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| *** [https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/toban-raceway-rfe.53746/ Toban Raceway RFE] - Unofficial conversion of the Toban Raceway track to "Plugin RFE Weather" adding weather effects. | | *** [https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/toban-raceway-rfe.53746/ Toban Raceway RFE] - Unofficial conversion of the Toban Raceway track to "Plugin RFE Weather" adding weather effects. |
| *** [https://www.racedepartment.com/search/36043717/?q=weather&t=resource&c%5Bcategories%5D%5B0%5D=103&c%5Bchild_categories%5D=1&o=relevance More Race Department "weather" search results for rFactor downloads] | | *** [https://www.racedepartment.com/search/36043717/?q=weather&t=resource&c%5Bcategories%5D%5B0%5D=103&c%5Bchild_categories%5D=1&o=relevance More Race Department "weather" search results for rFactor downloads] |
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| == Shovas's Weather Scratchpad ==
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| <pre><nowiki>
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| weather.txt
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| File Structure and Syntax:
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| - Use spaces not tabs
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| - Use space indents to be safe and to be consistent with original weather.txt
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| - Check brackets
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| - End with empty blank line
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| Troubleshooting:
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| - Ensure Rainfall Changeable in-game
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| - Symptom: Conditions/Forecast Icons stop working reliably.
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| - Advice: Check file structure and syntax
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| TBD: Forecast is the last minute of the session for Practice1 45min(?)
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| - I don't think so. It might be something like the next Conditions change (eg. Sunny to Rainy or Rainy to Stormy or any sequential combo of those)
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| - There may be something weird about 'minimum threshold of change' to update the Forecast icon
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| - Race 60min: Forecast is Minute 1
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| - Race is special: Time is stopped until you start race, then you can't get back to the timing screen with the weather forecast
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| - Any Minute with a different Conditions?
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| Are HAT files caching weather file data and we might need to enable rebuilding? -->
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| - Always Rebuild HAT="1" // Build HAT database everytime tracks are loaded (for development purposes)
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| - Nope, still happens
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| Minute{} Blocks:
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| - Must specify numeric minute Minute=1.23, not just "Minute" or else GTR2 seems to think the last Minute is the initial conditions and the other Minutes are ignored
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| - Minute=0.00{} is the initial conditions / It appears to be skipped / Must start with Minute > 0 or higher (Minute=0.10 works)
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| Rainfall (in-game):
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| - Rainfall is not the same as Conditions
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| - No, doesn't seem to be: Does Rainfall specify max Conditions? Ex. Rainfall 80% means max Conditions=80?
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| - Rainfall:
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| - Can't test because Rainfall < Changeable doesn't generate weather.txt
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| Rainfall: Track, Conditions, Forecast
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| None: Dry, Sunny, Sunny
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| 10%: Damp, Cloudy w/Rain, Cloudy w/Rain
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| 20%: Damp, Cloudy w/Rain, Cloudy w/Rain
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| 30%: Damp, Cloudy w/Rain, Cloudy w/Rain
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| 40%: Wet, Cloudy w/Rain, Cloudy w/Rain
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| 50%: Wet, Cloudy w/Rain, Cloudy w/Rain
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| 60%: Wet, Cloudy w/Rain, Cloudy w/Rain
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| 70%: Wet, Cloudy w/Rain, Cloudy w/Rain
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| 80%: Flooded, Cloudy w/Thunderstorm, Cloudy w/Thunderstorm
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| 90%: Flooded, Cloudy w/Thunderstorm, Cloudy w/Thunderstorm
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| 100%: Flooded, Cloudy w/Thunderstorm, Cloudy w/Thunderstorm
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| Session:
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| - Weather start offset by 30sec in sessions? Something's going on with a delay...
