GTR2 10th Anniversary Patch

[GTR233]

Non exhaustive list of fixes in HQ Cars&Tracks (all these bugs are present in Original GTR2 + Official SimBin patch 1.1) :
- fixed bad engine sound location in some cars
- fixed bad driver/hands/feet positions in some cars
- fixed BMW_MCOUPE_CHASSIS_A.GMT
- fixed MC12 steering wheel in showroom
- fixed Anderstorp/Donington/Dubai/Monza/Enna max vehicles
- fixed Donington pitcrew position
- fixed Oschersleben safety car position which blocked cars pit exit
- fixed Oschersleben invisible start lights box
- fixed AI qualification/race speed huge gap
- fixed Viper Roos Optima wheels style
- fixed GDB championships (skip Qualif.1 to avoid random grid bug)
- fixed BMW M3GTR CPIT03 MASK
- fixed Chrysler Viper Zwann's cockpit
- fixed F575 BODY MASK
- fixed MAGNETTI MT940 SURROUND MASK
- fixed 996 INTERIOR3
- fixed Viper GTS-R rear lights bloom
- fixed F550/F575 steering wheels
- fixed safety car roof lights
- fixed Lamborghini masks
- fixed TVR masks
- fixed dash redlights misalignment (MC12, 993, 996RS-RSR)
- fixed wrong tyres for 993GT2 Proton Competition (Yokohama and not Dunlop)
- fixed 996 RS 03072 Seikel Motor Sport logo on side wing
- fixed 996 RS 03085 JVG exhausts transparency
- fixed 996 R 03061 EMKA GT3 R logo on back
- fixed 996 RS 04105 Emeraude Racing skin and wheels
- fixed Mosler rear lights
- fixed Stack LCD glitch (PRACTICE/WARMUP/RACE were randomly displayed over laptime)
- fixed Gillet shoulders in mirror
- fixed 996GT2BT gearbox
- fixed Seat toledo gearbox
- fixed F360 spin when downshifting from 2nd to 1st gear
- fixed F360 03052/03053 wrong tyres (Pirelli and not Dunlop)
- fixed F550 Wieth wrong tyres (Dunlop and not Pirelli)
- fixed M3GTR cube maps in mirrors
- fixed F575 wrong cube maps on steering wheels
- fixed RSR hood/door misalignment
- fixed TVR rain screen wrong direction (rain falls from top to bottom and not right to left)
- fixed mosler wrong cube maps in cockpit
- fixed 350z cockpit/banner
- fixed 996GT2 chassis style2 black polygon
- fixed tracks black polygons
- fixed shaders
- fixed unfair AI tyre wear in default game where AI can keep tyres longer than player
- fixed crazy damage bug for viper GTS-R
- fixed all brake discs size/position, disc glow and added nice aluminium reflection on every brake disc
- fixed radiator opening reversed values
- fixed Z3/Lotus/C5R/viperCC/F360/F550/lambo/lister/morgan/mosler/GT3Cup-RS/saleen missing wing shadow
- fixed Viper rear shadow bug by night
- fixed TVR rear shadow bug by night
- fixed BMW M/F360/Lambo/Lotus slick tread always ON : now you will see intermediate/hard wet/soft wet tread too
- fixed BMW M3 GTR too dark tread
- fixed wheel ffb clipping for some cars and central dead zone
- fixed Corvette C5R steering wheel position to see oil pressure needle
- fixed Seat toledo steering wheel black polygon
- fixed Viper Roos broken LCD gear indicator and enabled it for all Vipers
- fixed F575 center mirror (image is no more deformed and tiny holes have been removed)
- fixed Murcielago mirrors (removed abnormal cube map reflection)
- fixed MC12 motec bug : removed the black polygon and made the RPM lights work
- fixed F360 cockpit glitches (fixed roof blurry texture, fixed misspelling "IGNITION", fixed "PULL" misalignment)
- fixed F550 Wieth anti-roll bars wrong spec map
- fixed Saleen broken RPM lights
- fixed M3GTR classe to be seen as G2 and not GT
- fixed Vertigo gear display position for better visibility
- fixed corvette black polygon on right door
- fixed lamborghini broken 6th RPM led
- fixed GT3CUP-RS-RSR low fuel led misalignment
- fixed F550 Pi dash fuel/speed misalignment
- fixed broken dash lights (Rev limiter/Shift) in F550 Wieth
- fixed chassis holes in 996 GT2 biturbo
- fixed center mirror in 350z
- fixed Lotus Elise mirrors position and wiper glitch in cockpit
- fixed Morgan broken wheel leds
- fixed P993 GT2 black polygon bug on front chassis
- fixed F550 Wieth deformed mirrors
- fixed Anderstorp weed
- fixed Barcelona bridge reversed textures
- fixed fake gauges in F550 cockpit with real working ones
- fixed broken LEDs on BMW Z3 dash
- fixed C5.R rollcage top front bar which was too low and too big
- fixed headlights flickering and added White/Yellow/Endurance styles
- fixed non working endurance lights for RS#160/RSR#66
- fixed hockenheim speed limiter bug on pit exit
- fixed Barcelona flickering pit walk under rain
- fixed missing ExtDriver-ShiftR_M.LMA/ExtDriver-ShiftL_M.LMA driver animations
- fixed rain bug in TVR cockpit doors
- fixed F360 #72 endurance lights
Plus,
- increased resistance to damages to prevent AI to pit in for small aero damages
- increased driver seat position range (use LEFT or RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON then drag mouse to adjust view)
- removed bump maps from Morgan/ViperCC/350Z cockpits because of cartoon/plastic effect
- removed spa invisible wall in pits
- updated Enna tyres stack with moving ones
- updated 996CUP #123/124 ugly safety net with nicer one from ViperCC
- updated 996 RS with 3 styles : Motec+H gearbox / Motec+Seq gearbox / Stack+H gearbox
- updated all MoTeC/Pi/Stack fonts, display and cube maps, added red zone to Stack and added rev limit to MoTeC
- added 996 GT3 R versions
- added missing brakes/tyres temperatures motec line : now available in ALL cars (cycles show lap time, oil/water/tyres/brakes temperatures)
- added specific Ferrari/Porsche brakes
- added missing #109 Porsche GT3 CUP from 24h Spa 2003 event
- added laptimer to all cars with flags/pit icons
- added missing safety net in #108 C5R cockpit
- added wipers and dirt/rain effects on side windows
- fixed many black polygons on some cars
and many more (as CocaCola I will not give my detailed recipe because of people copying my work but you must know that there are more than 300 patches) during 7 long years of work on this project...


