F1 2017 Modding Questions Thread

Soaker · Mar 31, 2018

How do we change the "note" finally the ability of a driver to drive well or the power of the car?

joe fane · Apr 1, 2018

probably a stupid question, but can we put a fantasy helmet onto an actual driver, for example i have the jaguar replacing toro rosso mod but dont want the drivers to have red bull helmets? also so i can put myself on the grid with my own helmet

Molda22 · Apr 1, 2018

So i have been testing with livery finishes on the cars (applying matte, chrome, sparkle, metallic finish on car via paint-sfc almost like for helmets) and weird results so far that i don't understand.
For example almost every effect works great on renault. But on ferrari none of them works. i was using the same files and same procedure, so it should work, but it doesnt. Does somebody know why the different paint effects work only on some cars and on some not at all? thanks

joe fane · Apr 2, 2018

any way of changing car performance and the pecking order of the grid?

AllenB2609 · Apr 2, 2018

can someone make me a 2017 Haas car with White frontwing instead of black frontwing?

KingPanda · Apr 2, 2018

Is it possible to change the pit order like for example Mercedes, Ferrari, Redbull, McLaren and so on? If so how?

Camacho · Apr 3, 2018

KeisariKine said:
when in photoshop you should have a black background when saving (so no transparency), the transparency comes from the Alpha channel, not the bakcground

Hi Friends.

I don't have Photoshop and my mods are wrong ingame. Bad colours. I have The Gimp and Paint.net. Is it possible to save correctly the dds file with these programs, or do I need Photoshop?

If Photoshop is the only program to make mods, which version of Photoshop do I need?

Thanks in advance for your answers and help.

KeisariKine · Apr 3, 2018

Camacho said:
Hi Friends.

I don't have Photoshop and my mods are wrong ingame. Bad colours. I have The Gimp and Paint.net. Is it possible to save correctly the dds file with these programs, or do I need Photoshop?

If Photoshop is the only program to make mods, which version of Photoshop do I need?

Thanks in advance for your answers and help.

I believe that you need photoshop to get the srgb formats, you might be able to work around using an old version of EEA to import but that causes other issues. I think CS6 and CC would both work, maybe CS5 as well. All you need is the intel DDS plugin for Photoshop, so anything that supports the plugin should work.

BIKER7202 · Apr 3, 2018

I have a question, I saw a video where it was said you could import 2016 cars into 2017, I find the idea intriguing and I’d like to know:
1. If it is actually possible
2. How to do it as I think it’d be fun to mess around with
Thanks in advance

Camacho · Apr 4, 2018

KeisariKine said:
I believe that you need photoshop to get the srgb formats, you might be able to work around using an old version of EEA to import but that causes other issues. I think CS6 and CC would both work, maybe CS5 as well. All you need is the intel DDS plugin for Photoshop, so anything that supports the plugin should work.

Thanks friend.

I'm trying in one friend's Photoshop but I'm still having problems.

I have loaded the dds file I have created in Photoshop, and now I don't know what to do: save as, export to... If I select export option I only can save in png, jpg... not dds. And selecting save as I don't know where is the srgb option.

I have tried several options but the car ingame is still worse than before. The black McLaren color seems ok but the orange zones are now in White.

Please some help Friends.

KeisariKine · Apr 4, 2018

Camacho said:
Thanks friend.

I'm trying in one friend's Photoshop but I'm still having problems.

I have loaded the dds file I have created in Photoshop, and now I don't know what to do: save as, export to... If I select export option I only can save in png, jpg... not dds. And selecting save as I don't know where is the srgb option.

I have tried several options but the car ingame is still worse than before. The black McLaren color seems ok but the orange zones are now in White.

Please some help Friends.

you need to select intel dds in the save as options

Camacho · Apr 4, 2018

KeisariKine said:
you need to select intel dds in the save as options

I have selected this option but the result is bad. I have saved it in bc3 with srgb, but... Something is failing.

KeisariKine · Apr 4, 2018

Camacho said:
I have selected this option but the result is bad. I have saved it in bc3 with srgb, but... Something is failing.

it's the correct format (presuming you are editing decals) but you are then doing the texture wrong

Camacho · Apr 4, 2018

KeisariKine said:
it's the correct format (presuming you are editing decals) but you are then doing the texture wrong

I'm editing only the texture mclaren_decal. Is this the correct texture file? In this texture doesn't appear the orange color.

KeisariKine · Apr 4, 2018

Camacho said:
I'm editing only the texture mclaren_decal. Is this the correct texture file? In this texture doesn't appear the orange color.

you just do the texture wrong, I can't tell much from just you describing it. You either don't save with a black background, you don't have an alpha channel (or both)

Camacho · Apr 4, 2018

KeisariKine said:
you just do the texture wrong, I can't tell much from just you describing it. You either don't save with a black background, you don't have an alpha channel (or both)

I have alpha cannel. I have saved with black background, but then the car is totally black. Very strange for me...

Camacho · Apr 4, 2018

Camacho said:
I have alpha cannel. I have saved with black background, but then the car is totally black. Very strange for me...

I will try to rework the whole texture. One question: Do you work in the texture in dds format or do you edit the texture in tga or png? Which option is better?
Thanks in advance for your answers and help.

Molda22 · Apr 4, 2018

did somebody ever experienced game crashing very often after turn 1 in australia?
it started happening to me recently and very often and even after many hours i wasnt able to locate what is causing that.
Somebody seen this problem too? And if yes what is causing it and how to get rid of it? thanks
(since its not happening every single time but very often, i cannot locate the problem via reverting back to default files and installing tons of mods and changes one after another, not possible.)

Rodolpho Osbourne · Apr 4, 2018

Hey guys!

I'm making changes to improve mclaren's performance in 'career mode'. However, they have no effect.

I am editing the mclaren.erp file through the ego.erp.editor. I export, edit, import and save. But when I test the change, Alonso is still doing worse lap times than Ericson.

How do I make the changes take effect in a carrer that is already in progress? (silverstone)

Camacho · Apr 5, 2018

Camacho said:
I will try to rework the whole texture. One question: Do you work in the texture in dds format or do you edit the texture in tga or png? Which option is better?
Thanks in advance for your answers and help.

Hi Friends.

I have chosen the original McLaren decal texture. I have paste some logos on it, save the texture and the result ingame is bad, with white zones. I have saved it in the correct format. Am I doing something wrong? I work in the dds file directly and I have paste on it png images with transparency, obviously.

When I open in Photoshop the dds file, the program told me about load transparency and load mipmaps. Do I have to choose one of these options? If I choose load transparency, the texture appears with a black background and I want to paste some black logos... and they don't appear in the texture.

Please, some help Friends.