IndyCar Series 2017 - RELEASED (18/08/2017)

There are some Indycar MODs made in the past , I am a bit worried in giving the credits to the authors wrongly as it is not exactly well clear who were the authors of them , anyway I will try . In 2002 , Diego Noriega (Oggo) and Adriano Bariggi (Adry77) released the CART 2002 MOD . The same authors released the Champcar 2003 MOD . In 2006 , the RSP group in cooperation with IDT group released the ChampCar 06/05 for GP4 . Finally in 2008 , Meteoro405 released the Indycar 2008 MOD . I do not know if other MODs were released , if were let me know , I can edit this post at anytime .
This project , the Verizon Indycar 2017 MOD is actually an update of the the Verizon Indycar 2016 MOD released by myself earlier this year which was a conversion of a great Rfactor MOD made by Vitor "Shadow" Souza in collaboration with Stex1973 and PA Popov . Their MOD was based in the IndyCar 2009 mod for Rfactor made by Mike Peters . Thank you to them for giving me the permissions to convert their MOD .
As in the Indycar MOD 2016 , there is a problem between the GP4 and the real Indycar . There are more than 11 teams and more drivers than 22 in the Official Indycar Season and the GP4 is limited to only 11 teams and 22 drivers in the grid.
The original RFactor MOD is quite detailed , having many different specifications according to the tracks of the season ( Street circuits , Road courses and Oval circuits ) . Some drivers , switch from one team to other in the middle of the season , sometimes changing even to teams with different engines , racing in the first part of the season in a team powered by Honda and in the remaining season in a team powered by Chevrolet . For all these reasons , I had to make changes and had to “forget” some driver. I apologize for that , I had to do that , otherwise would be impossible to create the performance's files and even the MOD configuration . You should find other weird things and errors , all related to the same reasons .
Finally , the MOD is huge ( about 6 GB ) , specially , the cars folder . I could reduce this folder by half but the quality would decrease a lot , then I decided to keep all the files with the original size . The MOD is not perfect for sure but was the best I could do . Improvements can be done , any help from the community would be most welcome . The MOD does not have many kilometers in testing and that's why some bugs are expected .
The MOD can be modify at anytime but do not forget to give the credits to all the authors who contributed in any way to its construction . Also do not forget to ask permission for those who do not agree with the policy of sharing works in the GP4.
Concluding , I want to nominate some guys who helped me a lot and taught me a lot of things , improving my skills through their huge skills and knowledges : Meteoro , AUS_Doug , Phantaman , Turbolover , n00binio and Kedy89 . Besides , I have to mention Monsieur Arnaud (EXCALIBUR) and Monsieur Bernard (GEZERE) who taught me how to deal with Zmodeler and will be both my mentors forever .

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30/04/2017 - Verizon Indycar 2017 CSM MOD
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Author and compiler : Rracunis

Here you can find the credits to the authors who support me by giving permission to use their stuff in this mod. Thank you to all of them who have made amazing works for the car racing simulation . Please let me know if I forgot someone or made mistakes related with the author of some work in order to sort all the things out properly .

