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I still have the box of F1 GP2, GP3 and GP4!
I played a lot IndyCar Racing 2 and when I played GP2 for the first time, I finally found a new racing game which was better than ICR 2.
Then came GP3 : I saw in a market a demo of GP3 with the black Arrows racing each others. And then I saw Diniz flipping! Wohoo! we can go upside down in GP3. I bought it and the intro was simply outstanding! The best intro I have ever seen! The gameplay was so excellent at that time!
I remember before the first time I played GP4 in the late 2002, I went to grandprixgames.com to look at the ingame screens : it was so beautiful and with the background sound, you had the feeling of being in a Formula 1 circuit! Then, first run with the Benetton of Jenson Button in Indianapolis! The first time I "drove" in that circuit! I loved going through the banking full throttle !
Then came grandprixgames.org : I searched in google grandprixgames and I found grandprixgames.org. I had no idea that grandprix4 could be modded!! I was so surprised when I saw the Toyota and the Renault! So I wanted to have those cars in my game.... but I didn't know how to do that! I took me at least one day to finally know how to install them with GP4Master! I remember when GP4Master said that I had the wrong exe or something like that...
2002 was the beginning of carshaping with Wai Keen Lam, Erik, Viper ( Enzojz now?),nicola, bojan, schroeder and more... the first thing I noticed in those carshape is that the airbox inlet was in full 3D, not only with a tex.
2003, the carshapes were more detailled, new set of tyres were done. This was the year where F1 has the most beautiful cars in my opinion ( Williams, Ferrari, McLaren, Jordan... ) I enjoyed playing those cars in GP4!! SkaaningeN by the way posted 2003 cars recently in the screenshot thread! Thanks man! It's a pleasure to see those cars again!
2004 I think IS the year of carshaping in GP4! New (potential) carshapers came (Rom1, Spoony,Mckey ( sorry if i mispelled it
),Duffer, Loren, Fongu, Flash Formula... )
Every car of that season were done by at least two carshapers. It was the year when new mods were built ( like the 1994 mod by the Real Gpx ). That year, I made my first car livrery in the MP4-19 template. It was the first time I use Zmodeler, mainly to see the progress of the livrery. When I saw the McLaren in Zmodeler, I wanted to make my own Formula 1. But I thought that every carshapers used the original carshape of GP4 as base of their works! So I started to modify the Jordan of Alesi ( I only lowered the nose ) and I put it ingame. I was so happy to see "my" carshape through the long straight of Hockenheim !
But when I saw the WIP treads of those cars, I realized that those cars were made from scratch! At that point, I wanted to make my own scratch building car.
2005 the PC spec increased, the GP4 performences too, and the number of polys in the carshape too! Which means a more detailled car!
The Williams from Intweb was ( and still is for me ) the most detailled car of GP4! Enzojz made the great 5D wheels!! What a pleasure not to see a 3D rim not moving! Teraur came with great McLaren and Jordan! The Renault R25 of Rom1 was simply beautiful! As was his RedBull, the Sauber of Bojan and Mckey, the BAR and the Minardi of Spoony and Flash Formula, the Ferrari of Acciari, Oggo, Kamder, The McLaren, the Ferrari and the Jordan of Enzojz and BMWFan...
Paolo (jpmfw) made a great winter livrery of the Williams!
But I remember this year when YohanFGP made a lot of great cars in only a few month! (Williams, Ferrari, Renault, Toyota...) He was a machine!^^ By the way, does anyone have news from him?
2006, some carshapers left GP4, new carshapers came ( like me ^^ ). Craigo with the CTDP team made a great Renault R26 as did Rom1, Teraur, Marosci/Talhendorf,I(Mitsuro Sano
)/Paolo made great Williams! in the early 2006, DjVass made a good conversion of the Sauber of Mckey and Bojan to a BMW .Then Spoony/Bojan, CTDP, and Paolo/I made BMW from scratch. Teraur made great Toyota. Enzojz and Acciari/Schroeder made wonderful Ferrari! Gezere made a great texture of the Toro Rosso! Fongu made the beautiful first ever SA.
Kizz made a wonderful Honda RA106! MDBSnake realized a great RedBull.
Lee, Hega and Vesuvius find a new way to make steering wheels more realistic. I remember Lee doing an onboard camera of Fisichella with a real photo of his arms and the steering wheel!
But the main challenge this year was of course the McLaren MP4-21 with its chrome!
Teraur and Uskoff manages to make great chrome effects on their Mp4-21. Hega improve the chrome effect of those McLaren with his new environment map.
2007, Isaint and Kev188 made a great conversion of Rom1's R26 to a R27, then Craigo and MMG made new one from scratch.
Axel180 begun to make his great series of Fictional cars. Fongu and Paolo made a great Toyota, Marosci/Tahlendorf and Paolo/I made great Williams, we and MMG made the BMW F1.07. Craigo and MMG made great Ferrari from scratch. Raulongo begin to show us is great talent on carpainting with a WIP in the Ferrari of Enzojz. RBR and STR were made by Gezere and MDBSnake and the result was nere to perfection!
Biggest surprise! Schroeder and Bojan came back with their Williams FW29 still WIP but already perfect!
2008, still WIP!
But newcomers showed us their great talents : Racervieh,Renault#1-fan, Rodrigo, Raulongo,gangstahhwboy13 and Daimon! Willward and msater are making a good job with the AGP2007/2008
I only talk about carmakers and I'm sure that I forgot some great carshapers but others also who contribute to keep alive GP4 deserves a tribute too!
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/2008 10:53PM by Mitsuro Sano.