Dials (needles) disappeared in Escort mod

I ran a quick few laps around Hitchin, then tried a night race at
LeMans, virutally nonexistant headlights btw, then over to MidOhio. Once
I loaded MidOhio, my needles were gone. I left and loaded Spa.....still
no needles. Unpacked and overwrote files again, still no needles. I
changed no options at all in case somebody asks, nothing whatsoever.
Just poof, gone. Any ideas?

V "fnugen" wrote:
> I ran a quick few laps around Hitchin, then tried a night race at
> LeMans, virutally nonexistant headlights btw, then over to MidOhio. Once
> I loaded MidOhio, my needles were gone. I left and loaded Spa.....still
> no needles. Unpacked and overwrote files again, still no needles. I
> changed no options at all in case somebody asks, nothing whatsoever.
> Just poof, gone. Any ideas?

forget it.....figgered it out......3key. all better now

"V \"fnugen\"" > wrote in
:

> V "fnugen" wrote:
>> I ran a quick few laps around Hitchin, then tried a night race at
>> LeMans, virutally nonexistant headlights btw, then over to MidOhio.
>> Once I loaded MidOhio, my needles were gone. I left and loaded
>> Spa.....still no needles. Unpacked and overwrote files again, still
>> no needles. I changed no options at all in case somebody asks,
>> nothing whatsoever. Just poof, gone. Any ideas?
>
> forget it.....figgered it out......3key. all better now
>

Vern....bad boy...bad...you are using the out-of-body view aren't you?
Cockpit should have all the necessary info without that humongous HUD they
provide.

dave henrie

Dave Henrie wrote:
> "V \"fnugen\"" > wrote in
> :
>
>
>>V "fnugen" wrote:
>>
>>>I ran a quick few laps around Hitchin, then tried a night race at
>>>LeMans, virutally nonexistant headlights btw, then over to MidOhio.
>>>Once I loaded MidOhio, my needles were gone. I left and loaded
>>>Spa.....still no needles. Unpacked and overwrote files again, still
>>>no needles. I changed no options at all in case somebody asks,
>>>nothing whatsoever. Just poof, gone. Any ideas?
>>
>>forget it.....figgered it out......3key. all better now
>>
>
>
> Vern....bad boy...bad...you are using the out-of-body view aren't you?
> Cockpit should have all the necessary info without that humongous HUD they
> provide.
>
> dave henrie
No Dave..........NEVER EVER do I use anything BUT cockpit.....how else
is it "racing"? I've never seen any successful driver sit ON his
car.....tsk tsk. I figured it all out when I jumped into an original
Porsche at MidOhio and the same thing, next track, same thing.......so I
systematically starting mashing the keyboard until the right sequence
gave the desired effect....never ON the car, only in. The defence
rests your honour.

V "fnugen" wrote:
> Dave Henrie wrote:
>
>> Vern....bad boy...bad...you are using the out-of-body view aren't you?
>> Cockpit should have all the necessary info without that humongous HUD
>> they provide.
>> dave henrie
>
> No Dave..........NEVER EVER do I use anything BUT cockpit.....how else
> is it "racing"? I've never seen any successful driver sit ON his
> car.....tsk tsk. I figured it all out when I jumped into an original
> Porsche at MidOhio and the same thing, next track, same thing.......so I
> systematically starting mashing the keyboard until the right sequence
> gave the desired effect....never ON the car, only in. The defence
> rests your honour.

Personally I would like a cockpit view that shows what the driver would
see through the section of the windscreen directly in front that a
driver would normally be looking through and filling his or her eyes
with. Preferably in natural size on a 19 inch monitor. This would
probably need to be compressed to a degree to allow wider angle of the
windscreen to be visible. No more than a third of the bottom of the
screen should be dashboard with instruments. NO WHEEL - I already have
one of those. I find the cockpit view in GTR to include too much,
making everything too small (on my 19" LCD). I have tried moving the
view forward but it still doesnt give the feel I want.

I HATE that stupid extra steering wheel. IIRC the cockpit view even
includes a small part of the roof - now that is puting screen space to
good use - who needs to see that?

The problem is to show enough of the road and the corners of the car
without having a "wide screen" letter box windscreen with the rest of
the screen filled up with interior.

The bonnet view is the closest thing to what I want. Now if the bonnet
was exchanged for a dashboard with instruments..

regards
Graham