Endurance Series by Enduracers

[klo-che]

After 3 years of work, Enduracers and the Gentlemen Racers are happily releasing the 1st package of the Endurance Series mod for rFactor. It will give you the chance to simulate the best endurance racing experience ever seen in a video game. Cars from ALMS, LMS and the Le Mans 24hrs are scheduled for this mod. Audi vs Peugeot, Aston Martin vs Corvette, Porsche vs Ferrari...

For this important mod EnduRacers has chosen to work in packs. After the initial release including the mod base and first pack of cars, Enduracers will release frequent "Service Packs", adding new car models, sounds, physics and skins. That is why the mod can be classified as "evolutive" and will live and grow continuously after the initial v1.0 release.

Don't forget to read through the readme carefully, you will find a lot of important information in order to use the mod in the best possible way. Don't forget that the mod is very big, and that this is endurance. Don't judge it by doing 2 laps with 1 car, take your time to learn it and really appreciate it.



FEATURES

• 11 Brand new 3D models from 2006 to 2008 from ALMS and LMS championships, with accurate shapes and aero configurations and high detail cockpits.
• All the cars skins from 2006 to 2008 seasons of ALMS, LMS, Le Mans and FIA GT Championships available in high/low detail.
• Helmet and Driving suits of each Team.
• Pitcrew suits for each Team
• Several graphic details added for more realism and to feel the "endurance spirit" better.
• Specific UI Data menu textures, using modern showroom by Maciex.
• Realistic sounds for all cars using real onboard & exterior recording sounds samples, and with a completely new development philosophy. Thanks to several real racing teams for their collaboration.
• Very accurate physics, created in collaboration with Gentlemen Racers physics team, with help from real teams and drivers.
• Physics validated with telemetry and real drivers, up to date specific
• 1.250 optimisations (tyres wear curves, pit menu,...).
• Specific real endurance racing physics settings : tyres choices, fuel consumption, aero configurations, traction control use, engine mapping configurations,...
• Driver swap support.
• Realistic pit crew menu configuration.
• FFB upgrades to choose your preferred steering force, see following paragraph to have optimum settings for FFB.
• Real Feel FFB and Leo FFB support (see readme for tested setups).
• Advanced damages.

Known issues:

• Random bug on led displaying in some cockpit(can be fixed with a reconnect in online mode).
• Random bug with addition of a darker square in some motec cockpit(can be fixed with a reconnect in online mode).

README

• English version
• French version

TRAILER

CREDITS



EnduRacers Modding Team

• Alexandre Van HOOREBECKE "Vancop" : Sounds
• Christophe LEMESLE "Chris91" : Skinning
• Yoan BOULLE "CPR" : Media
• Greg HUON "Migreg" : Media, Cameras
• Hervé THOMAS "Vevex" : Texturing, skinning
• Jietse MELOTTE "Integra" : Quality control
• Kyle WILLIAMS "NightSt@lk3r" : Modeling, Integration
• Marc CHAPELLE "klo-che" : Coordinator, Integration, Skinning, ReadMe content
• Matias VALERIO "mjv_c0h1" : Modeling, Texturing
• Maxime MENANT "LeBLOB777" : Texturing, Skinning
• Mike MUELLER "mjmueller69" : Skinning
• Nicolas PAPELEUX "ViveMclaren" : Modeling
• Sam ELIAS "Frosty 20" : Beta Test
• Thomas ARNAUD "Icedob" : Texturing
• Yoann LE JEUNE "Yoann56" : Modeling
• Yoann RAGEOT "F1 Mania" : Modeling
• Maxime MOREAU "Ricco" : Skinning

External skins

• Playmobil : Skinning

Test Drivers

• Jaroslav honzik : Test driving, Beta Testing
• Sean Edwards : Test driving
• Stuart Moseley : Test driving
• Tom Milner Jr. : Test driving

Gentlemen-Racers.org Physics Team

• Alexandre Puigsegur alias Fuelex : Physics, Test driver,Engine GFX
• Julien VIDOT : Physics, Test driver
• Pawel Kasprzycki alias Pawel : Gen optimisations, Test driver
• Bailly Christophe alias Dolphins : Test driver
• Daniel JUSTOU alias MaD_King : Physics team coordination, Collision help, Skinning help, HTML ReadMe, RealFeel compliance, Test driver
• Grosjean Francis alias BigJohn : Test driver
• Aloko Dimitri alias Aloko : Test driver
• VAN DE WOUW Patrice alias PatciVW : Test driver
• DECOSNE Jerome alias Gerhom : Graphical interface, Test driver
• Greg HUON alias Migreg : Test driver
• Paulo Soares alias Paulo : Test driver
• Joubert Pascal alias Djoubs : Test driver
• Christophe Hornus alias Chrisdoud : Collision tester, Test driver
• Final beta testing and general feeling, Gentlemen-Racers.org pilots and friends

DISCLAIMER

• All EnduRacers stuff included in this pack is under protection of Creative Commons intellectual work protection licences.
• All files included in this mod (including 3d files, sounds, physics, skins and all other files) are property of EnduRacers.
• It's not allowed to modify the 3d model, or other 3d parts of the mod. Physics or sounds files are not allowed to be modified.
• It is not allowed to convert the mod on any other platform without agreement from Enduracers.
• This mod may not be profited from commercially by a third party.

