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 2018 MOD is actually an update of the the Verizon Indycar 2016 and 2017 MODs released by myself last year which were conversions from the great Rfactor MODs 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 with many modifications . Thank you to them for giving me the permissions to convert their MODs .
As in the Indycar MODs 2016 and 2017 , 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 .
The Verizon Indycar 2018 introduced this year the Dallara UAK (Universal Aero Kit) and this made the conversion easier . However , the original authors made an unbelievable Rfactor MOD which has more than 305 different skins and was a bit hard to convert all the skins used without mistakes . Therefore , if you find any problem with the textures and shapes let me know .
Beware that only the cars and helmets' textures and the cars shapes were update along with the teamart , the rest of the MOD has the same stuff of the others released previously .
Finally , the MOD is huge ( about10 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 . However ,
it is available for download the cars folder in lower resolution . After all the installation be completed , delete the original cars folder ( normal size ) and replace it by this one .
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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30/12/2018 - Verizon Indycar 2018 CSM MOD=======================================================================
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 .
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Cap files : Lee71 , Phantaman & whoever did them
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Cars conversion : Rracunis
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Cars shapes : Vitor "Shadow" Souza ( Vitor Souza Motorsports & Modding )
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Cars textures : Vitor "Shadow" Souza and Stex1973
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Cockpit shape : Indycar MOD 2008 modified by Rracunis
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Cockpit textures : Indycar MOD 2008 modified by Rracunis
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CSM Editing : Superman77 , Vicenzo ( jakobdylan ) , JCaranti, Meteoro , BigBrother, Kedy89, TomMK , Phantaman . Erik van Leeuwen and Petrus
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CSM Icons : Thanks to whoever did them
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CSM Menu Pics : Kedy89 , Rracunis , Petrus & whoever did them
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Driversuits : Stex1973
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Engineers : Augusto Gibim
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Engine sound : TeamBPR , TTM , Lee71 and engine sound of the Cart 2002 , Champcar 2003 e 2006 MODs
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Event Sounds : Briere, Shlund , Mclarenaustralia , Nobu-Areo , lewis-hamilton00 and Lee71
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GPaedia : Petrus
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GPxPatch : Rene Smith (SDI) and Lo2k
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GPxPatch flags : TDL (TheDarkListener)
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Grid cars : Rracunis
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Helmet (Shape) : Original Rfactor MOD
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Helmet (Textures) : PA Popov ( Rfactor Central )
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HUD : Samuele Pinna (32BOBO32)
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Logos : Rracunis
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Marshalls : Augusto Gibim
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Menu Background : Josekast & whoever did them
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Overlays : Cire90 , F1Virtual , René Smit (GpxPatch) and TheDarkListener
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Pit_props : Gp4 original game
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Pitcrews : Augusto Gibim
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Pitboard : Tony
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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
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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
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Steering wheels (Internal) : AUS_DOUG
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Steering wheels (External) : TurboLover, Lee71 , Briere , Rracunis
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Teamart : Rracunis
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Tyres and rims : AUS_DOUG
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Visors : Rracunis
INSTALLATION :
1. Download the files
2. Open the CSM
1. Go to File/Install carset
4. Choose the file IndyCar Series 2018.cuh file , click YES in the message , install it
5. Repeat the steps 3 and 4 to install the files IndyCar Series 2018_1.cuh , IndyCar Series 2018_2.cuh , IndyCar Series 2018_3.cuh , IndyCar Series 2018_4 cuh and IndyCar Series 2018_5.cuh
DOWNLOAD LINKS1.
IndyCar Series 2018.Cuh : [
www.mediafire.com]
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IndyCar Series 2018_1.CSM ( Cars ): [
www.mediafire.com]
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IndyCar Series 2018_2.CSM ( Cars ): [
www.mediafire.com]
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IndyCar Series 2018_3.CSM ( Cars ) : [
www.mediafire.com]
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IndyCar Series 2018_4.CSM ( Cars ) : [
www.mediafire.com]
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IndyCar Series 2018_5.CSM ( Cars ) : [
www.mediafire.com]
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Lower resolution cars : [
www.mediafire.com]
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Grid cars lower resolution : [
www.mediafire.com]
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Small update on the Rossi's helmet and visors : [
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 .
Happy 2019 to everybody !Ricardo ( Rracunis )Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2019 02:26PM by rracunis.