Tracks Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen 0.99a

[christoph1954]

christoph1954 submitted a new resource:

Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen - Track along the airfield and real roads at the Frankfurt-Hahn airport.

When I was about 6 years old back in 1960, we lived in the Hunsrück and the Hahn USAF Airbase wasn´t so far away so I was there on several occations.View attachment 603623
They used the F102-Dagger then with enormous afterburner and sold icecream waffels with enormous dimensions.
I was deeply impressed.
In 1991 the USAF left and the airfiled became the home of cargo airliners and cheap flight companies.
Last year the Chinese investors went bankrupt and now I thought it would...

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[4ph3x]

Cool! Always tend to go there by bike in spring and summer, awesome roads and beautiful surroundings. Great idea for a track!

 

[christoph1954]

Cool! Always tend to go there by bike in spring and summer, awesome roads and beautiful surroundings. Great idea for a track!

Haha! This is great!
I wasn´t there since 60 years now - so I have to rely on google maps for all that. So maybe you can give some corrections if I am too much off - hope not though

 

[kuIich]

I really like this, it has an awesome flow and an exploration vibe as well!
Couple of things that I noticed:
1) This one I am not quite sure how it would behave (or if it is even possible), but some parts are made ouf of panels and I am missing that periodic bump of panels that you get on older highways
2) I have some performance issues around the landing guiding lights. It does not seem there is more lights than on the start/finish part, but maybe the brightness makes them worse? In VR it tanks from ~80fps to 30fps when going around that part (in both ways)

 

[christoph1954]

I really like this, it has an awesome flow and an exploration vibe as well!
Couple of things that I noticed:
1) This one I am not quite sure how it would behave (or if it is even possible), but some parts are made ouf of panels and I am missing that periodic bump of panels that you get on older highways
2) I have some performance issues around the landing guiding lights. It does not seem there is more lights than on the start/finish part, but maybe the brightness makes them worse? In VR it tanks from ~80fps to 30fps when going around that part (in both ways)

1. I actually struggled a lot creating a half-way feeling for the slabs - at the moment I see no better solution although I am still trying out.
2. I had the same problem in VR (not on my 4K-monitor though) with my RTX2070 gpu. I got better when I changed some of the grafics settings in content manager. I was able to get a nearly stable 90FPS with 32 cars in the night. I will try to put up a screenshot of my settings here later on, maybe that would help you.
My worst FPS breakdown was always when the streetlights started to light up around the S/F area.

 

[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

Rev.09 VR-settings & extension_config

On my last session I had real bad FPS breaks, down to 30FPS while heading towards the runway approach-lights other places were not as bad but still not OK.
So I tried some changes in the extension_config with reduced visibility range of lights and it is much better now - it kept mostly 90FPS and didn´t go below 80FPS with 32 cars.
If you encounter problems with your GPU-power maybe you extract the revised "extension.zip" into the track folder.
The old config.ini is still available then.
My...

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[DFerreira05]

I can't find the track itself. It only downloads an extension. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

 

[sardokard]

I can't find the track itself. It only downloads an extension. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Same issue !

 

[khan1670]

Yes appears only the extension update is uploaded. Now the track is missing from the file.

 

[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

rev0.91 - complete track

Last time I forgot to attach the whole track - was only the extension file.

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[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

rev.0.92-Anniversary Trackday

We did a little race recently, and thought about how much fun it is to do such an illegal stuff:
Racing around an airport!
But it might be even more fun if there were no police officers to stop you, but instead telling you to "go for it!" .
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So, anniversary of the old US-Airbase might be a good reason for a
!! TRACKDAY !!
(the actual airport is in bancruptcy anyhow).

I added some garish billboardsView attachment 614717
and it is an "Air-Show"...

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[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

Small updates to the airshow

I changed the flight levels of the jet fighter group so they are not flying in the smoke of the front row.
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Because this track has a real beauty driving in the night with all the lights around - the planes were not visible!!!
So I added some lighting to iluminate the smoke and the planes a little.
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I hope it´s not too expensive on the FPS - for me (in VR with a RTX2070and a Valve Index) it kept a stable 90 fps...

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[whozzenzo]

anyone having problem w download speed? im stuck at 50kb a sec :ccc

 

[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

Free to roam layout with traffic mod

There was a suggestion from "Tominator21" - if I would like to turn the Airbase-Racetrack into a free to roam space for drifting and cruising around.
Great idea!
I converted the "dead end" roads into connection roads so there is always a way back to the airfield.
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No barriers and "false direction" signs - drive wherever you like!
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I have added some new visual stuff and a lot of various spaces to drift around and to...

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[Sebikiller1987]

the free roam otion is amazing.. great quality map!!! keep up your great work ...

little idea for future update ... updating the Map with the Streets that are not shown yet on the mini map & android auto)

 

[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

"Karting Track" and "All around the airport"

I had found there is an old "Karting track" behind the "plastic recycling plant". It´s hardly visible anymore as google maps had updated their satellite images some time ago.
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Luckily I had an older version on my hard disk and tried to "rescue" this old jewel.
But to my taste "real" karting tracks are much too narrow - I´m going more for a "Rally Cross" track and made it 15m wide - as much as possible without overlapping
So here it is: CROSS KART HAHN - 1km of...

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[sDmD]

Hey Christoph, first of all: Thanks for this nice and epic map. And ofc thanks for ur work. Can maybe add mirror download to the future versions because the racedepartment is at this size pretty slow.

 

[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

Dirt surface for Karting/Cross track

Just a quick update to the KARTING track by adding a dirt surface with "gravel" characteristic.
So these two additional layouts are now available:
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Some impressions with the FIAT-131:
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[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

Last one (probably)

Added a MIG21 FISHBED-H to the "Fighter Museum".
The romanian MIG21s will be the last in active duty after 60 years ending in 2023.
She was the strongest opponent to the western jets and I thought she deserved to be remembered.

Track layouts are as follows:


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As the "famous" airshow is quite a load for the computer - I left the feature for the "traffic layout" where you can free roam and a short stutter will not break your race.
The original "trackday race" has...

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[christoph1954]

christoph1954 updated Frankfurt-Hahn Flughafen with a new update entry:

Some minor repairs

After quite some time some new guy found some glitches which I hopefully fixed:
-Karting track: Groove layer was not transparent
-Hahn village entry found a hole in the road
-Globemaster plane had a invisible wall so you could not enter allthough it looked accessible. Now it is.

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