Road-side parking/cafe... ?

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I know this is only available on Andalusia, but is there any sure-fire way of "spawning" a parking area like the ones on Sierra, I've seen ones on custom tracks but as far as I can tell it's random.

All I know is it needs a broad enough corner (not tight), but I've created many sweepers with no luck.

It's frustrating that you can't plop them because it's a great place to just stop and chill for a minute.
 
Streeto
I know this is only available on Andalusia, but is there any sure-fire way of "spawning" a parking area like the ones on Sierra, I've seen ones on custom tracks but as far as I can tell it's random.

All I know is it needs a broad enough corner (not tight), but I've created many sweepers with no luck.

It's frustrating that you can't plop them because it's a great place to just stop and chill for a minute.
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I'm assuming you've already tried this, but just in case you haven't. Have you tried a point to point track and ended it at a specific place on the map ?can you get to pull over somehow before you real the goal section ? Maybe a loop before the end of the track or something that people can park along ? hmmm, thinking about it, probably not so easy to do maybe :ill:
 
Streeto
I know this is only available on Andalusia, but is there any sure-fire way of "spawning" a parking area like the ones on Sierra, I've seen ones on custom tracks but as far as I can tell it's random.

All I know is it needs a broad enough corner (not tight), but I've created many sweepers with no luck.

It's frustrating that you can't plop them because it's a great place to just stop and chill for a minute.
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I agree, we should be allowed to place up to 3 of these roadside parking lots. I think that number is good enough for a 10km-max course. I remember seeing one in a JP lobby I entered, I was surprised the Andalusia template is able to create a roadside parking lot. It was pretty neat.

Try making it in a complete circuit loop, not a point-to-point course. Also, how about not a sweeper, but a straight with a very light turning radius? Like, say, the numerous curved straights of the Red Bull Ring? Although they have slight turning radiuses, they still qualify as straights because you go flat out on them without turning too hard, and thus not losing speed while turning. You know those turning radius displays in the app? I think the max turning radius is 400R, beyond that the radius doesn't display anymore, which I think means that cars can go flat out on that turn, which effectively makes it a straight.

From what I remember on that lobby, the parking lot was near the home straight, just before the last corner, which was a pretty tight hairpin. And the parking lot was on a curve straight. It would be curved straight -> last corner -> home straight.
 
I managed to make one last night, decent track, cafe at the end of the drift section, but while trying to perfect the section, if I changed any part of the track, the cafe would disappear.

I really don't like PD's algorithms -_- ...
 
It's hit and miss, but I think you'll have more luck if your track passes through the blue sections of the map (labelled "city").
 
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I thought I'd look into this, and I think I may have found something... (Sort of)

When you draw out your track, look at the map on 'item mode' and check for a darkened small straight on the left or right of the road that should be around 50m. (estimated) That right there will be a parking area with the cafe.

I've found it to be very random for them to be generated however. I tried this one around 5 different tracks, with the highest amount of side areas being 3. It might be that they spawn closer to the blue (city areas) as on that one, 2 spawned close to there, but not inside the area.

Also another thing possible theory is that they are more likely to appear after a long straight (It can be a straight or curve from the line tool, I tried that on the 3 PA course.

Could anyone else try see if this works?

(I would add pictures to show my point, but I can't at the moment. :nervous:)
 
IDK why but when i try spawn that "Cafe parking" on the track, it only spawned on this "city" part of the location...

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LeGeNd-1
I'm kinda disappointed that this is the extent of the "cities" on the map. I was hoping we can drive through the actual city of Ronda (the bridge in photomode).
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Wait...i remember PD said back then that there's going to be a course maker theme on both Ronda City and Gran Turismo Arena where you layout the roads out or place cones through the arena....where's that now PD?...:irked:
 
LeGeNd-1
I'm kinda disappointed that this is the extent of the "cities" on the map. I was hoping we can drive through the actual city of Ronda (the bridge in photomode).
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I'm discovering that the highlighed spots on the maps aren't all that and a bag of chips. The forests and mountains aren't much to speak about. I think these areas are more of a guide than anything.
 
cjr3559
I'm discovering that the highlighed spots on the maps aren't all that and a bag of chips. The forests and mountains aren't much to speak about. I think these areas are more of a guide than anything.
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Yeah that's what I found too. First time I used the program I made a track on Andalusia that goes through a couple different spots. Then I tried driving it and I'm like there's nothing here :odd: :lol:
 
Has anyone managed to find anything else about the mystery PA spawns? I'm currently trying to make a map with a few on, but no luck so far... From the looks of things, it seems having them near a city area doesn't always work too... :indiff:
 
KazaMR2
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Whaaaaaat? :lol: That's crazy! 10 in a row of the PAs, and 3 actual pits! How'd you do that?
I was hoping to make a highway track alike to SSR7 with pits dotted around at precice points, is it possible?
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I've modified the APK quite a bit to achieve that.

I did that like 3 months ago and can't remember what exactly I did but yeah, you should be able to place a parking area anywhere you want.

You can define the precise points like after 500 meters -> put a parking area with the length of your choice or put one starting at 512 meters. And now that I said "the lenght of your choice", the game won't render like 300 meter parking area correctly, it will get bumpy and might even crash if you go long enough.

And parking areas only exist in Andalusia theme (atleast from what I've seen and tested).

This track which was originally made by trobes29 got one custom parking area aswell:
https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/gt6/user/#!/friend/GTP_Razerman/course/1795615/

If you get the track made, I might put some parking areas for you where you want.
 
Razerman
I've modified the APK quite a bit to achieve that.

I did that like 3 months ago and can't remember what exactly I did but yeah, you should be able to place a parking area anywhere you want.

You can define the precise points like after 500 meters -> put a parking area with the length of your choice or put one starting at 512 meters. And now that I said "the lenght of your choice", the game won't render like 300 meter parking area correctly, it will get bumpy and might even crash if you go long enough.

And parking areas only exist in Andalusia theme (atleast from what I've seen and tested).

This track which was originally made by trobes29 got one custom parking area aswell:
https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/gt6/user/#!/friend/GTP_Razerman/course/1795615/

If you get the track made, I might put some parking areas for you where you want.
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Oh sweet! That solves that then I guess. :D

As for adding the PAs onto my own track, that'd be so kind of you. :dopey: I'll have to get on with making a track with good spots for PAs then. :cheers:

Is there any chance you'd be able to upload the APK to place them wherever too?
 
KazaMR2
Oh sweet! That solves that then I guess. :D

As for adding the PAs onto my own track, that'd be so kind of you. :dopey: I'll have to get on with making a track with good spots for PAs then. :cheers:

Is there any chance you'd be able to upload the APK to place them wherever too?
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Placing the parking areas I do with the application I coded myself + by hand. But in order to do that I needed to modify the apk to do "something". Unfortunately even if I gave you the apk, you wouldn't be able to add them yourself.

And due to the problem that my method also allows stealing anyone elses track, I don't really like sharing it.

I can give you and example with one of your tracks if you don't mind? I'll try and add some parking areas at the same time to refresh my memory with the method :)
 

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