–Cap files : Lee71 , Phantaman & whoever did them
–Cars conversion : Rracunis
–Cars shapes : Vitor "Shadow" Souza ( Vitor Souza Motorsports & Modding )
–Cars textures : Vitor "Shadow" Souza and Stex1973
–Cockpit shape : Indycar MOD 2008 modified by Rracunis
–Cockpit textures : Indycar MOD 2008 modified by Rracunis
–CSM Editing : Superman77 , Vicenzo ( jakobdylan ) , JCaranti, Meteoro , BigBrother, Kedy89, TomMK , Phantaman . Erik van Leeuwen and Petrus
–CSM Icons : Thanks to whoever did them
–CSM Menu Pics : Kedy89 , Rracunis , Petrus & whoever did them
–Engineers : Augusto Gibim
–Engine sound : TeamBPR , TTM , Lee71 and engine sound of the Cart 2002 , Champcar 2003 e 2006 MODs
–Event Sounds : Briere, Shlund , Mclarenaustralia , Nobu-Areo , lewis-hamilton00 and Lee71
–GPaedia : Petrus
–GPxPatch : Rene Smith (SDI) and Lo2k
–GPxPatch flags : TDL (TheDarkListener)
–Grid cars : Rracunis and Petrus ( lower images )
–Helmet (Shape) : Original Rfactor MOD
–Helmet (Textures) : PA Popov ( Rfactor Central )
–HUD : Samuele Pinna (32BOBO32)
–Loading screens : Petrus
–Logos : Rracunis and Petrus ( lower images )
–Marshalls : Augusto Gibim
–Menu Background : Josekast & whoever did them
–Overlays : Cire90 , F1Virtual , René Smit (GpxPatch) and TheDarkListener
–Pit_props : Gp4 original game
–Pitcrews : Augusto Gibim
–Pitboard : Tony
–Physics : Extreme – Josekast ( based on the F1 2011 MOD ) , IRL and V6 Turbo – Phantaman and the Physics of the Cart 2002 , Champcar 2003 e Champcar 2006 , Indy 2008 MODs
–Performances : Boost performance – Josekast ( Fictional modified performance based on the F1 2010 MOD) . Real performance – Mix of the performance files of the Cart 2002 , Champcar 2003 e Champcar 2006 , Indy 2008 MODs
–Steering wheels (Internal) : AUS_DOUG
–Steering wheels (External) : TurboLover, Lee71 , Briere , Rracunis
–Teamart : Rracunis and Petrus ( lower images )
–Tyres and rims : AUS_DOUG
–Visors : Rracunis


Here you have the final update of the Indycar 2017 MOD ( end of the season ) . Before install it , delete the previous version of the MOD and then :

INSTALLATION :

1. Download the files
2. Open the CSM
3. Go to File/Install carset
4. Choose the file IndyCar Series 2017.CUH file , install it
5. Go to File/Install carset
6. Choose the file IndyCar Series 2017.CSM file , click YES in the message , install it
7. Repeat the steps 5 and 6 to install the files IndyCar Series 2017_1.CSM and IndyCar Series 2017_2.CSM

DOWNLOAD LINKS ( Final version ):

1. IndyCar Series 2017.Cuh : [www.mediafire.com]
2. IndyCar Series 2017_1.CSM ( Cars ): [www.mediafire.com]
3. IndyCar Series 2017_2.CSM ( Cars ): [www.mediafire.com]
4. IndyCar Series 2017_3.CSM ( Cars ) : [www.mediafire.com]

Also , for those who have PC with different resolution than 1600X900 , the TGA gridcars files are available below :

TGA gridcars : [www.mediafire.com]

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Thanks to all others who have helped to keep this game alive.
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Hope you like and have fun .

Ricardo ( Rracunis )



Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 09/28/2017 10:01AM by rracunis.

Ricardo, the links 3 and 4 are missing...

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2017 07:08PM by rracunis.

jucksman Wrote:
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> Ricardo, the links 3 and 4 are missing...

I know , all will be fine soon

Links in the first post

Thanks Ricardo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mods & Tracks for GP4 - [www.mediafire.com]

Keeping alive the GP4

Amazing!! Thank you so very much for keeping our beloved game alive!

Thanks a lot!

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For a list of EVERY download for GP4, look here:[docs.google.com]

Do we have any really good oval tracks we could use with this mod? I know some were released in the past, but most caused too many crashes between the ai cars...

teremos mod n-csm ?

Thanks Ricardo.

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My Grand Prix 4 Files
I'm a total dick. How many people can say that?

Thank you very much Ricardo for ones again an amazing job requesting hours and hours

Fernando Alonso set ( car + helmet + visor ) available in the first post . The teamart ( grid car + driver ) was already included in the MOD

Thank you to all for the comments , I'm glad you have like the MOD



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/20/2017 10:15AM by rracunis.