GTR2_SETUP :
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GTR2_SETUP.CMD (double click on CMD file to run it) is a basic DOS-Shell menu I have made and which allows to set 45 pages of options very easily, quickly and flawlessly ; you don't need to ask you where to put files because ALL IS AUTOMATIC, you just need to type a number or letter at each page :
I - language
II - HUD style
III - Corner Marker Arrows
IV - Pit Chief voice
V - movie intro
VI - binary choice
VII - plugin
VIII - FOV defviews
IX - tweaked PLR
X - HEAD movement
XI - Settings.DDB
XII - UI theme
XIII - Music on/off
XIV - GFX shader
XV - nude GTR2
XVI - PnG3 HQ Anniversary Patch
XVII - wiper animation
XVIII - Safety Car skin
XIX - headlights style
XX - backfire effect
XXI - spark effect
XXII - cube maps reflections
XXIII - Lens Flare effect
XXIV - MARBLES
XXV - rain effect
XXVI - HDR skies
XXVII - gravels on tyres
XXVIII - smokes effects
XXIX - driver suits
XXX - GTR2 base cars ON/OFF
XXXI - driving school cars
XXXII - HQ textures for base tracks ON/OFF
XXXIII - HQ textures multi-patch
XXXIV - daylights
XXXV - AUD sound files
XXXVI - SVM files ON/OFF
XXXVII - AI talent RCD files
XXXVIII - AI and physics for HQ game
IXL - tyres for HQ cars
XL - start lights animation
XLI - SpecialFX file
XLII - Stock game files to play ONLINE
XLIII - cheat ON/OFF
XLIV - configure video settings
XLV - options to run GTR2

 

[GTR233]

wiper off, look at the rain all over on windshield without wipe effect and without 2 tones rain

 

[The Iron Wolf]

wiper off, look at the rain all over on windshield without wipe effect and without 2 tones rain

thanks - yes it looks stopped, and it looks nice, just wanted to confirm.

