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#3617375 - 07/31/12 12:18 PM RFE Plugin for rFactor - adding weather, variable track conditions?
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http://www.racedepartment.com/2012/07/rfe-plugin-series-for-rfactor/

Anyone interested in trying the great environment RFE Weather, can actually do it online for free on one of our servers after you have downloaded and installed all the necessary (plugin + mod + track). You may join us to our official forum to the following address: http://symracing.net or directly http://symracing.net/rfeseries/forum

Not sure when I'll have time to look at this myself, but it would be interesting for someone here to try it out and report back. biggrin
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#3617399 - 07/31/12 12:41 PM Re: RFE Plugin for rFactor - adding weather, variable track conditions? [Re: LugnutUSA]
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I've registered...awaiting the Admin's confirmation.

Seems it's something that's required for both servers and clients. They plan on having a free package available sometime soon and they also are looking at "commercial" packages as well. Not sure where the "commercial" packages would come into play, unless someone plans on selling mods intergrated with it.

Each plugin works alone it seems, or in conjuction with all the other ones, too. There's Weather, Tire, Track, Marshal and Sync .dlls in the total package, or will be when it's released. Sounds like something that would be perfect for a current F1 season or series that have different tire compounds and lengthy races with the possibility of changing weather.
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#3617850 - 08/01/12 01:25 AM Re: RFE Plugin for rFactor - adding weather, variable track conditions? [Re: LugnutUSA]
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Got fully registered and did some more reading....

It's a series of plugins that can be used alone...weather, tires...or as a package. Looks like they're not traditional rF plugins, but have to be incorporated into the cars/tracks that they're used on, too. They've got a few tracks on servers and I'm guessing compatible mods as well, so I'm going to check it out later on in the week if I can.

I think they've only got the weather one running online right now, though...still, would be interesting to see what it looks like and how it performs. Could be something easily implemented into a series it looks like with minor editing.
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