N4 Default Cars

What is the easiest way to use different cars for different online leagues with N4? Basically say you want a different car number and car file for different leagues, how do you change these easily before you connect to the specific league server?

Is it possible to just create a new player and associate a different car with that player? "SimRacer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3UGt7.402747$[email hidden]... > There's only one way to change online cars (and offline for that matter). > After starting the game, click on "Player Info" on the right. In thescreen > that comes up you have to drop down boxes labeled "Online Car" and "Offine > Car" and you have to select which you want for each. That is the only wayto > change which car you are in that I am aware of. > > > Schooner <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:XwFt7.34041$[email hidden]... > > What is the easiest way to use different cars for different onlineleagues > > with N4? > > Basically say you want a different car number and car file for different > > leagues, how do you change these easily before you connect to thespecific > > league server? > > > > > >

There's only one way to change online cars (and offline for that matter). After starting the game, click on "Player Info" on the right. In the screen that comes up you have to drop down boxes labeled "Online Car" and "Offine Car" and you have to select which you want for each. That is the only way to change which car you are in that I am aware of. Schooner <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:XwFt7.34041$[email hidden]...

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> What is the easiest way to use different cars for different online leagues > with N4? > Basically say you want a different car number and car file for different > leagues, how do you change these easily before you connect to the specific > league server? > >

I have a similar question about the user painted and driven cars.... I currently have two and in some cases three cars with the same car number. an example, I painted my own car and use the car number 1. Also, I think one of the default N4 cars uses the same number but I can't remember who. Anycase, I just made "all" the cars I have listed in the default list of cars as "active" and I'll experiment a little with it. maybe someone can help me answer these question so I can get the answers quicker.. Correct me if I'm wrong please! I understand that for anyone to see me racing in my car, they must have a copy of my car file. Lets assume that everyone on the planet has a copy... What decides if they see me in my BarlowMobile/RCA/Holodyne/MysticMusic yellow,red, and green, #1 as opposed to the default N4 car that also uses the #1? (other questions to follow depending o the answers I get with this one) -- Michael A. Barlow Head of Marketing FILSCA (www.filsca.com) "Schooner" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:XwFt7.34041$[email hidden]... > What is the easiest way to use different cars for different online leagues > with N4? > Basically say you want a different car number and car file for different > leagues, how do you change these easily before you connect to the specific > league server? > >

While the cars share the same car #, they have different file names. Unless you used the exact file name for the default #1(Steve Park btw) then your fellow drivers will see your car when you use it. (assuming of course you are all sharing a similar carset.) I have the default Park car named: 1_s_park.cup.car but I also have downloaded a replacement car from the High Compression website. It uses the following carfile name. 01_hc_wc01.cup.car So while both could appear on track together if I didn't restrict or limit one of them via the active drivers list, there won't be any confusion who's who. dave henrie "Michael Barlow" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:7VGt7.579158$[email hidden]... > I have a similar question about the user painted and driven cars....

-- Michael A. Barlow Vice President & Head of Marketing FILSCA (www.filsca.com) "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:JpHt7.58848$[email hidden]... > While the cars share the same car #, they have different file names. > Unless you used the exact file name for the default #1(Steve Park btw) then > your fellow drivers will see your car when you use it. (assuming of course > you are all sharing a similar carset.) > I have the default Park car named: > 1_s_park.cup.car > but I also have downloaded a replacement car from the High Compression > website. It uses the following carfile name. > 01_hc_wc01.cup.car > So while both could appear on track together if I didn't restrict or limit > one of them via the active drivers list, there won't be any confusion who's > who. > dave henrie OK, to clarify a little bit.. As long as everyone has my car file and everyone has it selected as "Active". they will see me in my painted car? So the limiting factors currently is that everyone must have a copy of my car and have that car selected as "Active"? (Yes/No) next question: (Again, pretending that everyone on the planet has a copy of my car file and it's selected as Active) Since it could be confusing looking at the F2 window and looking specifically at the car numbers there, What is the limiting factor that decides if I'm displayed in the F2 window as Car #1? or can there be two car # 1's but with different driver names in the same race? In the physical world of racing I know how things work in SCCA, but I don't know how things work in the virtual world of N4.

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:57:18 GMT, Michael Barlow wrote: > OK, to clarify a little bit.. As long as everyone has my car file and > everyone has it selected as "Active". they will see me in my painted car? So > the limiting factors currently is that everyone must have a copy of my car > and have that car selected as "Active"? (Yes/No) No, as long as they have your car file in their cars directory they will see your car online. Only you need to have yours active. If everyone had your car file active, then all drivers would be driving the same car. :)

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> > next question: > > (Again, pretending that everyone on the planet has a copy of my car file > and it's selected as Active) Since it could be confusing looking at the F2 > window and looking specifically at the car numbers there, What is the > limiting factor that decides if I'm displayed in the F2 window as Car #1? > or can there be two car # 1's but with different driver names in the same > race? In the physical world of racing I know how things work in SCCA, but > I don't know how things work in the virtual world of N4.

There can be two cars with the same number and different names. There also could be two or more drivers with the same number and name. The car number displayed is the number you specify IN your car file, the name of the file does not determine it. -- Skotty Flynn http://www.nascar-racing-sims.com

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>Subject: Re: N4 Default Cars >From: "Schooner" [email hidden] >Date: 09/30/2001 11:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time >Message-id: <_FHt7.34078$[email hidden]> > >Is it possible to just create a new player and associate a different car >with that player? >

Yes BTW in reference to a previous question as to how N4 determines which car is "seen" if more than one player has selected a carfile which uses the same car number.....I think that's what you were asking. If you enter an online server in which another player has already logged onto using a car with your # (not necessarily the same file name just one which is running with the same number) N4 will automatically assign you to one of the generic online cars and give you a three digit number. Also you may never even see a player actually using your # as often happens people log into a race during practice and leave for whatever reason. Their entry remains on the list of drivers for that event even after they have left. They may even log back onto that server and retain the original #. (Don't gimme NOCRAP in E-mail)