First of all I would like to thank all of you for the very positive reviews of Monticello Motor Club.
It's really apreciated and hopefully the increased number of ratings might be helpful to advance the chances for the track being found easier at this huge list of user created tracks.
And who knows, maybe the forum guys will consider it as a track of the week some day!?
Friday's races were a blast!
It's awesome to hear that you had so much fun at $$$ Monticello $$$.
I wasn't sure if the track could provide intense online racing as I only had tested in Arcade races against the AI. As you can imagine the AI is not very fast on such a track with all the turns, they simply drive way too slow through the turns.
What I recognized is the fact that if you jump in a tuned car like from the club list your AI opponents are all in Race Cars which is tough challenge. Often there are many Super GT opponents, especially the NSX are hard to fight. Once I even had to face a Peugeot 908 (LMP!!!). By now I was only able to win a 5 lap race in the Nismo GT-R.
And here is the track creator himself racing on Monticello.
Thanks for that impression, really interesting to see. It's even quite exciting as we both race close together the whole race. Either it's my driving style or the connection but I can't help of focusing on how choppy my car often looks.
And thanks to
@Patrick8308 for providing us with interesting tracks to race!
Only wish you could make it to join us on them more often.
I was lucky to join the first race on Friday's Track Day and it was a quick, but very satisfying pleasure to race online again. Actually I was quite astonished how familiar you've been with the layout already.
@terrordog1490 and
@watermelon punch doing no major mistakes at the front only left the chaser's role to me.
We bought a new 2nd TV recently so I might have the theoretical chance of playing GT6 more often. At the moment the PS3 is still plugged to the main TV at the living room as we use it as BlueRay player aswell. But the medium-term plan is to move the PS3 to the workroom where the old TV is placed now. Then there might be the chance for some more "me-GT-time". On the other hand our baby will be born in December and I guess life will change quite much afterwards.
So we will have to see how things turn out.
What I'm sure of is the fact that I will keep creating tracks.
It really pleases me and I just upgraded my strategy for creating tracks. Here's a sample image where you can comprehend what I'm doing:
The fantastic work of some guys creating height contour maps from the APK (see
here) helped terrifically. 👍 I imported the Eifel contour map to the CAD freeware SketchUp and scaled it with the help of the 600 m long homestraights.
Now I'm able to draw the path fitted to the elevation/-change I'm aiming for. Once the path is finished the single elements can be dimensioned with length and radius. This result is the template for the creation at the course maker app to be followed.
Of course it's quite some effort but I guess you can imagine what possibilities this provides. My aim is to create a challenging and thrilling fantasy track.
Btw, I used the CAD software for the replicas in a very similar way. Instead of the height map I imported a Google Aerial view and drawed the path over it. E.g. for Bilster Berg it looks like that:
Awesome races yesterday, especially this one:
I'm really glad you had fun racing around Monticello. This video is really good, very close racing. It shows what potential the track offers for online racing. Even though the cars with more HP profit from the long straight sections a light car with less power is capable of keeping up. That's really cool.
I have a question:
Would you mind me posting this video on the ressource thread?
I guess it would be a commercial both for the track and Makeshift Shuffle Club. 💡
Great races yesterday, Bilster Berg is a top notch track!
These words warm up my heart.
It seems Bilster (or like our US fellows tend to type Blister
) Berg was much fun to race aswell. I'm looking forward on maybe some videos or results.
Needless to say a ressource review (like
@tarnheld and new member
@moutonguerrier did already
) would be much apreciated.
And what with the deer damaged car and may be replacing the other.