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| Temperature:
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| - Default Temperature Progression: Ambient 20+, Track: 22+
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| Conditions Icon (Conditions: Sunny/Rainy/Stormy):
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| - Conditions is not the same as Rainfall in-game
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| - Confirmed 240318:
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| 0-61 Sunny (Sun)
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| 62-90 Rainy (Cloud w/Rain)
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| 91-100 Stormy (Cloud w/Rain and Lightning)
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| Forecast Icon (Conditions: Sunny/Rainy/Stormy):
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| - Requires Minute{} block
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| - When no Minute{} blocks are specified or if there are no more Minute{} blocks remaining then Forecast seems to be the next closest dry/wet level (not sure if it goes up or down or why)
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| - Maybe it assumes a return to initial session conditions
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| - This seems to be confirmed 240319
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| - Forecast seems to change 30sec ahead of Minute{} with the change or maybe it's 1 Minute{} block ahead
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| - Confirmed 240318
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| 0-61 Sunny (Sun)
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| 62-90 Rainy (Cloud w/Rain)
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| 91-100 Stormy (Cloud w/Rain and Lightning)
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| Track Wetness (Dry/Damp/Wet/Flooded):
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| - Track wetness based on fixed Conditions (Confirmed 240318)
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| - TODO: Confirm these do or do not progress over time (ex. 5 Dry eventually becomes 6 Damp?)
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| 0-5 Dry
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| 6-35 Damp
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| 36-75 Wet
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| 76-100 Flooded
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| - Track wetness (Dry/Damp/Wet/Flooded) is not the same as Conditions (Sunny/Rainy/Storm)
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| - Track wetness does not progress (drier or wetter) by On/OffPathWetness in Minute{} progression.
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| - It seems to be based on time, Conditions, temperature, and number of laps (the more AI the faster)
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| - Track wetness floods dynamically based on Conditions and un-floods dynamically
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| - Dry->damp_>wet->flooded—>wet->damp-dry:
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| - 20C Amb 30C Track
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| - 90min Practice:
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| - 0 AI 40min still flooded, ...
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| - 1 AI 40min still flooded, ...
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| - 10 AI 30min flooded->wet, ...
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| - 20 AI 20min flooded->wet, ...
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| - 29 AI 15min flooded->wet, never dry
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| - 180min Practice:
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| - Damp ~65:00 (-115min)
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| - 300min practice
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| - Wet 285:00 (-15min)
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| - Damp 185:00 (-115min)
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| - 600min practice 1
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| - 29 AI
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| - Cars stop lapping 485:00 (-115min)
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| - Wet 585:00 (-15min)
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| - Damp 486:00 (-114min)
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| - Dry ~275:00 (-325min)
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| - 600min practice 2
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| - 3 AI
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| - Cars stop lapping 515:00 (-85min)
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| - Wet 548:00 (-52min)
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| - Damp 472:00 (-128min)
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| - Dry 253:00 (-347min)
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| - 600min practice 3
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| - 0 AI
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| - Cars stop lapping N/A
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| - Wet 515:00 (-85min)
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| - Damp 393:00 (-207min)
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| - Dry 248:00 (-352min)
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| - Start Flooded > Wet (Minute 0.10)
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| - 600min Practice, 0 AI
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| - Wet 516 0C
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| - Wet 541 10C
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| - Wet 552 20C
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| - Wet 564 30C
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| - Wet 568 40C
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| - Wet 573 50C
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| - Flooded Time to Wet by AI Count and Temperature
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| - Starts Flooded, and immediately dries out at Minute=0.10{}
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| - 600min Practice
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| - 0 AI
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| - Wet 516 0C
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| - Wet 541 10C
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| - Wet 552 20C
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| - Wet 564 30C
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| - Wet 568 40C
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| - Wet 573 50C
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| - 10 AI
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| - Wet 584 0C
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| - Wet 584 10C
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| - Wet 586 20C
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| - Wet 587 30C
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| - Wet 587 40C
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| - Wet 588 50C
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| - 20 AI
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| - Wet 588 0C
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| - Wet 587 10C
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| - Wet 587 20C
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| - Wet 588 30C
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| - Wet 588 40C
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| - Wet 589 50C
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| - 29 AI
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| - Wet 590 0C
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| - Wet 590 10C
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| - Wet 591 20C
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| - Wet 591 30C
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| - Wet 591 40C
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| - Wet 591 50C
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| - Nope: I bet I could include and progress any of the parameters inside Minute{} blocks (eg. OnPathWetness, OffPathWetness)
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| ^ Scratched: Wetness does not seem to progress in Minute{} blocks.
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| - But Wetness does progress so it seems it's a function of time-conditions-temperature and those do progress in Minute{} blocks
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| Real Time Weather and Time Scaled Weather:
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| - Time Scaled Weather does not seem to be related to Daylight Acceleration
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| - Time Scaled Weather does not seem to be have any effect for custom weather.txt files
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| ^ This implies that Time Scaled Weather is for game generated weather files
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| ^ Which means it's not the weather.txt Minute{}s being Time Scaled but the game weather generation algorithm scaling based on session length.
