The complaining is very tiresome for something that doesn't need griped about.
Please explain if you refer with griping to asking for the possibility to roll back to other builds?
Or maybe to when I asked for rF1 gmts to be readable with GJED and some editing options to be implemented?
If not to those please EXPLAIN what has been griped about?
Useless? No... Endless complaining about non-issues is useless. I'm not wanting ANY recognition, I want the rfactor 2 modding scene to succeed. Also want those that didn't think they could mod, to use tools, files, graphics and tutorials by those more experienced. Modding in this community should be about sharing knowledge not hording it thinking that is what you need to do. You seem to see my willingness to help others as a threat which I find confusing.
Yes useless. Let's see if you understand.
You have no idea of what modding implies.
All rF and rF2 modders have made their way to where they are basically by investing hundreds of hours in learning.
All the information is spread and it is not usually easy to find an answer to the issues you encounter when modding. You get very skilled in finding answers and in imitating something that performs as he expects.
Using others' work is common so any modder knows how to grab a texture or a material setting from some reference track/car that performs OK in the issue he is trying to solve.
Do you really think that a modder is not skilled enough to grab the tires from any car he likes and to put them in his own mod? Come on!! Don't make me laugh
What needs to be done to support modding would be to create an appropriate easy to use tool and create libraries to share. A modder should be an artist for tracks and an artist + an engineer for cars. However you need to be a computer and text editing guru instead.
It is a great shame in that sense that Brendon abandoned BTB to restart from the beginning with RTB.
In my opinion BTB just needed some improvements to be the perfect tool. The amount of xpacks was simply huge. Brendon received an extraordinary feedback in the official forum. (You can try to find my feedback about it. An amateur modder would easily find it compared to the solution to some modding problems.)
However as said, he started from scratch and in my opinion the result in terms of road and terrain editing is much worse. Why?
- It is much more difficult to control road shape with the new spline algorithm.
- the terrain is not so bad but as well it is difficult to get the desired result
- Using Google elevation data is only good for a rough approximation. You can check in Google earth a route around your house or a very well known place and check the elevation data.
I own both and if I make a new track it is clear I will keep on using BTB. I know that with RTB there is a big chance of spending a lot of time with a bad result or no result at all. BTB directly converts to rF1 format and RTB still doesn't and AFAIK it is not confirmed as a future option.
And by the way do you know why do I think Brendon has made this errors?
Because he is not a modder! He is looking at several things from the programmer POV and not from the modder POV. I gave him and advice not much ago:
"Build whatever track you have nearest to your house and make it work in a racing platform. Then you would know what modders need when creating a track".
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