rec.autos.simulators

Great Idea Ronald!! I think I will give it a whirl? Btw: Where &
how do you make the three 67season bat files for 67season.ini?
Tia......Thom_j.

| >
| > I loaded Keimola but can not get it to come up in the game. I am running
| > 46 tracks now is this too many for GPL or is something else worng? Tia..
| > Cheers Thom_j.
|
| After adding maybe the 10th user made track I was getting sick of clicking
| through so many tracks (papy, use a scrolled list for track selection in
| GPL2! yeah, right! ;)
|
| As a solution I have three bat-files copying different 67season.ini files
| into the seasons directory. Of course, I have to decide what tracks I want
| to see (orig, oval or others) before I start GPL.
|
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| l8er
| ronny
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Go into the 'seasons' directory in your GPL directory. Create
3 copies of the existing 67season.ini, e.g.

orig_67season.ini
conv_67season.ini
oval_67season.ini

and edit them to only contain the appropriate tracks. I put all
converted road tracks into the conv file. Make sure to change
the numEvents variable on line 4 to the correct number of tracks
and that the numbering of the events [Event1]is correct, too.

Now create 3 bat-files, e.g.

origseason.bat
convseason.bat
ovalseason.bat

containing nothing more than two lines, e.g. for origseason.bat

cp orig_6~1.ini 67season.ini

Make sure to find the correct short file names in a dos box,
orig_67season.ini -> orig_6~1.ini (stupid dos ;)

Now you can put links to the bat-files on your desktop.

Have fun! (btw, I don't accept responsibility for formated
harddrives or exploding monitors... ;)

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l8er
ronny

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          |\      _,,,---,,_        I want to die like my Grandfather,
   ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_              in his sleep.
        |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'     Not like the people in his car,
       '---''(_/--'  `-'\_)            screaming their heads off!

Ronald, thanks for yoyur clear explanation!
One question though: Does your method corrupt the player.ini?
Or more technically: Is 67season.ini's first 11 items used
to calculate the player.ini? It would be bad for example for
sending it to GPLRank...

Arto

Anybody know?

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ronny

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to take effect. Reboot now?
          |\      _,,,---,,_        I want to die like my Grandfather,
   ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_              in his sleep.
        |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'     Not like the people in his car,
       '---''(_/--'  `-'\_)            screaming their heads off!

| >
| > Great Idea Ronald!! I think I will give it a whirl? Btw: Where &
| > how do you make the three 67season bat files for 67season.ini?
| > Tia......Thom_j.
|
| Hmm, that's quite simple to do, but hard to describe... ;)
|
| Go into the 'seasons' directory in your GPL directory. Create
| 3 copies of the existing 67season.ini, e.g.
|
| orig_67season.ini
| conv_67season.ini
| oval_67season.ini
|
| and edit them to only contain the appropriate tracks. I put all
| converted road tracks into the conv file. Make sure to change
| the numEvents variable on line 4 to the correct number of tracks
| and that the numbering of the events [Event1]is correct, too.
|
| Now create 3 bat-files, e.g.
|
| origseason.bat
| convseason.bat
| ovalseason.bat
|
| containing nothing more than two lines, e.g. for origseason.bat
|

| cp orig_6~1.ini 67season.ini
|
| Make sure to find the correct short file names in a dos box,
| orig_67season.ini -> orig_6~1.ini (stupid dos ;)
|
| Now you can put links to the bat-files on your desktop.
|
| Have fun! (btw, I don't accept responsibility for formated
| harddrives or exploding monitors... ;)
|
| --
| l8er
| ronny
|
| Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the change
| to take effect. Reboot now?
|           |\      _,,,---,,_        I want to die like my Grandfather,
|    ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_              in his sleep.
|         |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'     Not like the people in his car,
|        '---''(_/--'  `-'\_)            screaming their heads off!