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[dangermouse]

It seems that this important addon is not listed here nor can I find it hosted anywhere, sorry. Now you can find it here.


Zandvoort_Multi_season_update

by Remy Roesz, Paul Skingley , Rob Hunter and Steffen Weitzdörfer.

This update to the GPL Zandvoort track should be installed over an original version of the zandvort track from the GPL CD.
If you have other updates already, rename or remove your zandvort folder and copy in a fresh version from the GPL CD.
Copy the CONTENTS of the supplied zandvort folder to your zandvort folder.

This update is not Voodoo compatible and is recommended for use on modern PC systems with 3ghz processor or better.

Contains mod specific files for 65, 66, 67 ( default ) and 69.

1/Different Horizons depicting weather conditions on the race days of each season.
2/Changing banners, buildings, textures and track objects depicting the track on the race days of each season.
3/Pit wall and armco for 1969.
4/Main straight bridge only present in 1966.
5/New hotels and hanger building.
6/Many new textures and objects.
7/Different groove for each season.

NOTE
if you wish to pack the files into the dat after installaion, only pack 3do, mips and srb. Do not pack the mod specific files.

 Zandvoort Multi Season Update.jpg   197.21K   19 downloads

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 Zandvoort_Multi_season_update.zip   24.9MB   1884 downloads


Little fix to the camera guy srb by ginetto
 single6.7z   2.5K   455 downloads

Steffen W; 25-06-2008 said:

Dear Downloaders,
please delete the file named trackCM.ini in your zandvort folder.
It may cause trouble in the future where we all will have forgotten about it existing.
While there you also may want to delete cmpic.pbf since it is not clear whether that filename will ever be used, leaving this file there is no problem though.
Steffen

You can find Rudy's lite version over HERE.

[Burnsy865]

THANK YOU DM

This is excellent, do you know of any other tracks that are going to have this done to them?

Craig

[Bernd Nowak]

There's a lot of work going on for Mexico and Kyalami was mentioned too but I think MExico is the next one I'm aware

[Burnsy865]

Thanks Bernd. I now have another thing to look forward to for this ever improving sim.

[plons]

A question,

If I regroove the track without selecting any objects will everything still be present?

I'm asking because right now i have a few grandstands on the track after regrooving  

If some things will be gone, anyone care to explain how and what objects I have to select to keep everything as it is ? (I know I'm a noob )

Thanks

[Frenchy]

The multi-season update has different grooves for each season so you don't really need to regroove. The developers of the update put a lot of effort in to getting it all right and probably be offended if you regroove.

But just out of technical interest, the solution (for non-multi-season-update tracks) is to unpack the .DAT file (with Doodat or similar) and repack with all the appropriate add-on files included. Then you should be able to regroove without unwanted effects. I doubt this will work with the multi-season update tracks cause the Racing Line will load the 3do instead of the the 366 file etc. I once found a tutorial on this but can't locate it now. Someone with better knowledge may be more help.

[dangermouse]

More MECH sceenies:

Frenchy, on May 31 2009, 02:34 AM, said:

I doubt this will work with the multi-season update tracks cause the Racing Line will load the 3do instead of the the 366 file etc. I once found a tutorial on this but can't locate it now. Someone with better knowledge may be more help.

I would have thought renaming as needed would have worked but I don't really know. although I can't see the need of doing this for this great track addon. I would have said there are a lot more needy tracks out there but each to their own.....

Wouldn't it be best to ask this question in a different forum rather than this thread? How about HERE.

[Nuwanda]

Very nice update and I see the differences beztween the 67, 66, and 69er Mod. I applied all modspecific-patches, but I cant see any difference between the 65-Mod and the 67-Standard. Shouldn`t there be modspecific graphics for the 65-Mod with the newest patch applied?

[one2fwee]

So far i've only tried 67s but it's really nice

I like the new groove - certainly helped me improve a bit.

The only problem I have is that braking down to turn 1 is now very scary - as part of what the game considers "grass" now has tarmac texture on the "join" (the join being quite large), and what seems to be part of the natural braking line goes over this "grass", so you can spin rather easily.
Maybe editing that join texture to give it a bigger proportion of grass and less tarmac would help?

Anyway, really nice and good job

[Kenny]

A Voodoo card compatible version for this definitive/must have update for Zandvoort. Make sure to make a backup of your track folder first.

