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Shovas

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Mods

Misc Sims:

• SHO XD Style SimHub Overlays - SimHub Overlays work with all SimHub-supported sims (which is basically all of them including GTR2, etc.)
• SHO Weather Generator - PHP script that produces quasi-realistic weather scenarios from real weather data

GTR2:

• SHO Specialfx - Custom Specialfx.tec tweaks for bumps, bounces, grip levels, etc.
• Real Weather for GTR2 UI Tools by Pixiv - Weather files to support Pixiv's GTR2 UI Tools
• Real Weather for the Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin - Weather files to support CCGEP's Custom Weather Feature
• SHO PnG Retrofit - Power & Glory Historical Immersion Enhancements Mod including Era-appropriate Tracks
• SHO Competition AI - Extensive attempts to improve AI competitiveness
• SHO Competition FFB for GTR2 - Crowdsourced FFB profiles for many popular wheels

GT Legends:

• SHO Competition FFB for GTL

Race 07:

• SHO Competition FFB for Race 07

Old:

• SHO Weather - Proof of concept command-line launcher for custom weather. Superceded by Real Weather for the Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin

Simwiki Pages

• Watching Le Mans 24h Live - How to make your own free, live broadcast out of live timing screens, live radio commentary, and live onboard videos

GTR2:

• GTR2 Graphics Optimization

Contact

• Discord:
  • @shovas on Discord
  • Simwiki Discord
  • Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin Discord
• Forums:
  • Simwiki Forums
  • Trackaholics Forums
  • European Endurance Center (GTR2 Endurance) Forums
  • Evolution Modding Forums
  • F1Classic Forums

To-Dos

• Document and share my ReShade profiles, link reshades used

Ideas

• File Downloads Hosting
  • If you already pay for a cloud drive, like Google Drive, Office 365, Proton Drive, Dropbox, Mediafire, or Mega, just use that if you're an individual modder. They're unlikely to completely cancel a paying customer even if they realize you're using it for download sharing.
  • We all use free Mediafire or Mega cloud drives to distribute our mods
    • That tends to work fine because each person has their own account and for each modder there's a limited audience so not too much of a risk of going over the transfer limit (but I've seen it happen)
    • You can pay $6-12/month to Mediafire or Mega and get more space and more transfer limit
    • But it still leaves the problem that Mediafire and Mega aren't really intended to be used for downloads the way we use them
  • Shared Web Hosting is one cheap option, if you're willing to pay, as you can use the webspace for downloads instead of a website
    • Often very cheap pricing and generous storage and traffic limits
    • Pay hosting often says "unlimited" storage and traffic but it's usually always limited in some way in the terms
    • But it's still often quite a bit of space and transfer, ready to go for HTTPS downloads, and cheap
    • IONOS Web Hosting Offers "unlimited" storage and traffic. Not very intuitive but once you get ftp setup and understand your web address it's easy.
    • Inmotion Hosting Offers "unlimited" storage and traffic, too. I've used Inmotion before for dedicated servers and they were fine.
    • DreamHost Shared Unlimited plan is cheap and has "unlimited" storage and traffic
    • Popular but not unlimited:
      • GoDaddy has cheap hosting which isn't unlimited but for a single modder it's an option.
      • SiteGround - Cheap, limited storage, unlimited traffic
      • Hostinger Web Hosting - Cheap prices, generous but not unlimited storage
      • BlueHost Web Hosting - Cheap-ish prices, fair but not unlimited storage
    • Tom's Guide - The best unlimited web hosting in 2024 - Find articles like this for the latest best deals
    • Gotchas
      • Limits in Terms
        • Search Terms for "limits", "transfer", "traffic", "visits", "inodes" to find our what their limits really are
      • Web hosts often limit storage by limiting "inodes"
        • You can still host a tonne of files, like tens of thousands, maybe a hundred thousand, maybe 600,000 (as limited on Hostinger's Business Plan), but it's something to be aware of.
        • Beware web hosting "apps" you can install. I installed MediaWiki at IONOS and it took up a huge portion of my inodes limit

Scratched:

• Ambient and track temperatures do not go down overnight: Can I modify the weather file to make that work?
  • Weather files are simply a progression of minutes without regard to time of day. It would require a higher-level change that would be able to look at what time-of-day the user chose in-game and then selecting from a file that starts-at-that-hour. It's possible but pretty involved.

Notepad

Best Looking GTR2 Tracks
- VLM Sebring
- VLM Mid-Ohio
- Imola 2021
- Paul Ricard https://trackaholics.forumotion.com/t7660-release-circuit-paul-ricard-1-0#147217

OneDrive
- Manually Sync One Specific Folder
  - Use Windows "junctions" (ie. symbolic/hard links to Linux/Unix users) inside a normal folder inside your '''C:\Users\<USER>\OneDrive\''' folder
    - Ex. '''C:\Users\User\OneDrive\GTR2\Junction -> C:\Other\Path\GTR2\Packages'''
  - How To:
    - Open a command prompt as Administrator (search "cmd" from Start menu, right-click and select Run As Administrator)
    - Change into your OneDrive folder (ex. '''cd C:\Users\<USER>\OneDrive\GTR2''')
    - Create the link (ex. '''mklink /j Tracks C:\Other\Path\GTR2\Tracks''')
- OneDrive's sync is surprisingly intelligent. It seems to understand the minimal thing to do even when you move or rename a large folder.
  - Even WinSCP folder sync, `rsync`, or apps like FreeFileSync (PortableApps) don't support this natively
- I've been loooking for a full folder/file synchronization tool to some kind of online web storage for a while and this method is what I need

Scratchpad

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Weather:
- Pretty convinced my temperatures are biasing to the low side of the averages I see for locations on weather websites+ (eg. Advenisto)
- Track is starting flooded: Didn't I prevent it from doing that before? (eg. Advenisto)
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