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== Shovas ==
== Shovas ==


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that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”<br>
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”<br>
– John 3:16, Holy Bible. Visit [https://selah.ca/free-gift/ selah.ca/free-gift] to learn more.
– John 3:16, Holy Bible. Visit [https://selah.ca/free-gift/ selah.ca/free-gift] to learn more.
== Buy me a coffee ==
Donate to [mailto:paypal@shovas.ca paypal@shovas.ca] or send <span style="color: Green;">BTC Bitcoin</span> to bc1q8nwwnwp9zljndlcaw4jcmj0yfyqe69fa5k54dm, <span style="color: Green;">LTC Litecoin</span> to ltc1qljlmg5673q6j0s5cmxk4ggyn0x5d4npaw25vah, <span style="color: Green;">DOGE Dogecoin</span> to DSMwwdHqJ3LMxPe1HiGgNKsWBY2jPi2RwW, or <span style="color: Green;">XRP Ripple</span> to rGUoiGSjhsM14sPyePao1eqvjD6sXa1uLL. Thank you!
== 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
* [[Modernizing_GTR2_with_the_Crew_Chief_GTR2_Enhancements_Plugin#Real_Weather|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 Superceded by [[Modernizing_GTR2_with_the_Crew_Chief_GTR2_Enhancements_Plugin#Real_Weather|Real Weather for the Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin]]
== Simwiki Pages ==
* [[Le_Mans_24h_Live#Make_your_own_live_broadcast|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 ==
== Contact ==
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** [https://thecrewchief.org/showthread.php?2012-Crew-Chief-GTR2-Enhancements-Plugin-Setup-Instructions-Known-Issues-and-Changelog Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin Discord]
** [https://thecrewchief.org/showthread.php?2012-Crew-Chief-GTR2-Enhancements-Plugin-Setup-Instructions-Known-Issues-and-Changelog Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin Discord]
* Forums:
* Forums:
** [https://www.simwiki.net/forums/ Simwiki Forums]
** [https://trackaholics.forumotion.com Trackaholics Forums]
** [https://trackaholics.forumotion.com Trackaholics Forums]
** [https://gtr2-endurance.forumotion.org/search?search_id=newposts European Endurance Center Forums]
** [https://gtr2-endurance.forumotion.org/search?search_id=newposts European Endurance Center (GTR2 Endurance) Forums]
** [https://www.evolution-modding.net Evolution Modding Forums]
** [https://www.evolution-modding.net Evolution Modding Forums]
 
** [https://www.f1classic.net F1Classic Forums]
== GTR2 Mods ==
 
* [[SHO Weather]]
* [[SHO XD Style SimHub Overlays]]
* [[SHO PnG Retrofit]]
* [[SHO Competition AI]]
* [[SHO Competition FFB for GTR2]]
* [[SHO Competition FFB for GTL]]
* [[SHO Competition FFB for Race 07]]


== To-Dos ==
== To-Dos ==
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== Ideas ==
== Ideas ==


* '''Simple Modern GTR2'''
* '''File  Downloads Hosting'''
** Single package applied over GTR2 that brings it up to Modern GTR2 standards
** 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.
** Package only contains the files and patches needed to patch GTR in order to avoid legal issues
** One-shot: Avoid asking the user to select options from menus.
** The idea is to radically simplify what has become a very daunting and complex series of steps for users who just want to try it out
* '''File  Downloads'''
** We all use free Mediafire or Mega cloud drives to distribute our mods
** 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)
*** 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
*** 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
*** 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 option, if you're willing to pay, as you can use the webspace for downloads instead of a website
** 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
*** 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
*** Pay hosting often says "unlimited" storage and traffic but it's usually always limited in some way in the terms
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*** [https://www.ionos.ca/hosting/web-hosting 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.
*** [https://www.ionos.ca/hosting/web-hosting 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.
*** [https://www.inmotionhosting.com/shared-hosting Inmotion Hosting] Offers "unlimited" storage and traffic, too. I've used Inmotion before for dedicated servers and they were fine.
*** [https://www.inmotionhosting.com/shared-hosting Inmotion Hosting] Offers "unlimited" storage and traffic, too. I've used Inmotion before for dedicated servers and they were fine.
*** [https://www.godaddy.com/en-ca/hosting/web-hosting GoDaddy] has cheap hosting which isn't unlimited but for a single modder it's an option.
*** [https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/shared/ DreamHost] Shared Unlimited plan is cheap and has "unlimited" storage and traffic
*** [https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/shared/ DreamHost] Shared Unlimited plan is cheap has has "unlimited" storage and traffic
*** Popular but not unlimited:
*** Popular but not unlimited:
**** [https://www.godaddy.com/en-ca/hosting/web-hosting GoDaddy] has cheap hosting which isn't unlimited but for a single modder it's an option.
**** [https://world.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm SiteGround] - Cheap, limited storage, unlimited traffic
**** [https://world.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm SiteGround] - Cheap, limited storage, unlimited traffic
**** [https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting Hostinger Web Hosting] - Cheap prices, generous but not unlimited storage
**** [https://www.hostinger.com/web-hosting Hostinger Web Hosting] - Cheap prices, generous but not unlimited storage
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*** Gotchas
*** Gotchas
**** Limits in Terms
**** Limits in Terms
**** Search Terms for "limits", "transfer", "traffic", "visits", "inodes" to find our what their limits really are
***** Search Terms for "limits", "transfer", "traffic", "visits", "inodes" to find our what their limits really are
**** Web hosts often limit storage by limiting "inodes"
**** 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.
***** 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.
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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
 
