1997 Add-on Pack by SkaningeN *Released*

- 1997 Season Add-on by SkaningeN -
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I was not going to this for a while. Then I started a 1997 season while re-watching the real races alongside
and I just could not help myself. This package is just like all the others, and it's more than 2Gb when unpacked!

The quality is a little varied, with 4 more recent cars and then the F1C cars that were converted along time ago. It does work
but these cars could use some updating. I've done what I can to get all the right logos and sponsors in place but the pictures on
the internet from that era is a little scarce. Some versions may have a missing logo or not entirely correct ones because of the lack
of pictures or angles. All the shape updates are done like always. The rear wing downforce level is the only difference.

This is a long readme, but the package is also quite big. There is alot of stuff for you if this interest you. Let's get into what you
will get by downloading this. Link at the bottom of this long post, but please read first.
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Preview:


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Original cars:
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- Arrows A18 by VRC, Kefla, MSchumi & Hega -
- Shapes: fixed external mirrors as they displayed the wrong side on each mirror.
- Shapes included:
* Interlagos medium drag rear wing shape
* Montreal medium drag rear wing shape
* Hockenheim low drag rear wing shape
* Spa shape medium drag rear wing shape
* Monza shape low drag rear wing shape
* Original shape, not changed by me, for every other race

-Liverys
* Melbourne to Imola
* Monaco to Barcelona
* Montreal
* Magny-Cours
* Silverstone and Hockenheim
* Hungaroring
* Spa
* Monza
* A1-Ring
* Nurburgring
* Suzuka
* Jerez

- Ferrari F310B by VRC, MSchumi24 & Hega -
- Shapes
* Original shape included, not modified
* Hockenheim & Monza low drag rear wing shape

- Liverys
* Generic Tobacco livery had a missing Marlboro logo on the side of the cockpit, this have been fixed
* Original Hockenheim livery included
* Added the missing Monza livery

- McLaren MP4-12 by Soulbringer -
* Added Spa medium drag rear wing shape and livery
* Fixed a mirror issue with the Monza shape

- Williams FW19 by VRC, MSchumi24 & Hega -
- Shapes
* Montreal medium drag rear wing shape
* Hockenheim low drag rear wing shape
* Spa medium drag rear wing shape
* Monza low drag rear wing shape
* Original shape, not modified, for the rest of the races

- Liverys
* Added missing Montreal livery
* Fixing mistakes for all the NT liverys, Magny-Cours-Silverstone-Hockenheim
* Fixing missing logos for Monza and Nurburgring liverys
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Cars converted from F1C 1997 mod:
These cars would really need to get an update, the quality is not close to the
original cars. Some shapes have been hard to work with, making the game crash
after being modified etc. so I had my work cut out with some of them. Some of them
also have some flickering on certain parts that I have not managed to solve.

I have cleaned up the texture names for all these shapes. The names were all over
the place in their original form, example "fisichellawing" and rschumacherwing" landed
far away from each other in your cars.wad. I now renamed every texture to the cars name
so it's easier to keep tap of the textures. Example, the Jordan textures are now named:
"hi_197_1", "hi_197_2" and so on.

Quickslick made alot of liverys for these cars already and I've used them as base for alot
of the work. There were several liverys missing, they have of course been created. Some of the liverys
were not correct and have been corrected, wrong logos or missing logos. Thanks Quickslick for
making all this work back then, it made my life a little easier.

All cars have gotten the regular rear wing treatment, I have added new and more accurate
medium and low drag rear wing shapes for all cars. There are some mapping changes in some cases.
Make sure you use the shapes and textures in the order that I've put for each car, or you risk
getting small mapping bugs.
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- Benetton B197 -

- Shapes
* The external mirrors were showing the whole car in each mirror instead of half on each side. This have been fixed.
* This shape has several non-existent textures mapped to it. When I tried to remove the texture names, the game crashed
so I had to leave them in. They do not affect anything ingame.

* Melbourne-Interlagos version with Interlagos medium drag rear wing shape
* Buenos-Aires version
* Imola to Monaco version
* Barcelona version
* Montreal version with medium drag rear wing shape, with Wurz driver name for car2
* Magny-Cours version with Wurz driver name for car2
* Silverstone version with Wurz driver name for car2
* Hockenheim version with low drag rear wing shape
* Hungaroring version
* Spa version with medium drag rear wing shape
* Monaza version with low drag rear wing shape
* A1-Ring-Nurburgring-Jerez version
* Suzuka version

- Jordan 197 -

- Shapes
* I've mapped the frontwing a little different for car1 to get the red stripe to fit like I wanted it to for several versions.
* The sponsorship logo on the front wing endplate may disapear on some versions when the car is not focused on. This is not that
big of an issue as you wont see it happen much

* Melbourne version
* Interlagos-Buenos Aires version
* Imola version
* Monaco version
* Barcelona version
* Montreal version
* Magny-Cours version
* Silverstone version
* Hockenheim version with low drag rear wing shape
* Hungaroring version
* Spa version
* Monza version with low drag rear wing shape
* A1-Ring version
* Nurburgring version
* Suzuka version
* Jerez version

- Minardi M197 -

- Shapes
* Mapping on one of the winglets have been slightly altered to get the right sponsorship logo in place.
* This car has an issue were the front wing pillars may flicker when the camera is not focused on it.

