NKP is pleased to announce the inaugural race of the Green Gate Air Racing Series will be held at Meaux, France.
Course has been opened for single plane practice runs.

Update 06 Nov 09: GGAR course at Meaux has been opened for competition!
2 player head to head mission uploaded

Green Gate Air Racing Series ©





missions use a base MCU sequence developed & published by Laser in his Nieuport 28 Training - Mission 01. thanks Laser.

Yesss, was sooo waiting for a Race mission ! Downloading now and thanks !

S!

Ok, after first try i crashed in a bridge at 2/3 part of the mission Very nice and one has to be very careful at the bridges indeed, good for the hand-joystick coordination.

Already got some ideas - first a question, why not make the timer start automatically when the user goes through the first gate? Although i can understand the present setup as good for training when people will race in coop missions (is this the answer ? lol). And some image just came up, perhaps to put balloons or something inside the gates, so that the player has to shoot them to pass through.

Very nice mission, and i still have to see the template at work

EDIT: Managed to finish once in ~8 minutes. There was a gate who didn't disappear after going through it, i think one of the latest (3rd or so before the last one). I think you put a lot of effort to make this mission, congratulations!

S!

Excellent!!!

Na Kane Pono (I may be the only other one here who knows what that means ) indeed!

Mahalo!

HT

pleased to hear you enjoy this little mission Laser. big thx for all your work, great stuff!

lol, yes sir, gate activation & timer start are independent of player action to allow for future multiplayer competition. plus i felt it added a little strategy factor and excitement to try time course entry, may as well get your heart rate up from the start.

thx for notification on gate problem, i’ll try find & correct, most likely left one in from opposite gate start.

did you try the template made for your DFGen? little different application of your utility but seems to work well to quickly create missions that use plane other than the default N28. interesting how differently course has to be run different with speeds SPAD & SE5a are capable of.

rumor has it Martin will show up today in his N17, we’ll see how that goes.

aloha brother HT!

the current unofficial (but screenshot verified) N28 course record is 08:14 held by Percy Dobtossel.




beat that!

I tried the template and it works ok I glanced at the mission in the editor, and, man, i wish there were another means of displaying seconds on screen, without the need to define each second's subtitle. Also, i'm not sure if, triggered in this way, each by the previous one, delays won't accumulate so what you see on screen is not necessary one second later, but one second *and* something. Speculating further, if so, maybe triggering subtitles all from an initial timer, but through one-intermediate-timer of 1 sec, 2 seconds, 3 seconds etc. should provide for better time (as i say, pure speculation).

Another thinking loud idea would be at one point to make the plane climb, climb, climb and then dive through circles/gates from height, at high speed, to an under-bridge gate

S!

I lost 3-4 seconds at start, i put no ammo and 25% fuel, and i think 10 seconds more or so could be squeezed with careful flying and first-gate-timing

excellent Laser! if you can confirm 08:01 course time uses competition settings i’d like your permission to post your screenshot on NKP.

i'm almost ashamed to admit how much time i stubbornly spent, convinced i could get a 'spotwatch' type time display triggered by finish gate check zone. in the end with spinning head accepted could not so settled for screen shot verification. current timers seem accurate when checked against manual timing.

thinking ahead to MP competition, subtitles display in MP spectator mode, correct? & i can place a camera at finish gates for timing officials to record displayed results?

Well i had subtitles and warm engine on, all else unchecked so realistic. I can't give you another type of confirmation unless i fly at same quality again and record myself

S!