Shanghai 2005: video material?

Hi folks,
here's a new quick made update. I made a small update for Shanghai 2005 by shutt1e. I modified several things but don't expect it to be complete - it's far away from complete - that's why it is a beta version. A new version with greater modifications will follow.

IMPORTANT: You first need to have the "SHANGHAI TRACK FOR GP4 VERSION 0.9 by shutt1e" installed.

Here a list of improvements:
Some low res. textures replaced by high res. textures; new sky colour
Modfied .col:
- all tarmac runoff areas behave like tarmac surface
Modified .dat:
- new cc-line
- new trackside cameras (two alternatives), .dat conatins alternative 1
- new JipMappings on track and in pitlane
- original 2005 positions of split times and pit speed limit on/off
Modified Magic Data:
- increased track grip
- decreased tyre wear
- rain chance set to 15 %
Modified .gp4:
- pitcables and fuel rigs for eacht team in the qualifying and race added - traffic lights at the entry and at the exit of the pit lane added - a "100 km/h" sign at the entry of pits added
- new pit tarmac
- tyrewall at the entry of pitline added
- completely new runoff areas as seen in 2005 GP (except before Turn 5) - new 50 meter, 100 meter and 150 meter signs
- new kerbs in Turn 11 and after Turn 12
- new flat adverts beside Turn 1, Turn 6 and Turn 12


I want to thank:
shutt1e for his efforts to create this great track,
Caelen for some hi-res textures used in this update,
Willb for some hi-res textures used in this update,
Ricardo Lampert for his great white border line,
b-tone for his 2005 pit boxes,
Lo2k for his great tools: 3D Editor, WadUpdater, TexResizer
and Marc Aarts for the tool CMagic 4
without whom this update would not exist.


Here some screenies:

1) pit exit; 2) and 3) pit entry; 4) new pit tarmac, pitcables and fuel rigs
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1) and 2) s/f-straight
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1) Turn 1; 2) Turn 5; 3) Turn 6
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1) Turn 7; 2) Turn 8); 3) Turn 9; 4) and 5) Turn 10
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1) and 2) Turn 11; 3) and 4) long straight
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1) Turn 12; 2) and 3) Turn 13
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Concerning copyright/permissions I can only say: As shutt1e was so kind to allow new improvements and a new release without his permission I of course do also. Fell free to modify this track and then release again. But if you use Caelen's, Willb's, Ricardo Lampert's or b-tone's work get their permission at first, please. Anyway, that's a beta and I will do a greater update next.



DOWNLOAD: (5,1 MB)
from RapidShare: [rapidshare.de]
from Dragon Racing: [www.motorsportfotos.co.uk]

Please read the gp4form.txt!


@Karan: Maybe you could upload it also to Dragon Racing. When I get finished the greater update/final version you can delet it again.


Well, it's just a beta version with minor improvements. Now I'll beginn with a greater update. This will take its time and I am not able to say when it will be ready for I will make greater changes on the .dat file. So be patient


Cheers,
Ruboy





Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/2006 01:17PM by Ruboy.

Just installing!
Very nice from the pic!
Do we got a new murderer drain too? :P

Great job Ruboy !
The Sinopec advert on verse of roadsign (pics 1 and 2 s/f-straight) is looking like on mirror and inverted.
Just a detail and easy to correct by you on final version for sure.
Anyway well done !

RICARDO LAMPERT
Visit my blog at [ricardolampert.wordpress.com]

Great work dl now

great update with great explanation regarding updates.

thanks ruboy.

waiting for ur final update.all the best

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Gravel surrounded by a catch fence, with a video wall inside?! what the hell?
Is it like this in real life, can anyone explain why? :D Looks odd


H E L L O

Are there likely to be some elevation changes on the next update? I noticed the other week that Shanghai is quite hilly in places.

Thanks for an excellent track, anyway. I think this is a great one to drive.

they were bored and had too much money.

I'm trying to get the elevation and corner date from someone , don't if can manage it.

I remembered had sent photos from air to someone , who said want to modify the track according to the pics , but I forgot whom he is.

its available on Dragon Racing now - [www.motorsportfotos.co.uk]

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/2005 06:39PM by Karan19.

Enzojz Wrote:
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> I'm trying to get the elevation and corner date
> from someone , don't if can manage it.
>
> I remembered had sent photos from air to someone ,
> who said want to modify the track according to the
> pics , but I forgot whom he is.

Google Earth it

what use are aerial photo's gonna be if you wanna modify the eleveation?

It does heights, it's how I'm fiddling with current tracks :P

Yes, the rework of the .dat includes the change of banks and elevations, too. That's why it will take some time.
About the video wall: It was also there in shutt1e's version and I simply didn't change it - but I will do that in the next version of course

A tip for when you do the elevations, don't use profiler to do all of them unless you're extremeley good with scales. What I do atm, is place certain sectors at the correct heights with profiler, displace everything up to / down to that point, then smooth with profiler

Ruboy great update!!!! Looking forward to your next uptade mate.

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New link added in first post.

@zeppelin:
Perhaps you could give me some helpful hints in detail how to create the best elevations.

looking forward to the final version Ruboy. After that can you please please do Nurburgring High res?

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> @zeppelin:
> Perhaps you could give me some helpful hints in
> detail how to create the best elevations.
>

I'll send you a lengthy mail about it at some point :P

I have Shutt1e's 0.9 installed, but I still get "send error report to us" error while loading the track. =(