* Melbourne version
* Interlagos version
* Buenos Aires version
* Imola version
* Monaco version
* Barcelona version
* Montreal version with medium drag rear wing shape
* Magny-Cours version with Marques driver name for car2. This is the same for the rest of the season.
* Silverstone version
* Hockenheim version with low drag rear wing shape
* Hungaroring version
* Spa version version
* Monza version with low drag rear wing shape
* A1-Ring version
* Nurburgring version
* Suzuka version
* Jerez version

- Prost JS45 -

- Shapes
* The external mirrors had an issue were they were upside down (I think that was the issue) and this have been fixed
* The sponsorship logo on the front wing endplate may disapear on some versions when the car is not focused on. This is not that
big of an issue as you wont see it happen much

* Melbourne version
* Interlagos version
* Buenos Aires-Imola version
* Monaco version
* Barcelona version
* Montreal version with medium drag rear wing shape
* Magny-Cours version with Trulli driver name for car1
* Silverstone version with Trulli driver name for car1
* Hockenheim version with Trulli driver name for car1 and low drag rear wing shape
* Hungaroring-Spa version with Trulli driver name for car1
* Monza version with Trulli driver name for car1 and low drag rear wing shape
* A1-Ring version with Trulli driver name for car1
* Nurburgring-Jerez version
* Suzuka version

- Sauber C16 -

- Shapes
* This shape is highly unstable when trying to modify it. Only way to make it work was to use old 3d Editor or the shape failed
to even load in GP4Builder after saving it, let alone crash the game

* Melbourne to Imola version
* Monaco to Montreal version with Montreal medium drag rear wing shape
* Magny-Cours to Silverstone version
* Hockenheim version with low drag rear wing shape
* Hungaroring-Spa version
* Monza version with low drag rear wing shape
* A1-Ring-Nurburgring-Suzuka-Jerez version

- Stewart SF01 -

* Melbourne version
* Interlagos-Buenos Aires version
* Imola to Silverstone version with Montreal medium (low) drag rear wing shape
* Hockenheim version with low drag rear wing shape
* Hungaroring version
* Spa version
* Monza version with low drag rear wing shape
* A1-Ring-Nurburgring-Suzuka-Jerez version

- Tyrrell 025 -

* Melbourne-Interlagos-Buenos Aires version with Buenos Aires X-wings shape
* Imola version with X-wings shape
* Monaco version
* Barcelona version
* Montreal version
* Magny-Cours version
* Silverstone version
* Hockenheim version witn low drag rear wing shape
* Hungaroring & Spa version with X-wing shape for Hungaroring
* Monza version with low drag rear wing shape
* A1-Ring-Nurburgring-Suzuka-Jerez versions
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- 1997 Helmetset for Arai GP-5 no wing and no HANS by jvinu2000 -

* These helmets are a combination of basework from jvinu2000 (Ferrari and Williams), BlackToof, Hega and myself were I've
corrected, fixed and added new versions to it. Is it perfect? No, but it looks quite good ingame.
* These helmets are only tested with the shape included in this pack, I can't promise they will work with other versions.
* I have focused on only one helmetshape since I never got the individual helmets mod to work. Why make a set I can't use myself?
Feel free to remake the set to make them fit with more shapes if you want.

- Arrows -

Hill Helmet
Diniz Helmet
Diniz NT helmet for Magny-Cours-Silverstone-Hockenheim

- Benetton -

Alesi helmet
Alesi NT Magny-Cours helmet
Alesi NT Silverstone-Hocknehim helmet

Berger helmet
Berger NT Hockenheim helmet

Wurz Montreal helmet
Wurz NT Magny-Cours helmet
Wurz NT Silverstone helmet

- Ferrari -

Schumacher helmet (Original by jvinu2000, not modified)
Schumacher NT Magny-Cours-Silverstone-Hockenheim helmet based on jvinu2000's work

Irvine helmet ((Original by jvinu2000, not modified)
Irvine NT Magny-Cours-Silverstone-Hockenheim helmet based on jvinu2000's work

- Jordan -

Jordan generic season helmets
Jordan NT Magny-Cours helmets
Jordan NT Silverstone helmets
Jordan NT Hockenheim helmets

- McLaren -

McLaren generic season helmets
McLaren NT Magny-Cours-Silverstone-Hockenheim helmets

- Minardi -

Katayama Melbourne to Buenos-Aires helmet
Katayama Imola to Montreal helmet
Katayama NT Magny-Cours helmet
Katayama NT Silverstone-Hockenheim helmet
Katayama Hungaroring to Jerez helmet

Trulli Melbourne to Buenos Aires helmet
Trulli Imola to Montreal helmet

Marques NT Magny-Cours helmet
Marques NT Silverstone helmet
Marques NT Hockenheim helmet
Marques Hungaroring to Jerez helmet

- Prost -

Panis Melbourne to Imola helmet
Panis Monaco to Montreal helmet
Panis Nurburgring to Jerez helmet

