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Title: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 06, 2011, 11:27:24 AM ... Results & Standings ... (http://www.whoopass-racing.com/results/gp8-r04-GER/gp8-r04b.htm) (http://www.teamrip.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6017.0;attach=662;image) >>> Track Download <<< (http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=11068) Wednesday, January 12th 2011 Practice: 8:30pm Eastern Qualifying: 9:15pm Eastern Warmup: 9:30pm Eastern Race: 9:35pm Eastern Length: 7 Laps NOTE: 45L fuel tank cannot go the distance, x4 Tire wear AND a very long lap ... don't be caught out! >>> League Format Info <<< (http://www.teamrip.net/index.php?topic=5993.0) Starting Ballast: - 75kg (BP) - 45kg (EZ) - 25kg (BW) - 10kg (BZ) Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: Ezeon on January 06, 2011, 03:32:53 PM I was trying to find real life info about this track on Wikipedia, turns out there is none it is a made up track.
This could be the toughest track of the season driving-wise Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 06, 2011, 04:01:30 PM :) nice...i like the vibe.
Yeah, I encountered the same issue. Made by a guy named KELLLAAA68 ... I would image it's meant to depict real roads the author is familiar with but there doesn't seem to be any solid information around. Wermsdorf (near Dresden) might be it, but I've also seen references to Colmberg (near Stuttgart). If totally from imagination, it's a masterpiece. Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: bpbriles on January 06, 2011, 04:11:44 PM Brilliant! I love the yellow with black text.
Made up?...... Damn, that is a masterpiece! Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 06, 2011, 06:41:15 PM ...I love the yellow with black text... LoL ... good point, I guess you would ;) Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|ChITty on January 09, 2011, 08:30:33 PM Bad news, apparently I'm out again due to the wife's schedule (which she's seen fit to inform me will continue for quite some time, which was new information to me).
Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 10, 2011, 07:39:14 AM dammit!
Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: bpbriles on January 10, 2011, 10:33:44 AM Just a thought..... could we move back to Wed night to accomodate the ChIT'ster? As long as it works for the group as a whole.
Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 10, 2011, 11:04:54 AM I'm of course hesitant to make changes, certainly the day before a race ... but if it was unanimous we could consider it I guess.
As it happens, Tuesday is really ideal for me. Wed, is possible. idk if ChITty can say with confidence what night/s might be reliable for him though? Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: bpbriles on January 10, 2011, 12:31:45 PM Yeah I understand, just a thought.
However, if I remember......... he did miss a few rounds last season and was oh so close @ the end! So all is not lost. ;) Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|Bretware on January 10, 2011, 01:47:36 PM I'm having gliches, last night for the first time trees and fences showed up, some times they show up, but most of the time they do not. It was easier to follow the track when the tree canopy shows up, but when the trees disappear and reappear it's hard to keep focus. Anyone know what is causing this?
Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|ChITty on January 10, 2011, 02:10:23 PM Yeah I understand, just a thought. However, if I remember......... he did miss a few rounds last season and was oh so close @ the end! So all is not lost. ;) Please take this comment not as a boo hoo poor me, or as a petition to change the night (as I signed up for Tuesday night just like everyone else). But, as of my understanding right now, I will not be able to make any Tuesday night races, so there will be no chance to catch up. Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 10, 2011, 02:22:56 PM ...It was easier to follow the track when the tree canopy shows up, but when the trees disappear and reappear it's hard to keep focus. Anyone know what is causing this? I experienced this when I ran the track for the first time after switching from nVidia to AMD ... In the game's graphics options I found a setting for something like 'detail level' ... was at 100%, I pushed it up to 150% and now have trees. Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 10, 2011, 02:24:23 PM @ Chitty ... so BP's thought of returning to Wednesdays ... feasible?
Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|Bretware on January 10, 2011, 02:47:48 PM I experienced this when I ran the track for the first time after switching from nVidia to AMD ... In the game's graphics options I found a setting for something like 'detail level' ... was at 100%, I pushed it up to 150% and now have trees. Makes perfect sense, Ty Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 11, 2011, 12:41:02 PM corrected date to reflect change to Wednesdays. (in the text, not the poster)
Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 13, 2011, 10:40:05 AM Race results and updated championship standings posted ... links to the right ...
Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 13, 2011, 11:27:02 AM ok, correction, link is back up in the original post of this thread :)
Anyway ... the new standings are kind of insane huh? Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: bpbriles on January 13, 2011, 01:51:13 PM Insane!
Great fun last night! Intense!! Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|Bretware on January 14, 2011, 11:06:35 AM Video is live,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELAeCbESvEY Nice win Chitty, also Buz I owe you some air time in the next movie, nice run. Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 14, 2011, 11:19:37 AM Wow - I had not realized how drawn out and intense it was for you & BP. That must have been gruelling.
Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|ChITty on January 14, 2011, 11:32:15 AM Yeah wow really nice long battle!
Thanks again for the video! ...and thanks for not including my last lap... um... ending flourish. :-[ Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|Bretware on January 14, 2011, 04:26:58 PM Yeah wow really nice long battle! Thanks again for the video! ...and thanks for not including my last lap... um... ending flourish. :-[ Ya, and I cut a bunch out. That long battle gave me the idea of using a long song and helped steer me towards the Joe Walsh tune, which fits pretty good I think, I know EZ had his heart set on CC Music Factory, maybe the next one. I lost track of some of the rips when I was putting the movie together, I was trying different hard drives testing performance and I couldn't find some stuff I planed on using, a clip of Buz cruising, the BP pass at the end of our battle and the big finish in the last turn. Alot or pink in this video, but there wasn't much else going on. Anyone else seeing playback issues at 720HD? Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 14, 2011, 06:59:47 PM No playback issues as such, only thing that I noticed was not much improvement in image quality between 480 and 720 options. Perhaps the output options are using kind of a low bitrate for the final encoding?
C&C is ok, but I'd like to see some Black Box or 2Unlimited ;) Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|Bretware on January 14, 2011, 11:00:22 PM No playback issues as such, only thing that I noticed was not much improvement in image quality between 480 and 720 options. Perhaps the output options are using kind of a low bitrate for the final encoding? C&C is ok, but I'd like to see some Black Box or 2Unlimited ;) They couldn't find the black box from EZ's wreck if thats what you mean. Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|Bretware on January 15, 2011, 12:07:24 AM OK, I somewhat figured out that I was saving in too low a resolution, I went back and looked at one of my old better looking videos and it was 1280/720 44.1KHz. I saved the new video with those settings and it looks great, but the file size is 700+mb, ouch. Funny I did a search for the recomended setting for Youtube HD.
YouTube now recommends these setting for HD video: •H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 format •1280x720 resolution •44.1KHz Stereo MP3 or AAC audio •Frame rate as the original video •Up to 1GB file size and 10 min. duration I guess I'll put it on a stick and have my brother upload it, maybe I'll fix the others while I'm at it. Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 15, 2011, 12:24:30 PM Would have thought MPEG-4 could produce some better file sizes than that (with tweaking maybe) ... but glad to hear it's figure out. Should look sweet.
(btw ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lOb799cTxM ... I guess different things were big back in the day, between the US and down under) ;) Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|Bretware on January 16, 2011, 06:07:01 PM Reposted corrected race 1 & 4 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6z8czbExA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZ7019zLc4 Title: Re: Season 8 - Round 4 - Germany Post by: rip|buzinator on January 17, 2011, 08:19:34 AM Big difference - very nice.
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