GPL: practice/race transition

Hey everyone - I've been trying out some novice races in GPL, but am confused about what's supposed to happen when the practice session ends. For instance, where should I be located? In the pit lane? Or in the previous screen? Last night I switched back and forth between the two over a period of several _minutes_. And then finally something happened and I wound up on the grid.

go back to the pits and leave the car if the session is over. you can do this by stopping the car and pressing ESC then ENTER. but you can finish your lap if you haven't already taken the checkered flag ... btw: since GPL 1.1 you are not able to get back into your car after the session hast ended. Lio

: Hey everyone - : I've been trying out some novice races in GPL, : but am confused about what's supposed to happen : when the practice session ends. For instance, : where should I be located? In the pit lane? Or : in the previous screen? OK - the way it works is that after practice officially closes cars complete their laps and return to the pits. This can take some time. There's a considerable "grace" period after the end of free practice before the race starts. Best to click accelerated time and skip to the race. Wish it didn't make that stupid fuzzing noise while doing it - that drives me crazy. -- Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York. www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

Umm, since the 'fuzzing' is a noise we must be able to change that WAV file too. Maybe use the announcer voice or just piece and quiet? I'm not a GPL sound guru, so this will be left up to the pros out there. Jason.

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> There's a considerable "grace" period after the end of free > practice before the race starts. Best to click accelerated time and > skip to the race. Wish it didn't make that stupid fuzzing noise while > doing it - that drives me crazy. > -- > Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving > Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York. > www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

-------- Jason Monds "My other car is a Ferrari" http://members.home.net/gpl.mondsj/gpl - For my combined gas/brake setups (Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)

You're right. The filename is static.wav. You can put any wavefile you wish into your GPL\SOUND directory, rename it static.wav, and it will replace the original sound in the game.

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>Umm, since the 'fuzzing' is a noise we must be able to change that WAV >file too. Maybe use the announcer voice or just piece and quiet? I'm not >a GPL sound guru, so this will be left up to the pros out there. >Jason. >> There's a considerable "grace" period after the end of free >> practice before the race starts. Best to click accelerated time and >> skip to the race. Wish it didn't make that stupid fuzzing noise while >> doing it - that drives me crazy. >> -- >> Richard G. Clegg Only the mind is waving >> Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York. >> www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html >-------- >Jason Monds >"My other car is a Ferrari" >http://members.home.net/gpl.mondsj/gpl - For my combined gas/brake setups >(Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)

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>I've been trying out some novice races in GPL, >but am confused about what's supposed to happen >when the practice session ends. For instance, >where should I be located? In the pit lane? Or >in the previous screen? >Last night I switched back and forth between the >two over a period of several _minutes_. And then >finally something happened and I wound up on >the grid.

Steven, it's just like in real life: once the training session is officially over, the cars that are still on the track are allowed to finish their current lap. GPL will not proceed to the next session before all cars are back in the pits. In a worst case scenario, this could mean that an AI car has crossed the s/f line when there was only one second left in the session. Now he does a fast lap and, after that one, a slow lap coasting back to the pits. In Monza, this can add up to four minutes easily. At the 'Ring - half an hour. :) (I never tried racing at the Nuerburgring - still can't do a fast lap without spinning at least once, so I don't know this for sure.) Use the "accelerate time" button to speed things up and switch the camera view to the last car on the track, so you can see when it comes into the pits. -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:36:17 GMT, "Stephen Warrior"

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>You're right. The filename is static.wav. You can put any wavefile you >wish into your GPL\SOUND directory, rename it static.wav, and it will >replace the original sound in the game. >>> There's a considerable "grace" period after the end of free >>> practice before the race starts. Best to click accelerated time and >>> skip to the race. Wish it didn't make that stupid fuzzing noise while >>> doing it - that drives me crazy.

Using the Windows Audio-Recorder, I reduced the volume of static.wav to nearly silence. -- Matthias Flatt

Thanks for the help everyone!