N3 adding Tale no plate track

>I wanted to add an extra Talladega track for racing without the restrictor >plates, Why not just add another line to your all.cal that has the plate column set to 0 instead of 1. Just don't forget the date and when you cycle thru your track selections, just pick THAT one. Apparently you know the .cal file well enough to know which column is the restrictor plate column. Gunner

I wanted to add an extra Talladega track for racing without the restrictor plates, So I thought , should be easy enough, just add another folder in the tracks dir. with a different name, I called it deganp, then copied all the files in the talladega folder to deganp, re-named the talledega.dat and talledega.txt to deganp.dat and deganp.txt, edit the deganp.txt lines TNAME and SNAME to Talladega no Plates and SPDWY 1 45 48 to 0 45 48. add it to my all.cal and it should work. Or so I thought, but when I try to load the track I get an error message, unable to load full track description. anyone got any ideas on what other changes I need to make to get my new track working. Thanks in advance Mark

"Mark Aisthorpe" <[email hidden]> wrote > anyone got any ideas on what other changes I need to make to get > my new track working. You need to change the correct files inside your .dat file -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- 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.

Mark Aisthorpe wrote in message ... >I wanted to add an extra Talladega track for racing without the restrictor >plates, Why not just add another line to your all.cal that has the plate column set to 0 instead of 1. Just don't forget the date and when you cycle thru your track selections, just pick THAT one. Apparently you know the .cal file well enough to know which column is the restrictor plate column. Gunner

there is a little program called N3 Companion, simply put a check mark in the no plates box and go racin, it's a small and simple program, only takes a couple of seconds to do it , go here and follow the utilities link , http://paladinracing.ware.net/ -- Jeff Eiland #51 Georgia Boot http://www.georgiaboot.com/ http://paladinracing.ware.net

Ok this sounds promising. I unpacked the .DAT and found 5 files called TALLADEGA, a .TRK, .SCR, .PCK, .CAM and .3DO, I renamed all these and repacked the DAT, but get the same result when loading the track. I don't suppose you would be prepared to be a bit more specific. Thanks to everyone else that answered, but I want a track that works as if it was included in the game as standard. Mark

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> > anyone got any ideas on what other changes I need to make to get > > my new track working. > You need to change the correct files inside your .dat file > -- > -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> > -- May the Downforce be with you... > -- http://www.WeRace.net > -- 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.

Ah. You need to open your taladega.pck with an editor (like notepad) and change them in it also. -- -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- 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.

I used a short batch file and an edited taladega.txt file named noplate.txt for running without the plate - the batch file renames taladega.txt to plateon.txt then renames noplate.txt to taladega.txt - another batch file switches them back - quick and easy, just have to decide which you want to run before launching N3 On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:22:13 -0000, "Mark Aisthorpe" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I wanted to add an extra Talladega track for racing without the restrictor >plates, >So I thought , should be easy enough, just add another folder in the >tracks dir. with a different name, I called it deganp, then copied >all the files in the talladega folder to deganp, re-named the talledega.dat >and talledega.txt to deganp.dat and deganp.txt, >edit the deganp.txt lines TNAME and SNAME to Talladega no Plates >and SPDWY 1 45 48 to 0 45 48. >add it to my all.cal and it should work. >Or so I thought, but when I try to load the track I get an error message, >unable to load full track description. >anyone got any ideas on what other changes I need to make to get >my new track working. > >Thanks in advance >Mark > > > >

It's ok I worked it out, you need to edit the .pck in note pad before repacking the .dat Thanks Mark

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> > anyone got any ideas on what other changes I need to make to get > > my new track working. > You need to change the correct files inside your .dat file > -- > -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard> > -- May the Downforce be with you... > -- http://www.WeRace.net > -- 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.