Hi-res helmets
Posted by Guimengo
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Interesting. With what tool was this done?
It would be nice if this was possible with other graphics also, allthough I would then certainly hope that GP3 wouldn't go the way of the EA and Papyrus games with 1024, 2048, and, yes, now 4096 square pixel sized graphics files, which are very nice for screenshots and possibly hotlapping on a super computer, but render these games pretty worthless for racing with any other cars on the track when they're modded this way.
"Yes it is possible to use hi-res helmets with GP3."
Aren't you mistaken here. though. These helmet files, although named the same, do not have the helmets laid out the same as in GP3. I would suspect that these are likely for GP3-2000 only, no?
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It would be nice if this was possible with other graphics also, allthough I would then certainly hope that GP3 wouldn't go the way of the EA and Papyrus games with 1024, 2048, and, yes, now 4096 square pixel sized graphics files, which are very nice for screenshots and possibly hotlapping on a super computer, but render these games pretty worthless for racing with any other cars on the track when they're modded this way.
"Yes it is possible to use hi-res helmets with GP3."
Aren't you mistaken here. though. These helmet files, although named the same, do not have the helmets laid out the same as in GP3. I would suspect that these are likely for GP3-2000 only, no?
Post Edited (03-26-04 04:36)
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No I'm not mistaken you can use them with GP3. I Only play with GP3 1.13 so it really is working. You just have to replace your helmetsd and helmetse in your Gp3jamsH liverie folder with those that Belini have made and you will see that it works very well. The Original GP3 Helmets have a size of 128x30 and the Hi-res helemts are 256x60 it's much better.
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Right you are.
Quite a dramatic difference, too, to one of the worst graphical features in GP3 (to be expected, obviously, with bitmaps 4 times the original size), and they don't seem to affect my processor occupany one bit, either.
Too bad that they're only 2003 and 2004 F1 ones.
A couple of years ago, just a few fellows were largely responsible for the over 1200 GP3 helmets that had been made. Is anyone going to follow in their footsteps and start making higher resolution versions of GP3 helmets? Driver faces, which a few painters had put in there helmets back then (and which Belini put on these, allthough, to nitpick, many of them really wouldn't be visible very clearly, if at all, through the many tinted visors in use today), and, surprisingly, were quite clearly identifiable even on such tiny bitmaps, would now really look splendid.
Does anyone except Belini know how he managed to get these larger bitmaps into these jam files? (Not that it presents any problem as new helmets, as they can just be inserted into Belini's jam files.) It would be interesting to see if it would be possible to make higher resolution cars, too, for starters, and see if they would work in the game and how much impact on processor occupancy they would have. I'm not suggesting any 1024 or 2048 pixel size bitmap carskins, but a 512x768 car would be interesting to see. I'd bet that it would look absolutely terrific, considering that it took F1x series modmakers' using 1024 and usually considerably larger size bitmaps for their favorite series of games with their "brilliant new graphics engines" to have grass and gravel, for example, that looked as good as the original "outdated" GP3's did with its original 256 size bitmaps for these textures.
Post Edited (03-26-04 09:38)
Quite a dramatic difference, too, to one of the worst graphical features in GP3 (to be expected, obviously, with bitmaps 4 times the original size), and they don't seem to affect my processor occupany one bit, either.
Too bad that they're only 2003 and 2004 F1 ones.
A couple of years ago, just a few fellows were largely responsible for the over 1200 GP3 helmets that had been made. Is anyone going to follow in their footsteps and start making higher resolution versions of GP3 helmets? Driver faces, which a few painters had put in there helmets back then (and which Belini put on these, allthough, to nitpick, many of them really wouldn't be visible very clearly, if at all, through the many tinted visors in use today), and, surprisingly, were quite clearly identifiable even on such tiny bitmaps, would now really look splendid.
Does anyone except Belini know how he managed to get these larger bitmaps into these jam files? (Not that it presents any problem as new helmets, as they can just be inserted into Belini's jam files.) It would be interesting to see if it would be possible to make higher resolution cars, too, for starters, and see if they would work in the game and how much impact on processor occupancy they would have. I'm not suggesting any 1024 or 2048 pixel size bitmap carskins, but a 512x768 car would be interesting to see. I'd bet that it would look absolutely terrific, considering that it took F1x series modmakers' using 1024 and usually considerably larger size bitmaps for their favorite series of games with their "brilliant new graphics engines" to have grass and gravel, for example, that looked as good as the original "outdated" GP3's did with its original 256 size bitmaps for these textures.
Post Edited (03-26-04 09:38)
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But pretty close to that Paulo :D
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