Nakano Melbourne to Imola helmet
Nakano Monaco to Montreal helmet
Nakano NT Magny-Cours helmet
Nakano NT Silverstone-Hockenheim helmet
Nakano Hungaroring to Jerez

Trulli NT Magny-Cours helmet
Trulli NT Silverstone-Hockenheim helmet
Trulli Hungaroring to A1-Ring helmet

- Sauber -

Herbert helmet

Larini Melbourne to Monaco helmet

Morbidelli Barcelona-Montreal helmet
Morbidelli Hungaroring to Suzuka helmet

Fontana Magny-Cours to Hockenheim & Suzuka helmet (This one is painted by myself)

- Stewart -

Melbourne to Buenos Aires helmets
Imola to Jerez helmets

- Tyrrell -

Verstappen Melbourne helmet
Verstappen Interlagos to Barcelona helmet
Verstappen Montreal to Jerez helmet

Salo Melbourne to Barcelona helmet
Salo Montreal to Jerez helmet

- Williams -

Williams Melbourne to Montreal & Hungaroring to A1-Ring helmets (Original by jvinu2000, not modified)
Williams NT Magny-Cours helmets
Williams NT Silverstone-Hockenheim helmets
Williams Nurburgring to Jerez helmets
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- Tyres and rims for Enzojz 2d Tyres modified shape -

* Dry tyres only
* Shape was not modified by me, and Im not completly sure it's the right size. Looks okay ingame
* Individual rims for all team
* Rimbolt in 5 different colors.

Read the ReadMe! Tyres to get instructions on how to make them work
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Thanks to:
Jurgen (Quickslick) for all the hard work you put down on these cars all those years ago!
MSchumi24 for helping provide files needed to compile this package
gap177 for helping provide files needed to compile this package
kerleyf1 for helping provide files needed to compile this package
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Puh! This was ALOT!
Feel free to use these files in mods but proper credit is needed, original authors in particular.
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If you don't like it, don't use it!
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DL Link: [www.mediafire.com]
DL CORRECT Larini helmet by KerleyF1: [www.mediafire.com]
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SkaningeN


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/2023 12:17PM by SkaaningeN.

Thank you very much!

SUPERB! Huge work!

Thank you for share SkaaningeN!

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Amazing !

I really love the shapes of this era, and Hill in his Arrows.

Thanks.

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Thanks for sharing SkaaningeN!

Hi SkaaningeN!

I check the pack and Larini helmet is an old lid version.

I paint the 1997 Larini correct version for the shape in your pack using 1997 DaiMon (our old helmet painter) version. Feel free to update your pack or post with this one:



DOWNLOAD: https://www.mediafire.com/file/vqu5nsim4d5wvwf/Larini+1997+for+SkaaningeN+pack.rar/file

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2023 04:26AM by kerleyf1.

Fantastic work, Eric! Tremendous attention to detail. Thank you for sharing!

Mega!

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What a mega pack, thanks!

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

Eric, just one phrase: I love you! (platonically speaking of course )

But I think we can even do more, for example Lola is missing, then we'll talk about it, ok?

Congratulations and thanks, thanks thanks!!!

kerleyf1 Wrote:
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> Hi SkaaningeN!
>
> I check the pack and Larini helmet is an old lid
> version.
>
> I paint the 1997 Larini version for the shape in
> your pack using 1997 DaiMon version. Feel free to
> update your pacl or post with this one:
>
> [i.ibb.co]
>
> DOWNLOAD:
> [www.mediafire.com]
> ini+1997+for+SkaaningeN+pack.rar/file

Yeah, you're right. I was not thurough enough on that one. Thank you, I will add it in the first post


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/2023 12:17PM by SkaaningeN.

Incredible, thanks again for this great package.

awesome package, thank you very much

See I'd add them into their respective places, but the different texture names completely ruined that idea.

OboroHD Wrote:
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> See I'd add them into their respective places, but
> the different texture names completely ruined that
> idea.

May give you some grief, I know. Either delete the old shapes and textures and replace them with the new ones, or just rename the texture files to the old names and keep the old shapes


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SkaaningeN Wrote:
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> OboroHD Wrote:
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> > See I'd add them into their respective places,
> but
> > the different texture names completely ruined
> that
> > idea.
>
> May give you some grief, I know. Either delete the
> old shapes and textures and replace them with the
> new ones, or just rename the texture files to the
> old names and keep the old shapes


That's just it. I dunno what textures to rename and match the already-existing textures. It's a shame too, cos I legit love how good this new pack looks.

Can anyone tell me what texture is missing from the thread on the wheels? I am already grateful, and congratulations friend your work is fantastic

This texture is missing from add-on pack " rimbolt.tGA "

I made a makeshift texture and did a repair on the helmet that Kerley updated, Full credits to SkaningeN and KerleyF1, I just made minor tweaks, follow link below


Before


After



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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2023 01:11AM by MaisonTeles.

MaisonTeles Wrote:
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> This texture is missing from add-on pack " rimbolt
> .tGA "

The rimbolt texture is included in the Add-on pack. Check again


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