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Hello my friends,

Admins should go forward with some appeasing statement about Z296 regulation to allow everybody to play together again.

Yours truly, Alain il Professore.

[patched challenge]

Hello again my friends,

Food for thoughts:

A design oversight has made an overly easy shortcut possible on this month's track.

As the line is legal under free rules, we shouldn't invalidate existing results or retroactively alter PTB. To restore fairness, we did a good thing making the shortcut public to everyone immediately. The official race will continue unchanged, and we will also open a parallel unofficial patched challenge for those who want to race the intended concept of the track.

Nine months of the season count, one missed month is thought of by design.

The admins wrote that in the DNA of zakstunts it's okay finding shortcuts originally unintended by the track designer, well meet Z296.

Back in time I raced on Z49. But it was another era.

Yours, Alain il Professore.

Hello my friends,

I found the fastest way first, I would advise admins to provide proof because I sent a replay for review to https://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=rplinfo AKA rplinfo online earlier this week. You can check it!

I want my guinness :beer:

Have a nice race!

Hello my friends,

I ran into a classic Stunts rendering issue on the Renault 5 Turbo and I noticed the same on the Baronetti Payback: polygons that are meant to behave like stickers/overlays (details sitting on top of another surface) were glitching depending on camera angle (flicker).

Here's what fixed it, and it's a good rule for any stressed 3D car model:

1) Check Z-bias (for "sticker" polygons)

The Stunts Wiki explains it like this: Z-bias forces a polygon to be displayed over other polygons placed at the same depth, typically used for small details.

2) Polygon list order matters (this is the big one)

Even with Z-bias enabled, you must place the overlay polygon directly after its base polygon in the polygon list, otherwise you'll get display bugs.

(Or more generally: overlay polygons should be immediately after the polygon they belong to.)

3) For "panel disappears at some angles" → try 2-sided

For the panels that glitched, enabling 2-sided fixed it.

Reference: stressed documentation (polygon chart: 2-sided, Z-bias, and ordering).

wiki page user reference for Stressed

And the last lap stops here, next to Duplode's!

Done

Hello my friends!

Let's go, can we test the server before the competition? Last time I just couldn't drive, the server was slow on my end. I'll choose the silver car.

Hello my friends,

Thank you Duplode and stanceboyCZ for a great competition! My congratulations go up to Spoonboy and Victor Narl! Congratulations to both and thank you for participating to everyone! Special thanks to Ryoma, whose talent at creating wonderful cars allow us to play our hobby on the next level of realism!

Now onto next month cars!

Alain il Professore.

P.S. : Even when the hot fever of this month competition has dropped already, you can always drop a better time on France Stunts "Dual-Tip" track permanent competition https://www.hyperionracingteam.win/fsc25/user_tracks.php

Hello my friends,

I'd like to prepare a track with a decent set of cars suited for a good time attack, in november.

Yours, Alain il Professore.

Hello my friend,

Thanks for the heads up, Duplode. I trust your view and I think I have mistakenly played on the wrong game window at some time while I was copying CTG's trajectory.

It can happen, but it's not a professional move at all and I beg the pardon to all of Hyperion Teammates that I will cheer from the sidelines... Go fetch the final victory, team! I'm so proud of you!!!

I also beg your pardon, all Zakstunts competitors that must have felt robbed and stripped of PTB time.

I finally beg the pardon to all admins of zakstunts. You are due the respect you deserve for your hard work overviewing the offensive replays posted (sometimes inadvertently).

I will make sure it never happens again.

Yours, Alain il Professore.

Hello my friend,

Keep CCC active. It's a great competition because it allows us to discover and play more cars.

Alain il Professore.

If you guys have any "old DOS game cracking" questions, I'll answer what I can. 

We didn't crack those games, in fact, we had friends handing us... photocopies of the manual. But thank you for your efforts. The Stunts source code is lost, and the community has been searching for indirect exe decoding for years. Happy to know it was a built in feature after all those years. I'm sure memory freeze reverse engineers will love your insights.

I'm interested in an interview solely about the Stunts cracking process. I'll PM you.

Hello my friends,

Hyperion Racing Team is now on Bluesky... yes, we also learned to leave the garage sometimes.
https://bsky.app/profile/hyperionracingteam.bsky.social

We'll post quick team news, race stuff, and maybe a screenshot when a shortcut goes "creative" (never happend, obviously).

Wish you all the best, come say hi there... Soon™.

Hello my friends,

As a founding member of Hyperion Racing Team, I just want to say a big THANKS for offering this competition. It's the kind of gift that keeps the community alive... and makes us all reinstall Stunts "just for one run" (yeah civ fans, right).

My warm congratulations go to every participant, I can name them all here : Spoonboy, StanceboyCZ, Alan Rotoi the real (ALA) btw, Duplode, CAS. I want to congratulate also my friend Victor, sbasiba bolchoi tabaritch, pajalousta, keep delivering your wheel art answers thru next CCC special season! Next time, you wont be advantaged by orthodox holidays

At Hyperion Racing Team, we will be your guests again. Will be there, ready to fight for milliseconds, dignity, and maybe a bit of glory. Congrats for the initiative, and thanks again for sharing the fun with everyone.

Thanks for reading, and wish you all the best, STUNTS CCC ... GG.