> do lights work in the shadows? if the weather is set to daytime, do lights work at all?
Lights work from dusk to darker (if I remember rightly)
> how many are safe for a track?
Did anybody figure this out? I think it's hard to pin down because the number of lights on a truck and the number of trucks are also a factor.
> I've been reading since I showed up the other day
There's still drive2survive's site, Malibu350's site, wint's site ... and that's just off the top.
re: road signs
Bottom two on this page
http://cownap.com/~mtmg/models/Custom/csigns.html
The answer is more one of math. How many signs, how many textures over 16 @ 64x64, how many 256's will you need in total, etc.
re: lights
About 5th down on this page
http://cownap.com/~mtmg/models/Custom/cmisc1.html the readme has particulars that never made it to a web page.