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good thing i waited till the actual race the track looks different in like 3 sections, im gunna make some tweeks, use lighter textures, and hopefully have it out by tmrw night

yeah i was suprised how different it was too!
cant wait to cut some laps mate!

hey whats the thing called thats tells you who the top 5 guys are and their places the big black pole thing

uhg im srry guys DE is screwing up on my pc for some reason ive been trying to work with it for like an hour now so i can get the topdown and then i was gunna post it

i just checked my monster energy cup track and that big black pole thing object is called "sx leaderboard"

whats your exact problem with DE?

I'd like to hear about your problems with DE if you have time..

it just got really laggy and the object tab wasn't opening up so i could see the track i tried restarting the program but it didn't work so i eventually had to restart my pc and honestly i bet it was my pc being a dummy.

mmk i'll look for that cuz i'm almost positive i clicked on that but for i've released phoenix with sort of minimal objects and as the season goes on i'll get more familiar with the objects becuase your right AL it does take a long time and i wanted to get going on A@ rather than making phoenix amazing.

how do i know when the track gets approved cuz i posted it like yesterday

beta for A2
http://www.mediafire.com/?301tmlrursl846o

BTW AL a buddy of mine said his security program picked up a virus on your track building kit, i bet it was just because the security program hadn't seen those files before but I thought I'd let you know anyway

would have been for the .exe files on there for the install of those programs. most AV programs will flag .exe files

for the A2 i've made it smaller, so the track width is 30 ft rather than 40. most ppl that commented on phoenix seem to like a more realistic supercross feel like AL's sx tracks than how reflex sx tracks feel and the only problem with that is when splines ( i think thats what there called, where you can have an actual time race with user made track, idk) are put in and we have more people racing on each track its gunna be tight racing with alot of bumping, me personally i love that style of aggressive racing but maybe its a bit too much for reflex being that you get close to another guy in a turn and there's a chance they go flying off their bike. anyway i've decided to go with the smaller track size.
-undecided after doing a couple laps i prefer large scale atm-

I've found that when you have close racing at slower speeds (on tighter tracks), the bumping and pushing is less likely to result in a crash.  It usually just results in having to do the "rider reflex" thing, but at faster speeds, the crashes become more likely.

You make a very good point about online racing with lots of people, and tight tracks may get frustrating for some people.  At the end of the day, you should make the tracks whatever size you think will work best, and what you like to race on yourself.  Don't worry about what we say.. If you don't agree with it - don't do it

k i agree to disagree
honestly i made 2 tracks one at 40 pix and another at 30 pix but in the end i had so much more fun on my 40 pix track.
so anyone who wants the skinnier more hardcore, realistic tracks you're gunna have to wait for AL to make a new one

P.S. if there's anyone searching these threads i still need help with the track building just post and tell me what track you'd like to build

Yeah if you're having fun riding the bigger tracks, then make those.  I saw that your track on mx maniacs has generated the same debate about the scale.  At the end of the day you should make tracks that are fun for YOU to ride.  Everyone has there own opinions about how the game should play, and how the bikes should ride, so you will never please everybody.  Personally, I like the real life scale, which is even smaller than what Al makes, and it was the same story with my tracks, some people loved them, some hated them.

You should make a comment on your maniacs track, and make a request for some help because some people might not know that this forum exists.

yea i'll do that, im actually gunna go to A2 tonight so the track prolly won't be finished till after tomorrow.

- also i've been having trouble with D.E. when I'm clicking through all the objects trying to choose the next tough block D.E. crashes
so idk if that's an existing issue or what and I can probably replicate the issue on account that its happened multiple times now so if you have Skype i can show you

Sweet, have fun at the race man

Hmm do you get an error code after the crash?  If you can try and figure out step by step what you do, in order to get the error, it would probably help to see what the problem is.  Yeah I have skype, you can add me through my email address I think?... I'll try add you now.

my DE sometimes loses the 3d display after you save as a beta test track. it probabbly 25% of the time.
i get around it by saving as a compiler track file first, then  i export as beta test track. after i go in game and test it, when i come back the 3d display goes grey. that way if i lose the 3d display i just restart DE. (v0.8.1.
hey mototank, are you shure you want to do daytona? id be still happy to do it and vegas

yea go ahead im all backed up from school barely have time for A2 object placement

-found some time today to replace the object after D.E. kept crashing and now its giving me some error code and not opening up idk the code

so can some1 help me with DE?

is it when you try and open a .track file or when DE is booting up?
if its when your opening a .track file, it may be corupted and you may need to start again.

if its when DE is booting up, try reinstalling DE. remember to uninstall the old one and delete the DE folder from program files first.
im wondering if an old version of DE may be on your pc and clash with a new one? also make shure you dont have more than 1 version installed.

hope that helps

its when i open the A2 file
so i have to start over.... son of biscuit..... well A2, oakland and A3 will all be late after i finish those imma take a brake until late season college is taking more time than i thought, took more classes than expected

if you have placed heaps of models you could try and retriev them by opening up the .track file with notpad++. you could then copy alll the models out of that and paste it into your new .track
another tip is to save your track to a two different different .track files switching between saves each time. so that way you will always have a recent backup and  only lose a small amount of work not the whole lot.