rFactor 2 Round 1 Watkins Glen

@Andrew Williams:
Same issue here regarding the BMWs, although with a slight difference; Barrett's driving a McLaren in my replay. (?)
That's odd, unless Barrett's switched cars during warm-up. (most unlikely)

 

Just to help for some people with custom skins.

The cars with the new shader updates (which admittedly are not many, I think it's just GT3 and the Endurance pack at the moment) have had all their folder structure renamed.

So if you had a custom skin before the update you will find you can no longer load it into the showroom. You need to recreate the custom skin folder from within the showroom and then move your DDS or MAS files into the newer folder.

You can then delete the old folder(s) if you wish. Sounds complicated but it's quite an easy job. Only took me a few minutes.

Annoying about the region issue, I wasn't sure if the skin would be fine without it (to start with at least) but it looks like it does has to be in place otherwise you'll get the file used from the original car.

Out of curiosity I'll try a region file with just a black background (black is mainly used for bodywork) and see if that works as a quick fix. I will do all the various region layers at some point for my car but the HP #55 is more complex that some others I've done so I left it for round one. As I say though it's all good learning so not complaining.

Not too bad TBH. I've done skins for Assetto Corsa where I've ended up with 20+ files for one car, and the fact you can watch the material changes in RF2 (in real time) in the showroom is a pretty cool feature.

 

I suggest one hotlap. It would get a mixed grid, making the race more fun

 

I don't mind, whatever people are happy with, lol

I had no issues with the mixed session, it's part of the "game" for me. Finding the space, making the lap count, etc. If we did end up having 36 cars, traffic would have been more of an issue for sure.

However I know it could be a problem for some of the GTE cars, if us faster cars catch them whilst they are on a hot lap. I wouldn't want to make them slow down when they are on a PB, etc.

 

Guess the Q was just fine as it was

 

I'd say: have a smoke, get a drink, watch YouTube, check your mail, pay your bills, bother your wife and... keep dreaming.

 

McLaren isn't even in the Endurance Pack, so where had that come from?

 

Is there a Private Qualy option? Where we all get the track to ourselves. I don't see a major problem with having everyone on track at the same time. It's all part of multi-class racing. You need to manage the situation which is a challenge. Keep it to 25 minutes and all cars on track. That said I'll probably be cursing next race when someone gets in my way

 

I'm one for leaving it the way it is. Yes, we might get it in each other's ways but it's less complicated for all of us and for me it makes it that much more exciting. I've noticed, when things become over complicated, people tend to join less. I enjoyed the 25-minute free-for-all qualification.

 

Search me. There are so many things about rF2 which are a surprise.
Let's say that the game needs a huge polish up.

 

hi.

interesting.
the red white skin is the default car i modded to create my car.
my actual skin is a blur and orange ala Gulf colors.
i had about 5 red bars, some went grey, and the others went green.

not sure whats going on with the livery thing.

 

zackklllyyyy.....


therefor my vote remains as lap limitation.
space wont be an issue as once player 1 has done 4 laps he pulls into pit, player 12 now has space to run his laps
ive seen guys treat it as a practice session.


if youve prepped properly before hand, you will need no more than 3 laps!!
if you dont get your absolute fastest so what...
im noticing a trend where guys are racing each other in quali then spoiling the laps for both.

go out, give space before and behind you, if you know you'll catch the guy in front of you, slow down or go into pit and wait for a gap
this is where 4 laps only will help with track space.

remember LMP1 was 10 seconds faster than GTE.

places like Petit Lemans will be a nightmare as its a very short track.

 

I assume (not so up on rF2) that in the car folders (eg the Porsche_991RSR_GTE_2017 folder) I should have a bunch of .rcd files and a bunch of folders that the .rcd points to?

If so, I only have the .rcd files in there, but no folders

 

as far as i know yes, but i too am learning rF2

 

Yes, INDY 500 it is.

 

For custom skins to work you need to create a folder for it whilst viewing the car in the showroom. This is saved in your USER folder. With all your setups. Etc.

From there you save all your custom DDS skin files in that folder, select the custom livery back in the showroom and away you go and that’s it.

You don’t need RCD files or anything complex like that. DDS files will do the job for you fine.

The files have become a little more complex since the shader update, in that the game now creates a MAS file and a JSON file with the material specifications in but that’s more or less automatic.

The only way you can get more involved is by creating RFCMP for your car. These are mod files and are the complete car pack if you like but for our purposes not necessary.

 

I'm fine with single quali session with everyone on track at same time. It's just qualifying. So what if you don't get a clean lap.
I'm here for the racing, not the hot lapping competition.

 

Hey @Andrew Harper

I was referring to files my pc had downloaded from the server of other people's custom skins rather than creating my own skin.