Car shape in the GP4buider - some issues

Maybe this issue had already been discussed before here , if so I'm sorry for that . I converted some shapes from rfactor using zmodeler and they are really huge ( about 140000 vertices and size of 5 MB ) . I can open in the GP4builder but , because of the size and polycount , can't be saved ( too many faces/vertices per scene ) . I deleted some objects which could not be visible in game but the problem persists . How can I reduce the size and polycount of the shape in order to save the .gp4 file in the GP4builder ?
Thanks in advance



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/2016 07:26PM by rracunis.

Tried [www.grandprixgames.org]?

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Keeping alive the GP4

Thanks Ariel for your fast reply . However I don't have the basic requirement to follow the Excalibur's tutorial which is the original car shape ( car_carname_car1_lod_0.gp4 or car_carname_car2_lod_0.gp4) as I can't save the shape in the GP4Builder

But if you don´t have the .gp4 file how do you open it in GP4Builder?

I do not remember very well, but in 2010 with the TC 2000 Corolla had that problem ...
Exported from Zmodeler to GP4.
In GP4 format, i used Poly Cruncher and then I could open it and save it in GP4 Builder.

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Keeping alive the GP4

I have a car .gp4 file exported from zmodeler and I can open it in GP4Builder , then when tried to save it , got a message saying that the scene has too many faces/vertices and this can crash the game if loaded ( or something like that) .

Load the .gp4 file again in zmodeler, export it as .3ds and use polygon cruncher to reduce the faces/vertices, as you would if you were making low lods

Foreverk Wrote:
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> Load the .gp4 file again in zmodeler, export it as
> .3ds and use polygon cruncher to reduce the
> faces/vertices, as you would if you were making
> low lods

Thanks , I will try

I have managed to reduce the size of the car's shape as you can see in the first image below ( Fig 1 ) . However , ingame , the specific textures ( body , driver and wings ) are not correct ( Fig 2 ) . Actually , this was the first attempt but there was mistakes for sure .
Any help ?

Fig 1






Fig 2

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What was the problem?

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The main textures ( body , driver and wings ) were not saved in full transparency

I got this in the past, if I remember correctly :
if you set no transparency but tga has an alpha channel => any pixel with alpha channel value <1 will be black





Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/31/2016 06:48PM by Lo2k.

Lo2k Wrote:
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> I got this in the past, if I remember correctly :
> if you set no transparency but tga has an alpha
> channel => any pixel with alpha channel value <1
> will be black

Thanks Laurent for your comment . Actually , the textures had alpha channel but there was no transparency on them and that's why the car was black . I have converted the textures from TGA to TEX using the Slimtex , setting full transparency , and the problem was sorted out .