GTR2 Weather

Threads

• Efforts to create weather file sets like we create new sky sets?
  • "Has there ever been an effort to create weather.txt files for all the kinds of weather conditions, something like how various people over the years have made sky textures for all the kinds of weather conditions?"
• Weather files?
• GTR2 not reading or generating weather.txt
• Changeable Weather Problem
• Cloudy skies, Rainy days in GTR2
• can't really see the dry line after a rain
  • "you need to wait around 8 laps then you will see what is shown on screenshots"
  • "What I still wonder ... does the track really gets dry after rain finally ?" [1]
    • "yes the track does indeed get dry but it takes some time but the more wet the track is the faster it will dry out..."
• Rainfall Settings Observations
  • List of Rainfall, Track, Ambient, Conditions, Forecast, Tyres Autoselected at various rain levels
• Off course there are dry and wet paths in the AIW files!
  • "At least in all base tracks from Simbin. It is defined as Lateral Offsets in the WP_path. First parameters are dry path and second are wet path."
• Revisiting the Changing Weather Patch Mod
  • "Problem: Temperance variance too wide: Can be 10C Ambient and 20C Track or 30C+ Ambient 40C+ Track"
  • "Problem: Temperature doesn't go up during the day and down during the night"
  • "Problem: Temperature doesn't go down with rain meaning wet tires overheat on a wet track because the track temperature doesn't go down being wet"
  • "Theory: I don't think these problems are solvable but a good work-around might be to replace the UserData\LOG\weather.txt with a 'good all-round' weather file that can address the first two issues (I think)."
  • "Modifying Average rain = 0.x to a higher value just gave me higher chance of constant rain. Think it just a multiplier of chance of a rain day?"
  • Hex edit EXE to enable changeable weather broken in Steam GTR2
• How to make a dynamic weather during race sessions in GTR2?
  • Weather files explained - NoGripRacing Forums

Apps

• Weather Generator for GTR2
• Weatherfile Generator for GTR2 2.3
• Autosim Weather Generator for GTR2

Car Setups

• Nissan 350Z - Monza (100% Rain)
• Porsche 911 Bi-Turbo - Monza (100% Rain)
• Mosler MT900 - Monza (100% Rain)
• Gillet Vertigo Streiff - Spa

Modding

• Simple Tire Modding for GTR 2

Related

• RFE Weather - RFE Plugin Series 1.1 for rFactor
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    • Lienz GP RFE 2.1 - Lienz GP RFE convertido para plugin weather
    • F1 1988 Track Pack RFE - All featuring season accurate laps, weather, and grids, complete with the RFE weather plugin to provide the best possible experience.
    • Toban Raceway RFE - Unofficial conversion of the Toban Raceway track to "Plugin RFE Weather" adding weather effects.
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