 

[GTR233]

Just to show the amount of work I have made only for these new wipers v16 : templates represent 3,68 Go to create 1Go of final DDS so what you see in HQ Anniversary Patch as final product is only the small visible part of the iceberg
Most of my textures are made of multiple layers : a single dds is the result of the addition of several images. By example :
- main rain animation layer represents several months of work with a mix of 3 layers : reworked simbin raindrops + AL fx raindrops + my own raindrops
- wiper alone is a layer with a light blur movement effect
- when wiper is on you will see 2 different tones rain intensity as the part wiped is lighter : this is another layer with more transparency
- the wipe effect is another layer rendered with a blur rotation effect but to do that I had to manually select the zone with tons of mouse clicks
- dual wipers are made of 2 single wipers so twice as work and it is a bit more complex as sometimes the left part wipes a part of the right so I had to delete the good part : I mean it depends on the way of the movement, sometimes it is left to erase but sometimes it is right so I had to stay focus on what I did to avoid illogical wipe movement
- these layers are superposed so order is important (wiper is outside the window so on bottom of the list, then I had to set the good position for each layer to keep a logical movement of course) and I had to add blur between some layers to smooth things to avoid that your eyes detect the differences between layers
- and of course each dds is a result of a different movement so this process cannot be automated but only by hand (well mouse) image by image 1 after 1.

All in all this is really huge amount of work

 

[GTR233]

just finished to update all wipers gmt hq2003-2005+butch cars+png3 cars. My pc is not really able to maintain 26fps at 2048x2048 with more than 20 cars so there will be 2 sets of wiper resolution selectable via GTR2_SETUP.CMD : 1024x1024 for old pc like mine and 2048x2048 for modern video cards.
Below are 2 screenshots comparison between both resolutions.

 

[GTR233]

7 years of hq anniversary patch and I sill fix bugs at each update : today it is 16 years old Brno black polygon bug (there are lots of these black polygons in original cars and tracks, and all known are fixed in hq ann. patch).

 

[GTR233]

I never use corner markers so I have never made hq icons for this feature but next v16.0 will have an option to pick hq skins (256x256 instead of 128x128) from 10 different styles

 

[Kenny Paton]

Time for that fresh install

 

[I'///MFan]

Hello there, i have recently find this awesome patch and crewchief mod, i am really happy to unite again with my old love PnG and this time with VR! I never tought this would be possible so thank you very much guys to make this happen. Runs really sweet with my system, everyting maxed out and steam ss at 450%. Also super happy to find out that physics in PnG are still top notch and doesen't feel dated even compred to latest sims, they did superb work with this mod back then.

I have one small problem with it however; i installed patch & mods as per cw manual says and everything else works perfectly, but when i choose "updated physics & wipers" from setup.exe, i got no visible wipers from cockpit at clear weather. If i choose rainy weather, wipers are there and works automatically put i can't switch them off. I play PnG cars only. What i have done wrong?

Edit, found the "problem", had forgot to setup the next step in setup.exe

By the way, when playing PnG cars only, what exactly updated physics means? Does it alter the performance of cars or anything like that?

 

[GTR233]

Updated physics are simply physics updated by me to suit my own taste (you will find more GT Legends alike) and it fixes also the bad AI behavior from original PnG mod. Anyway you can switch png physics via setup easily so you can try both and revert to originals when you want

 

[I'///MFan]

Updated physics are simply physics updated by me to suit my own taste (you will find more GT Legends alike). Anyway you can switch png physics via setup easily so you can try both and revert to originals when you want

Okay, thanks for the info. I will test both versions. And thanks again for your great work!