Attached Files

•  Zandvooort Multi Season-3dfx files.zip   5.88MB   74 downloads

[Brian Speake]

Have the multi-season update installed and works ok (I get bridge in 1966 and pitwall in 1969 etc) however I had an old update that said the kerbs were blue/white from 1967 onwards. Is this true and should I see them when running 1969 mod. There are four curb files in the track folder curb.m65, curb.m66, curb.m69 and curb.mip.

[one2fwee]

Hi does anyone have any reply regarding the track edge?

The seam between the grass and tarmac can be seen in this screenshot:

That tarmac edge is actually grass, and forms part of the natural braking line down to turn 1.
Is there a reason for it to be like it is or did it happen partly by mistake?
I just ask so that i might be able to alter that particular texture so i am not tempted onto the "grass" by mistake - as it has caught me out sometimes

Thanks

[sky]

what do you mean? that it is "grass", although it shows as, at least partially, tarmac? well i guess you have a choice really when creating the textures. one choice being to make a hard edge, probably like it was before, a hard edge between green and gray. gray being what is designated "track", green what is "grass". so no confusion there. another choice could be, if there is a distinct row of polies just for this transitional area, to do what has been done here, and make a softer transition. but then you have to decide what type of surface you want to assign to that row of polies - track or grass? either one has it's faults. if you make it "track", then the track becomes wider than it actually should be giving you more room, but of course it helps keep the impression that you can drive up to the raggedy edge safely - actually even beyond. or if you go the other way and designate it "grass", then yes, the visuals can be misleading. but then you do see the seam between normal tarmac and that verge. well i see it anyway (in your screenshot there is a thin line where the 2 textures do not align perfectly).

this, however, only applies when you texture a track you yourself or your team is creating. if you are working with a track built by someone else, like zandvoort by papryrus in this case, you do not have the choice of what surface to assign to a polygon (at least to my knowledge). so you can only change the graphics. and this is the case here. so i'd say, what you see now as the transition between track and grass actually used to be grass before, hence the track may appear wider than original. but i'd say you get used to that quite easily, it's a learning thing i guess. well in any case, i would prefer the soft edge of the butt-ugly original graphics any day. especially here at zandvoort, the border used to be pretty green with grass overgrowing the curbs, etc...

[one2fwee]

Yes i agree, but as you can see from the texture, the tarmac extends quite a way in the "seam" texture (i trust you can see the join?) before the blend of the edge starts. Due to this, one could change the texture so that the proportion between grass and tarmac is more on the grass side of things. A lot of the texture at present seems to be clean tarmac - not part of the blend of grass and tarmac at the edge. This is where the perceptial problem lies.

I hope this makes sense

[one2fwee]

Ah thanks for the insight, I will have a look into tweaking it when my computer is back running.
One thing i have noticed from the screenshots that might be something to do with it is that there is a white line there in the 69 mod. I do not have the 69 mod myself so cannot see this, however it would suggest that possibly the proportion of tarmac is so great in order to accommodate this white line. I can only assume the rest of the tarmac textures in the middle of the track (for the grid and straight for example) use a tiled texture and therefore putting a white line at the edge would not be possible otherwise.

Therefore, in order to ensure consistency with perceived "track width" in all years, it has been kept the same in 67 and 65 iterations, minus the white line itself. I don't know what programs you need to be able to check the actual 3d track itself to find out what textures are applied where and how they are applied. Does anyone have suggestions on that? Also, the best gpl image viewer / converter to date.

Anyway, it is good to know the thinking behind these things

[JCarvalho]

Beautiful. Just Beautiful. Thanks for all the work.

Jim

[Pavel]

I watched this videos from 1969 Zandvoort GP and noticed that pit armco wall was painted black and yellow (part2 2:07). Also curb in Hugenholtzboch still was blac&white. Can someone make this changes to the gpl track, please?  
part1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdo3UXpsFLA
part2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jITW1UYYcHs

[Pavel]

Hi,
I have made small update for pit armco wall. It is for 1969 Zandvoort version. Now you will have black&yellow pit armco when look from track side, and old grey from pit side.

Attached Files

•  zandvort_pitarmco_69.rar   25.95K   210 downloads

[G.Spinning]

Thank you Pavel for your realistic pit armco update. It looks very cool!!