now give the fog track a go under race conditions -- can't leave the new mod untested, after all! :D
Here it is, a very unofficial 6:49.40 with the Defender. I enjoyed the mod -- it feels different from the night one, and it does feel like fog!
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 12, 2026, 10:58:46 PMI had the impulse to create a good immersion atmosphere in every stage. The terrain, the horizon and the elements have to work in favor of the stage.
The Fog race starts and ends with very long straights. A lot of fog and loneliness with an unusual straight lenght into a strage village.
The Night stage starts with a chicane road going into a dark tunnel and you have a dark village at a side. It ends with dark boats on water near a dark village.
The day stage starts in the coast sorrounded by many boats and it ends in a large village.
Could you make special effects/light filters like in the game Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge? It would be interesting to see things like this: white fog, rain, and snow
Hello my friends,
Full stats: 100 MPH & 32 jumps
Well done!
Hello my friends,
Stunts Trivia: who can name the race and pipsqueak featured on the DEFAULT.RPL from the live race, visible sometimes in the live feed?
Hint: the car is yellow.
Quote from: Alain il professore on April 13, 2026, 01:19:26 PMHello my friends,
Stunts Trivia: who can name the race and pipsqueak featured on the DEFAULT.RPL from the live race, visible sometimes in the live feed?
Hint: the car is yellow.
Well done Alain finding the easter egg ;)
Quote from: Victor Narl on April 13, 2026, 09:30:26 AMQuote from: alanrotoi on April 12, 2026, 10:58:46 PMI had the impulse to create a good immersion atmosphere in every stage. The terrain, the horizon and the elements have to work in favor of the stage.
The Fog race starts and ends with very long straights. A lot of fog and loneliness with an unusual straight lenght into a strage village.
The Night stage starts with a chicane road going into a dark tunnel and you have a dark village at a side. It ends with dark boats on water near a dark village.
The day stage starts in the coast sorrounded by many boats and it ends in a large village.
Could you make special effects/light filters like in the game Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge? It would be interesting to see things like this: white fog, rain, and snow
Alain Prost was Alain Phosphate in the game.
(https://i.imgur.com/dR5WaNB.png)
@Victor Narl ... Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge is a classic I absolutely love. Very simple, yet fun game with brings some nostalgia. Only once, I had a magazine about PC games during that golden era and among the games featured in that magazine, was this one. And I think it's the only one that showed in that magazine that I later got and played (another one was Syndicate, I remember, but I've never played it).
Quote from: Victor Narl on April 13, 2026, 09:30:26 AMQuote from: alanrotoi on April 12, 2026, 10:58:46 PMI had the impulse to create a good immersion atmosphere in every stage. The terrain, the horizon and the elements have to work in favor of the stage.
The Fog race starts and ends with very long straights. A lot of fog and loneliness with an unusual straight lenght into a strage village.
The Night stage starts with a chicane road going into a dark tunnel and you have a dark village at a side. It ends with dark boats on water near a dark village.
The day stage starts in the coast sorrounded by many boats and it ends in a large village.
Could you make special effects/light filters like in the game Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge? It would be interesting to see things like this: white fog, rain, and snow
I could work on rain windshield based in the same concept but don't expect animations or a wiper. I did something similar of a rain effect some years ago that could work.
BTW a Mars environment could work ;)
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Quote from: Cas on April 14, 2026, 12:21:50 AM@Victor Narl ... Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge is a classic I absolutely love. Very simple, yet fun game with brings some nostalgia. Only once, I had a magazine about PC games during that golden era and among the games featured in that magazine, was this one. And I think it's the only one that showed in that magazine that I later got and played (another one was Syndicate, I remember, but I've never played it).
I was on the DGC episode for Syndicate, as it was one of my childhood favourites! Well worth trying again, though the aged interface can take getting used to.
https://www.dosgameclub.com/syndicate/
Syndicate was one of my favorite games as well. I recommend you to give a try the story is kinda cyberpunk. Very good graphics for 1993.
Quote from: Victor Narl on April 13, 2026, 09:30:26 AMCould you make special effects/light filters like in the game Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge? It would be interesting to see things like this: white fog, rain, and snow
Also, the research and development of the mask color to find the different effects takes time. I'll upload the masks and everything in the wiki article.
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 13, 2026, 01:50:25 PMWell done Alain finding the easter egg ;)
It reminded me of an easter egg in the mega pack that hasn't been located yet ;)
What is the mega pack?
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 12, 2026, 09:26:34 PMCool video Alain! Victor did a great lap there!
Thanks for the congratulations. I also congratulate you on the overall victory and victories in 2 stages. The race overall was fun, and we look forward to future online races.
Hello my friends,
Artist impression of Cas 3D rendition of each race.
Stage 1 FOG race (https://youtu.be/_7_P_hoAf4w?si=qUQwQMsC0iLmHvFe)
Stage 2 NIGHT race (https://youtu.be/afMxRvSKOec?si=b0aDHiyX1DtYlIL7)
Stage 3 DAY race (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmP6QTyeSeA)
Yours, Alain il Professore.
Thank you,
@Alain il professore, for arranging, editing and posting my renders. It's amazing what we can all do together in the community!
Stage 1 video released!! Fog race!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPklj_lKX4
Very neat! I really enjoyed watching it side by side together with the 3D render
Stage 2 Night live race video released!
https://youtu.be/p_dw48gt0hY
Stage 3 DAY live race video released!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WToJ7xaRtfc
Next step: a video compilation of the three stages and overall stats of the event at the end!!
Great to watch! 8)
You and me were so close the whole race!! Sometimes one ahead and sometimes the other! A great fight!
Also there is a mistake in the final results. Your time was 5:59.75 (0:00.05 less than the published time). So the time difference between us is only 0:00.30 !!
Now the complete event video with overall rankings, statistics by pipsqueak, by stage and by car!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI87Xv0hvTY
Quote from: alanrotoi on May 13, 2026, 01:12:52 AMNow the complete event video with overall rankings, statistics by pipsqueak, by stage and by car!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI87Xv0hvTY
Thanks for the video, but I'll still point out the main drawback: your race map diagrams don't have real-time images of the positioning of moving cars, so the exact position of the pipsqueaks is unknown. I know that in your previous Liveraces there were such images.
I know it's a cool feature but I didn't learn to do it so I ask
@Erik Barros who helps me in this part. He's also busy so I don't want to bother in every video for this detail.