2012 | 300 Miles of Sebring

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300 Miles of Sebring- INTRO & INFO

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Event: 300 Miles of Sebring
Date: Saturday - October 13th 2012
Platform: rFactor2
Class: Nissan GTR, Nissan 370Z, Renault Megane
Track: Sebring 12h
Broadcast: under investigation
Driver Swaps: None

INTRODUCTION
Welcome to second official Racedepartment World Endurance Series event.
The Racedepartment World Endurance Series, or RDWES for short, is a series of (semi)endurance races we will hold during the year.
After a blast on Mid Ohio, we will again make a visit to the USA, to Sebring to be exact.
Sebring International Raceway is one of the oldest continuously-operating race tracks in the United States, its first race being run in 1950. As this track has a long history of Endurance racing, we feel we should honor it by this event.
There will be NO driver swaps allowed in this event. Total race length is 300 miles, which will equal about 2.5 hours of racing.


AVAILABLE CARS
The cars available will all be from the GT classes. In addition to the GT Endurance Series by ISI, we have decided to include the Renault Megane Trophy.
RaceDepartment will try to stay up to date with the latest patches and releases of these mod’s. This list will be updated according to the latest decisions of the staff concerning implemented patches and releases.
Available choices will be:

GT1
Nissan GT-R

GT4
Nissan 370Z
Maserati GT (taken out due to missing whipers and brake disc glow animation).

One-Make Racing
Renault Megane

SKINS
For this round, a custom MOD will be created. Everyone who wants to use a custom skin can make one and send it in a working download link. The DEADLINE is October 1st (!!!!), so after that you'll need to pick a standard skin for the race. Happy skinning guys! Don´t forget to put a RD logo on there. :thumbsup:

Dead line costum skin period has ended!

SCHEDULE/SESSION INFO - ALL TIMES IN GMT
Official Practice: 16:30 (90 minutes)
Qualification: 18:00 (30 minutes)
Warm-up: 18:30 (15 minutes)
Race: 18:45 (82 Laps = +/- 300Miles)

All drivers must be in the server at least 15 minutes before qualifying, anyone who joins after the start of qualifying will start from the back of their specified class with the exception of people who experience last minute technical issues. The server will be open for unofficial practice before official starting time, and will be restarted at 16:30 GMT exactly. From that moment on, the server will stay up, so a nice rubber pavement can be made.

Signups.
To sign up for this event, you must have a valid license from Racedepartment. If you sign up, we do expect you to show up!. To sign up, please take a look in the Sign Up Thread.

For now, we have limited the signup list to 28 entrants. If needed, we can expand that number with an additional 20 drivers, so all can have a go at this.


Notes.
· Chatting of any kind during Qualifying and the Race is strictly prohibited in the chat. There is no need to say sorry/thanks/pitting/leaving pits/etc. Anything that needs to be said can wait until after the session.
· If you feel you were wronged in any way during an event and wish to report the incident, simply send the event organiser a private message. Please include a description of the incident along with a video. If you are unable to create a video, please include details such as who was involved and where the incident happened with a timestamp. Do not post reports/accusations in the thread itself - negativity and anger gets us nowhere.
· We encourage all our drivers to use Teamspeak 3, download here. Talking directly to your fellow drivers increases the fun and the ability to share information in an easy friendly way. It will improve your driving skills dramatically, Log in here
· Please take into account that rFactor 2 is still in beta stage and that technical problems might occur. If you spot a bug please post a (constructive) report in the dedicated bug forum here.
 
I am not much use at making skins and have just been using one of the stock ones from the mod (the yellow one), do I need a flashy skin?

Does anyone make them that I could chuck a tenner at?

I'm still very new with skinning but am on leave this week so have a bit of time on my hands if you want me to create one for you? Won't look spectacular but will be non stock non the less
 
I am not much use at making skins and have just been using one of the stock ones from the mod (the yellow one), do I need a flashy skin?

Does anyone make them that I could chuck a tenner at?

Jon, if you want to use a stock one, you can use a stock one. It's not that you MUST use a custom skin.
There are some good tutorials around which will help yopu thru the process.
You could also could download a ready made skin. There are really many nice ones around. Look here.
 
Well, I'm not really that bothered what my car looks like on the outside, as I am sitting inside it! I don't really have the time to make my own skin, what with life and all, and what spare time I have I am putting towards setup and fuel runs for this race.

However, Tiens I'll PM you if you are up for doing a relatively simple skin, as I could use it longer term in other races and it would save me looking like someone who couldn't be bothered! (Like I am) :D
 
What program are u using?
Well i use gimp, but i cant get those .dds extention to work in gimp, so i use a different program to convert. Thats called DDS converter 2.1, there in settings i got it set on DXT5, but still shinny.

So forgott what iam doing wrong i guess as i got it to work in rf1 when skinning in that

Defenetly something going wrong with converting thats for shure. And then i dont know how to get it in the game either. So will really be rush against the time i guess.

MAybe ill just download one 4 now
 
Well i use gimp, but i cant get those .dds extention to work in gimp, so i use a different program to convert. Thats called DDS converter 2.1, there in settings i got it set on DXT5, but still shinny.

So forgott what iam doing wrong i guess as i got it to work in rf1 when skinning in that

Defenetly something going wrong with converting thats for shure. And then i dont know how to get it in the game either. So will really be rush against the time i guess.

MAybe ill just download one 4 now

Hi Nicky

Is your template in psd format? I use photoshop to export to dds. You can send to me and I can try export for you to see if it makes a difference
 
Well i use gimp, but i cant get those .dds extention to work in gimp, so i use a different program to convert. Thats called DDS converter 2.1, there in settings i got it set on DXT5, but still shinny.

So forgott what iam doing wrong i guess as i got it to work in rf1 when skinning in that

Defenetly something going wrong with converting thats for shure. And then i dont know how to get it in the game either. So will really be rush against the time i guess.

MAybe ill just download one 4 now
You can also look for a program called paint.net, its free. If you make your skin in gimp, save it as a jpg, then open it in paint.net and you can re save it as .dds. A pain in the ass, i know, which is why i picked up photoshop, but it works. Also when saving, under the super sampling part, select bicubic as it seems to get rid of the glossy effect that nearest neighbor will give you.
 
I have read and understood all rules for this race, and hereby would like to sign up. I will participate in the Nissan GTR car.

hopefully i can do this race but it´s not 100% sure yet, but i would like to sign up anyway if it´s ok

Have you forgotten me or is the race full or can i participate????
 
Do we have to put skin in a different folder, or can we just sent dds file? Because have no clue how to do that in rf2
Well got skin to work so tx all for the pointers were to and how to, cheers
If i put my file under /player/settings/370z i get it to work
But not trow /installed/vehicle/370z/1.1 it doesnt do anything, so yeah somebody figured this out yet? Because i assume under /player it wont work on other computers.
my file is called 370z_08alt.dds but that will just adjusting skin of original file right?

Skin almost ready :)
 
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