2002 Jaguar R3 by Ralph Hummerich is available

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ESSENTIAL OILS aren't essential unless you're an engine, a gearbox or a twat

very nice. Glad i can have a good looking jag now




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God, Microprose really tested the community by making the cars like they did, heres the GP4Form.txt from the file (important stuff only)

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* CONSTRUCTION *

Editor(s) used :

These car-textures are using the alpha-channel to control the reflections
and some details.

SPECIAL NOTE: This zip-file contains 2 versions of the second car-livery-
file. These files are named "Team 9 - 2.tga" and "Team 9- 2b.tga". The
first one is how intended it to do and looks better in the game, but -
thanks to the texture-mapping - it has an annoying side-effect: Parts of
the light-green-shadings are mapped onto the right sidepod-top and that
doesn't look very good. The second version doesn't have this shading and
the sidepod-top is quite ok, but it doesn't look as good as version 1 in
the game. So it's up to you which version you prefer.

Known Bugs :

- the rearwing-plates should be completely white, but on this car, the
lower half has to be green. That is because the car-numbers are mapped
onto there and the background-color of the car-numbers is green. Would
I have the background color white, there would appear a white square on
the nose-cone, because the same texture is used for the carnumbers on
the nosecone too. I decided to have a propper nosecone and a buggy
rearwing-plate instead of vice versa.

- it is not possible to put lines or other elements on the sidepod-tops,
because there are massive distortions and the texture of the sidepod-
tops is made by many small parts which are mapped to there from all
over the whole car.

- sidepod-sides: the white area on the right sidepod-side is much longer
than on the left sidepod. This is because a part of the right sidepod
is also used as the very front end of the sidepod-textures for both
sides. It is very interesting, that they guys at Symergy didn't use the
front part of the right-sidepod for that, but the part right before the
"HBSC" text, means they took it from the middle of the sidepod?! Hm..why
did they do it this way, wouldn't it be much more reasonable and easier
to take it from the front??

- many logos (such as the small HP-logo on the cockpit-walls" can't be
placed on the right spot, because there are heavy distortions all over
and/or the would get mapped on different parts of the cars too

- right frontwing-connector is halway white instead of completely green.
This happens because this part is taken and mapped from the rearwing-
plate which is white there.

- first front-suspension-hole seems to be kind of cut - obviously there is
a small other white part mapped to that area. I don't know where is comes
from nor I have any idea why it is made this way.

- the HBSC-logos on the rearwing and on the frontwing-plates are directly
mapped over from the sidepod-sides, so every structure or shadow which
is there will appear on the rearwing and frontwing-plates too, but it's
hardly noticable.

- of course the carshape is a lame parody of the season 2001 Jaguar R2

...I am sure I forgot a lot to mention - so many many more smaller bugs

When editing the Williams was a pain, editing the Jaguar is a nightmare.
This car-livery consists of a very weird texture-mapping. Very small
parts are mapped all over the whole car (sidepod-tops, cockpit-walls,
cockpit-top etc.) which makes it impossible to create a decent season
2002 car. Again, all parts which are different from the Jaguar R2 to the
Jaguar R3 are almost unchangable, because the texture mapping is made to
prevent this. On this part, Symergy made a very good job because it isn't
easy to map the textures in a way that makes reasonable editing and
creating new liveries of a certain quality almost impossible.

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Thanx Miroprose




Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

And people were just saying how they want the game to be edited so we still have intrest in it? You still belive that now?




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Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

Yeah I do still think that. There is the possibility that there is another reason behind the new system (maybe easier to make for [b[them[/b], or file sizes are smaller).



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messed up the bold there



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Cai, wtf is going on with ure sig?


is simergy trying to break the editing community? why wouldnt they want ppl to by the game just so they can practice programming etc.

its like HL, ppl used to buy HL just to play CS

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Exactly.

Erm my sig is fine..now and again it goes when the host server gets stroppy about me hotlinking.



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LOL, why do they do that? are they watching you then? :P

if ure desperate then i could stuff it on my server for u

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Cheers dumbass but I'm okay, not that important. Only happens sometimes anyways.



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ok, more room for me then :D :P (even tho its unlimited :P)

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So why safedisc the exe? Theres no reason for that at all. Why stuff everything in the wad file?

If anything, this will make it harder to edit for them, cos all the cars are different and the mapping takes one bit several times.

They want us to play htere product, not a mod of there product.




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But we are still playing their product Ellis. We aren't buying any 3rd party mods, we are downloading a multitude of additions, that can only be used on their game.



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safedisk the exe to make it so ppl with the cd drives that dont like safedisk cant play gp4, simple :P


wad files i can understand, thats just making the folders tidyer


i wanna play GP4 season 2002, not 2001 :P i wanna play a Ralf Hummerich's 2002 GP4 :P

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"wad files i can understand, thats just making the folders tidyer"

LOL, the GP4 folder is a mess comapred with GP3 tho!

GP3 had folders for every track, with GP4, everything is stuffed into the root dir! All the wad files for cars and tracks are in there! They could have at least but them into sub folders

"But we are still playing their product Ellis"

I understand that, but remember it was Geoff who said he didnt like it not me, therefore, he is obviosuly going to make it harder to edit.

We are effectivly hacking his Software arent we?

theres no real reason to safedisc the exe, all it does it stop us from chaning it, that is for bout 5 days till someone decrypts it




Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

couldn't agree more, maybe if they spent more time working on the game rather than making it hard to edit we wouldn;t have such a rediculously bugged product

Yeah or both. The only reason GP4 was released as early as it was was so that they could go head-to-head with F12002, and win the spot as the best F1 game. Unfortunately, they've been so slow off the mark not only did it come out later but F12002 beats it hands down in many departments. Bugger. If a GP4-2002 add-on is released, we would have basically, by the end of 2002, paid about 45-50 pounds for GP4, cos the add-on will be what GP4 should have been.



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