>> "I have noticed that the back section doesn't have much other that trees, because I hit 541 objects but needed to leave room for CPs."
You should use bigger wall sections instead of so many small ones, which is easily done since your terrain is mostly flat. You should probably cut a few trees down too.
The stone walls:
You used "~stnwal1.bin", which is 32 feet long (one terrain square), but others are available.
"~stnwal2.bin" is 64 feet long (two sqaures)
"~stnwal3.bin" is 128 feet long (four squares)
All are the same height, and are simple rectangles, but are stretched to the different lengths. If you don't like the stretched look (~stnwal3 definately doesn't look very good) I just made (and zipped) "~stnwal7.bin" and "~stnwal8.bin", which are the same sizes as 2 and 3 but are actually just "~stnwal1.bin" repeated two and four times in order to maintain the scale of the texture width (i.e no stretching). I also included the rails/ice-rail models that use that very same texture in case you'd like to use them somehow, I'm not suggesting you do, but since you have the texture in memory already I figured I'd point them out. <a href=http://mtm2.com/~trackville/winterwalls.zip>ZIP here</a>.
>> "It's not really a name conflict because the different tracks come out but take the same screenshot. The .SIT files all have different names from WGP 1 - 3."
What's up is that you named your track "World GP 3", the first eight letters of which Traxx uses as the basename of your track's data files, and in this case is just a matter of removed spaces, as in "worldgp3". I know you know this much, but....
What Traxx also does is automatically name the two user interface bitmaps using the base filename and then adds an "S" and an "L" to them, but in an effort to maintain eight letter names it always cuts off the eighth letter in order to add the "s" and "l".
So your WORLDGP3 track ends up with WORLDGPS.BMP and WORLDGPL.BMP for bitmaps. Your WORLDGP1 and WORLDGP2 tracks also get the number knocked off and replaced with s&l, so that the bitmaps in your whole series all have the same names!
Using Traxx alone you'd have had to name your tracks "Wrld GP#" for it all to have worked out (seven letters). However, the real solution is to re-build your own pods after Traxx has made them, which is a widely used process due to these built-in limitations.
I always choose a track's basename myself and use that in Traxx instead of the track's real name. After Traxx writes the pod I extract all files from it, edit the .SIT file and then re-build the pod.
The first lines of your .sit file look like this:
WORLDGP3.lvl
!Race Track Name
World GP 3
Race Track Locale
Traxxville USA
Track Longtitude, Latitude
7947984,7947988
Track Logo .BMP file
WORLDGPS.BMP
Track Map .BMP file
WORLDGPL.BMP
If I were you I'd just use a name like "ccwgp3" in Traxx, to set the basename (translation: CrashCart World GP 3) then write the pod. Using a name with seven letters or less would ensure your UI bitmaps will not conflict or require a renaming and a subsequent update of the sit file to reflect the name changes.
Then, extract the pod, edit the sit file and rebuild the pod. What would you need to edit? Only the third line, which is the track name as seen in game.
Following my example, your sit file would look like this before editing:
ccwgp3.lvl
!Race Track Name
ccwgp3
Race Track Locale
Traxxville USA
Track Longtitude, Latitude
7947984,7947988
Track Logo .BMP file
ccwgp3S.BMP
Track Map .BMP file
ccwgp3L.BMP
You would change:
!Race Track Name
ccwgp3
to this:
!Race Track Name
World GP 3
or to anything you like.
Multiple tracks can have identical names without conflicting as long as they have different basenames. Anyone doing a series like yourself basically has no choice but to work in the manner we've outlined in order to get around name conflicts. Cheers to Phin for his info.
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