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Dials (needles) disappeared in Escort mod

V \

Dials (needles) disappeared in Escort mod

by V \ » Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:33:24

I ran a quick few laps around Hitchin, then tried a night race at
LeMans, virutally nonexistant headlights btw, then over to MidOhio. Once
I loaded MidOhio, my needles were gone. I left and loaded Spa.....still
no needles. Unpacked and overwrote files again, still no needles. I
changed no options at all in case somebody asks, nothing whatsoever.
Just poof, gone. Any ideas?
V \

Dials (needles) disappeared in Escort mod

by V \ » Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:58:06


> I ran a quick few laps around Hitchin, then tried a night race at
> LeMans, virutally nonexistant headlights btw, then over to MidOhio. Once
> I loaded MidOhio, my needles were gone. I left and loaded Spa.....still
> no needles. Unpacked and overwrote files again, still no needles. I
> changed no options at all in case somebody asks, nothing whatsoever.
> Just poof, gone. Any ideas?

forget it.....figgered it out......3key. all better now
Dave Henri

Dials (needles) disappeared in Escort mod

by Dave Henri » Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:24:56




>> I ran a quick few laps around Hitchin, then tried a night race at
>> LeMans, virutally nonexistant headlights btw, then over to MidOhio.
>> Once I loaded MidOhio, my needles were gone. I left and loaded
>> Spa.....still no needles. Unpacked and overwrote files again, still
>> no needles. I changed no options at all in case somebody asks,
>> nothing whatsoever. Just poof, gone. Any ideas?

> forget it.....figgered it out......3key. all better now

   Vern....bad boy...bad...you are using the out-of-body view aren't you?
***pit should have all the necessary info without that humongous HUD they
provide.  

dave henrie

V \

Dials (needles) disappeared in Escort mod

by V \ » Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:07:47





>>>I ran a quick few laps around Hitchin, then tried a night race at
>>>LeMans, virutally nonexistant headlights btw, then over to MidOhio.
>>>Once I loaded MidOhio, my needles were gone. I left and loaded
>>>Spa.....still no needles. Unpacked and overwrote files again, still
>>>no needles. I changed no options at all in case somebody asks,
>>>nothing whatsoever. Just poof, gone. Any ideas?

>>forget it.....figgered it out......3key. all better now

>    Vern....bad boy...bad...you are using the out-of-body view aren't you?
>***pit should have all the necessary info without that humongous HUD they
> provide.  

> dave henrie

No Dave..........NEVER EVER do I use anything BUT***pit.....how else
is it "racing"? I've never seen any successful driver sit ON his
car.....tsk tsk. I figured it all out when I jumped into an original
Porsche at MidOhio and the same thing, next track, same thing.......so I
systematically starting mashing the keyboard until the right sequence
gave the desired effect....never ON the car, only in.    The defence
rests your honour.
Graha

Dials (needles) disappeared in Escort mod

by Graha » Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:41:47



>>    Vern....bad boy...bad...you are using the out-of-body view aren't you?
>>***pit should have all the necessary info without that humongous HUD
>> they provide.
>> dave henrie

> No Dave..........NEVER EVER do I use anything BUT***pit.....how else
> is it "racing"? I've never seen any successful driver sit ON his
> car.....tsk tsk. I figured it all out when I jumped into an original
> Porsche at MidOhio and the same thing, next track, same thing.......so I
> systematically starting mashing the keyboard until the right sequence
> gave the desired effect....never ON the car, only in.    The defence
> rests your honour.

Personally I would like a***pit view that shows what the driver would
see through the section of the windscreen directly in front that a
driver would normally be looking through and filling his or her eyes
with.  Preferably in natural size on a 19 inch monitor. This would
probably need to be compressed to a degree to allow wider angle of the
windscreen to be visible. No more than a third of the bottom of the
screen should be dashboard with instruments. NO WHEEL - I already have
one of those.  I find the***pit view in GTR to include too much,
making everything too small (on my 19" LCD).  I have tried moving the
view forward but it still doesnt give the feel I want.

I HATE that stupid extra steering wheel. IIRC the***pit view even
includes a small part of the roof - now that is puting screen space to
good use - who needs to see that?

The problem is to show enough of the road and the corners of the car
without having a "wide screen" letter box windscreen with the rest of
the screen filled up with interior.

The bonnet view is the closest thing to what I want. Now if the bonnet
was exchanged for a dashboard with instruments..

regards
Graham


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