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Proving Grounds 3 (Virtual Road Fix)

Authorpete9516

Added On December 15, 2022

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Original authors (who put hands on this track:

Ryan T

JimDiabolo

UnBtable

HS Expansion Pack developers

chrisst27

Nite

ello guys, back in the day when the origial authors converted the nfs2 tracks to nfs4, they quite made some 'mistakes' if you will, when doing so. One of those mistakes was to let Proving Grounds not to have a single left AI lane. But instead it had 3 right lanes. What happens to the traffic then? Traffic is supposed to drive on the opposite lane. But if there is no such lane.. you can think of the rest. So i've drag'n'dropped every single virtual road point from the virtual road data and took it to the middle line of the road. I also fixed some other stuff like visibility, polygon flags, speed files, basically everything to make the AI work properly on the track.

Proving Grounds has 161 track blocks. If you put Proving Grounds on a track slot, where the original track has MORE track blocks, this might brake the AI cops.

So i'd recommend not to use Proving Grounds on the following track slots:

11: Redrock Ridge: 183 blocks

12: Atlantica: 166 blocks (Might be possible, that the cops will work nonetheless, if the difference of blocks is not too high.)

13: Rocky Pass: 186 blocks

14: Country Woods: 175 blocks

15: Lost Canyons: 212 blocks

16: Aquatica: 180 blocks

17: Summit: 216 blocks

BIG Thanks to:

JimDiabolo for making T3ED better and better, even though i had some problems with the virtual road points and tunnels

Jonath who brought me into NFS4 track modding, without him this version of track would not exist

NFSF1McLaren(US) for his great nfs2 video walls and slides

PomFrit for finding out all the important infos on how to make the AI behave properly

Track Converter written by Vitaly Kootin

Collisions fixed by chrisst27

Light, texture editing and new cameras by Nite

PS: I tried to make the AI racers to also use the pit lanes, but they don't use it. Instead i'm just happy that they don't crash into the walls anymore.

I hope you'll have fun with this version ;D Now the AI is not so easy anymore with this version. Now i'll continue collecting the nd4spd cars from my archive. Cya

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pete9516 - 2 years ago

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Oh i forgot to fix the visibility.. Guess i will be doing an update.
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EvoX - 2 years ago

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Cool. Are the racers competitive now or just trying to scratch on the walls?)
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  Like i mentioned in the description, they might be faster than you now. Depending on what cars you have installed and how their opponent acceleration table data is made.
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pete9516 - 2 years ago

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I wonder who or why somebody made that bad vote here. It has been really "some" work to do this fix, and i credited anybody who has made something on this mod and i think the results went pretty well.. Some people just seem to be very toxic

EvoX - 2 years ago

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Seems like a 10 from me)

Zalcus20 - 2 years ago

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Excellent update on Proving Grounds! 10/10!

I tried this out with the traffic patch, full-grid (7 opponents) vs max traffic and it was the most challenging race yet. One false move can result in a really bad crash. THIS IS the way I know Need For Speed to be! :cool: Excellent Job!

Just have a recommendation for you: for the slide and vidwall qfs files, it is best to keep the original file name, in this case T17.qfs and T17_00.qfs. This allows the NFS mixer to "see" the files and install them accordingly. The current names you have set (proving_grounds_slide.qfs and proving_grounds_vidwall.qfs) causes the mixer to overlook the files and you get the summit qfs files instead. O_o

Oh and BTW, the AI sometimes use the pit stop route. You have to be in backward mode to see it.

pete9516 - 2 years ago

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Zalcus20 2 years ago

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Thank you for your nice comment, Zalcus20, i know the Mixer is able to do that, but i did not want to decide for the player which track it will use as a base because you can use different track slots as a base, but you are right, in my next fixes i should use the original file names. I've tried to make the AI racers use the pit stop lane like players would do :D But unfortunately it doesn't and also the backward going traffic is bugged and always crashes into the pitstop wall. Do you might have time for looking up this error? And yeah i know, sometimes the traffic is using the pitstop lane, but i think the AI racers won't do that unfortunately :/ Even if i think that AI lane selection of 112 should make them decide randomly which lane they will take.. :/
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JimDiabolo - 2 years ago

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Nice work, 'Proving Grounds' is a lot more fun that way.

WiLL - 2 years ago

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pete9516 2 years ago

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Hi there Pete bud, ooh, Man I just drove this tonight an it was Pure Enjoyment for me!! You did such a great Fix! On this 😃 I always usally have my Traffic on so, it's really to bad we can't add user screens to Tracks I thought we might be able to but Nope :(
I just wanted you know it's way better now. I put this in my Atlantica slot, it worked fine as your read me, suggested. ) I used my own sky an ini ,files np. **Edited** Friday maybe I will work on my own Visibility txt for this later since we both forgot to look into that but, it wasn't so bad really... Hmm.
It was Fun to drive on this again man I was really Drifting on them Corners cause I was so fast such G- Forces u know lolz. Working that left turn on my G pad .

Ok ttul so if I use your Sky file will I have more Buildings in the back ground cause I forgot about if there was any Pete. Thanks 👍
It was great... Bud ttul ☮️😄 🔥😎 🥱😴 😶‍🌫️

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  Hey man, thanks for your feedback WiLL, it's nice to read people are happy with my fixes
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nfsfan83 - 2 years ago

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I made my own version of Proving and it is called Special Edition? Did you used my track like base or just original Proving?

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- pete9516 - 2 years ago
  
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  Unfortunately i didnt use the original conversion with all the animations and original track shape, but instead i used the EP version. I hope though the virtual road data of "my" version can be used for several versions of Proving Grounds, it should be the speed files, but best would be to replace all other files but heights.sim and the speed.bin files
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WiLL - 2 years ago

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I know you did Nfsfan bud, I'm not real sure if he used it or not. I need look again..I remember you did a great textures fix on u did I said )
Well, let's have a better day! Huh 😳 😎
I'm just trying to be glad it's not Snowing outside 🙄 cause it's May 16th now Lolzz rite ttul 😊

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nfsfan83 - 2 years ago

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Guys, I wrote that, because if this not based on my version of track, pete9516 dosen't need write my nick in authors ;) in descrpition

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- pete9516 - 2 years ago
  
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  I see
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