World Movement
- No TrackIR and 0% G-Force Simulation: 100% Camera locked to car, car steady, world moves. 50% Camera still locked to car, car steady, world moves but less I guess. 0% same as sefore, world steady, car moves, but camera must be fixed to something (I previously said 0% = lock to horizon so maybe it's that).
- Adding in G-force Simulation unlocks camera pitch but not yaw or roll it seems but I do have a heady physics mod active
  - but I think disabling g-force simulation disables the head physics mod since I didn't see any head physics movement
- I just asked ChatGPT if it had to guess how much your brain is stabilizing the visual from eyes in a race car situation with a driver bouncing around inside a bouncing car and it said 70-90%. I could bet it's north of 50% anyway.
- So < 50% World Movement, tune as desired
 
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
 
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==
241107
- Document and share my ReShade profiles, link reshades used
- AI will change tires with 1 or 2 laps to go just because it's drying out instead of trying to push to the end
==
240713
Quartiles
Ex. 20 AI Grid
- Blind: Unfamiliar Track + No Practice: 4th Qrtl (Ex. 20th) at AI 100
- Cold: Familiar Track + No Practice: 3rd Qrtl (Ex. 15th) at AI 105
- Competent: Familiar Track + Moderate: 2nd Qrtl (Ex. 10th) at AI 110
- Ready: Familiar Track + High Practice: 1st Qrtl (Ex. 5th) at AI 115
Quintiles
Ex. 20 AI Grid
- Blind: Unfamiliar Track + No Practice: 5th Qntl (Ex. 20th) at AI 104
- Cold: Familiar Track + No Practice: 4rd Qntl (Ex. 16th) at AI 108
- Warm: Familiar Track + Low Practice: 3nd Qntl (Ex. 12th) at AI 112
- Competent: Familiar Track + Moderate: 2nd Qntl (Ex. 8th) at AI 116
- Ready: Familiar Track + High Practice: 1st Qntl (Ex. 4th) at AI 120
Notes:
- Qrtl = Quartile
- Qntl = Quintile
- Assumes Familiar Car
- Every grid can be split up into quartiles/quintiles to fit this
  - Eg. 30 Grid: 1st Qrtl = 30/4 = 7.5 = P8
  - Eg. 20 Grid: 1st Qntl = 20/5 = 4 = P4
Tweaking Rules:
- Goal:
  - Gain 4-8 spots OK but any more and should grid -5 (closer to front for more challenge)
  - Lose 4-8 spots then grid +5 (closer to rear for less challenge)
Guidelines:
- Take it easy on the first corner and first lap, don't pass too many by abusing the bunched up AI
Tests:
- 240713 GT's 2004, Imola GP 2004 (Cold), Chrysler Viper GTS-R (Unfamiliar): Ahead raced away, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Valencia GP 2004 (Cold), Chrysler Viper GTS-R (Unfamiliar): Ahead raced away, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Donington GP 2004 (Competent), Chrysler Viper GTS-R (Unfamiliar): Ahead raced away, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Donington GP 2004 (Race Ready), Lam Mur R-GT 2004 (Familiar), Grid 30, AI 115: 8th to 6th, ahead stayed within reach, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Zuhai GP 2004 (Cold), Lam Mur R-GT 2004 (Familiar), Grid 42, AI 105: 32nd to 21st +11, ahead stayed within reach, behind stayed within reach
- 240713 GT's 2004, Zuhai GP 2004 (Competent), Lam Mur R-GT 2004 (Familiar), Grid 42, AI 110: 21st to 13th +8, ahead stayed within reach, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Oschersleben GP 2004 (Cold), Lam Mur R-GT 2004 (Familiar), Grid 32, AI 110: 26th to 19th +7, ahead stayed within reach, behind stayed within reach
==
Arcade Mode
Arcade Mode
- Changes mirrors to virtual rearview mirror only
- Changes mirrors to virtual rearview mirror only

Latest revision as of 18:16, 8 November 2024

Shovas

“For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
– John 3:16, Holy Bible. Visit selah.ca/free-gift to learn more.

