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Markus Stiepe

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by Markus Stiepe » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Hi Freaks!
After a long time of just taking, taking, taking, it's finally the time for
me to give a little something to this group: I have made the first few of an
upcoming set of track-maps to be used with all those new circuits we have
been getting. As I am no programmer nor a grafic-designer, please be gentle
with me, it's all hand drawn, but I hope it fills some holes we still have
in GPL.
Download the first 3 track-maps from my site and be sure to read the
info.txt!
....................more to come:)
Feedback is welcome!
cya
Maaki

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Leel

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by Leel » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

    Markus> GPL.  Download the first 3 track-maps from my site and be
    Markus> sure to read the info.txt!  ....................more to
    Markus> come:) Feedback is welcome!  cya Maaki

I just get a site with info (about, comments), but nothing else ... ?

-peter

don hodgdo

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by don hodgdo » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Is there a tutorial available somewhere which explains how to prepare track
maps and covers for GPL? I have good maps to most of the new tracks and
would like to try my hand at designing covers but I'm not quite sure how to
go about it.

TIA,

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Markus Stiepe

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by Markus Stiepe » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I had the same idea here, got a scanner and all manuals, but firstly not all
maps are well suited to be GPL-like (layout suxx), and secondly, it would be
even more work to first scan, retouch, edit the background etc etc than just
painting a line by hand and moving the vectors around a bit.....it's just
pretty nitty gritty :). Got the template pretty much done, just got to draw
those lines now !

thx
cya
Maaki

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Markus Stiepe

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by Markus Stiepe » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Well Mike, I just checked it out at different resolutions. Point is, I made
that page to adjust to the window, and no matter what resolution, you
*always* get it to fit the screen, so in fact, as the resolution gets
higher, the surrounding menuitems of Windows become smaller, but the content
becomes *bigger* because there's more room now:) Try it out at 640x480......
you will find it even harder to read :))
Concerning the hot-spot of the button: It's intentionally micro, especially
suited for people just coming from the race of their life, hands stll
trembling and shaking, *now* try to click that button :)
......thanx for the tips....... excuses are in my sig!

cya
Maaki

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Robin Lor

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by Robin Lor » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

How the hell did you find time to do this when you're only 20km from the
'ring?

Guess they don't let you on in the dark...

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| Hi Freaks!
| After a long time of just taking, taking, taking, it's finally the time
for
| me to give a little something to this group: I have made the first few of
an
| upcoming set of track-maps to be used with all those new circuits we have
| been getting. As I am no programmer nor a grafic-designer, please be
gentle
| with me, it's all hand drawn, but I hope it fills some holes we still have
| in GPL.
| Download the first 3 track-maps from my site and be sure to read the
| info.txt!
| ....................more to come:)
| Feedback is welcome!
| cya
| Maaki
|
| --
| ________________________________
| Check out my home once in a while:
| http://www.maaki.de.vu
| ........still a lot of work to be done
| ________________________________
|
|

Markus Stiepe

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by Markus Stiepe » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Do you get to see some buttons (levers)? Try to click on them :)
cya
Maaki

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>     Markus> GPL.  Download the first 3 track-maps from my site and be
>     Markus> sure to read the info.txt!  ....................more to
>     Markus> come:) Feedback is welcome!  cya Maaki

> I just get a site with info (about, comments), but nothing else ... ?

> -peter

Markus Stiepe

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by Markus Stiepe » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Didn't find a tutorial yet, but basically it's pretty simple:
event.pbf is responsible for what u see in the event-screen.
page0.pbf shows the cover.
U can use pbf2tga.exe (included in GPL) to convert from pbf to tga :)) and
then u can edit it with a paint program, and save as bmp.
U then need GPLBatch.exe to convert bmp's back to pbf's
(http://members.aol.com/winmip)

HTH
Maaki

P.S. Send me yer maps, saves me a lot of drawing :))

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http://www.maaki.de.vu
........still a lot of work to be done
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Leel

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by Leel » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

    Markus> Do you get to see some buttons (levers)? Try to click on
    Markus> them :) cya Maaki

I did, but nothing happened. At least, it seemed that way.

-peter

don hodgdo

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by don hodgdo » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I just got my Rendition version of CART Racing and with it comes a couple of
excellent books, a manual and a strategy guide. The manual has good maps of
all the tracks which I could scan for you and send along if it would help.
Let me know.

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[|]-(_)-[|]


> Didn't find a tutorial yet, but basically it's pretty simple:
> event.pbf is responsible for what u see in the event-screen.
> page0.pbf shows the cover.
> U can use pbf2tga.exe (included in GPL) to convert from pbf to tga :)) and
> then u can edit it with a paint program, and save as bmp.
> U then need GPLBatch.exe to convert bmp's back to pbf's
> (http://members.aol.com/winmip)

> HTH
> Maaki

> P.S. Send me yer maps, saves me a lot of drawing :))

> --
> ________________________________
> Check out my home once in a while:
> http://www.maaki.de.vu
> ........still a lot of work to be done
> ________________________________


> > Is there a tutorial available somewhere which explains how to prepare
> track
> > maps and covers for GPL? I have good maps to most of the new tracks and
> > would like to try my hand at designing covers but I'm not quite sure how
> to
> > go about it.

> > TIA,

> > --
> > don

> > [|]-(_)-[|]

Mike Barlo

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by Mike Barlo » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

    I had the same problem the first time.  However, I noticed that the
cursor changed when it was over the top of the switches.  It's such a small
area to click that it may be easily overlooked.

    To the author of that site.. Is it possible to make the clickable  area
larger?  Also, I have my display at 800x600 and the text on the main page is
very tinny.  I can only imagine what it looks like to those with higher
res's.

Just a couple of tips..
Mike

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>    Markus> Do you get to see some buttons (levers)? Try to click on
>    Markus> them :) cya Maaki

>I did, but nothing happened. At least, it seemed that way.

>-peter

Leel

Trackmaps available!

by Leel » Sat, 01 Apr 2000 04:00:00

    Mike>     I had the same problem the first time.  However, I
    Mike> noticed that the cursor changed when it was over the top of
    Mike> the switches.  It's such a small area to click that it may
    Mike> be easily overlooked.

Oops, indeed, it works. I have my desktop at something very large, and
the blue spot is only abt a mm^2 :-)

Thanks,
-peter


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