Danathar
Joined: 01 Dec 2006
Posts: 2
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 Posted: Sun Dec 23, 21:47 |
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Hey Everyone!
The Mod formerly known ad F-Sum on rfactorcentral has now become Grid Motorsports! We've been working and tweaking this mod for over a year now. It's REALLY good (at least I think so!)
So what is Grid Motorsports? and GMWC? Read below!
https://gridmotorsports.com
Grid Motorsports is a league-oriented tool, centered around a custom
vehicle mod. The vehicles themselves, christened the grid-gp class, are
~500hp modern era cars patterned loosely after GP2, with suspensions
designed specifically for RealFeel support (there is also a traditional
suspension available). A key feature of the vehicles is that they
incorporate a mix of different (original) components in a broad spectrum
of categories (chassis, engine, drivetrain, bodyshape, brakes, tires).
The mod exists primarily to facilitate a dynamic league environment,
where drivers participating in the league can exert much of their own
preferences in the composition of their vehicle. Also, one of the most
compelling features of the mod is the fact that the client software
allows us to provide targeted customizations and updates at a very high
frequency -- typically at least once per week to coincide with our
league's season events. The GridMotorsports software fetches the latest
mod configuration and effectively rebuilds the mod accordingly, allowing
us to overcome many of rFactor's inherent content limitations. For
example, we dynamically generate vehicle skins, and apply decals to the
vehicles that display things like current league championship standings,
and other results-related details (awards, etc..). We also leverage our
mod synchronization feature to employ a results-based field compression
system (like ballast, but not necessarily using just mass -- it
incorporates drag as well as other variables that help ameliorate some
of the negative side effects of a traditional ballast compression
mechanism).
The primary league associated with this mod is called the Grid
Motorsports World Cup (GMWC). The league is an experiment, of sorts,
whose objective is to allow both hardcore gearheads and casual racing
fans (or people new to sim-racing altogether) to coexist in a friendly
competitive environment, without the elitism and ostracism which seems
endemic to many sim-racing groups. It is our expectation (and our
experience thus far) that both veterans and rookies, hardcore racers and
casual racers, each bring something complimentary to the league, and are
capable of forming a mutualistic symbiotic relationship that creates a
uniquely satisfying sim-racing community.
If you've never been in a league, or are looking for a change of pace
from an ultra-competitive league environment, please stop by the website
and see whether GMWC might be a good fit for you. The league races
every weekend (Saturdays @ 5pm EST is our current schedule), and new
drivers are welcome to join at any point in our season. |
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