2012 | 300 Miles of Sebring

[Stefan Woudenberg]

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.

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.

 

[Mike Bishop]

Is there a mod for headlights The lights on the Megane are a joke. If we do race at night then expect a lot of DNF.

 

[Jan Wikström]

I have read and understood all rules for this race, and hereby would like to sign up. I will participate in the Renault Megane car

 

[Bjorn de Haas]

I have a small request guys. Can there be a practise server 2 weeks before the event? It gives people the opurtunity to practice together.

 

[Hugo Gonçalves]

i have read and understood all rules for this race, and hereby would like to sign up. I will participate in the Renault Megane car ​

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

I have a small request guys. Can there be a practise server 2 weeks before the event? It gives people the opurtunity to practice together.

I will put up a server about a week before the event. It will run with almost the same conditions as the actual event.

Is there just a slight chance of having the opportunity create custom skins? The race is a bit more than 4 weeks from now so there should be time enough.. pleaasee?

Had a talk with Marco, YES you guys can make custom skins BUT deadline is October 1st. If it's send to us a day or more after October 1st, we will not put it in the skin pack. It costs a lot of time to make!
Make sure we get a working download link with a working skin!

 

[Bjorn de Haas]

Thanks Stefan

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

NP M8!

 

[Nathan Robinson]

Im very confused on how to insert my skin into the game to check it. I read the info on isi forums but i have no rfactor 2 folder in my documents folder. I can find a similar location by going into userdata section in my rf2 install folder but when i get into the right place i only see folders for the installed tracks and nothing for vehicles. Does anyone have any ideas? I spent a good hour painting the template and now i want to check it in game but cant.

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

Hi Nathan! Did you export it into a DDS file? I think you need it into the ()if using the Nissan GTR: [your rFactor2 install directory]\Installed\Vehicles\NissanGTR\1.1\NGTR_02ALT.DDS

That is how I always did it.

 

[Nathan Robinson]

Hi Nathan! Did you export it into a DDS file? I think you need it into the ()if using the Nissan GTR: [your rFactor2 install directory]\Installed\Vehicles\NissanGTR\1.1\NGTR_02ALT.DDS

That is how I always did it.

I tried that and nothing shows. I started painting a clio and wanted to check it so i put it into \installed\vehicles\Renault_Clio\1.0\Clio_02alt.dds and when I go into game I get nothing. Thanks for your help though

 

[Tiens Van Zyl]

Hi Nathan

Have you tried going into the tuning option where you see the clio and then click on the next button next to variants? That's where mine shows

 

[Nathan Robinson]

Hi Nathan

Have you tried going into the tuning option where you see the clio and then click on the next button next to variants? That's where mine shows

I tried that and still no luck. I've named my file ClioCup_00alt.dds and stuck it in the rfactor2/Installed/Vehicles/Renault_Clio/1.0 folder. the other files in there are clio.mas, ClioCup_MAIN.mas, ClioCup_TEAMS.mas, and renault_clio.mft

Am I in the wrong spot?


Sorry to turn this into a skinning topic.

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

That should be the right spot Nathan.

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

Tried it, doesn't work anymore for me. I tried it here:
[rfactor2 install dir]\UserData\player\Settings\Renault_clio\

put in:
Clio_22alt.dss
clio_22altEXTRA0.dds
clio_22altWINDOW.dds

ofcourse the number can be different

In game do the tuning and select the alternate skin.

 

[Nathan Robinson]

Tried it, doesn't work anymore for me. I tried it here:
[rfactor2 install dir]\UserData\player\Settings\Renault_clio\

put in:
Clio_22alt.dss
clio_22altEXTRA0.dds
clio_22altWINDOW.dds

ofcourse the number can be different

In game do the tuning and select the alternate skin.

Thank you! I did exactly this and finally hit paydirt when I selected the 22 car and went to tuning. There was my skin which was awesome. I decided to start my own team a few weeks ago and spent a good couple hours working on a logo and everything, so it will be great to get it actually on a car

Thanks to everyone else who offered suggestions as well. Very helpful community

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

Good to hear it worked!

 

[Dan Coldrick]

Finally decided, Megane please Stefan

Cheers Buddy

 

[Dan Coldrick]

Are we discussing times on here? I'm doing 2.03's with full fuel and the Megane? Any one else?

 

[Jan Wikström]

Practice server is up
Name : RD_Sebring 300 miles test
PWD : normal RD password
Session : 30h test session
Time scale : 10x

I cant get the "download mod" option from the server to work right now, so you need to install the mod youself - > get mod

 

[Stefan Woudenberg]

Thanx Jan!