Ferrari 288XX GTO

This is a fictional off-shoot from the mythical Ferrari 288 GTO Evoluzione. It has the Evoluzione powertrain for almost 700BHP, but modern day GT tyres, aero and a sequential gearbox (stick sequential with no autoblipping on downshifts). It fits in a GT1 class speed wise, outperforming GTEs on raw power and weight, and GT3s on aero as well.

Installation:
Extract the ferrari_288xxgto folder from the rar file into your cars folder (in your steam installation at: Steam\SteamApps\common\assettocorsa\content\cars)

Skin template usage:
I've included the exterior skin template as a GIMP source file. The layers should all be there, the UV layout, the Ambient Occlusion to bake if needed, and a hopefully easy to use default metal parts layer if your skin is only supposed to change the bodywork panels.

The skin templates are all available as .psd files here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-uUDGuiZHAELUZkMnpEQV9yZFk/view?usp=sharing

Credits:
* Felipe Vaiano & RallyLegends (physics base work)
* Fonsecker (Sound artist)
* NWRAP-ESP (2D art - some Instrument panel textures)
* Sovers (Driver animations, Tyre textures, lights textures)
* GTOfire (3d Model, programmer art quality shaders/textures, many physics changes from the road car)

Version history:
- version 1.2.5
* New exhaust flames are significantly more flamey
* Upgraded tyres to V7
* Added dash cam
* Fixed driver not having his helmet model hidden anymore.

- version 1.2.1
* Fixed RPM gauge being off by about 250 RPM at the top end of the range.

- version 1.2
* Updated backfire intensity, cheers to GTAce for pointing out it's rather tame nature
* Included SchUPpors 288XX #36 and Thomson #89 liveries with updated previews
* Updated with the new Evoluzione sound WIP by Fonsecker, interior tuned, exterior redone significantly.
* Adjusted powertrain to be a bit smoother like it was before, while still keeping the fixes from the Evo update.

- version 1.1
* Updated powertrain to match it's authentic brother, the Evoluzione, after fixing 2 small errors in there.
* Updated all skin previews to match kunos style better.
* Fixed rossocorsa skin (was accidentally duplicated with rosso competizione)

- version 1.0
* Visual fixes, lights, tyre offset, rear wing material.
* Added some racing skins.
* Raised coast torque.
* Removed downshift protection.
* Removed electronic autoblip. Manually blipping on downshifts is recommended, though not 100% life-or-death essential in most cases.

- beta 1
* first public release
* V5 GT3 tyres
* 700BHP Evoluzione power train
* 288 GTO suspension geometry
* modern day GT style springs/dampers and aero
* WIP sounds by Fonsecker

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GTOfire

I hadn't given it much thought to be honest. I barely spend any time with these cars anymore and so the effort to keep them updated is outgrowing the motivation to do so.

I only updated this one cause of some plans to potentially organize a race with them but upgrading the Evo tires shouldn't be too big of an issue if there's still people interested.

I'll actually wait untill 1.8 and see what v10 brings before I spend time on it, might as well upgrade all the way if possible.

Appreciate the detailed review guys! A good watch and if you have the time I'd love to hear what you think about the more authentic GTO Evoluzione that's out now. Though if so, I'd recommend actually waiting a couple days until the aero-rebalancing update that's coming soon.

Also yes, the dash is flat cause I suck at textures/shaders, and the FFB modifier is quite heavy just as a point of personal preference since I loved it in the McLaren F1 GTR. Finally the low-rev missing power will also get a small change because I'm going to put the adjusted Evo powertrain in this one as well which has just a tiny bit more grunt down below (it was based off real Evo data before but had an error in it)

Cheers!

Glad you liked it :)

The rims are not exactly the same as the 288 GTO, they are modified towards the rims that are on the Evoluzione that sits in the factory museum (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c2huC26OuuU/maxresdefault.jpg). The very center is indeed road-car rather than the way the real ones are fastened. I might change that at some point but no guarantees because right now I've had my fill of spending even more time on these models than the hundreds of hours already in them :p