Blue Mountain GP Circuit addon track for GPL -- Released on 5/25/03 by Steve "McLaren" Evasic. ------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION: The Blue Mountain GP Circuit is a fantasy track named after a ski resort in Pennsylvania, USA. Before this project was called Blue Mountain, it was an almost flat club circuit type of track. I got some ideas of what I thought would make a good fantasy track such as: An authentic 60's era feel, nice elevation and camber changes, a variety of corners, and also fun/difficult to drive. I tried to put all these elements together to create a "believable" fantasy track. What I came up with was a 2.551 mile public-road circuit so to speak. It contains flat-out sweepers, one or two tighter bends, hills and jumps, an off-camber corner and even a chicane-type corner at the end. This track demands the best out of the car, driver, and the setup. It is a fun drive I think! ------------------------------------------------------------ INFORMATION: This is my first attempt at an addon track for Grand Prix Legends. I made this track for the GPL community to contribute to it what I believe it has to me. This track is dedicated to my friends and family and to the members of Mybroga Racing Club (http://mybroga.speedgeezers.com), the best GPL league around. As a novice editor, none of the .3do's and their mips used in this project were of my creation. They all came from the 11 original tracks in the game. I would like to add that all of the terrain textures were converted from Nascar Racing 2002 by Papyrus and tweaked in Photoshop to reflect the setting of this track. These are the work of the great editors at Papyrus. I do not claim credit for anyone elses work! PLease note that the AI is not the greatest due to the tough nature of this track it was very difficult to get them to work right. If anyone would like to create new LP files I would be more than happy to host them. Anyway, the thanks I would like to give are listed below. ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTES: This track was developed using a computer with the following specs: Pentium 3 @ 533mhz Geforce2MX 400 64mb PCI 192mb RAM 30GB HD Windows98 SE DirectX 9 1024 x 768 resolution I run GPL in OpenGL and with everything turned on in graphics options except for antialiasing and it runs at a perfect 36 FPS all the way around the track with no other cars in training mode. Draw distances have been tweaked to maximize FPS at all possible spots. All textures are 4-bit and no larger than 256 x 256 so they should be compatible with Voodoo card users. ------------------------------------------------------------ INSTALLATION: Unzip the contents into a temporary folder and run the Track Installer. There must be room availible in your limit of 64 tracks or else the installer will not run. [Eventxx] name=United States Grand Prix shortname=U.S.A. GP trackDirectory=BlueMt numberOfLaps=84 month=18 day=1 startingGrid=2 ------------------------------------------------------------ THANKS: I would like to thank the following people and organizations who helped me develop this track. -Papyrus-------------- Creators of the best racing sims ever! -Racesimcentral.com--- Home to the best and most helpful forums on the planet. -GPLEA---------------- Great track creating tutorial and links. -GPL++The Addons------ Many great links to utilities and the like. -Mybroga Racing Club-- Best GPL league around. -BAPOM---------------- Makers of the best program sets in existence. -Paul Jackson for the webspace to host this track! -Buk Nekkid for helping me with my AI problems! -Randy Riggs for letting me use his LPTwk tool. -John Bradley from BAPOM for creating the great program for this track. -Mike Bennett for his help in altitude editing. -The following authors of priceless software: Martin Granberg: Track Installer Peter Prochazka: GPLTrk Joachim Blum: TrkCAMEdit Dave Noonan: 3doEd, MipExp Klaus Hörbrand: WinMip2 Nigel Pattinson: PapyBMP Phil Flack: Trk23dow, GPLEditor Randy Riggs: GrvEd, LPTwk -Beta-testing team: Paul Jackson Alan Owens Chad Miller Oliver Kloesov Scott Smith John Partridge Ceasare Ascari Chuck Koboldt Gord Heath Zorco Kirilian Jim Gallahan Glenn Gray Rhys Gibb Kike Kotzberg ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACT: Please feel free at at any time to send me an e-mail concerning any problems, questions, or comments you may have about this track at: McLarenno9@Yahoo.com -Steve Evasic 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------ LEGAL: This software is free and may not be redistributed or reposted without written permission from myself. I or anyone else involved in this project cannot be held liable for any damage to the user's computer, or files on one's computer. Installation of this software assumes that the user has agreed to these terms.