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Great! So we are 5 pipsqueaks for now!

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/

Free rules. It will be a normal race, everybody at home .

[Rules:]

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.

*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.


Allowed
- use Replay Handling
- 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 dashboards
The 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

@Frieshansen did you sent the track to dreadnaut and Duplode?

I can do that for sure!

Congratulations @dreadnaut!! Let me know what I can do. Happy to help.

Thanks for the 6th place. Not sure yet if I'll have time to improve but if I do since it looks a tight race I'll probably be in a lower position

Please, don't change your schedule. This is an out of schedule live race so yours has priority. What do you think about an early April race? Next weekend (4/5 April) or the weeken after the next (11/12)?

Progress in these modes:

• Created Land Rover Defender 90's "Fog Race"
• Created Lada Niva's "Fog Race"
• Created Hummer H1's "Fog Race"
• Fixed Lada Niva's "Night Race" loading time
• Fixed Hummer H1's performance to match the other cars of the pack

Night mode and Fog mode are both ready and working without bugs. I'll share the files in the following days.
Lada Niva night mode had a loading time delay of about 8 seconds because of one of the mast but it was fixed and now it loads normally. The performance of Hummer H1 was enhanced to make it more competitive against the other cars of the pack because it had disadvantages in all performance aspects.

I'll organize an out of schedule live race for both modes in April so stay tuned!

More info of the modes in the wiki article: https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Night_race

You can check more info about it in the "dinosaur car" thread. (I couldn't find it to link here, but take a look in the forum, it must be there somewhere)

Bienvenido Xavi, gracias por compartir tu historia! What a nice detail you still have the original box in Spanish, disks and manual!

Maybe some car creator can teach me. The thing in attachment should be the Red Baron's triplane. Can you help me understand why the wheels are not turning, but another part of the model is steering?

(Yes, we might disagree about the meaning of "red", and the cockpit suspiciously resembles the Silverado's. Try to ignore those details, pretty please )

@alanrotoi , you who made spherical wheels on the Hexa! Maybe you can enlighten me?

If the wheels doesn't turn it might be because they must occupy the first positions in the polygon list.

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Maybe I'm not good at English but I don't see any disconnection. Again: you forgot to apply the current situation when something out of place happened. Somehow you are taking this as something against you or Alain when in fact Duplode's post was before you uploaded your replays, so I don't understand.

I think this is the fairest considering the situation.

We need to be clear: are the rules here Free or not Free anymore? As @dreadnaut said in August—there are many alternative competitions with stricter rules. But quote: "None of those are freestyle events, only ZakStunts." I don't understand how driving on WrongWay is any different from, say, "mowing the grass" in cars with PG?

If you check the races from time to time (twice a year average?) there are specific rules for the track. It's not new here. Why? to prevent boring laps like these. I also have been harmed? for these situational desitions before.

Remember, sometimes even restrictions can't stop creativity

Maybe I'm not good at English but I don't see any disconnection. Again: you forgot to apply the current situation when something out of place happened. Somehow you are taking this as something against you or Alain when in fact Duplode's post was before you uploaded your replays, so I don't understand.

I think this is the fairest considering the situation.