Generations - (2024-03-17)

[alanrotoi]

It's a beautiful cockpit design, is the miniature in the center intended to be a small example of the Melange on the dashboard or a digital screen?A diecast miniature of Melange would be amazing!!

It's an Opponent Proximity Sensor

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[Cas]

Imagine if cars had a plug-in file that allows you to implement very specific behaviours for cars and their dashboards!  A dream!

[Overdrijf]

Wait, you changed the font for the digital speedometer? That's a thing you can do?

[alanrotoi]

Yes and no. This graphic was originaly about the differences between 2012's and 19th anniversary versions. For v1.0 I only changed the roof.

About the numbers of the digital speedometer they are just sepsrated images so I used a different font for every image, saved as png and replaced them. Just like ctg did from 2003 to 2012 versions.
2003 version has the corvette's font but in black because the background color. For 2012 version ctg changed them. For 19th Anniversary I changed everything including the font of the numbers.

[Erik Barros]

This race was incredible, I made a video and the dynamics of live races are very interesting. Unfortunately the size of the video is too heavy to attach directly to the forum, I uploaded it to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3Xbd2dDak

[alanrotoi]

This race was incredible, I made a video and the dynamics of live races are very interesting. Unfortunately the size of the video is too heavy to attach directly to the forum, I uploaded it to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3Xbd2dDak

Excellent video!!! I have to implement this system in my videos too! What a memorable race we had

[Cas]

Very good!  I can see I was super slow at that race, ha, ha... Even Duplode passed me at the end and Alan almost did as well, ha, ha. Very interesting to see how cars tend to separate more when they go past the dirt block and around the banked road at the East end.

[Chulk]

This race was incredible, I made a video and the dynamics of live races are very interesting. Unfortunately the size of the video is too heavy to attach directly to the forum, I uploaded it to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3Xbd2dDak

I love how a single shortcut can make you win or lose a track in this format. Duplode won mainly because he cut the 3 chicanes part better, thus keeping more speed for the banked road section. It can be seen very clearly around 1:30 when Alan was close behind but for the next bridge lost a lot compared to Dup

[alanrotoi]

This race was incredible, I made a video and the dynamics of live races are very interesting. Unfortunately the size of the video is too heavy to attach directly to the forum, I uploaded it to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3Xbd2dDak

I love how a single shortcut can make you win or lose a track in this format. Duplode won mainly because he cut the 3 chicanes part better, thus keeping more speed for the banked road section. It can be seen very clearly around 1:30 when Alan was close behind but for the next bridge lost a lot compared to Dup

Exactly! The track was very simple in the porpose of make it easy for a live race (no crashes, no hidden corners, no water) so everybody was very close. But Duplode managed to make it better with a subtle shortcut. That's what a top pipsqueak does. Remember, I built the track and I built the car... details that could make anybody (including me!) that it turns the chances on my side but still he won.

Maybe is the live race I enjoyed the most. I spent time working on the track, testing the jumps, the corners, the terrain, the external elements to make the pipsqueaks know where they are (the bridge columns to the east and the dirt road tile to mark where you have to slowdown without getting out of the track). I put a lot of effort on the track. There was a special mention "Man of the Race" for the pipsqueak who made more quantity of jumps. It added another spice to the race. having more than one winner in different tasks was a good decision. Also a race with all Melange generations felt good. Maybe I'll prepare another Melange race like this in the future. I hope you'll be there too

[dreadnaut]

I hope you'll be there too

Sign me up!

[Spoonboy]

Hey all,

Just trying a self-imposed pseudo-live v1.0 run here, to test my methods.
Could someone watch my replay and give my race a report? Would be interesting to know how I would have placed!

Felt like a rough start, and the chicanes were hard to get neat.
Only used RH for 3-4 corrections for later braking, mostly before the first corner. Think I had over a minute left on the 12min timer.

But it was a fun track - these fast simple tracks look good for testing cars!

[alanrotoi]

I can check it in few hours. Let's see where did you end and how was the ride. Howbmany jumps did you do?

