[Tutorial] How to build lower lods.

Hey guys new to this but seeing as i can't see the pictures for the tutorial what settings do i need to use for the polygon cruncher part to make the lower lods?

Guys, where can you find videotutorial converting cars from rFactor to Grand Prix 4? I found the mod of 1989, would like it to convert, but the knowledge is not enough.

@Timtoffee: sorry, mate! It seems that all the pictures uploaded on Imageshack some years ago have been deleted since the website is not free anymore. I had worked on a video tutorial. Unfortunately, I lost my files... I will try to make something before to leave the community but I can't promise....

@Canadian76: Sorry, I won't make a public tutorial about this...

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/17/2016 08:30PM by Excalibur.

Here is in PDF, I saved it some time ago, it still have the images: Excalibur - How to build lower lods.pdf

Foreverk Wrote:
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> Here is in PDF, I saved it some time ago, it still
> have the images: Excalibur - How to build lower
> lods.pdf


Nice one For.....you are a star thank you so much now i can try to sort it out

Thanks everyone I looked at doing this but my main problem is when it comes to opening in the 3d photo browser and polygon cruncher i cant see any textures and the only thing i can keep out of the 3 is UV textures....Any ideas??

Hey guys.. Can anyone give me any advice on this? I'm not sure if i have done something wrong when i have made the original LOD or wether something has gone wrong somewhere but this is all i get when trying to follow the tutorial.

When you open it in gp4builder you see the textures?

Yep after just checking that textures are shown in builder

@Foreverk: Thanks a lot for the PDF version of my tutorial. It will be posted on the 1st page. Hopefully, you saved it before the images were removed. I appreciate your initiative!

@Timtofee: In order to see the textures into 3D Browser, you have to put them into your folder with the 3d model in tga format (if you convert them from .tex into .tga, don't forget to flip them)
Then, into 3D browser: shift+T to display the textures.
Anyway, what is important is to keep the UV Textures, as the box is ticked into your 3D browser window. So, don't worry if you don't see them. The UV coordinates will be saved and you will see the textures correctly once the lower lods will be re-imported into Zmodeler.... I know that this 3D browser version is a bit different from the 2008 one. I will try to modify my tutorial with new pictures... I will make it simplier.

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/2016 09:21PM by Excalibur.

Thanks a lot Excalibur you are a true gent. I will try that in a little bit

timtoffee Wrote:
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> Thanks a lot Excalibur you are a true gent. I will
> try that in a little bit

Yes, definitely he is a gentleman, along with very few guys



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/2016 10:05PM by rracunis.

Excalibur Wrote:
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> @Foreverk: Thanks a lot for the PDF version of my
> tutorial. It will be posted on the 1st page.
> Hopefully, you saved it before the images were
> removed. I appreciate your initiative!

Yes, it had the images as the moment I saved it here´s a screen capture of the pdf:

Hmmm i'm deffo not doing something right, followed the tutorial to a tee and nothing seems to be going right... Would anyone be willing and available to help me out with this?

Ok guys here's what happens step by step for me...
zmodeler to 3ds


opening in 3d photo browser


after pressing shift+t to view textures


in polygon cruncher


saving file


imported in zmodeler after saving


materials in zmodeler after importing


changing materials on LOD 1

1-Select the first texture name in the list , tick Primary texture and click on «Load Map» button .
2- Click on the «Add» button and select the tga file corresponding to the file's name.
3- In «Type» tab, select «unused» for each texture. and click on Apply changes, then OK.
Your textures will appear correctly

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Thanks excalibur I'll try that and let you know how it goes but it's doing my head in lol

Followed the tutorial to the letter, put shape into game and when i try to load a track gp4 crashes...Maybe something has gone wrong somewehere or maybe i should just get team editor to force run lod 0 lol... Oh well I tried.

If you still want to do lower lods and if I read well your previous posts, you just didn't use "GP4 renamer" before the conversion from .gp4 to .3ds
and after to have created your lower lods with 3d photo browser and converted back to .gp4.
Be aware that the names of the objects MUST be the same than the objects before conversion and in the right order.
If only one name is wrong, the game will crash.
To get the right order, the easiest way is to use GP4 builder which has a function doing that very well





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2016 09:27PM by gezere.

gezere Wrote:
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> If you still want to do lower lods and if I read
> well your previous posts, you just didn't use "GP4
> renamer" before the conversion from .gp4 to .3ds
> and after to have created your lower lods with 3d
> photo browser and converted back to .gp4.
> Be aware that the names of the objects MUST be the
> same than the objects before conversion and in the
> right order.
> If only one name is wrong, the game will crash.
> To get the right order, the easiest way is to use
> GP4 builder which has a function doing that very
> well

I will try again from step 1 at some point tomorrow to see if i can actually make this work. Thanks Gez