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by Jo » Wed, 28 Feb 1996 04:00:00

>I've just finished playing with "The New Rusty" springs and it is truely awesome! Thanks go out
>to Denis Auroux for writing the TRACKED editor and for making this wonderful modification to the
>Rusty Springs track.
>Of course you can grab it from my NFS page IMMEDIATELY! Enjoy...

WOW, Thanks! It's almost more like a Nascar track than a typical
arcade track. A loy of time spent up-shifting, down-shifting,
preparing for the next turn - I like it. And some very tough turns,
and one viscous double-turn. I still haven't figure out the best car
for this track. The Ferrari's usually pretty reliable, but it has some
real trouble with those turns (or else I do).

The humbling thing is, the computer drivers learned that new track
instantly, finding the best speeds for the corners and turning in good
times. They've never driven this track before either, so that speaks
of pretty good AI (on that one corner there's even a Nascar-like
backup of cars slowing down for the turn, you can rear-end someone
real easy if you're not careful).

Kudos to Denis, very well done.

Joe

by Je » Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:00:00

>I've just finished playing with "The New Rusty" springs and it is truely awesome! Thanks go out
>to Denis Auroux for writing the TRACKED editor and for making this wonderful modification to the
>Rusty Springs track.

Where did you download the track from?

The Editor on Denis's site didn't come with any tracks when I
downloaded it.

I redesigned Rusty Springs and put it in a ZIP with the editor at The
Pits.

If its the version where it goes sharpish left at the start, right
then left on an opposite camber into the tight 90 degree left chicane,
down the hill to the left on another opposite camber then left again,
right and onto the line <phew!> then I'm the one who designed that
track.

I should of put a TXT file in with the ZIP saying who did it.

Anyhow, I'm off to play with Lost Vegas with the spiral that goes
under itself.%-)

Jed
The Pits
www.ukps.com/thepits
www.fwb.gulf.net/~jkohl/thepits

by **Martin Urs** » Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:00:00

: First, the track is not mine, only the editor. I hope the real
: author of the track will not remain anonymous :)

: Next, concerning the AI... it's not what you believe !!!!!!!!!!!
: The computer players are unbelievably dumb, and they do NOT follow
: the rules of the simulation.

It's true. How else can one explain the computer's RX-7 coming
two seconds behind my Ferrari at the end of a head-to-head game (I don't
play like this, it was just a test :-)). Or how my Acura is able to hold
a position several meters behind a Lamborghini down the starting straight
of most courses (though it eventually pulls away very slowly)?
Not through drafting! :-)

Martin
Nigel Mansell RIP!

by Jo » Thu, 29 Feb 1996 04:00:00

>If its the version where it goes sharpish left at the start, right
>then left on an opposite camber into the tight 90 degree left chicane,
>down the hill to the left on another opposite camber then left again,
>right and onto the line <phew!> then I'm the one who designed that
>track.

Thanks for claifying that, and thanks for the great work! Yes yours is
the track I downloaded. Is it just my imagination, or do the
computer-controlled cars fly through the chicane at unnatural speeds?
I wonder if the computer-cars are programmed to take corners that
sharp realistically.

Strangely, I couldn't load this track into the track editor, it
crashes. I wonder if this is a memory shortage now that the track's
larger.

Is this modified Lost Vegas available for download? Can you modify the
dark part of the Lost Vegas track to remove the "landmines"?

by Jo » Fri, 01 Mar 1996 04:00:00

>Well, I must agree with you that I was the first surprised by getting
>congratulations for "my" new Rusty Springs track...
>I made the editor, but whatever tracks people download with it are not
>mine (unless explicitly stated) !!!

I think you are listed as the author on Doug Burgs web site. I think
because he downloaded the track editor that's bundled with Jeds "Rusty
Nascar" track, so Doug just assumed you were the author of the track
as well. I'm sure he'll update his web page when he sees this here.

Good advice, that will prevent a similar confusion in the future.

Joe

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