GPL top speed = 483 MPH?

I had an interesting time at Indy last night and managed to clock 483 MPH going into T1. That was exiting the pits! Actually it was another example of GPLs crash bug, but a very funny one at that. The accident started at pit entry and I ended up on the BACKSTRAIGHT! Lol. I will try to post it to one of the GPL Crash Replay sites. Cheers Ray

Ray Bryden <[email hidden]> wrote: > I had an interesting time at Indy last night and managed to clock 483 MPH > going into T1. That was exiting the pits! Actually it was another example of > GPLs crash bug, but a very funny one at that. The accident started at pit > entry and I ended up on the BACKSTRAIGHT! Lol. > I will try to post it to one of the GPL Crash Replay sites. I made some cute experiments with the crash bug last week (I assume this is the bug that enables you to bounce the car like a basketball when it's missing a few wheels). I tried to smash my Ferrari into the ceiling of the Monaco tunnel, but alas, it's not solid, and I just kept flying through it. I did get some gorgeous aerial shots of the local scenery, though. :) Later I also managed to get an Eagle to zip endlessly back and forth Curva Grande at 1100 kph, airborne, but the game crashed before I managed to save the incident replay. A great time was had by all. Except said Eagle. +Cinquo [36.xx]

Ville V Sinkko <[email hidden]> writes:

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> Ray Bryden <[email hidden]> wrote: > > I had an interesting time at Indy last night and managed to clock 483 MPH > > going into T1. That was exiting the pits! Actually it was another example of > > GPLs crash bug, but a very funny one at that. The accident started at pit > > entry and I ended up on the BACKSTRAIGHT! Lol. > > > I will try to post it to one of the GPL Crash Replay sites. > > I made some cute experiments with the crash bug last week (I assume this > is the bug that enables you to bounce the car like a basketball when it's > missing a few wheels). I tried to smash my Ferrari into the ceiling of the > Monaco tunnel, but alas, it's not solid, and I just kept flying through it. > I did get some gorgeous aerial shots of the local scenery, though. :) Later > I also managed to get an Eagle to zip endlessly back and forth Curva Grande > at 1100 kph, airborne, but the game crashed before I managed to save the > incident replay. A great time was had by all. Except said Eagle.

Interesting, could you tell a bit more of exactly what to do to manage such abuse ? The best crash I ever did was a nasty one at Masta which resulted in barrelrolling on the outside grass all the way down to Stavelot. -- Olav K. Malmin remove .spam when replying

"Ville V Sinkko" <[email hidden]> wrote... > Ray Bryden <[email hidden]> wrote: > > I had an interesting time at Indy last night and managed to clock 483MPH > > going into T1. That was exiting the pits! Actually it was anotherexample of > > GPLs crash bug, but a very funny one at that. The accident started atpit

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> > entry and I ended up on the BACKSTRAIGHT! Lol. > > > I will try to post it to one of the GPL Crash Replay sites. > > I made some cute experiments with the crash bug last week (I assume this > is the bug that enables you to bounce the car like a basketball when it's > missing a few wheels). I tried to smash my Ferrari into the ceiling of the > Monaco tunnel, but alas, it's not solid, and I just kept flying through

it. > I did get some gorgeous aerial shots of the local scenery, though. :)Later > I also managed to get an Eagle to zip endlessly back and forth CurvaGrande > at 1100 kph, airborne, but the game crashed before I managed to save the > incident replay. A great time was had by all. Except said Eagle. >I've got a replay at Avus where I managed 800+ mph (1200+ kph) for a moment. A Lotus exceeding Mach 1 is quite something! -- Tony Whitley GPLRank +10.65

What was your laptime? ;} In article <zel66.49997$[email hidden]>, "Tony Whitley" <t o n y . w h i t l e y @ nStPlAwMorld.com> wrote: > I've got a replay at Avus where I managed 800+ mph (1200+ kph) for amoment.

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> A Lotus exceeding Mach 1 is quite something! > > -- > Tony Whitley > GPLRank +10.65 > >

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I had another when my car bottomed out in Eau Rouge and it hit a "landmine" and catapaulted me into the forest and slammed back onto the track right into the path of Bonnier. Another funny one at Jimmi Bo's Crash Replay site (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimmibo/gpl/index.htm) is called Rocketman, where an AI is exiting the pits and takes off like a rocket (including fire and smoke) to Curve Grande. Highly recommended. Ray Ville V Sinkko <[email hidden]> wrote: > Ray Bryden <[email hidden]> wrote: > > I had an interesting time at Indy last night and managed to clock483 MPH going into T1. That was exiting the pits! Actually it was another example of GPLs crash bug, but a very funny one at that. The accident started at pit entry and I ended up on the BACKSTRAIGHT! Lol. > > I made some cute experiments with the crash bug last week (I assumethis is the bug that enables you to bounce the car like a basketball when it's missing a few wheels). I tried to smash my Ferrari into the ceiling of the Monaco tunnel, but alas, it's not solid, and I just kept flying through it. I did get some gorgeous aerial shots of the local scenery, though. :) Later I also managed to get an Eagle to zip endlessly back and forth Curva Grande at 1100 kph, airborne, but the game crashed before I managed to save the incident replay. A great time was had by all. Except said Eagle. > > +Cinquo [36.xx] Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