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| ^ This probably means that a few weather events play out over longer rather than the game generating many weather events to fill in the time
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| ^ Should be able to confirm by checking weather.txt for a 24h race with Real Time vs Time Scaled Weather
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| - For 24h Race Game Generated Weather Files
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| - Real Time weather.txt has many more Minute{}s, a much more granular Minute{} progression, in steps of 1-2 minutes each
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| - Time Scaled weather.txt has much less Minute{}s, a broader Minute{} progression, in steps of ~10 minutes each
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| - Real Time weather.txt has more variability in Conditions (ex. 0-40)
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| - Time Scaled weather.txt has less variability in Conditions (ex. 65-74)
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| - AmbientTemp seems to have a +/- 10C range for both
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| - Conclusion:
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| - Time Scaled Weather's purpose is to simulate longer weather patterns in shortened sessions
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| - Nothing seems to suggest it allows for scaling up limited weather.txt Minute{}s to sessions with more minutes
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| - It seems like Time Scaled Weather is only for 24H races
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| - 24H generated weather.txt Race Minute{}s still only represent 180 Minutes so it seems the game is internally stretching that over the entire period or possibly looping it
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| ^ Neither stretching or looping behaviour is seen in regular race sessions: In regular races, it loops through the Minute{}s until they're done and does not loop, stretch, or condense them based on the session length.
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| - Used ChatGPT to see if it agrees and it agreed: https://chat.openai.com/c/a3af0967-5df1-45e9-87a9-cdbf1789c4bd
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| Weather seems to interpolate between Minute{}s in some fashion although it's difficult to say how or what ratio, curve, or function is being applied:
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| - In a 15min Warmup with Real Time Weather:
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=0.10: Becomes clear around --:--
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=1.00: Becomes clear around --:--
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=2.00: Becomes clear around 14:40
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=3.00: Becomes clear around 14:15
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=4.00: Becomes clear around 13:45
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=5.00: Becomes clear around 13:30
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=10.00: Becomes clear around 11:30
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=15.00: Becomes clear around 9:30
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=20.00: Becomes clear around 7:30
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=25.00: Becomes clear around 5:30
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=30.00: Becomes clear around 4:00
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=35.00: Becomes clear around 2:00
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| - Stormy->Sunny Minute=40.00: Becomes clear around 0:00
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| - Warmup{} in weather.txt:
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| Warmup
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| {
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| Conditions=100.00
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| AmbientTemp=20
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| Minute=15
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| {
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| Conditions=0.00
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| }
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| }
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| - Time Scaled Weather seems to act the same as Real Time Weather
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| - Time Scaled Weather: 10min warmup, 5min weather: Stopped on minute 5 and held the weather
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| - Real Time Weather: 10min warmup, 5min weather: ...
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| - Pit camera and Conditions Icon seem to be in sync
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| - Minute=0.00{} is the initial conditions / It appears to be skipped / Must start with Minute=1.00{} or higher
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| - Session Length vs Minute{}s:
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| - At the end of a session, when there are more Minutes{}s then session minutes, weather keeps progressing through Minute{}s
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| - When there are less Minute{}s than session minutes, weather stops at last Minute{} and there are no other changes
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| - Applies for Real Time and Time Scaled Weather
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| - Basically, weather always plays through right to the end
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| 5 Minute{}s +20 steps:
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| 2.5m to Rainy, 4m5s to Stormy for both Real Time and Time Scaled Weather
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| - Minute 3 = 60 Conditions
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| - Minute 4 = 80 Conditions
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| 10 Minute{}s +10 steps:
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| 6min to Rainy, 9min to Stormy for both Real Time and Time Scaled Weather
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| - Minute 6 = 60 Conditions
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| - Minute 8 = 80 Conditions
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| 15 Minute{}s +6.666 steps:
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| 9min to rainy, 13min to Stormy for Real Time and Time Scaled Weather
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| - Minute 9 = 60 (59.994) Conditions
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| - Minute 13 = 80 (86.658) Conditions
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| 30 Minute{}s +3.333steps:
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| Never gets to rain, never gets to Stormy on Real Time or Time Scaled Weather (
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| - 10m45s to *Forecast* rainy but never gets there
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| - Minute 18 = 60 (59.994) Conditions
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| </nowiki></pre>
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| [[Category: Driving Sims]] [[Category: GTR2]]
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