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Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

marc menasia

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by marc menasia » Mon, 10 Mar 1997 04:00:00

Earlier I unpacked my taladega.dat file and in there was a SUNNY.PCX
file.  What is this.  Is it something to put in for the sunglare.  If
there is ANY way to put sunglare into the game, then how do you do it.
There has to be a way.  Maybe some hackers or some REAL SMART PEOPLE
could figure a way out to put the sun glare in.  And who knows, maybe
later they can get flipping into the game.  Thanks, PLEASE EMAIL NOT
POST HERE.

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Jim Sokolo

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by Jim Sokolo » Tue, 11 Mar 1997 04:00:00



No, that's the game palette for sunny days. (Contrast with NIGHT.PCX,
which is for night tracks. If there is a CLOUDY.PCX that's for cloudy
days [I don't actually remember if cloudy days makes the whole screen
overcast looking, or if it just puts more clouds in the sky...])

Maybe they could, but I'd be real careful to remember to breath while
waiting for it, rather than holding my breath... :-)

---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus

Eric T. Busc

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by Eric T. Busc » Tue, 11 Mar 1997 04:00:00

All of the tracks contain sunny.pcx (even in N1 they did).  Basically
it's for the background of day races.  There is also a cloudy.pcx for
overcast days and a night.pcx for the tracks with (you guessed it)
night races.  Flipping cars would require a completely new physics
model to be developed for N2.  I doubt a hacker would be up to the
task.

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Ron R.

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by Ron R. » Tue, 11 Mar 1997 04:00:00

I seem to recall some screenshots floating around, and many early
posts pertaining to sunglare being a new feature of the game yet I
haven't seen it yet. Is it actualy there?

Thanks

Ron




>>Earlier I unpacked my taladega.dat file and in there was a SUNNY.PCX
>>file.  What is this.  Is it something to put in for the sunglare.
>No, that's the game palette for sunny days. (Contrast with NIGHT.PCX,
>which is for night tracks. If there is a CLOUDY.PCX that's for cloudy
>days [I don't actually remember if cloudy days makes the whole screen
>overcast looking, or if it just puts more clouds in the sky...])

>>  If
>>there is ANY way to put sunglare into the game, then how do you do it.
>>There has to be a way.  Maybe some hackers or some REAL SMART PEOPLE
>>could figure a way out to put the sun glare in.  And who knows, maybe
>>later they can get flipping into the game.

>Maybe they could, but I'd be real careful to remember to breath while
>waiting for it, rather than holding my breath... :-)

>---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus

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Brian Kinkai

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by Brian Kinkai » Tue, 11 Mar 1997 04:00:00


> Maybe some hackers or some REAL SMART PEOPLE
> could figure a way out to put the sun glare in.

Ok well I'm not REAL smart but here's how I put sunglare in.
Place your computer by the most open window in the house and wait for a
REAL sunny day. After you run a 50% race with the real sun in your eyes
for an hour tell me how bad you want sunglare in your computer games.
I'm really not trying to be a smartass people, it just usually works out
that way.

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Jim Sokolo

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by Jim Sokolo » Tue, 11 Mar 1997 04:00:00



Those were mockups (i.e. artists' conceptions) and not actually
screenshots. We didn't feel there was enough time to implement it,
when there were far more important things being left on the floor...

---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus

Ron R.

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by Ron R. » Tue, 11 Mar 1997 04:00:00



>> Maybe some hackers or some REAL SMART PEOPLE
>> could figure a way out to put the sun glare in.

>Ok well I'm not REAL smart but here's how I put sunglare in.
>Place your computer by the most open window in the house and wait for a
>REAL sunny day. After you run a 50% race with the real sun in your eyes
>for an hour tell me how bad you want sunglare in your computer games.
>I'm really not trying to be a smartass people, it just usually works out
>that way.

Now all you need is a large fan between your window and the monitor
that you can set to th right speed to have glare in the same part of
the track each lap <G> say for example, 1/3 of the way into turn 3 at
Bristol <G><G>.

Ron

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Ron R.

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by Ron R. » Tue, 11 Mar 1997 04:00:00




>>I seem to recall some screenshots floating around, and many early
>>posts pertaining to sunglare being a new feature of the game yet I
>>haven't seen it yet. Is it actualy there?
>Those were mockups (i.e. artists' conceptions) and not actually
>screenshots. We didn't feel there was enough time to implement it,
>when there were far more important things being left on the floor...

>---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus

Thanks Jim, I can understand where that wouldn't make it being the
amount of grief you folks where getting to release the thing. Ah well,
mayhaps in a later patch <G>.

Thanks again
Ron

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Rob Plan

Putting sunglare in nascar 2???

by Rob Plan » Sat, 15 Mar 1997 04:00:00

The SUNNY.PCX file is there for the track to know that it is a day race and
not a night race in N1 to use the night patch it dealed with this file so
who ever made the night patch for N1 might make use one for N2. the night
pacth let you race at any track at night.




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