GPL Helmet Colors

I didn't think of this till after some of the drivers on VROC while looking at the replays mentioned the helmet colors. While racing online, Does GPL place the right helmets with the human opponents? Or does it just pick the colors at random? e.g.; If I chose to run with a pink with yellow polka dots helmet, everyone else's replay of the race would see me in my car with that helmet. or, e.g.; everyone else's replay would have me in my car with their GPLs randomly selected helmet colors? Mike Barlow -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? MikeBa on the TEN network. Member of R.O.R. 1999 http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music mikeba.vcf < 1K Download

I believe it does. It can be useful, particularly in single class racing as it gives you an idea (if you know the people you're racing with) whether the guy in front/behind is a hard man or a soft touch. Andy (ferrari + black helmet )

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> I didn't think of this till after some of the drivers on VROC while > looking at the replays mentioned the helmet colors. While racing > online, Does GPL place the right helmets with the human opponents? Or > does it just pick the colors at random? e.g.; If I chose to run with a > pink with yellow polka dots helmet, everyone else's replay of the race > would see me in my car with that helmet. or, e.g.; everyone else's > replay would have me in my car with their GPLs randomly selected helmet > colors? > Mike Barlow > -- > ========================================= > Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? > MikeBa on the TEN network. > Member of R.O.R. 1999 > http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html > ========================================= > Racing online with the help of...... > Race Communications Association > http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html > Holodyne Engineering > Mystic Music > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Name: mikeba.vcf > Part 1.2 Type: text/x-vcard > Encoding: 7bit > Description: Card for Michael Barlow

Your helmet color is definitely displayed correctly to the other drivers when you race online. I can recognize many of the regulars just by their car / helmet combinations. I also like to know which AI driver I am near in offline races, so I edited the driver.ini file to modify all the duplicates. For example, in the default setup, there are four white helmeted Ferrari drivers. I changed Bandini's to black, Parkes' to red, and Scarfiotti's to yellow, leaving Amon with the white helmet. Dave Ewing

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:08:51 -0500, Michael Barlow > I didn't think of this till after some of the drivers on VROC while >looking at the replays mentioned the helmet colors. While racing >online, Does GPL place the right helmets with the human opponents? Yes, the color selected in the players setup are shown in online races, too. No. Yes, with a pink helmet, if you have selected this color. Polka dots are not available in this selection menue, though. ;-) But, if you modify the .srb-Files in the brabham.dat, you can paint your helmet the way you want: There are two files which seem to be used as a "white" basic helmet for all helmet colors. And when the (transparent) backgound is painted, the drivers get square helmets. ;-) But these files are not really white, more like grey. So I made them more bright, and now white helmets (like eg. Surtees) look white, not silver-grey. Other helmet colors look brighter, too. But this modification only shows on my PC, not on others (unless they've made the same modification). Maybe I make this "patch" public after some more testing. -- _____ /_______\ .\\ a t t h e a d I XT /~~~~ I 500\_____ 1977' Yamaha XT.Rex 500 Enduro \____/\__I_I http://matthead.home.pages.de/

If this is true, I wonder if you had painted the car... would everyone else see that paint job?

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> Your helmet color is definitely displayed correctly to the other drivers > when you race online. I can recognize many of the regulars just by > their car / helmet combinations. > I also like to know which AI driver I am near in offline races, so I > edited the driver.ini file to modify all the duplicates. For example, > in the default setup, there are four white helmeted Ferrari drivers. I > changed Bandini's to black, Parkes' to red, and Scarfiotti's to yellow, > leaving Amon with the white helmet. > Dave Ewing

-- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? MikeBa on the TEN network. Member of R.O.R. 1999 http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music mikeba.vcf < 1K Download

Michael Barlow wrote No that's a different situation.. Car paints are on the client's side, and only act for that client. The helmet are just an easy 1 digit output (1 for Xcolor, 2 for Ycolor, etc..). It's probably not that but you get my point.. you only download a couple of bytes of data to get the helmet color, compared to let's say... 75k x # of cars for a painting. Especially that GPL doesn't really have any painkit, the *.MIP incorporated is often more than 1 file changed (and I won't go into the car # problems here). It's much complicated than you think to "exchange" car paints. -= Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank> -= NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/ -= SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/ -= Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s. -= May the Downforce be with you... "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Yes the right helmet colors are displayed on GPL online opponents, quite a nice feature I must admit, especially if you race in a league, where you get to know the different drivers by their chassis/helmet-color combination. Seeyas on the track. --John (Joao) Silva

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:32:32 -0700, David Ewing >I also like to know which AI driver I am near in offline races, so I >edited the driver.ini file to modify all the duplicates. For example, >in the default setup, there are four white helmeted Ferrari drivers. I >changed Bandini's to black, Parkes' to red, and Scarfiotti's to yellow, >leaving Amon with the white helmet. I did a similar thing, but I gave Bandini a light grey helmet, not a burned black one ... I don't remember the defaults anymore, but Hill now has a black helmet (no white stripes, though), and Clark a dark blue one (for Scotland). Rodriguez silver, Ickx dark blue, Stewart white. -- _____ /_______\ .\\ a t t h e a d I XT /~~~~ I 500\_____ 1977' Yamaha XT.Rex 500 Enduro \____/\__I_I http://matthead.home.pages.de/