Biffo

Me again, I'd just like to thank everyone who has actually bought the book, The Stock Car Ghosts', since April as we have now raised, between us, just over £670 for a worthy charity, The Rowans Hospice in Hampshire. If you haven't got around to buying it yet Amazon will print you one off for a mere £9.99. Amazon have also released it as an ebook for £3.99. Regards Steve Daily - Alias BIFFO

Hi Guys, Those of you that have been in UK dirt for ten years or so may remember me as Biffo racing Banger 720 on-line. (I did get one mention on the Hall of Fame in 2010). I had a quick chat the Leek and he said it would be fine to post this on the forum. I have spent the past year researching the American tour of England by the USA stock car team who came across in 1955 and raced against England. They were brought over by the promoter Digger Pugh, to kick off the second season of stock car racing in the UK. The seven drivers were all from the Southern States, as you can imagine, and drove some mighty fast race cars. I got information for the story from as far away as Australia and America and was lucky enough to talk to the only two US team drivers that are still alive, Bobby Schuyler, who is 85 and Neil 'Soapy' Castles who is 86 years old. The book covers the early days of NASCAR through to the tour and tracks down just what became of them all, including the two US promoters that were the team managers. The book is a paperback called, " The Stock Car Ghosts" and is available from Amazon for £9.99 and I am donating all of the royalties to charity, The Rowans Hospice., Purbrook, Hants. So if it interests anyone GO BUY IT, please, and then we can raise some much needed funds. It comes with over 30 images and photographs. Thanks for your time and good luck with the on-line racing. Steve Daily - alias BIFFO

Thanks for the racing , finally made it an F2 track. Hope I didnt get in the way too much. Thanks for the loan of a set up which I seem to have left in a folder on line somewhere, was better than mine. I`ll be back but wife wont let us race Mondays and Tuesdays so don`t know when yet. At least I now know it all works on line, need more practice tho.

Been fuffing around getting F2 working and finally got the skins sorted properly with last skin pack. After a few wrong turns I think we`re there and everything appears to work nicely, even Knockhill. Given up trying Joypad and dusted off the old wheel and pedals set up. Will be joining you all Monday Please be gentle , I`m a F2 virgin who`s used to going round the tracks in the other direction. Biffo

Have been experiencing some problems since trying to get into rFactor F2 I have an rFactor DVD v1.255 as specified is needed, and works fine. When I`ve put in the F2 v 3.1 on I`ve found some tracks were giving problems and some were fine. Alls well during the practice but not so good for the race. Problems such as start car parks on the track and causes chaos during race or start car cant get out onto the track so race cant start. Even had my car smashing into the barrier before lining up and then is lined up with 3 wheels ( this is before I get any control at all). Sometimes after pressing the race button all the buildings are drawn up in the sky and you have to press restart race to line up. Keep un installing everything and re installing again only to find same old problems. Now on to rfactor then F2 v4 only to find same again. Been onto uksom & rfactor central sites looking for clues but cant see whats going wrong. I am using windows 7 and rfactor loads straight into program files (x86) no problems. Then get the F2 v4 on in the same way and then have to change all the track downloads to go into program files (x86) otherwise they`d go straight into program files. nVidia GT 620 is set to XD19 instead of the XD17 first shown. Is there a nocd patch as there is on Heat or do I keep throwing the DVD in to get the game to work? Any ideas , otherwise I`ll have to forget F2 which would be a pity seeing as I`ve spent ages doing the skins ready for next grading ( the first ones were a bit wishy washy and drab ) Regards Biffo

well got Sexberium ok but Bristol v0.25 just gets file not found and redirected to Game Front site ?

Checking out the F2 2013 fixtures Been on main site but can`t see the Bristol anti-clockwise track download and Sexbierum just says Not found. Any pointers ?

However back in Paint Shop Pro , when I flatten the layers on the skin and go to File then, Save As , theres still do sign of DDS ?? ================================================= Sorted Finally got there and seen my skin in the Novice line up , phew ! Only one small question before finishing off skins and passing them on to Dave...... I followed the Site guide and reduced the PSD file to 512 x 1024 before saving as a DDS file but along side the DDS skin files mine is only 342 kb the others are 1,366 kb ??? Regards Biffo

Ok , now I have: - Program Files (x86)\ Jasc Software \ Paint Shop Pro 9 \ Plug-ins \ File Formats \ dds64.8bi However back in Paint Shop Pro , when I flatten the layers on the skin and go to File then, Save As , theres still do sign of DDS ??

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I`ve read the F2 skin painting guide on the Main site and tried to download the nVidia DDS Photoshop plug-in (v6.74)......... .........its not there ?? I`m using Jasc Paint shop pro 9 but I believe it works in there if I can get hold of a download. Any ideas...... Regards Biffo

Looking into the rFactor skin painting at present. Noticed that the Temp-base cars in F2 are 2048 x 1024 pixels when loaded into Paintshop. Is that normal size as I`m used to having to keep down to 512 x 512 with the Heat templates ?

Cheers - onwards with my rFactor learning curve

Just as I thought I was there , no sign of setups folder. This is what I now have in my "Biffo" folder, as you can see the .plr folder is there and I`ve change that to the reccommeded settings but the "settings" folder only contains empty track files. I`m under the impression that there`s a "setups" file somewhere to drop into the settings folder ? Still cant find TomD`s folder either.