Creating Track Location Folders

[DougWG]

Hi, I have been using Rfactor for some time, and as such have built up a large number of tracks and vehicles.

How can I put these into separate folder under gamedata such as European Tracks, Aussie Tracks as well as Dirt Tracks, Hill Climbs, Permanent Circuits, Temporary Circuits for Locations and the same for Vehicles such as F1, Touring Cars, GT Cars, Drag Cars, Go Karts, Rally Cars etc?

I have tried to create folders and then move data into each, but all I appear to do is hide each of the circuits, as they do not become available under the track list. Obviously nor do the new folder headings that I have created.

I am obviously missing something basic, but would appreciate any help in being able to tidy up all the various options under logical headings?

Regards Doug

 

[redapg]

To manage that, you would have to edit the *.gdb-files of each track.
But that would cause mismatches when you want to join an online-session.

If that would be OK for you, you simply can edit the "VenueName =" entries in the *gdb-files.
For example you can change it for all Dirt Tracks into "VenueName = Dirt Tracks" and for all Hill Climb tracks into "VenueName = Hill Climb" .

But be sure that you don't have 2 or more tracks with the same "TrackName =" entry. Then you would have to give them unique TrackNames too, or one or more will not show up in the tracklist .

You can additionally create a new line in your config.ini.
The default entry normally is:
TracksDir=GAMEDATA\LOCATIONS\

When you would create a new folder (name it e.g. "Loc_changed") and copy the whole content of the default folder into it and customize the files only from the tracks in the new folder, you can have your new ordered tracks and would still have the original ones to go online.

Simply add the line:
TracksDir=GAMEDATA\LOCATIONS\

So you have both lines:
TracksDir=GAMEDATA\LOCATIONS\
TracksDir=GAMEDATA\Loc_changed\

Now you only have to put 2 slashes in front of the line you don't want to use.
Would look like this if you want to use the "Loc_changed" folder:
//TracksDir=GAMEDATA\LOCATIONS\
TracksDir=GAMEDATA\Loc_changed\

 

[Denstjiro]

I did this a few times for our league, tbh it was a total drag to get this right for every track. Get one little thing wrong like grammar or a caps and it don't work. some tracks need different/additional lines to be tweaked it seemed and I was not entertained at all having to do this lol.

Could have been just me of course, doing it wrong, but it seemed to me every track needed something else and there was no 1-routine of doing it right.

Oh btw, just to be sure, those altered tracks wont be useable online anymore unless you distribute them to others.