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Shovas

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Contact

• Discord:
  • @shovas on Discord
  • The Pit Stop Discord
  • Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin Discord
• Forums:
  • Trackaholics Forums
  • European Endurance Center Forums
  • Evolution Modding 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

N/A

Ideas

• Simple Modern GTR2
  • Single package applied over GTR2 that brings it up to Modern GTR2 standards
  • 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 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
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    • 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

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Scratchpad

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/