White cars ???

What do you mean white cars ? Show some pictures of the problem please

jornzaaa: White cars ???

It's not the mod, it's probably your configuration: try editing your f1graphics.cfg file:

1			; Increase car texture quality (1 on, 0 off)

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petrus' gpaedia files

Indycar2017 mod test

* teamart drivers currupted display
- solution: recreate gpi from 256x256 sized tga files (not 512x512) with Slimtex

* teamart gridcars currupted display
- solution: files have to be recreated by the author

* gp4_swap not working
- solution: edit swap.ini

[Swapfiles]
  ...
  File10	=V\GP4 %gp4_swap%.exe,gp4.exe

* screen resolution selection not working
- solution:
1) globalvars.ini

[resolution]
     ...
     modify	=tweak

2) add line in swap.ini

[Swapfiles]
  ...
  File11 =f1graphics\%tweak%\f1graphics.cfg,f1graphics.cfg

I like the method of setting the screen resolution used by phantaman in his 2016 F1 mod better, because it does not override other parameters than hres and vres in the users f1graphics.cfg file.

* tyres in race with moving lines
- solution: recreate tyres textures with ZAZ tool Slimtex using image compression DXT5 (DDS, full transparency, 4 mipmaps)

* corrupted weather graphics track and sky / forecast
- solution: recreate teamart gpi files 124 to 140 into correct resolution; the user could also just delete those files from the teamart folder

* teamart helmets from original 2001 are shown in the gpaedia drivers display
- solution: add empty gpi files (one for every driver) in the teamart\helmets folder or make new driver helmet pictures.

GPaedia
I am working on a full gpaedia including driver replace and all languages.

Tracks
Unfortunately we don't have many Indycar GP4 tracks.

Indycar2017 season races 			GP4 track 
1   (Street) Streets of St. Petersburg		N/A (only .dat file)
2   (Street) Streets of Long Beach		Long Beach
3   (Road) Barber Motorsports Park		N/A
4   (Oval) Phoenix International Raceway	N/A
5   (Road) Indianapolis Motor Speedway		Indianapolis
6   (Oval) Indianapolis Motor Speedway		Indy Oval
7+8 (Road) The Raceway at Belle Isle Park	N/A
9   (Oval) Texas Motor Speedway			N/A
10  (Road) Road America				Road America		
11  (Oval) Iowa Speedway			N/A		
12  (Street) Exhibition Place			N/A		
13  (Road) Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course		N/A
14  (Oval) Pocono Raceway			N/A
15  (Oval) Gateway Motorsports Park		N/A
16  (Road) Watkins Glen International		Watkins Glen
17  (Road) Sonoma Raceway			N/A (only .dat file)

Reasonable replacements:
Oval: Rio Oval (Jacarepagua), Talladego Tri Oval, Twin Ring Motegi Oval
Road/Street: Surfers Paradise, Laguna Seca, Vancouver, Montreal, Assen, Caesars Palace Las Vegas, Silverstone, Fuji, Hermanes Rodriguez Mexico, Twin Ring Motegi Road Course

Reference: List of Indycar races
Download: See The GP4 Mod & Track Database by truecrysis for links.

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petrus' gpaedia files



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/22/2017 12:23PM by petrus.

@Petrus , the teamart drivers and the teamart gridcars are not corrupted , the files are bigger than normal ( i.e 200X49 instead of 400X99 for the gridcars ) according to those made by Josekast a couple of years ago . Don't know if you tried the MOD ingame or not , but it should work well , at least work well here . The other comments are not big issues , please feel free to make all the modifications you have suggested , it will be a pleasure in having someone else to help me .
By the way , I'm happy that you have liked the MOD in general .



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/21/2017 12:40PM by rracunis.

Thank you very much for this mod!