Nashville Street Circuit (WIP thread)

[checkpoint10]

Dale Jr. talked about this track on his podcast with Josef Newgarden! Link here. It starts around 1:19:00.

"I saw, I don't remember who did it, but somebody went on an old Papyrus IndyCar game that was 20 years old and made a track out of a program called Sandbox of what the track's going to look like." 

Aside from the awesomeness of being mentioned by Dale Jr., I am very surprised that he knew that you needed Sandbox to create tracks for ICR2!!

[samsepi0l]

Dude I am so jealous you have no idea..... Funny thing is right now as I sit here and drink my coffee, I probably know the track better than the real drivers only because I had to learn it good enough to make the AI hahahaha!

[checkpoint10]

Dude I am so jealous you have no idea..... Funny thing is right now as I sit here and drink my coffee, I probably know the track better than the real drivers only because I had to learn it good enough to make the AI hahahaha!

I'd say you get a big part of his shout out, because he was probably referring to a video I had posted recently that featured your AI racing.

It's funny, I would've expected a version of Nashville for a newer sim by now, or a more professional simulated "preview" from the race promoter, but I haven't seen anything yet in public.

[Wolf_pd]

"Indycar racing drivers flock to old Papyrus sim as it has the only decent rendition of Nashville streetcourse"

I want them to say that

[checkpoint10]

"Indycar racing drivers flock to old Papyrus sim as it has the only decent rendition of Nashville streetcourse"

I want them to say that

A big part of what draws me to ICR2 modding instead of the newer sims, is that the newer sims have raised the standards so high that it would take a near-professional team and a long time to get acceptable results. I certainly don't have time to model every detail of a building as in the newer sims, but in ICR2 you can get away with a simple box.

[checkpoint10]

Finally, we get a professional simulation of the Nashville circuit: https://twitter.com/HondaRacing_HPD/stat...27299?s=20

I'd like to say the ICR2 version got pretty close given the limitation of the engine and less resources!

[JR82]

Is this track with workable AI?

[checkpoint10]

Is this track with workable AI?

Not fully. The version posted some time ago, has AI that partially work but doesn't have pace lap or pitting, I believe.

I'm working on a hopefully more accurate version of Nashville - progress being posted in the other track editing thread. It is quite challenging to bring the two sides of the bridge together as the real track does.

[checkpoint10]

New pit lane and chicane concept.

[Pavel 69]

Chicane looks good, and stadium too Isn't pit lane too short fort 20 + more cars?

What about to let centerline follow pit road instead of main track?