Yes, this makes sense. Yet, when I use my race.lp with the original min/max lps that came with the track, the ai doesnt check up at those spots. In fact, the race lp is pretty smooth, which suggests to me the issue is with the min/max lp. That being said, they *appear* smooth with reflap on, however when the ai take them they check up just slightly, enough to prevent any effective side by side racing. So either 1) they aren't as smooth as they seem to be, or 2) the throttle/brake used during the creation of those lps are affecting the ai, or 3.) I'm missing something?
Qualified response: this assumes that when you made the comparison between the original lp's and your newly created lp's:
a) you were using the same track.ini values and the same racing series
b) your new lp's are indeed linearly aligned and continuos
1) the new max/minrace lp's are misnamed, i.e. maxrace is actually minrace and vice versa
2) the new max/minrace lp's conflict with the max/minpanic lp's
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Quote from the webpage you linked:
I can't make lp's.../WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT/6. The race.lp:
..... If the track has high speed corners, and you don't have to lift in gtp, but you do have to at least lift the throttle in cup, gns, and cts, you're going to need a separate race.lp for gtp, and another race.lp where you lifted for the high speed corner, for the rest. When you use the no lift race.lp in a series that can't take the corner flat out, the exe calculates that a reduction in speed is needed and artificially adds braking when only a throttle lift was needed, consequently the ai really bog down and the player will run into them. If you can navigate the corner with only a lift when making the race.lp, the exe won't require the ai to use the brakes, hence the reason for making a separate stockcar race.lp. I left out pta because sometimes, in this scenario, the gtp race.lp will work for pta and sometimes it won't.
Also, with the amount of variables that affect ai operation,
How To Develop ai (a SHORT COURSE)
and,
Reflap (NR2003 lp Creation Tool) "How To"