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[Stefan Roess]

OnlineGridTool (by John Smith)

John Smith, one of our admins of the GPL Mods Online Racing League www.gplracer.de has created this handy tool. Thx John!


The tool creates wide grids for online racing, to be used on GPL server for safer starts.
It creates 1x1 staggered grids, with 8 meter distance.
Clients do not need wide grids.

The tool only works with "track.inis". The so-called "mod.inis" (e.g. "track65.ini") are NOT supported by the tool.
It automatically creates a backup of the "track.ini" ("Track_Backup.ini") in the track folder.
It is NOT recommended to delete the "Track_Backup.ini" as the tool needs it.


A GPL server reads mod specific "track.inis" (if there are any) before it reads the track.ini.


With the new mod patches and as well with new mods, e.g. the GT mod, mod specific "track.inis" get stored in the track folders, e.g.
"track65.ini"
"track66.ini"
"track67.ini"
"track69.ini"
"trackGT.ini"

Too prevent the server from using these "mod.inis" instead of the modified "track.ini", created with the Online Grid Tool, it is recommended to rename them, e.g. with an underscore before:
"_track65.ini"
"_track66.ini"
"_track67.ini"
"_track69.ini"
"_trackGT.ini"

If the poistion of the "polesitter" is on the left or on the right side can be found in the "track.ini" in the section [starting_grid_0]. You can adjust this with the tool at "Pole position".

It may happen, that the grid gets very narrow on some tracks (e.g. Leipzig) that have a curve at the start/finish line or specific track objects (e.g. walls, bale of straw). Therefore it is always necessary to do a test (offline race, 19 AI and check the first and last car if all is ok), bevor you can use the grid for online racing.



by John Smith



Edit 1:

Download OnlineGridTool v2.0:
https://code.google....onlinegridtool/




Edit 2:

1x1 wide grids for servers

Download
track.ini 1x1 wide server grids collection by SR (for over 200 tracks)
https://www.gplworld....l-online-racing
-> scroll down to the end of the page to download the wide grids for servers

Attached Files

•  OnlineGridTool_mainScreen.jpg   42.16K   8 downloads
•  OnlineGridTool_customizeGrid.jpg   21.99K   10 downloads
•  OnlineGridTool_Customize.jpg   42.57K   18 downloads
•  screen_server 1x1 wide grids_GPL_1920x2565.jpg   288.46K   16 downloads

Edited by Stefan Roess, Jan 10 2021 - 05:39 AM.

[thor]

Hi,
tested it some days ago: it works perfect!

thx John!


best regards,
Thor

[Stefan Roess]

v1.2 released

[Stefan Roess]

v1.3 released

[Stefan Roess]

v1.4 released
- now with installer
- does NOT support Windows Vista and Windows 7 (not yet

[Stefan Roess]

new v1.5 (Windows Vista, Windows 7)

[Gaizka López C.]

Thanks John & Stefan for your work

Could be possible to translate the installer to english, too?

About the last update, v1.5, is it also OK for WinXP, or it has no sense having v1.4?

[DieGrueneHoelle]

Version 1.5 should work with Windows XP, too. Version 1.4 is ok if you dont have .NET framework installed. Online installation of .NET 2.0 is ok but dont try it with higher version (taking hours).

Some major updates will be in next version. Installer in english doesnt sound too bad either

[DieGrueneHoelle]

The whole development process have been moved up to google project hosting.

https://code.google.c...onlinegridtool/

[Stefan Roess]

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v1.6 released (Windows Vista, Windows 7, also works on Windows 10 64-bit)
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Like v1.5, but additionally with "Customize" function. The user can now customize the grid and
set the cars almost at any position he wants (see screenshot). Drag & Drop is inactive.



Now you can easily create grids like this (see attachment)

Attached Files

•  gplcTC 2011-05-14 17-29-18-02.jpg   104.51K   34 downloads

Edited by Stefan Roess, Jan 03 2019 - 02:51 PM.

[Stefan Roess]

I have updated my first post with this:

Download
track.ini 1x1 wide server grids collection by SR (for approx. 200 tracks)
https://www.gplworld....l-online-racing
-> scroll down to the end of the page to download the wide grids for server

[Stefan Roess]

I have updated my website with more 1x1 wide grids for servers. Now the wide grids of our GPLRACER 2021 cup tracks are included.
In total wide grids for 219 tracks are now included.

https://www.gplworld....l-online-racing
-> scroll down to the end of the page to download the wide grids for servers

Edited by Stefan Roess, Jan 10 2021 - 05:39 AM.