rec.autos.simulators

I'm having difficulty getting a Nascar 4 paint scheme to appear on my car
while playing online.  Is there a secret not mentioned in the manual or the
two readme.txt files?  My car always appears as a black car with white
flames coming from the front wheel wells.

I have the car checked in Opponent Manager as both online and 'local' races.
I've saved it to the roster.  While I can see it on my end I've been told by
other remote players it doesn't appear that way to them?  grrrr..!!!

Any help will greatly be appreciated.

Bob

You will only be able to see your car paint scheme unless other people have
your car file as well.
Also when you join an online race you are assigned a car number of a first
come first serve basis so you may not get the same number as what you
specified and thus the reason for a different paint scheme.

The other players have to have a copy of your online custom car in their
cars folder too.

Other people won't be able to see your paint job unless they have your
carfile on their system.  Same for you seeing thier paint job.  You'd have
to have their carfile on your system.

Pops

Thanks Pops, Jonny Hodgson & Whodaquy.  Now I won't be racking my brain out
anymore.

Bob

I wonder how much trouble it would be for the developers or an
industrious hacker to allow paintjobs to be downloaded "on the fly".
Probably a horrible bandwidth killer, but it works for some shooter
games...

Also, does anybody know how N4 decides what "default" paintjob to
display for a given car number?  Is it random?  Is there a way to
replace these paintjobs with something else?

Gerald Moore

There are only 5 or 6 paintjobs given out and each one is assigned to
several numbers, someone did figure out ro replace these with WC cars but
you will still see 3 or 4 cars with each paintjob in a pick up race but it
will be WC rather than generic ones.

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Steve Levett

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Bob,

Go to www.simracecar.com and upload your car file and download the cars of the
other drivers and put them in your cars folder.  Your car file has to have a
unique name, so you have to register it, but it is free.  You will then be able
to see everyone's paint jobs that have submitted there cars, and there are a lot
of them.

Really cool, gives you a little insight to the person you are racing with.

Good luck,

Gary

Know a URL for this?  I was thinking about changing the default
schemes to solid colors, so they look more like "no sponsor" cars,
instead of the defaults.

Gerald