Idea: Short GT championship in rFactor

[TumeK5]

Hello peeps,

I was just wondering how awesome it would be to gather GT enthusiast simracers together and race on original GT tracks in rFactor (because none have been converted on rFactor 2, and it's more likely people own the original rFactor, and it's more beginner-friendly).

So, after checking, the most accurate GT tracks for rFactor are Grand Valley (includes all layouts), Trial Mountain and Autumn Ring (includes Mini). I also checked for Mid-Field, Deep Forest and Special Stage route but all those aren't close enough...Mid-Field was modeled to be a 60s track, Deep Forest just looks deformed and Special Stage Route is the same track but with grass instead of being on streets. I also saw Red Rock Valley, which I'm dying to try, but unfortunately it's still in W.I.P status. So only these 3 are good enough in my opinion (High Speed Ring was dope too but I prefer the retro version, as this one was based on GT4's).

So how about it? If we got volunteers we could have a short champ on those 3 tracks, with fixed setups and no fuel consumption or tire wear, to have pure racing just like in GT. Only differences are that you are not allowed to ram Plus wallriding is simply not proper. I was also thinking the Toyota GT-ONE would serve as the car everyone would be using. I couldn't think of any other car to be as iconic as that. However, the car might be too fast and too much for everyone to handle, so perhaps a Cup car of some sort would do the trick as well. (But I'd still prefer GT-ONE!)

I was also thinking a mandatory pit stop could be nice to allow some sort of a strategy despite the lack of tire wear/fuel consumption.

Please leave feedback on this idea...all the tracks mentioned are the only ones I could find.

P.S. We can also add Laguna Seca as the final round to have one more round and a race on a real track that was used in the early GT titles.

 

[RacingPanda]

Sounds like a great idea! 👍 Unfortunately, the mods with rFactor vary extremely in quality and personally, I'm not the biggest fan of how most of them feel, and that's quite the euphemism. But generally, I'm still interested nevertheless.

By the way, I think this thread should've been moved to the Console & PC Gaming section - there might be quite a big chance that many people interested in something like this won't see this thread.

 

[TumeK5]

Sounds like a great idea! 👍 Unfortunately, the mods with rFactor vary extremely in quality and personally, I'm not the biggest fan of how most of them feel, and that's quite the euphemism. But generally, I'm still interested nevertheless.

By the way, I think this thread should've been moved to the Console & PC Gaming section - there might be quite a big chance that many people interested in something like this won't see this thread.

Well...I wasn't sure where to put it :s thanks to GTPlanet's forum categorizing

 

[TumeK5]

Hope this builds your hype...



If you already want to try out what might come, download the mod and tracks here. I already went ahead and created a decent fixed setup for Autumn Ring, so drive using that, as the champ would be using fixed setups. And installing the files is simple: just drop them in their appropriate folders according to the structure I made for you in advance.

I was thinking I should make a personal livery for every competitor, adding their number of choice and country flags. This way, we can at least tell the cars apart from each other. Sadly, the template is nowhere to be found so this is as much as I could do. Then again, who wouldn't like the iconic livery?

Also, if this championship is to be, I hope GTPlanet approves this small little edit I made on the GT-ONE livery...adding the GTPlanet logo globe and text. @Jordan