Buy me a coffee

Donate to paypal@shovas.ca or send BTC Bitcoin to bc1q8nwwnwp9zljndlcaw4jcmj0yfyqe69fa5k54dm, LTC Litecoin to ltc1qljlmg5673q6j0s5cmxk4ggyn0x5d4npaw25vah, DOGE Dogecoin to DSMwwdHqJ3LMxPe1HiGgNKsWBY2jPi2RwW, or XRP Ripple to rGUoiGSjhsM14sPyePao1eqvjD6sXa1uLL. Thank you!

Mods

Misc Sims:

GTR2:

GT Legends:

Race 07:

Old:

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:

Contact

To-Dos

N/A

Plans

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:
      • 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

World Movement
- No TrackIR and 0% G-Force Simulation: 100% Camera locked to car, car steady, world moves. 50% Camera still locked to car, car steady, world moves but less I guess. 0% same as sefore, world steady, car moves, but camera must be fixed to something (I previously said 0% = lock to horizon so maybe it's that).
- Adding in G-force Simulation unlocks camera pitch but not yaw or roll it seems but I do have a heady physics mod active
  - but I think disabling g-force simulation disables the head physics mod since I didn't see any head physics movement
- I just asked ChatGPT if it had to guess how much your brain is stabilizing the visual from eyes in a race car situation with a driver bouncing around inside a bouncing car and it said 70-90%. I could bet it's north of 50% anyway.
- So < 50% World Movement, tune as desired

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

==
241107

- Document and share my ReShade profiles, link reshades used

- AI will change tires with 1 or 2 laps to go just because it's drying out instead of trying to push to the end
==
240713

Quartiles
Ex. 20 AI Grid
- Blind:		Unfamiliar Track + No Practice:				4th Qrtl (Ex. 20th) at AI 100
- Cold:			Familiar Track + No Practice:				3rd Qrtl (Ex. 15th) at AI 105
- Competent:	Familiar Track + Moderate:					2nd Qrtl (Ex. 10th) at AI 110
- Ready:		Familiar Track + High Practice:				1st Qrtl (Ex. 5th) at AI 115

Quintiles
Ex. 20 AI Grid
- Blind:		Unfamiliar Track + No Practice:				5th Qntl (Ex. 20th) at AI 104
- Cold:			Familiar Track + No Practice:				4rd Qntl (Ex. 16th) at AI 108
- Warm:			Familiar Track + Low Practice:				3nd Qntl (Ex. 12th) at AI 112
- Competent:	Familiar Track + Moderate:					2nd Qntl (Ex. 8th) at AI 116
- Ready: 		Familiar Track + High Practice:				1st Qntl (Ex. 4th) at AI 120

Notes:
- Qrtl = Quartile
- Qntl = Quintile
- Assumes Familiar Car
- Every grid can be split up into quartiles/quintiles to fit this
  - Eg. 30 Grid: 1st Qrtl = 30/4 = 7.5 = P8
  - Eg. 20 Grid: 1st Qntl = 20/5 = 4 = P4

Tweaking Rules:
- Goal:
  - Gain 4-8 spots OK but any more and should grid -5 (closer to front for more challenge)
  - Lose 4-8 spots then grid +5 (closer to rear for less challenge)

Guidelines:
- Take it easy on the first corner and first lap, don't pass too many by abusing the bunched up AI

Tests:
- 240713 GT's 2004, Imola GP 2004 (Cold), Chrysler Viper GTS-R (Unfamiliar): Ahead raced away, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Valencia GP 2004 (Cold), Chrysler Viper GTS-R (Unfamiliar): Ahead raced away, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Donington GP 2004 (Competent), Chrysler Viper GTS-R (Unfamiliar): Ahead raced away, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Donington GP 2004 (Race Ready), Lam Mur R-GT 2004 (Familiar), Grid 30, AI 115: 8th to 6th, ahead stayed within reach, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Zuhai GP 2004 (Cold), Lam Mur R-GT 2004 (Familiar), Grid 42, AI 105: 32nd to 21st +11, ahead stayed within reach, behind stayed within reach
- 240713 GT's 2004, Zuhai GP 2004 (Competent), Lam Mur R-GT 2004 (Familiar), Grid 42, AI 110: 21st to 13th +8, ahead stayed within reach, behind stayed close
- 240713 GT's 2004, Oschersleben GP 2004 (Cold), Lam Mur R-GT 2004 (Familiar), Grid 32, AI 110: 26th to 19th +7, ahead stayed within reach, behind stayed within reach

==

Arcade Mode
- Changes mirrors to virtual rearview mirror only
- ...???
- Is this for controllers and gamepads?
- "Arcade mode- with individual physics to suit every game fan."
  - "In addition to the most accurate racing simulation on the planet, GTR has a completely separate Arcade mode for those gamers who love to throw the car around with wild abandon. The arcade mode is all about fun with thumping music and forgiving handling - a perfect introduction to real racing for the average gamer."
  - https://worthplaying.com/article/2004/9/11/news/19162-gtr-the-ultimate-racing-game-xboxpc-screens/