How to: Night Race

[Ross Balfour]

I found this just there a few minutes ago and found it interesting. Its how to race at night. Here is how:


Go into where the track files are located for your game, such as: C:\Program Files\RACE 07 Offline\GameData\Locations\Zolder (or whatever track you want to change),Copy Zolder so that you have to Zolder circuits. Rename one Zolder Night. Then open the GDB file for Zolder Night in Notepad, and in there you can change the times for when each session starts, so just change the times and save the file:

TestDayDay = Wednesday
TestDayStart = 15:30
Practice1Day = Saturday
Practice1Start = 15:00
Practice2Day = Saturday
Practice2Start = 18:30
QualifyDay = Saturday
QualifyStart = 20:00
WarmupDay = Sunday
WarmupStart = 20:30
RaceTime = 25
RaceTimeScaled = 25
Race1Day = Sunday
Race1Start = 21:30
Race1Laps = 11
RaceLaps = 11
Race2Day = Sunday
Race2Start = 23:00
Race2Laps = 11

Click save and you are done.

Heres proof:







Also If you change the time to 04:00 you can race at dawn

[Robert Crone]

wow . That's cool !

[Warren Dawes]

Yes, but without headlights shining on the road ahead, it is a bit silly and unrealistic isn't it?

[Ross Balfour]

Does the GTR EVO cars not have fully working headlights?

And also in that last pic there are floodlights.

[Chris Noble]

Night racing in rFactor is quite good, but you need mod with decent headlights to be viable. RACE07 does not have illuminated lights at all it seems

[Rick Stoltz]

its a shame that there is no option to race at night

[Denis Vorobjov]

Ross, how working this?:

RaceTime = 25
RaceTimeScaled = 25

[Ben Tusting]

Ross this looks so cool im gooner have to try this.

[Ross Balfour]

Originally Posted by Denis Vorobjov

Ross, how working this?:

RaceTime = 25
RaceTimeScaled = 25

You can have an option of time or laps in a race. If you choose time there are the default settings.

[Andrew Evans]

also, doesn't editing the GDB file balls up your online compatability...? be sure to back it up and replace it if you don't want a life of "booted for cheating" mismatches...

edit: sigh - didn't fully read the method in the first post, ignooooore meeeeee

[Jon Trotter]

That looks like my post from Nogrip.

I had forgotten I posted that - I should of posted it here, (sorry guys) - well found Ross

Spa at night is probably the best one I found to race so far. Some of the tracks have working lights, some don't.










I haven't done a night race in ages, but from what I remember - these are the ones that I have raced at night where the lighting around the track has worked in places:

Monza*
Valencia*
Spa
Zolder

Donington
Zhuhai
Themalito
Le Mans (Virtua_LM)
Mid-Ohio (Virtua LM)
Misano

There probably others but I haven't tried all the tracks.

If you convert the following from GTR 2 they have lighting that works:

Adeleide**
Long Beach**
St Petersburg**
Cleveland Airport**
Birmingham Superprix Night**

Racing around Russian Ring at 19:30 (top image) or 16:30ish (lower image)is quite a nice one with the sun setting





As is Silverstone at about 20:00.



The light son the Vectra are not as bright as the others and they don't light up until you are closer to the back of the car than the others.

[Dan Powers]

That looks great, But im not brave enough to try it online lol

[Wally Masterson]

Even if night is a bit silly, the dawn/dusk driving is great. I used to love that in GTL, with the long shadows. Very atmospheric...

[George Mastrokostas]

i thought that night option was standard in evo/

[Alan Mains]

well its time to ask the dev team to implement night 24hr racing again with decent headlights on all the cars ,as abig upgrade patch..

imagine racing round the green mile in the dark in wet weather . dang

[zand]

Maybe experience modders can create headlights shining on the road ahead using the shadows effect on the sides fo the cars at sun light...

Or maybe import the feature from gtr2.

Night versions of the tracks also.

Just a few ideas...

[Ross Balfour]

I think I remember seeing a neon light mod for Race07 ill see if there is.


Edit: Yay http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=6146

Extract it too your porgramfiles/steam/steamapps/yournanme/race07/gamedata/teams folder Have fun

[Tim Ling]

does it make a difference to night racing?

[Ryan Callan]

It brightens your headlights so I would say so

[Maddmatt]

All that addon does is make the headlight texture on the car a bit brighter when they are turned on. It doesn't make them light up the track or anything.

[Damian Dainhumain]

Originally Posted by Warren Dawes

Yes, but without headlights shining on the road ahead, it is a bit silly and unrealistic isn't it?

Ye, GTR2 has very good headlights and is very good at night, It's a shame they made poor lights for race07 when they had GT cars planned for it further down the line.

[Alan Mains]

lets ask the dev team or create a poll to implement night racing into race 07.

[Ross Balfour]

If you follow my first post it will work And if you use the headlight add-on it will make it better

[Lewis Fergusson]

Now all we need is a Singapore add on. Nice find btw, wanted to race at night on Race 07/Evo.

[Peter K.]

Hi

There is an further way to driving at morning, evening or night.

Just open your plr and go to "Race Conditions" and change the "0" to "1"

Use System Time="0" // Session start time for none-Cup races uses machine time

Regards Peter