Absolute Can-Am has finally arrived!!

Folks, something occurred to me and I wanted to ask you if you're all aware that there are 3 sections to the mod with the main section being where you find the seasons and the others being the 60s cars individually and the 3rd being the 70s cars individually. I just wanted to make sure you all see the 3 sections in the classes tab

hmmguy wrote:

Folks, something occurred to me ... I just wanted to make sure you all see the 3 sections in the classes tab

WOA mate   I think you've gone too far last night.
Maybe you can find something >here<

babis_xo wrote:

hmmguy wrote:

Folks, something occurred to me ... I just wanted to make sure you all see the 3 sections in the classes tab

WOA mate   I think you've gone too far last night.
Maybe you can find something >here<

Bwahahahaahaha!!! The funny part is, I don't drink...virtually never as I have health issues that alcohol triggers. Damn cluster headaches! It's been many years now. Don't get me wrong though as I'm far from a teetotaler and enjoy my green instead

Honestly though, I am curious if any of the folks here only saw the main tab and had no idea the other 2 were there.

As a side note, if you remove the } from above the "Max Vehicles = 30" statement in the EarlyBrands.gdb file, the Opponents slider will stop turning red "early", before you run out of cars..........

ahh yes...one of my big OOPS moments with the Can-Am mod lol I forgot to remove that before releasing the mod.

just thought of something I should maybe point out about the Chaparral cars. Since they were semi- automatics, it must have been brutal waiting on the upshifts with no clutch and having to match the rpms up once they dropped enough for the next taller gear. So to replicate that aspect, I timed the upshift timing to be much slower on the upshifts. That said, since it was merely a well placed blip to match the rpms on a downshift making it instantly, I made that be the fastest shifts in the mod but again, only with the Chappys. Something else I found was that when I used the shifter on my G27, it couldn't keep up with the downshift speed so that it was more like the other cars and this meant losing the downshift advantage potential. So I recommend if you're using a shifter that maybe only use it for the upshift and use the paddles for the downshift as it's nearly a full second faster than the other cars doing so.

well, it seems there are still more sounds I neglected to include as discovered by Loose Ether...thanks again Terry!! Link added to bottom of op

You are welcome Phil.

I think you have done a great job on the physics, not that I know how these beasties should drive but I certainly love the way they drive in GTR2.

A lot of fun and very exciting.
Whilst doing the mirrors, I have been testing them on Bathurst, which they seem to suit. A bit hairy at the top of the mountain but it all adds to the thrill !

Glad you like the way they drive Terry. That was something paramount to me was to add enough grip that you'd have a chance to catch them but not so much that you can take very many turns with your foot to the floor.

Bathurst was one of my original choices for the FO tracks but I couldn't find a version that the ai was good on. Otherwise for sure it would have been part of the mix.

Thanks again for your latest catch and with those sounds now added along with the corrected M20.aud, you should have a much better turbo sound experience should you dare to try the M20 Turbo

Yes, you can easily enough end up in a bit of tank slapping if you are not careful and over-correct when the rear end steps out !
Adds to the fun though and keeps you on your toes !

I can't believe I forgot to mention this!!! I managed to locate all the programme covers of every race from 1966 through to 1973. I then either created track lod files from them or added them to an existing picture.


what's cool about the pic above is that this is the start of the very first race of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup that went on to become known as the Can-Am Series.
The only track I didn't make one for was the missing Michigan Speedway RC track. Otherwise each is similar to above for each of the tracks.

If you're like minded and want all the proper period immersion you can get in the game, I highly recommend you dl the tracks included if you haven't already and are simply using what you may have thought to be identical to the tracks in the mod. They're totally not for the most part and PhilRob made a point of making huge changes to existing current versions so as to look the period. He also taught me about the fact that Laguna Seca used to be a somewhat different layout than the current layout. I was kinda shocked as I was a fan back in the day yet didn't know of this. To illustrate, look where the pits were at Laguna Seca in 1967!

They're to the right of the front straight. The layout also has much better flow and is a blast to drive.

As you can see, you may want to dl the tracks for the mod after all if you like the immersion aspect.

Excellent dear Phil m8. You have really pushed the boat out so far with this mod that your over the horizon and on the way to Timbuktu!!!

Phil...You're awesome!

The "old" track was much better, a little shorter, but much faster, though turn 4 could be very unnerving.....
Thanks for including the old versions where possible!

Riverside, turn 1, 180mph, damn these things are fun!!!!!

The first time I saw the season 1 Chaparral backfire I actually laughed---those flames coming out of those bazookas were amazing.

I've been working on a 50s 60s mod for the last year and a half but I have to dedicate some quality seat time for this mod.

On top of that I just got WINNING with Paul Newman so these cars have become more important personally to me.

Thanks for all your hard work

DRAGON

[quote="joeschmoe"]Riverside, turn 1, 180mph, damn these things are fun!!!!!
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WHIPCRACKER wrote:

The first time I saw the season 1 Chaparral backfire I actually laughed---those flames coming out of those bazookas were amazing.

I've been working on a 50s 60s mod for the last year and a half but I have to dedicate some quality seat time for this mod.

On top of that I just got WINNING with Paul Newman so these cars have become more important personally to me.

Thanks for all your hard work

DRAGON

This is great to hear you guys! Yep, this makes me very happy indeed

Hey there folks, great news about this Absolute Can-Am mod! Loose Ether has been busily working away adding gauges, drivers and steering wheels and working mirrors as well to the remaining cars! He has also managed to make sure all sounds are now working fully for every car. These new files will be available in the not too distant future so as to further make this mod as good as it can be! I'm very excited as I've been granted a peak into what he's been up to  

This is now what the view from the cockpit looks like in one of the Lola T163 cars


this from the cockpit of the McLaren Chaparral M12


Along with my good friend Mr. Ether's works, another good friend known locally as the Gman or Geedee...he answers to both...has also jumped in to bring the skins up even further as well as making them far more accurate where possible as you can see with the Autocoast car(s)


All the new additional files for the cockpits will be made available as a separate update file and once Mr. G is done with the skin updating, those will also be made available as an update. Also at that time, the mod will be re-released here with all sound corrections and changes previously posted here along with the new skin and cockpit files already added so as to make it one file again. I don't see any point in including the tracks as nothing will have changed in that regard.

Cool eh!

A bravo to the team

Nice that Terry and Gordon are helping out---the true spirit of Community

awsome

You guys rule!

Great news!!!

Personal update (franken approach + some skinning):



http://www.mediafire.com/download/zyphggvkwbkck2c/CANAM_UPD.7z
If you are interest, don't overwrite the files: you have to manually edit .car file according to your installation.