Posts made by Ryan Yates

Will we ever get the Chris Denslow travel troubles side quest?

Feature Request - Ability to map toggle cockpit view to a controller button instead of just the keyboard

In the past TNH started qualifying at 6:30 and racing at 7. Turned into some late nights for those on the east coast (and pretty much an all nighter for our token Brit) so I want to bump it to a little earlier start. Can't go much earlier, though, or the west coasters won't be home from work in time.

I'm thinking tuesday nights, 1 to 2 races per month, 8 race season. Qualifying at 6:15 pacific, heats start 6:30

Stoked that we've moved racing over to HydroSim. Unfortunately saturday nights are busy for me (rockin' with The Roostertails). Is there any interest in getting a weeknight league going for those of us who can't run on Saturdays (or feel like running in multiple leagues)?

I'll race when I can, but as a musician saturday night usually means work.

Weekdays are better for me, I wouldn't start any earlier thsn 8:30 eastern (5:30 pacific) or it'd be tough for the west coasters to make it. Another option (if enough people are interested) would be to do a separate west coast and east coast series with the top season points drivers having a championship race at the end. Obviously you wouldn't have to live in the region, just go with the start time that's best for you.

Tentative yes (RC race that day). U-20 Appian, or U-13 Three Blades Entertainment if it's ready in time.

@Scott-Przybylski Most of the aerodynamic lift is provided by the air trapped under the hull. Not sure how it relates to the equations in that paper (although I may try messing with them a little), but here's a simple equation used to find the stable ride height of an outboard hydro. Note that outboards usually have the transom on the water, so this equation doesnt account for air leaving the rear of the air trap.

The basic takeaway, though, is that the air leaving the air trap via the sides and rear should equal the amount entering from the front. With inboards prop lift is a larger part of the equation, and actally works to keep the bow from rising.

I'll see if I can make sense of those equations, but until then hopefully this is helpful.

@Harley-Gray have you tried running the game at a lower resolution? I had to run it a 640x480 or something close to that on my laptop.

A couple of thoughts on improving the boat handling (just shooting ideas out since I don't have a full understanding of how the boats interact with the water in the program). Either increasing the hydrodynamic lift or implementing some sort of non-trip surface in the boat model could help to solve the rolling issue. The increase in hydrodynamic lift might also help to reduce the likelihood of a boat stuffing.

What settings do I need to use when saving the .dds files in photoshop. I use the nvidia .dds plugin. First attempt doesn't seem to work with hydrosim. The boat name shows up in the menu, but previews as whatever the previously viewed hull was.

U-20 Appian Jeronimo for Saturday

This Saturday is no good for me.

I'll take the 100

I'm in! New computer so I can run at full resolution now!

Just had a few laps where the synchronization issue made the clock run faster (gave me slower lap times) instead of the opposite. Never seen that before, at least not to any noticeable extent. Laps that would normally be about 155-156 mph were clocking in around 133-134.

I've had a couple of odd nights where I ran 164s, but most of the time I'm topping out at 153s. It seems there might be some sort of inconsistency in the timing or the course length used for timing.

It doesn't work on the server right now, but if you click "host" you can get lap times

Just upped that to a 155.421