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 Hialeah Park (with palm trees!) 
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Post Hialeah Park (with palm trees!)
Hi,

A while back I downloaded mjtags11's 'Start It' package, and found Hialeah Park in there and got excited. I've always loved the look and feel of Hialeah, and it had some big races in its early years, including the Widener Handicap. The poor track has been a bit neglected by the owners, and is used only for minimal quarter horse racing, and the casino on site.

Absolutely wanted to fix it up to look like a tropical paradise, so I needed palm trees. I spent a long time making PNG images and creating billboards out of them only to crash the game every time I watch a race. After trying and failing to use billboards as palm trees, I ended up making my own 3D palms by placing two or three photos on top of each other and rotating them to be offset. See an example here:
https://ibb.co/bQPWLk
https://ibb.co/bOdK6Q

I also use this approach on the quarter, eighth and sixteenth poles. I haven't placed the poles all the way around the track, since in the editor, the furlong posts don't show up on all courses when there's more than one course. Seem to show up on one course only, and seem to default to the dirt course, unless there's no dirt, then I think the outer course gets them. The other courses' furlong posts don't show up when I click "Show Furlong Posts". So, I didn't want to have the poles one only one course, and trying to guess where the other ones would go seemed more work than worth the effort, so I just did the last three poles from home, which are the ones I really care to see. Even getting the quarter pole in the right spot on the inner turf course here on Hialeah, I had to go test the course in game and go back to move the pole several times to get it right. No way was I going to go all the way around the track like that.

Anyway, here's my Hialeah Park, which is not entirely a replica of the real thing, but more of a sensationalised version of my memories of it. Thanks mjtags11, for putting Hialeah in there and giving me a reason to learn to use the editor. I've had great fun with it ever since.

https://sabercathost.com/hqdK/Hialeah_Park.zip

Unzip and merge the folders with the folders of the same names on your SO6 folder. If you're using the Start It pack, then the data files are already set, but if you're not using any mods, then you'll just want to copy the text below and add it to: Program Files>Starters Orders 6>data>2>_courses.dat ...just open the courses file and add the text in line with the rest. Add this to both dirt and turf portions of the list:

Hialeah Park
LL280
F,0
723,627

Here's a couple races to add to your _showc_f.dat in the same folder as the courses:

8,LH,3UP,FM
416667,F16
Hialeah Park:cc_flatTurf1
Black Helen Handicap
March
9,G1,3
1250000,F16
Hialeah Park:cc_dirt1
Flamingo Stakes
March
10,G1H,4UP
1666667,F16
Hialeah Park:cc_dirt1
Widener Handicap
April

Hope you can enjoy it. Cheers.


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