There's some theorycraft behind cc-line (that you can edit in .dat files with GP4Builder) and the way to slice it into sections (using single sectors sections before a curve and such things). I'm not an expert in this though.
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Grand Prix 4 @salvasirignano : yes, I believe option A is better than grouping everything and applying a global mapping.
@Scampson : Thanks
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Grand Prix 4 Hmm, well, sadly no. As far as I can think about it, I can't figure any easy way to quickly do this kind of thing...
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Grand Prix 4 And while you're in GP4Builder, you can also do Action\fix green tint before saving to prevent any user driving your car seeing a green tint all over it if he uses dynamic environmental maps ingame.
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Grand Prix 4 nope, you can read original GP3 .dat tracks in GP4Builder but that's pretty all.
My goal was to ease conversion of GP3 tracks to GP4 but there was never a strong community call about this particular feature and by the way, the whole .gp4 had to be done nevertheless, and the .dat is not the longest part to do.
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Grand Prix 4 Well, I'm surprised it isn't in the user guide but indeed it seems it isn't. Another reason why so few people used it.
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Grand Prix 4 I was not very fond of this feature too (reason why it appeared quite late in GP4Builder's life) but at a given time, quite a few and good modders were about to leave the scene when they were looking at the amount of work they did to bring some high quality fresh content to GP4 and discovered someone stole their work to rebrand it without any credit, to resell it on ebay or to convert it to
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Grand Prix 4 Cancer is everywhere. It seems most of us will encounter it either in our family or ourself. Hopefully not all of them are deadly. But all of them are heavy burdens and a great anxiety if not pain for who is touched and his close family.
I can't say much but your story really touched me and I wish all the best for your son and for you. This is a strong fight. Really Hoping the best.
Best r
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Grand Prix 4 I just uploaded it on gpgames too in order to simplify things the next time someone will look for it
Thanks Quickslick for the original file.
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Grand Prix 4 Pit&Lap Editor 1.2 by Alessandro Carrera
An utility to edit GP4 pistop strategies.
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GP4 Editors / Utilities hmm, maybe your circuits folder is in read only mode ?
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Grand Prix 4 I was wondering too, looking at the title of this thread but I was pretty sure I uploaded it on GPGames to be sure it would be "permanently" available.
It seems I did it as expected
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Grand Prix 4 Track is now available in the downloads sections. Greets
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Grand Prix 3 Fixed
I just approved your account, deguinha, to upload on gpgames.
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Grand Prix 3 All the data with (?) or more or less, well, unknown...
These ones have indeed (temporary) name, so I assume someone (me or Addie Walti most probably) made tests and guessed it could be linked to the camera clipping plane beyond which (of before which) no object, or simply no other cars are drawn.
Same for Zoom that could be linked to the way camera sometimes zoom onto focused car.
But how do
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Grand Prix 4 QuoteI downloaded the Team Editor but that doesnt import anything fropm the GP4.exe.
because you need a decrypted exe. (I'm surprised I didn't mention it neither in the gp4form nor the user guide)
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Grand Prix 4 Just tried final version and it's almost perfect :p
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Grand Prix 4 Hmm, I don't really get why you have such a mouse issue.
I just did a test and one pixel mouse move gives a displacement between 5mm to 5cm of the sector (depending on view position)
What you can try though is to zoom as close as you can and rotate your view by 90° (looking at your sector from "side" or any other angle).
I don't remind the exact code I used but displacement
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Grand Prix 4 @salvasirignano
Sure :
1) If you check "Force 16 feet distance" in the contextual window, pitlane 0 will automatically perfectly snap in position and direction to the track sector with "connect pit lane start sector". If it is already checked, try to uncheck and recheck it.
2) Try disable snapping (using dedicated icon or setting snap distance to 0 or both) snapping computa
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Grand Prix 4 The track .gp4 file (inside the track .wad). It's where the object is defined. As I said, the other option is to widen, if possible, the space between the 2 geometry faces of this object, using GP4 Builder.
If it's not enough, there are other tricks (like put faces in separated object...) but we go into too much details here.
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Grand Prix 4 Hmm, possible. Sounds quite weird though.
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Grand Prix 4 Photoshop displays the RGB layer by default, so it doesn't look transparent as this layer only store color data.
Transparency is handled by the alpha layer that you can see in the Layer panel. This one stores transparency via shades of grey (white is opaque, black fully transparent)
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Grand Prix 4 Hi to a first day game player so
1. Some tracks use Skydomes with hi-res sky texture. As these sky domes are geometry, they render "over" the original game sky. The good point : hi-res sky with realistic clouds. The bad point : even if weather is set to dynamic, sky will stay the same.
2. Flashlight are linked to CROWD_ class objects. If you see some where there is no people, it
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Grand Prix 4 Does it happen during CD installation or when double clicking the GP4 shortcut ?
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Grand Prix 4 SchueyFan écrivait:
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> Nice texture update!
indeed
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Grand Prix 4 @Maxi82 : Could you try with past versions and check if one of them works any better ? (there are a few past versions in GPG download section)
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Grand Prix 4 Yep, ARGB are basically uncompressed .tga files. So they don't have compression artifacts .tex files have.
So converting .tex back to ARGB is like converting a bad .jpg to .bmp
.bmp has no compression loss but you will still get original jpg compression artifacts after the conversion.
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Grand Prix 4 @Konradkid : Thanks for your kind words
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Grand Prix 4 I believe this list is missing the impressive Renault Test Track by Gildoorf
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