F1 2017 Modding Questions Thread

USGPMT · Jan 7, 2018

I am creating a Ford F1 Racing Team to replace Toro Rosso and I have a few questions.

1. Working in the JSON file you can change the car model to whatever you are model you want. In this case I've changed from Toro Rosso to Renault (Lotus). Can and or should you also change the 'Camera Collection' and 'Driver Number Model' to Renault (Lotus)?

2. Where can you change the 'Front End' graphics? For instance team selection screen?

3. Has anyone had any luck changing the performance of the Sauber team? Or are they so nerfed that they can't compete? For instance, I've just totally replaced their VTX file with the Ferrari VTX file, but they are still 1.9 seconds off the pace. Is the AI for Pascal and Marcus that trash?

Thanks folks!

WillyP · Jan 7, 2018

I was thinking about doing a rather extensive mod where I replace Malaysia with Hockenheim using the f1 2016 files of the track. Does anyone think this is possible? I know I will not be able to play online with this, but I honestly don't care. I think it should be at least somewhat possible because the game is on the same engine, but I'm not entirely sure

Deleted member 244321 · Jan 7, 2018

WillyP said:
I was thinking about doing a rather extensive mod where I replace Malaysia with Hockenheim using the f1 2016 files of the track. Does anyone think this is possible? I know I will not be able to play online with this, but I honestly don't care. I think it should be at least somewhat possible because the game is on the same engine, but I'm not entirely sure

Last month I tried changing tracks and it worked, but it has too much bugs that I don't know to fix, I tried with Hockenheim and unfortunately it doesn't work

WillyP · Jan 7, 2018

Alex35zombi said:
Last month I tried changing tracks and it worked, but it has too much bugs that I don't know to fix, I tried with Hockenheim and unfortunately it doesn't work

its still showing the map for china, i wonder if its possible to correctly replace the map and then after that you would also have to convert the ai from 2016. needless to say, this is a very large mod to get working

Tommy2808 · Jan 8, 2018

USGPMT said:
I am creating a Ford F1 Racing Team to replace Toro Rosso and I have a few questions.

1. Working in the JSON file you can change the car model to whatever you are model you want. In this case I've changed from Toro Rosso to Renault (Lotus). Can and or should you also change the 'Camera Collection' and 'Driver Number Model' to Renault (Lotus)?

2. Where can you change the 'Front End' graphics? For instance team selection screen?

3. Has anyone had any luck changing the performance of the Sauber team? Or are they so nerfed that they can't compete? For instance, I've just totally replaced their VTX file with the Ferrari VTX file, but they are still 1.9 seconds off the pace. Is the AI for Pascal and Marcus that trash?

Thanks folks!

To No. 1: You can change the Camera Collection to Lotus (Renault). I didn't do that when I switched from Renault model to Toro Rosso and this made the cockpit cam sit very high, I don't know if the camera collection will fix this entirely, but you can give it a try.

KeisariKine · Jan 8, 2018

Tommy2808 said:
To No. 1: You can change the Camera Collection to Lotus (Renault). I didn't do that when I switched from Renault model to Toro Rosso and this made the cockpit cam sit very high, I don't know if the camera collection will fix this entirely, but you can give it a try.

you don't fix it with camera collection, that (if I remember correctly) crashes the game, but rather by editing the camcars file and those ones.

USGPMT said:
I am creating a Ford F1 Racing Team to replace Toro Rosso and I have a few questions.

1. Working in the JSON file you can change the car model to whatever you are model you want. In this case I've changed from Toro Rosso to Renault (Lotus). Can and or should you also change the 'Camera Collection' and 'Driver Number Model' to Renault (Lotus)?

2. Where can you change the 'Front End' graphics? For instance team selection screen?

3. Has anyone had any luck changing the performance of the Sauber team? Or are they so nerfed that they can't compete? For instance, I've just totally replaced their VTX file with the Ferrari VTX file, but they are still 1.9 seconds off the pace. Is the AI for Pascal and Marcus that trash?

Thanks folks!

2. in ui_package, they are in a lot of different places and you need to edit all of them.
3. I suppose that's the Sauber AI making them slow, the AI doesn't love a faster performance file

Ftoons · Jan 8, 2018

Is it possible to extract the driver face textures that appear as default when you create your driver in My Career?

Thanks!

Mr_Mackintoast · Jan 8, 2018

Tommy2808 said:
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You need to change these marked lines.
I changed the Renault model to the Toro Rosso model, and it worked perfectly (you have to import the Toro Rosso files into the lotus.erp after you've changed this)

Which files do I need to change? I tried doing this and it caused the game to crash

filipos6 · Jan 9, 2018

Does anyone know where to find garage textures? (pillows, walls...)

Tommy2808 · Jan 9, 2018

Mr_Mackintoast said:
Which files do I need to change? I tried doing this and it caused the game to crash

These files are in your lotus.erp.
To make the livery appear right you need to change the decal, paint and carbon damage files to the toro rosso ones by importing them.

Mr_Mackintoast · Jan 9, 2018

Tommy2808 said:
These files are in your lotus.erp.
To make the livery appear right you need to change the decal, paint and carbon damage files to the toro rosso ones by importing them.

Is it possible to put the red bull chassis on Mercedes? I tried this and it still crashed

KeisariKine · Jan 9, 2018

Mr_Mackintoast said:
Is it possible to put the red bull chassis on Mercedes? I tried this and it still crashed

possible but it has invisible numbers. Did you edit the carmodel.layer file or did you just import in the RB one? Because if you just imported the carmodel it crashes, if you edited it correctly it shouldn't

Mr_Mackintoast · Jan 9, 2018

KeisariKine said:
possible but it has invisible numbers. Did you edit the carmodel.layer file or did you just import in the RB one? Because if you just imported the carmodel it crashes, if you edited it correctly it shouldn't

I edited it but when I imported the carbon damage it started crashing

Molda22 · Jan 10, 2018

Is it possible to change the colours and names of the tyre compounds? Both in the ingame model and also in the menu icons etc?

Mr_Mackintoast · Jan 10, 2018

Mr_Mackintoast said:
I edited it but when I imported the carbon damage it started crashing

Nevermind. It turns out I put "red_bull" not "redbull" in the carmodel. Thanks to everyone who helped me.

filipos6 · Jan 11, 2018

When I put Haas chassis on Red Bull, some parts of the car like rear wing and front wing appeared transparent. Is there a solution?

KeisariKine · Jan 11, 2018

filipos6 said:
When I put Haas chassis on Red Bull, some parts of the car like rear wing and front wing appeared transparent. Is there a solution?

no solution, Haas chassis uses all 3 carbon textures, which do not exist on all cars

TimeOut73 · Jan 11, 2018

When I try to open williams.erp, haas.erp or force_india.erp in 3DSimED I always get this error:

What can I do?

filipos6 · Jan 11, 2018

KeisariKine said:
no solution, Haas chassis uses all 3 carbon textures, which do not exist on all cars

Damn Codies... thanks anyway

KeisariKine · Jan 11, 2018

filipos6 said:
Damn Codies... thanks anyway

if you really want to you can trick around with mat bindings to make it work but then it won't have numbers (I do know one trick that could be used for that but until a few things with it are fixed I can't share)