Tutorial : Creating your own cars.wad by SkaningeN

Tutorial : Creating your own cars.wad by SkaningeN
Date: January 18, 2010 07:45PM
Posted by: SkaaningeN

Registered: 16 years ago

Hi guys!

I've decided to create a tutorial to make your own cars.wad for GP4. This should not be long, and it should not be hard.

Programs needed.

GP4Master v1.2 by Sven Mitlehner
TeamEditor v3.5
GP4 Builder (I still have 1.160, but get the latest version)
GP4 Tweaker v1.44 (If necessary, for like 2008 season)
GPxPatch v3.92

Alright, to start, download a fresh and original cars.wad from [www.gp4db.com]

Open GP4Master and go to Editors and choose workshops, wad workshop. Press "load WAD-File" and choose the cars.wad you just downloaded.
Then press "Extract all files" at the bottom of the window and choose a location to put it. If you wan't to have many different cars.wads
name the map like 2009 if that's the season you decide it to be.

Now open the map, and it will look like this :

Go into the "cars" foler and it will look like this :

first off all, there is texures for all cars. You can delete them, as you won't be using them for the 2009 season. Don't delete all texures, only them that are accosiated with the cars.
Now, download the cars for each team you wan't to use. You can see that there are files called for example car_arrows_car1_lod_0 etc. These are the shapes of the cars in the .wad right now and are in order of the 2001 season.
If we start with 2009's first team, wich was McLaren (Ferrari accually had first slot, but let's take it in numbers) the McLaren shape should be renamed from example car_mclaren_car1_lod_0 to car_ferrari_car1_lod_0. The same for car2.
Copy the mclaren files into the cars folder and replace the old one's. Now copy the textures into the same folder. Now, continue until you have the grid you want.

Remember here, I've fixed so I don't need all lods, but don't bother with that right now

This method is going to be used if you later want to replace cars for the same season. If you are not sure wich textures that goes with each car, use GP4Builder to find out.
Start GP4Builder. Choose a shape file from your cars folder (ex car_arrows_car1_lod_0). In the program, choose Tools and then rename texures and now you can see wich textures to delete.
If you wan't to now why you are deleting textures, it's simply because if you don't delete them, they are only going to take unecessary space in you .wad and harddrive.

Now, let's install helmets and tyres. The tyresshapes and helmetshapes exist in the same folder as the carshapes.

Just replace them. Now, they also need textures. All helmets are the one's called Driver1_1 etc. Driver1_1 and Driver1_2 are of course the driver who have car number one. In this case, Hamilton. (Make sure you put his McLaren in the ferrari slot,
as I instructed above) Maybe you have to rename them, but if you download Daimon's helmetsets, you don't need to.
So Drivers 1-2 are Ferrari, Drivers 3-4 are McLaren and so forth. Think 2001 season as the .wads are build like that.

As for the tyretextures, go to the tyres folder :

In there are all the textures the tyres need. Replace the original one's with the one's you wan't to use.

Now, if all helmets, cars and tyres are in place, start GP4Master again. Editors, Workshops and wad workshop. Now choose "Creat WAD for directory. Copy this adress to the folder:

and paste it in to GP4Master. Press OK and a new window popps up. Now, just write cars.wad in that window and press ok. The program will load for a bit and then you have a cars.wad in the same folder as GP4Master.

Now copy the cars.wad into your Grand Prix 4 folder and replace the old one.

Next step are fixing how things will look ingame. Start TeamEditor and choose to you liking.

And finally, if you have not GPxPatch installed, install it. Start it and choose wich performance and physics file you want and start the game.

This will be easier and easier every time you do it. It took me a month and then it became automatic.

That should be it, you can just ask if problems come up. I use Vista, so all these program should work with it.

Also remember, this is my method, I don't now if other GP4 players do it this way.

Good Luck!

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