Individual Helmets and Wheels Tweaks [released][updated][v1.1]

Hello everyone,

Starting from an old idea that has been floating around for a while and inspired by a few of the amazing people here, I started digging around the inner guts of the GP4 code to see if I could figure out how to enable individual helmet shapes per team or per driver. Turns out that, now, we can! I'm happy to present you with these new "tweaks" that will allow you to do just that, plus enabling individual front and rear wheel shapes per driver as well. Both come with in "with LODs" and "LOD0 only" versions.

v1.1 Update
I've included a per-team wheels tweak. I made it for the 2021 Mod and never officially released it. Unfortunately, this one can only work with LOD0 only, because of how the exe goes about with the string wildcards.
Use the same link to download the updated version.

The naming convention for the files follows the one used by car shapes and is as follows:

[*] Helmet files: car_teamname_helmetX_lod_Y.gp4
[*] Front Wheel files - per driver: car_teamname_front_wheelX_lod_Y.gp4
[*] Rear Wheel files - per driver: car_teamname_rear_wheelX_lod_Y.gp4
[*] Front Wheel files - per team: car_teamname_front_wheel_lod_0.gp4
[*] Rear Wheel files - per team: car_teamname_rear_wheel_lod_0.gp4

There are a couple of very important things to keep in mind when using these: For once, all known "LOD0 only" methods can interfere with these tweaks, which is why I included a "LOD0 only" version. Please make sure you don't have any of these enabled for helmets nor wheels. Cockpits and Cars "LOD0 only" options can still be used. Also,when both helmet and wheels tweaks are used in combination, the automatic re-assigment of the textures of the helmet for each driver seems to break. Using a different naming convention for the helmet textures could help work around the issue, but I haven't tested it yet. In general, the wheels tweak has not been extensively tested, including whether there are any issues when individual tyre wall and tread texture are re-assigned or with wheel colours. In short: use at your own risk!

Download: -> MediaFire <-





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/29/2021 02:38PM by Öggo.

this is absolutely amazing! we are getting closer to GP5!
Outstanding work, thank you very much!!!

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What a great discovery!

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Superb news! Great one Diego!

Thank you for share and bring it to us.

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This is amazing! Thanks!

Just tested it and it fully works! had 4 different helmet shapes at the same time!

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Welcome back "in opera" Mr Oggo

Samuele
32BOBO32

Incredible find and tweak, this works a treat and I'm so glad it will fit well with the 2021 helmets.
This opens up so many great opportunities for future mods.
Thank you so much Oggo.

thank you very much for the great addition my friend

Hopefully one day also individual stwheels.

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Turbo Lover Wrote:
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> Hopefully one day also individual stwheels.


That will require a lot more knowledge that we currently don't have. Steering wheels and dashboards are loaded in a completely different section of the code. Individual cockpit shapes are theoretically possible, but right now all my tests have lead to the game crashing.

Also, I fixed a tiny mistake in the wheels patch.ini files, please download again to get the updated version.

Amazing job, mate and congrats on that!
1 Q: This works for CSM, non-CSM or both?
(I confess did not test it so far...)

Paulo



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2021 08:00AM by pauloderpich.

Brilliant stuff, thank you!

pauloderpich Wrote:
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> Amazing job, mate and congrats on that!
> 1 Q: This works for CSM, non-CSM or both?
> (I confess did not test it so far...)
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> Paulo


This is CSM.
However, you can load it via CSM to patch the GP4.exe, and then copy that to use with non-CSM purposes.

Are you KIDDING me?!

Amazing discovery, well done

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Intel NUC 8i3, 8GB RAM, MS Sidewinder Wheel

The discovery of the century !! Thanks a lot Diego!

Sadly I won't use CSM, could anybody send/upload CSM patched gp4.exe somewhere? Or some other way to patch it without the need of CSM?

Would be great if the gp4.exe also would be patched so that it has bar and minardi helmets read from the cars.wad instead of the main gp4/cars folder, like mine currently has.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2021 01:29PM by vesuvius.

vesuvius écrivait:
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> Would be great if the gp4.exe also would be
> patched so that it has bar and minardi helmets
> read from the cars.wad instead of the main
> gp4/cars folder, like mine currently has.

For the GP4.exe tweak is on the way. Maybe i release it today.

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Not every hero wears a cape. Thanks friend for the amazing work

Individual H&W Tweaker 0.9b

Description
For Non CSM User, you can enjoy the discovery of öggo, for the use of several shapes of helmet and wheels

Features
- enable and disable helmet and wheels individual shapes

Change


0.9b :
- First Release

Misc
- Thanks to öggo for this discover

Download Link
- Individual H&W Tweaker 0.9b

Preview


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