"Olav K. Malmin" <[email hidden]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[email hidden]... Hi! > Interesting, could you tell a bit more of exactly what to do to manage > such abuse ? The best crash I ever did was a nasty one at Masta which > resulted in barrelrolling on the outside grass all the way down toStavelot. GPL's physics engine seems to get crazy when parts of the car "dive" into parts of the track. The easiest way to get this bug is the following: 1) Drive at full speed towards Lesmo I in Monza. 2) Let the car hit the armco sideways so hard that the two left wheels are ripped of and the car slides along the armco. 3) At this moment, press F2 to get into replay mode, press ESC to get back into the cockpit and then PAUSE to continue driving. 4) The car will bounce away from the armco. Same trick can be done in T1 at Mexico or other turns with armcos on the outside. Now for the experienced users there are advanced possibilities. For example, when the wheels on one side of the car are ripped off and the car lays on its back, it will start rolling over by itself. Just at the moment when it lays exactly on the wheelless side, do the F2-ESC-PAUSE sequence. What happens? The car will become airborne. And it seems that when you are lucky and can repeat this a few times with the same car (that is, without going into the pits inbetween), the engine goes more crazy with every time you do it until it gets completely nuts and either knocks the car all over the place or kicks you back to the desktop. I've put a 2:20-min-replay online where this can be seen. You can download it here: http://www.crashmania.de/files/Tilted_Engine.zip Have fun! Crash

I've hit 1774 MPH...I have a replay laying around here somewhere on a CD...it was done at RemcoRing...I cover the entire front straight in about 9 seconds...half the time in the air, though. JB "Ray Bryden" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:93ce7a$oej$[email hidden]... > I had an interesting time at Indy last night and managed to clock 483 MPH > going into T1. That was exiting the pits! Actually it was another exampleof

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> GPLs crash bug, but a very funny one at that. The accident started at pit > entry and I ended up on the BACKSTRAIGHT! Lol. > > I will try to post it to one of the GPL Crash Replay sites. > > Cheers > > Ray > >

[email hidden] writes: > I had another when my car bottomed out in Eau Rouge and it hit > a "landmine" and catapaulted me into the forest and slammed back onto > the track right into the path of Bonnier. That one puzzles me. I have bottomed out in Eau Rouge a number of times, and if I go very far to the right to I just don't hit the armco, the car explodes. Wouldn't be fun if it happened in a online league race though... -- Olav K. Malmin remove .spam when replying

<snip> >I've put a 2:20-min-replay online where this can be seen. You can download >it here: >http://www.crashmania.de/files/Tilted_Engine.zip > >Have fun! >Crash Hey, this is funny stuff! I thought I saw some wicked GPL crashes in my life, but this is the maddest of them all :)) Andre

"Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[email hidden]... Hi Andre! > Hey, this is funny stuff! I thought I saw some wicked GPL crashes in > my life, but this is the maddest of them all :)) Hehe, thx, I worked hard for it ;)). Regards Crash

Hi Andre! Hehe, thx, I worked hard for it ;)). Regards Crash

"Olav K. Malmin" <[email hidden]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[email hidden]... > [email hidden] writes: Hi!

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> > I had another when my car bottomed out in Eau Rouge and it hit > > a "landmine" and catapaulted me into the forest and slammed back onto > > the track right into the path of Bonnier. > > That one puzzles me. I have bottomed out in Eau Rouge a number of > times, and if I go very far to the right to I just don't hit the > armco, the car explodes. Wouldn't be fun if it happened in a online > league race though...

This strange behaviour is due to a little "hole" in that particular part of Eau Rouge. You know, GPL-tracks are made of a lot of sections like a slotcar-track, for example. If two sections don't match 100% there are small gaps between them, which can be hardly visible. Normally, the car would roll over such a gap without any problems, but at Eau Rouge, where the car bottoms out, it could happen that the car touches the gap with its body. And then the physics engine tilts, sending the car into an orbital flight ;). Avoid the right line at Eau Rouge or avoid the car from bottoming out and this thing won't happen anymore. Regards Crash

<[email hidden]> wrote ... > What was your laptime? ;}Still crap! -- Tony Whitley GPLRank +10.65 > > In article <zel66.49997$[email hidden]>, > "Tony Whitley" <t o n y . w h i t l e y @ nStPlAwMorld.com> wrote: > > > I've got a replay at Avus where I managed 800+ mph (1200+ kph) for a > moment. > > A Lotus exceeding Mach 1 is quite something! > >

20200mph, after a little mistake with track creating :-) The screenshot looks like 20200mph as well - streaking off into the distance. Phil Ray Bryden wrote:

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> > I had an interesting time at Indy last night and managed to clock 483 MPH > going into T1. That was exiting the pits! Actually it was another example of > GPLs crash bug, but a very funny one at that. The accident started at pit > entry and I ended up on the BACKSTRAIGHT! Lol. > > I will try to post it to one of the GPL Crash Replay sites. > > Cheers > > Ray

>I've got a replay at Avus where I managed 800+ mph (1200+ kph) for a moment. >A Lotus exceeding Mach 1 is quite something! I got 700 mph upside down at Talladega....

>I've hit 1774 MPH...I have a replay laying around here somewhere on a >CD...it was done at RemcoRing...I cover the entire front straight in about 9 >seconds...half the time in the air, though. > >JB On a semi-related note, I've also been able to hit 2000 on Nascar 3 at Daytona(and it drove through cars instead of taking them out).

Thank you very much for this sight. Best laugh I've had for quite a while. Michael <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:93crjh$qsi$[email hidden]...

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> I had another when my car bottomed out in Eau Rouge and it hit > a "landmine" and catapaulted me into the forest and slammed back onto > the track right into the path of Bonnier. > > Another funny one at Jimmi Bo's Crash Replay site > (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimmibo/gpl/index.htm) is called > Rocketman, where an AI is exiting the pits and takes off like a rocket > (including fire and smoke) to Curve Grande. Highly recommended. > > Ray > >

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