J. P. Hovercraft
> >> You heard it Ed... GPLEA would do many of us a bigtime favour if you
> >> would release the banked Monza.
> >Trackediting for the GPLEA has nothing to do with "doing anybody a favour".
> >We make tracks we love to make, love to drive. You cant spend such an
> >incredible amount of time (many 100s of hours!!) making a track you dont
> >give a sod about. Motivation to do it as good as it should be done would be
> >low. So I really doubt that any petition would be convincing. Sending $2000
> >for a full month of "work", however, would be a much stronger argument.
> I fully understand that, ofcourse. But Ed told us he drove on it, so I
> logically assumed that the banking itself has been made.
> >You dont understand a bit about trackediting apparantly...
> Indeed I don't, and boy how I wish I knew something about track
> editing. I actually wish more people knew something about track
> editing, so more people could work on new tracks.
> >making a
> >drivable track is about 1% down the road to create a good track (2 hours)
> >.. 99% is finetuning, scenery, and many other things (100s of hours).
> Ok, so I can assume that the banking that Ed drove on is working, but
> that the textures etc haven't been made? Ofcourse I would mostly
> prefer a track that has been finished 100%, with perfect scenery etc.
> But if I have to choose between a banked version of Monza which hasn't
> got nice scenery and hasn't been finetuned, and won't be finished, or
> between completely nothing, I choose the first.
> >> Even if you think it's boring, a lot of us
> >> would like to have a banked Monza. It's history (yes, only four times
> >> used for F1, but the banking was quite a topic of discussion) and
> >> ofcourse because of the Grand Prix movie.
> >Which was totally unrealstic in that way, as it wasnt used in 1965, the
> >year the movie "Grand Prix" portraits.
> Why do you think Frankenheimer used the banking for his movie, even if
> it wasn't used in that year?
> >> Time for a 'we would like the banking' petition perhaps? :)
> >A "we would like the banking" donation would have much more impact
> I thought you were against making money in the GPL scene? :)
> As I allready told you, I will gladly pay for new tracks or whatever
> for GPL. I had absolutely no problems with buying the converter from
> Noonan. He spent a lot of time on it, and I gladly payed for his work.
> It's fantastic that the GPLEA team releases all these great addons for
> free, but I would also gladly pay for it.
> Andre
> >Martijn