EnduRacers © 2009

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[Ivo Simons]

Still think it takes way to long to release it. They have planned 6 service packs if i am correct. So we have them all in 3 years. :smile:

 

[James Johnson]

YAY My overall Fav GT Car the Saleen. oh btw Ivo Quality -> Quantity.

 

[Ivo Simons]

Yeah i agree. But it still to long i think for a Service Pack. And rFactor 2 is also arround the corner.
Or maybe they have something planned for that, you never know.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Personally i dont mind how long it takes before they release it, thats up to when the modmakers think they are ready.

However I am a little dissappointed as we have adjusted our league to make it possible to change cars, with as result that we cannot run a full season ranking. WIth a little more and better communication we could have avoided that and simple fix the car and class choices and run a full season's league with full results.

 

[Ivo Simons]

Saw also this on their site.

Futhermore the v1 created Porsche 997 RSR will receive a graphic update with the SP1 release, adding to her the 2009 aero kit.

Stay tuned for futures news of the Endurance Series SP1 !

 

[Stefan Werner]

I have to agree with Ivo. At the rate they are going they will never get to service pack 6 as rFactor 1 will be irrelevant by then. Don't get me wrong, I prefer quality vs. quantity, but it's been nearly a year since the release of the mod and still no SP1 (or did I miss something).

 

[Mtommi Tam]

http://www.enduracers.com/mailing/Enduracers_Mailing_5.html

Endurance Series SP1 – Saleen S7R Previews

 

[klo-che]

Hi guys,

Just some answers to your comments. There is no 6 service packs sheduled, the menu work was just design, nothing else, and apparently a bad idea from us (we saw these comments on other forums too ). We're just creating cars and cars we like and adding them to the first pack when they are ready. You can have 2 SP's, but you can have 50 SP's.

Yes 1 year to create 6 cars can seems quite long for some of you, but remind it's not our job so we're not always fully available to work on the mod. The quality of the SP1 will be mutch better even then the v1 cars, and quality takes time.

Moreover, with rF2 coming in the future (even if no one knows when), be sure that we will keep closed eye on it, and if it becomes the new reference in terms of modding platform we will jump on it.

In addition, we're currently looking for a new full time 2d paints skinner. I saw several good quality paint shemes on your championship, so if some skilled people are interested they can contact me in private. Thanks.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Thx Marc!

Nobody can ask a mod group to do a hasty release just because we are impatient We know you guys have day jobs too and this is a hobby project that takes a lot of time. Big respect for that :doublethumb:

Looking forward to everything you guys will bring us !

 

[Mtommi Tam]

I like this mod,and more server made this mod racing league is very more people to join,this mod is perfect,
Keep your hard job,and made more fun for our is Enduracers Modding Team,thank you very much,
This is new beautiful forum by Enduracers Modding Team,
Link: http://www.enduracers.com/homepage.html

 

[Kyle Williams]

Day Job's some of you Enduracers guys have life too easy:wink:

 

[klo-che]

Enduracers unveil the F430 GT2 , more informations here:

http://www.enduracers.com/newsletter/Enduracers_newsletter_6.html

Screens :

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Wow Marc!! Those cars look absolutely brilliant!! :doublethumb:

 

[Kieron Peace]

Stunning looking car Marc .

A huge thanks to you and the team for bringing us the best Endurance mod for Rfactor. Stunning work guys, keep it up.

 

[Philip Oakley]

Really good, this amazing mod is going to get even more amazing! Thanks Enduracers!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I really hope the SP1 will come before the start of round 5 of the RDLMS (12 hours of Le Mans) in June. That would make that weekend even more excited than it already is

 

[Dragos Haba]

Marc, I have a little problem.

I am currently working on Painting the rims of the 07ALMS_Intersport_Racing Creation CA06. This TEAM for the car uses the BBS rims, but it seems that when I try to save the .dds file, using an appropriate suffix, to apply the paint scheeme to the rim, it does not work. I have checked the .veh file to see how I should name the file, and it seems that for all the Creation teams it is the same "OZRIMS" :

DefaultLivery="Creation_060088.dds"
Extra0="WINDOW"
Extra1="COCKPIT"
Extra2="CARBON"
Extra5="WHEEL"
Extra8="OZRIMS"

Those lines are all the same in all the .veh files. The problem is that only the OZ rims can be painted for the Creation. When I try to apply the paint scheme to the BBS rims nothing happens at all.

So far as I know, this is only for the Creation CA06. Here you can see that my 997 skin with custom BBS rims works just fine.

(vid thanks to Bram)

If you could maybe explain why this is happening, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[klo-che]

Hello. You should try the extra5, it's usually reserved for our BBS Rims.

So it should be "Creation_xxxxxxWHEEL.dds"

Tell me if it works.

 

[klo-che]

I've checked and it's extra7.

So it should be "Creation_xxxxxxEXTRA7.dds"

 

[Dragos Haba]

[Edit] Awesome! thank you so much, i was going insane trying to figure it out