Well, could have been worse....could have been last!by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
>Spangenberg gets back on the track and continues on, but will not be happy with what just happened. Understatement of the year. Honestly, what are we even doing here? Racing or ping-pong?!by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
With all these vacancies, I think it's about time I join this series as Team France. Team France's entry will be driven by #66 Romain Prost, and car and helmet design should be revealed by the end of the week.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
I like Bandicam. If your PC is powerful enough, you can compress the video (x264, x265) as you record it, so that it is no larger than a 'normal' video. If, like me, your PC isn't powerful enough to do that, you can record it uncompressed (MJPEG) and get large files, which you can shrink later with a program like Handbrake.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Rather abysmal session that, hoping for a much better race.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
I think it has something to do with the difficulty. Once you go to a certain level - Pro I think - you can't see AI fuel levels (on the Steering Wheel) or Tyre wear anymore. GPxCInfo panels - such as Lo2K's counter & the 'defpanel' - are unaffected.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
I like this idea of a driver being able to distribute their season's 600 boost points in whatever combination they like. Not only would it mix up the results a bit more, but it's a little bit more influence that we as drivers can have on our results. As long it wouldn't make things too complicated for the performance people and organisers, I'd vote for it.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
QuoteSkaaningeN If you put this value to 0, the camera will not care about the other cars. Interesting. So this would be a good value for cameras to use for 'Qualifying' camera sets, or if you just want to set something up for screenshots of individual cars?by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
(Excuse the Ferrari and Cadbury helmets, keep forgetting to put the correct ones in) Album with two more.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
That Magny-Cours looks very Montreal-y imo.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Ah, OK. Were there some pitcrews that just you worked on Jurgen? Example: If you did Ferrari, Mercedes and Williams and Jorge did the others, then Mschumi could remove/replace the ones that Jorge did by himself?by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
That's very interesting. On the one hand, such an allegation has to be taken seriously. If there is any way to prove that permission was sought, Mschumi should post it, or at least share it with the moderators. But it can also be a difficult thing to prove, unless a copy of the conversation was kept. If proof doesn't exist, then it becomes a case of 'he said this, but he saysby AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
I too will have a new lid for this season: A few final adjustments yet to make. Big thanks to JohnMaverick for the renders.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Hi all, Does anyone know what sort of effect, if any, using A8R8G8B8 have on the running of the game, compared to DXT5? When viewed in Slimtex, A8R8G8B8 is a much nicer looking result than a DXT5 image of higher resolution, but at the cost of a much larger size on-disk: A 2048x A8R8G8B8 .tex (from a 4096x TGA; Full Transparency) is about the same size on disk as a 4096x DXT5 .tex (with Full Traby AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Ah, thank you that certainly fixed it. (Though it obviously messed up my UV Mapping) I think something went wrong when I exported it from 3DS Max, because I tried again today and it worked fine.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
It depends from car to car really, but is usually the same as other models made by that same person. Normally, yes you'd have to flip. I don't know of any model that you have to Mirror for. One quick way to check; if you've been using GP4 Builder to view the car as you paint, go 'Tools' -> 'Preferences' and if 'Reverse All Textures' is checked,by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Hi all, So I modelled a new rear-wing endplate, and am having an issue with one of them (the right one) in-game. Imgur album. What will happen is that, when viewing from the side shown in the first picture the carbon area (indicated by the red arrow) will be invisible, and you will see the mirror image of the outside of the fin. When viewed from the side shown in the second picture, the yelby AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
This looks like an interesting idea. I think that talking to SDI would be your best shot of getting the information you need, as GPxPatch is obviously able to access it.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
So, I just sat down and went through it all again from scratch and did not get a single error at all. I'll keep recording everything that I'm doing, just in case it happens again.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Haha, when I was working on the environment for Jangka, I started keeping an extra backup of my .gp4 in root of the .wad for emergencies.....must have forgotten to remove it before I released it! I've also thought of something that might help work out what went wrong. I haven't really done much work on the .gp4 for my new circuit, so I think I'll start it again from scratch todby AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Thanks for all the extra feedback guys. So, Laurent, my method: 1) Made a copy of my 'working folder' (containing my .dat, .bin, .col, .gp4 and .tga files) for this circuit. 2) Opened the .gp4 (which, of course, loaded the dat) 3) Created a new scene with just the default object that a new scene creates 4) Deleted all the other scenes 5) Rotated my track (.dat) around the z-axis aby AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Thanks for that tojepo. Any ideas on how it might have got corrupted in the first place? I've never had anything like this happen before.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
I thought it might have been that - I think that message is new to GP4 Builder 2017 yes? - but I opened a .dat from another working track, and it also had this message so I don't know. I'll try and fix that error tomorrow first - if I can work out how - and see if it makes a difference.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Good idea, I'll get a GPxLoad file with a working track tomorrow at some stage. No unusual messages from GPxPatch - just the usual "do you wish to open the log file" bit - and I didn't look to see if there was an assert file.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Hi all, So, went to test out my track and the game crashes ~halfway through the loading screen. I firstly assumed (of course) that it was my .dat, but couldn't find anything wrong. So I swapped out the .wad file for another random one, and it all loaded correctly. Then I wondered if my .wad structure was wrong, so I replaced the .gp4, .bin(s) and .col in the working .wad with the oby AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
I've had this problem a couple of times, and I think updating the object camera to 0 usually fixes it. Quickest way of doing this: Search -> * (which shows all objects in the file) -> Batch Edit -> Update Camera to 0by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
If you have the latest version of GPxPatch, you can change the maximum number of race laps under the GPxTrack tab.by AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4
Hi Patrick. In the folder where the GP4.exe is, create a new text file called 'F1system.txt' and copy and paste this into it: ; Grand Prix 4 System File - do not edit save_state_on_exit = true install_level = full minimum_allowable_version = 0 language_name = english animation_quality = mediuby AUS_Doug - Grand Prix 4