Just wondering if there is an editor for the season files for GPL, if not its not hassle to type up a fresh one, but i was looking for something more along the lines of a randomizer, that could of course include all my installed tracks.
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Season.ini Generator/editor
Started by Compyableaphid52 , May 29 2020 - 08:09 AM
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Posted May 29 2020 - 08:09 AM
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Posted May 29 2020 - 08:20 AM
Compyableaphid52, on May 29 2020 - 08:09 AM, said:
Just wondering if there is an editor for the season files for GPL, if not its not hassle to type up a fresh one, but i was looking for something more along the lines of a randomizer, that could of course include all my installed tracks.
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Posted May 29 2020 - 08:34 AM
Compyableaphid52, on May 29 2020 - 08:20 AM, said:
I'm silly, I can just use GEM for this purpose, lol sorry about that, but if there does happen to be a track randomizer out there, doing a blind season like that would be fun!
(once it will be back online) you can find season.ini for all active seasons on Weekly.
Random season is a good idea.
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Posted May 29 2020 - 07:48 PM
I also like the idea of randomizing AI drivers in drivXX.ini. If the slider is set to race against 5 AI drivers, say, by default you're racing against 5 fast drivers. If you randomize the drivXX.ini for the mod you're using, you'll get a random choice of 5 drivers from the list; this makes for slower and more varied AI competition.
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Posted May 30 2020 - 10:44 AM
Ah, the Driver Randomizer. There was one for Nascar 2 (or 3?) but not for N2k3; probably because the former used txt files for driver parameters while the latter used hex files. Since GPL uses text files for drivers it probably wouldn't be too difficult for some knowledgeable soul to create a utility to randomize driver selection and/or performance.
The one I recall gave you four options for each driver performance parameter: the percent chance he would perform better than normal and by how much; and the percent chance he would perform worse than normal and by how much. So, for example, a front runner might have a 3% chance of up to 20% less power ...the loss may be so slight you would never notice or he may be a backmarker for that race. There was also a restore button to reset the defaults. I loved that little program, and spent untold hours tweaking the cfg file ...and naturally had one for each carset.
For less than a full field it could randomly select the specified number of drivers and create a new driver.ini with just them. (The Nascar util didn't do that, like GPL we always raced the best drivers.)
The one I recall gave you four options for each driver performance parameter: the percent chance he would perform better than normal and by how much; and the percent chance he would perform worse than normal and by how much. So, for example, a front runner might have a 3% chance of up to 20% less power ...the loss may be so slight you would never notice or he may be a backmarker for that race. There was also a restore button to reset the defaults. I loved that little program, and spent untold hours tweaking the cfg file ...and naturally had one for each carset.
For less than a full field it could randomly select the specified number of drivers and create a new driver.ini with just them. (The Nascar util didn't do that, like GPL we always raced the best drivers.)
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