NASCAR: Driving at night

Hi, I heard that it is possible that NASCAR can simulate driving at night too. Is this true?? If it is, how can it be done?? I had search through all the options in NASCAR but can find anything. Any help would be appreciated Safai

night too. Is this true?? If it is, how can it be done?? I had search through all the options in NASCAR but can find anything. Any help would be appreciated On the options menu, go to I think REALISM, or something, and choose RANDOM weather. Once in a while it will be dark. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Edward Carter | The Red Hot Chili Peppers Rock!!!| Vector Avtech WX-3 Newport Beach, CA, USA | IndyCar Racing Rules!!! | '95 Corvette ZR-1 Single, White, Male | Al Unser Jr. Kicks *** | '95 Suburban 454 4X4

> Hi, I heard that it is possible that NASCAR can simulate driving at night > too. Is this true?? If it is, how can it be done?? I had search > through all the options in NASCAR but can find anything. Any help would > be appreciated Yes, you can do this. You have to run in a championship season. The easiest way is to modify calendar file. MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE you attempt this! Then look for races (at Bristol and C***te and one other track), with a 1 in the second set of single digits. This indicates a night race. Keep those races and dump the rest, BUT make sure you made a backup. THis is necessary and can't be emphasised enough.

> Hi, I heard that it is possible that NASCAR can simulate driving at night > too. Is this true?? If it is, how can it be done?? I had search > through all the options in NASCAR but can find anything. Any help would > be appreciated Here's what I did. I found a file called nasnight.zip or somthing witch gives you the following and the NIGHT.PCX ************************************************************************** * Nighttime for NASCAR ==================== Wana do a little night time NASCAR drivin'? You will need a hex editor such as Diskedit from the Norton Utilities. First COPY the file NASCAR.EXE to NASNIGHT.EXE. Then with your hex editor search for and change the two text strings that both say sunny.pcx to night.pcx in the newly created file (NAS-NITE.EXE). Lastly copy the enclosed file NIGHT.PCX to all of your TRACKS subdirectories except for BRISTOL (the BRISTOL.DAT file already has the data in it). Fire up NASCAR by typing NASNIGHT <enter> and prepare for those cool nighttime breezes! ************************************************************************* So there's another route. I haven't tried it with the track pack. Glen Kendall Wayne , Michigan

>Hi, I heard that it is possible that NASCAR can simulate driving at night too. Is this true?? If it is, how can it be done?? I had search through all the options in NASCAR but can find a%> >Safai the nascar game has 3 tracks that during the championship season that will appear as night races...c***te, richmond, and bristol...you'll have to change the calendar file in your nascar directory..its the cal file..just change the name of the c***te track in the calendar..it needs to be the same spelling as the directory for c***te...you can also add rockingham and north wilkesboro the same way...that way you can have a 28 race season with the championship season and 3 of them are night races... Jay Martin

This is not true. The only way to get night racing is through the championship season. Random weather is just that, random weather: temperature and wind speed and direction. There is probably a way to modify a track.txt file and race at night, but I believe it would still have to be during a championship season.

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> Ma) writes: > On the options menu, go to I think REALISM, or something, and choose > RANDOM weather. Once in a while it will be dark. > -- > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Edward Carter | The Red Hot Chili Peppers Rock!!!| Vector Avtech WX-3 > Newport Beach, CA, USA | IndyCar Racing Rules!!! | '95 Corvette ZR-1 > Single, White, Male | Al Unser Jr. Kicks *** | '95 Suburban 454 4X4

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-> On the options menu, go to I think REALISM, or something, and choose -> RANDOM weather. Once in a while it will be dark. Hmmm, have you ever had this happen? There is a file that has to be added to each track that you want to *night race* at. Then you load NASNITE instead of NASCAR. * 1st 2.00 #4593 * A little revolution every now and then is a good thing.

t> Hi, I heard that it is possible that NASCAR can simulate driving at night t> too. Is this true?? If it is, how can it be done?? I had search through t> all the options in NASCAR but can find anything. Any help would be t> appreciated Some time ago I put Bristol track in TRACKS directory of Nascar Demo and I got this track and it was night race :-O . I didn't change anything, simply gave this track to Nasdemo. JFYI. :) Best regards, Ervins Reinverts [Team OS/2] --- GoldED/2 2.50.A0715+

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> t> Hi, I heard that it is possible that NASCAR can simulate driving at night > t> too. Is this true?? If it is, how can it be done?? I had search through > t> all the options in NASCAR but can find anything. Any help would be > t> appreciated >Some time ago I put Bristol track in TRACKS directory of Nascar Demo and I got >this track and it was night race :-O . I didn't change anything, simply gave >this track to Nasdemo. JFYI. :) >Best regards, >Ervins Reinverts >[Team OS/2]

If you race a full season then the second event a Bristol will always be a night race. I believe there is a way to control this by editing the [track].txt file but I am not sure exactly what you have to change. Maybe someone can clue us in? BTW, has anyone noticed that the car handles differently at the night race compared to the day race at Bristol? I've never compared the weather conditions but I guess that could account for the difference.

The only way I know how to race at night is to select a Season Championship from the main menu and only certain tracks have this option. In other words... to get to a night race accelerate through each race by pressing "a" during racing until you get to the right track during the season..... Hope this helps...

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> t> Hi, I heard that it is possible that NASCAR can simulate driving at night > t> too. Is this true?? If it is, how can it be done?? I had search through > t> all the options in NASCAR but can find anything. Any help would be > t> appreciated >Some time ago I put Bristol track in TRACKS directory of Nascar Demo and I got >this track and it was night race :-O . I didn't change anything, simply gave >this track to Nasdemo. JFYI. :) >Best regards, >Ervins Reinverts >[Team OS/2] >--- GoldED/2 2.50.A0715+

You can race at night at any time on any track. Copy "nascar.exe" to something like "niterace.exe". Then load it into a hex editor and search for "sunny.pcx". Replace this with "night.pcx". Then copy the file "night.pcx" that is in your "nascar\tracks\bristol" directory to each other track directory. You just run "niterace.exe" instead of "nascar.exe". Even the opening scene is at night. Mark