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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 Superceded by Real Weather for the Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin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
  • The Pit Stop 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

N/A

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

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

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Weather
- Track temperature doesn't realistically ever go below ambient temperature when raining
- 

Bad weather mappings:
- Move CacaBueno.ccgep-mapping mappings to Jacarepagua.ccgep-mapping


13:27:30.782  0x22c0  PubLvl  PubSrc  PubLoc  (280) :  ERROR: Custom Weather: Can't wildcard map to "JACAREPAGUA" - already Mapped!  "G:\Games\GTR2Plus\UserData\Log\custom_weather\Jacarepagua.ccgep-mapping" -    "*RIO*DE*JANEIRO*"   to   "CACABUENO"
13:27:30.783  0x22c0  PubLvl  PubSrc  PubLoc  (288) :  Custom Weather: Weather files wildcard mapped "G:\Games\GTR2Plus\UserData\Log\custom_weather\Jacarepagua.ccgep-mapping" -  "*NELSON*PIQUET*"  to  "JACAREPAGUA"
13:27:30.783  0x22c0  PubLvl  PubSrc  PubLoc  (288) :  Custom Weather: Weather files wildcard mapped "G:\Games\GTR2Plus\UserData\Log\custom_weather\Jacarepagua.ccgep-mapping" -  "*RIOCENTRO*"  to  "JACAREPAGUA"
13:27:30.783  0x22c0  PubLvl  PubSrc  PubLoc  (280) :  ERROR: Custom Weather: Can't wildcard map to "JACAREPAGUA" - already Mapped!  "G:\Games\GTR2Plus\UserData\Log\custom_weather\Jacarepagua.ccgep-mapping" -    "*CACA*BUENO*"   to   "CACABUENO"
13:27:30.784  0x22c0  PubLvl  PubSrc  PubLoc  (280) :  ERROR: Custom Weather: Can't wildcard map to "JACAREPAGUA" - already Mapped!  "G:\Games\GTR2Plus\UserData\Log\custom_weather\Jacarepagua.ccgep-mapping" -    "*GALEAO*"   to   "CACABUENO"

==
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- Batch 241201
  - Paul Ricard, Circuit
    *paul*ricard*
  - Cascavel, Autódromo de aka Autódromo Internacional Zilmar Beux de Cascavel (Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil)
    *cascavel*
  - Ibarra aka Autódromo Internacional José Tobar aka Autodromo Internacional de Yahuarcocha (Ibarra, Ecuador)
    *Yahuarcocha*
    *ibarra*
	*jose*tobar*
	*tobar*
  - Summit Point Motorsports Park aka Summit Point Raceway (Summit Point, WV, USA)
    - Circuits: Summit Point Main, Jefferson Circuit, Shenandoah Circuit,
      Washington Circuit
	*summit*point*
	*Jefferson*
  - Guaporé, Autódromo Internacional de (Guaporé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
    *Guapore*
  - Fontana aka Auto Club Speedway aka California Speedway (Fontana, California, USA)
    *fontana*
	*auto*club*
	*CaliforniaRC*
	*OCalifornia*
	*california*
  - Ascari, Circuito (Ronda, Málaga, Spain)
    *ascari*
  - Boavista, Circuito da (Porto, Portugal)
    *boavista*
	*porto*
  - Dehesa Alcolea, Auto Club La (Alcolea del Pinar, Guadalajara, Spain)
    *dehesa*alcolea*
	*alcolea*
	*dehesa*
  - Maze Sea Circuit (Maze, Nishikan-ku, Niigata-shi, Niigata-ken Japan)
    *maze*sea*
	*maze*circuit*
	*maze*
==
241119

- Update: Termas de Río Hondo, Autódromo (Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero, Argentina)
==
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/