[Spoonboy]

I can check it in few hours. Let's see where did you end and how was the ride. Howbmany jumps did you do?

Thankyou!
Ended in mid-air above the first tunnel
Not sure on jumps, had a couple of magic carpets and a few banking jumps.

[alanrotoi]

Hey all,

Just trying a self-imposed pseudo-live v1.0 run here, to test my methods.
Could someone watch my replay and give my race a report? Would be interesting to know how I would have placed!

Felt like a rough start, and the chicanes were hard to get neat.
Only used RH for 3-4 corrections for later braking, mostly before the first corner. Think I had over a minute left on the 12min timer.

But it was a fun track - these fast simple tracks look good for testing cars!

I checked your replay. Since you raced in the "teaser track", not the one we used in the race (we tend to publish a last minute changed track to make sure the replays are made in the event time and not before, check here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ8Vta8-1S8)

Anyway, I have some thoughts about your driving. It's a race against the clock so you can tell the rush in your fingers, the exaggerated breaking before corners and the not taking advantage of the speedups. This is totally normal, even more if it's your first "deferred" live race. You can't be in every detail the whole race  and you can't be perfect in every corner or every jump. You can solve a corner or a trick just right there in the middle of the live race but most of times wins a conservative driving + some known of shortcuts and practice. Watch the video and the different laps of the pipsqueaks. Watching how others races in the same conditions sometimes helps to learn details. A tip: don't be afraird of the corners. I saw the corner you mentioned, the one after the jumps and before the banked corner, and you break too much and a bit early. I left a dirt road tile in that straight as a sign where, more or less, you could slow down. Also other indicators of the corner were the columns of the highway. Some of these details you'll find in the track of the live race this Sunday


Did you feel the adrenaline? Think about that feeling x10 in the context of the live race. Everybody racing at the same limited time. A race against other pipsqueaks, against the clock, against own imperfections, which most of them you don't have time to improve with replay handling. That's the best I can with my limited english

BTW you did 83 jumps.

[Spoonboy]

Hey all,

Just trying a self-imposed pseudo-live v1.0 run here, to test my methods.
Could someone watch my replay and give my race a report? Would be interesting to know how I would have placed!

Felt like a rough start, and the chicanes were hard to get neat.
Only used RH for 3-4 corrections for later braking, mostly before the first corner. Think I had over a minute left on the 12min timer.

But it was a fun track - these fast simple tracks look good for testing cars!

I checked your replay. Since you raced in the "teaser track", not the one we used in the race (we tend to publish a last minute changed track to make sure the replays are made in the event time and not before, check here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ8Vta8-1S8)

Anyway, I have some thoughts about your driving. It's a race against the clock so you can tell the rush in your fingers, the exaggerated breaking before corners and the not taking advantage of the speedups. This is totally normal, even more if it's your first "deferred" live race. You can't be in every detail the whole race  and you can't be perfect in every corner or every jump. You can solve a corner or a trick just right there in the middle of the live race but most of times wins a conservative driving + some known of shortcuts and practice. Watch the video and the different laps of the pipsqueaks. Watching how others races in the same conditions sometimes helps to learn details. A tip: don't be afraird of the corners. I saw the corner you mentioned, the one after the jumps and before the banked corner, and you break too much and a bit early. I left a dirt road tile in that straight as a sign where, more or less, you could slow down. Also other indicators of the corner were the columns of the highway. Some of these details you'll find in the track of the live race this Sunday


Did you feel the adrenaline? Think about that feeling x10 in the context of the live race. Everybody racing at the same limited time. A race against other pipsqueaks, against the clock, against own imperfections, which most of them you don't have time to improve with replay handling. That's the best I can with my limited english

BTW you did 83 jumps.

Haha thats great, thanks for counting! XD
And thanks for the advice. I can see the buzz from racing against the clock on a new track! I remember watching the video (and enjoying the soundtrack!) but will rewatch and also practice more. Not just racing approach but also timing methods to make sure nothing goes wrong, whenever I do race for real.