Race Distance

[Napalm Nick]

Hi all,

I am full of nooby questions today must be because the sun is out. I have had a quick trawl through this forum but can't find any info.

The question is...how is 100% race distance worked out in this game? IE: what determines how many laps 100% is?

As it is different for different bikes I thought maybe it was something clever like the server checks max fuel capacity against consumption to give an estimate rounded to the nearest lap or maybe it was the [RACE] setting in the bikes cfg file (er 120?).

But now I don't know. I have a feeling I will be slapping my head because the answer is so obvious when someone tells me but I blame it on the sun - cant think straight it is so unusual.

[doubledragoncc]

You lucky bastard clouds and rain in London lol.

This is one I wondered too as when you posted 100% and not laps for the race I was thinking WTF, that tells me shit as it depends normally on track length because of fuel tank capacities

I think for the post for a race LAPS should be used only as it is simple for all to understand and no mistakes on fuel and streaming(HEHE) will happen.

100% = full tank needed?  50% = half a tank needed? Just a guess

DD

[matty0l215]

In the tracks .ini

[race]
defaulteventlaps=28
reflaptime=121

[Napalm Nick]

Ahaaa! Thx Matty. Never knew that. 

[PiBoSo]

Hi all,

I am full of nooby questions today must be because the sun is out. I have had a quick trawl through this forum but can't find any info.

The question is...how is 100% race distance worked out in this game? IE: what determines how many laps 100% is?

As it is different for different bikes I thought maybe it was something clever like the server checks max fuel capacity against consumption to give an estimate rounded to the nearest lap or maybe it was the [RACE] setting in the bikes cfg file (er 120?).

But now I don't know. I have a feeling I will be slapping my head because the answer is so obvious when someone tells me but I blame it on the sun - cant think straight it is so unusual.

The race length is set in the INI file of each bike: race -> length ( kilometers ).

[PiBoSo]

In the tracks .ini

[race]
defaulteventlaps=28
reflaptime=121

That data is not used anymore and can be removed from track INI files.

[matty0l215]

Cool

How does the game handle it when using different bikes? (assuming a gp125 isn't going the be the same race distance as a gp1000)

[Napalm Nick]

 I was wondering why it differed between bikes! Thanks PiBoSo!

So bike authors work out the race length figure how? Fuel capacity vs consumption or guessing? lol.

[PiBoSo]

Cool

How does the game handle it when using different bikes? (assuming a gp125 isn't going the be the same race distance as a gp1000)

The lower race distance is used, to allow every bike to finish the race.

[Napalm Nick]

Brilliant.

[matty0l215]

Cool

How does the game handle it when using different bikes? (assuming a gp125 isn't going the be the same race distance as a gp1000)

The lower race distance is used, to allow every bike to finish the race.

Ta very much

[Hawk]

That's very useful to know... Thank you Piboso! 

Hawk.