GPL Newbie Needs Help

[Shaggy_SoCal]

I've finally done it. I went on e-Bay and bought Grand Prix Legends. I am now anxiously waiting by my mailbox for it.

So, while I wait, where are the best places on the web to get setups, tracks, cars, etc...?

Thanks for the help.

[Aysedasi]

Oh my goodness, that's a question and a half Shaggy! But firstly welcome to the world of GPL addiction and obsession. Please make plans to give up all thoughts of a private life, relationships and anything other than sitting in front of a steering wheel and your pc......

I think I can do no better initially than to recommend you visit the forums at racesimcentral. If I remember rightly, the url is

http://gplea.racesimcentral.com/

Look out on the forum for Bob Simpson's beginners guide. That will help you with all the necessary patches and technical stuff. Its far more important to get the sim running right before you start applying all the eye candy.

More advice from myself and other to follow.

[Try Hard]

Sorry Ayse, but hte beginners guide is actually here

Beginners Guide

But the GPLEA is still great for getting all the cars etc.
The guide contains al the links you'll need, do what it says and you can't go wrong (well i didn't anyway).

BTW the RSC forums are here
RSC Forums
masses of info on there (as Ayse alreday mentioned), just look under the GPL section.

Hope it helps
Ed

[Aysedasi]

That's not the guide I was thinking of Ed, but its still good. Bob's guide is more for setting up GPL, rather than driving it.


Either of those addresses gets me to the forums.

I have literally dozens and dozens of links in my favourites for cars, tracks, patches and goodness knows what else. But not here at work.....

[Try Hard]

Originally posted by Aysedasi
That's not the guide I was thinking of Ed, but its still good. Bob's guide is more for setting up GPL, rather than driving it.

ahhhh, fair enough. The phil lee one is the one I'm most familiar with, after all its the one I used recently when starting out. Might have to keep an eye out for the Bob simpson one too....

Originally posted by Aysedasi

I have literally dozens and dozens of links in my favourites for cars, tracks, patches and goodness knows what else. But not here at work.....

Same . I have a whole folder in mozilla's toolbar dedicated to just GPL links... (although then again, i do that with all my games.)

-EDIT- Actually just noticed the alison hines link in that guide, never been to that site before, thats my boring afternoon at work solved

[Aysedasi]

Its entertaining, if a little old now........

[pirenzo]

For setups, can i recommend this?


http://forum.racesimcentral.com/show...t=65007&page=1 and more specifically, this: http://forum.racesimcentral.com/show...2&postcount=19

[Aysedasi]

For Bob Simpson's GPL FAQs (which was what I was getting at before), go here:-

http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=105748

[Aysedasi]

A few other useful links for you:-

http://eguzo.m4driving.sm/ (updates)
http://website.lineone.net/~pako_donna/Index.htm (updates)
http://gplpp.com/ (loads of links to updates, utilities etc)
http://grandprixsounds.m4driving.sm/ (good site for car wavs)
http://www.racesimcentral.com/guides...lor_main.shtml http://hotgrids.racesimcentral.com/track guides (allsorts)
http://gplrank.schuerkamp.de/ (get yourself a rank!)

AFAIK, all these links are working and they are just a small selection from my GPL favourites folder. RSC is definitely the place to go though.....

[pirenzo]

grandprixsounds closed down a while ago Ayse.

Some others:

http://monaco.racesimcentral.com -Monaco Rocks
http://coa.racesimcentral.com -GPL Mirror Zone
http://gpladdicts.speedgeezers.com -Pompiert, Paul Jackson and Barty Mee setups and replays, plus Steve Cloyd's "How i try to do it" guides
http://trackdb.d2g.com -track database
http://www.rickking.com -loadsa stuff, updated F2 cars, Monza compilation, Loads of track updates
http://www.simracers.de/daten/Wolfga...nd_v0.4_wb.zip -Wolfgang Buthe's brilliant sounds (direct link to download, as the link is hard to find on the www.simracers.de page)
http://www.gplw.com -home of GPLAIM and other programs
http://www.gplso.co.uk -GPL Sound Overlay can be found here (not essential, i think i'm the only one here who uses it)
http://gplea.racesimcentral.com/sounds/sounds.html -carsound patch needed for updating sounds
www.papy.com -you'll find all the relevant patches here, but i recommend you get the "all-in-one papyrus patcher from http://trackdb.d2g.com/all-in-one.asp

[pirenzo]

oh, forgot one

http://coxocube.force9.co.uk/ten-tenths-gpl/

[Shaggy_SoCal]

WOW! Thanks for all the links.

I've played the demo a few times so I've gotten a taste as to just how delicate those cars are to drive. I'm too used to ICR2.

Again. Thanks.