 

[GTR233]

a bit of teasing for next new dynamic clouds with awesome Peter Boese's AC SOL clouds : 2 screenshots by night
I have also updated the moon with a picture taken with my camera this summer.
Will be exclusively available in next HQ Anniversary Patch v16.0 in mid september...

 

[Shovas]

a bit of teasing for next new dynamic clouds with awesome Peter Boese's AC SOL clouds : 2 screenshots by night
I have also updated the moon with a picture taken with my camera this summer.
Will be exclusively available in next HQ Anniversary Patch v16.0 in mid september...

That's wild

 

[GTR233]

Today I have finished the dynamic clouds after 3 months of work, there will be options via GTR2_SETUP to enable 1 layer, 2 layers or disabled for all hq 2003-2005 tracks. I have also reworked 4k skies by increasing colors and hdr effect : combination with Peter Boese wonderful clouds is just outstanding, after 7 long years of work on GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch, for its 16 years anniversary GTR2 has never been so gorgeous, be prepared for the visual shock on September 10 2022

 

[Shovas]

Today I have finished the dynamic clouds after 3 months of work, there will be options via GTR2_SETUP to enable 1 layer, 2 layers or disabled for all hq 2003-2005 tracks. I have also reworked 4k skies by increasing colors and hdr effect : combination with Peter Boese wonderful clouds is just outstanding, after 7 long years of work on GTR2 HQ Anniversary Patch, for its 16 years anniversary GTR2 has never been so gorgeous, be prepared for the visual shock on September 10 2022

EPIC

GTR24EVER

 

[roby13]

This is THE absolute masterpiece!!

 

[GTR233]

How to add GTR233 Dynamic Clouds to any track
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It works for most tracks but some rare tracks will not work or will show low fps.
You just need HQ Anniversary patch v16 installed and to activate my 4k skies via GTR2_SETUP.cmd then go into your GameData\Locations directory then enter any track folder and edit TRK file(s) : add this Instance line just after SKYBOXI Instance :

Instance=PeterBoese-GTR233-dynamic-clouds
{
Moveable=True VisGroups=(38)
MeshFile=PeterBoese-GTR233-dynamic-clouds.gmt CollTarget=False HATTarget=False ShadowReceiver=False
}


In GTR2 video option menu if you set HIGH/FULL TRACK DETAIL then you will see Peter Boese Dynamic Clouds

 

[Flamehead]

Been several years since I've played GTR2 and never installed the anniversary patch. But now I'm intrigued and will reinstall and add this anniversary patch. Can't wait to try it out!

 

[GTR233]

Been several years since I've played GTR2 and never installed the anniversary patch. But now I'm intrigued and will reinstall and add this anniversary patch. Can't wait to try it out!

please skip v15.9 (8 months old) and wait for the 16th anniversary v16.0 on september 10 because this will be a major update : better moving wipers with better hq rain, better 4k skies with dynamic clouds, better hq physics/tyres and a lot more cars/tracks fixes
You must be aware that there are 2 games in anniversary patch : first base game is still there (you can delete it via GTR2_SETUP.CMD though) and not modified (stock simbin v1.1), second is HQ game with all patches and updates. Some textures updates can be shared between both (4K skies, hq rain,...) but the most important are exclusive to HQ version (moving wipers, motec and most patches, dynamic clouds...). There are tons of small bugs and glitches in simbin v1.1 so when I read some people saying they prefer stock game experience I think to myself they certainly not have played GTR2 enough to see all these bugs, it is like press journalists or now youtubers who give a review/notation after only few hours of gameplay.

 

[Flamehead]

please skip v15.9 (8 months old) and wait for the 16th anniversary v16.0 on september 10 because this will be a major update : better moving wipers with better hq rain, better 4k skies with dynamic clouds, better hq physics/tyres and a lot more cars/tracks fixes
You must be aware that there are 2 games in anniversary patch : first base game is still there (you can delete it via GTR2_SETUP.CMD though) and not modified (stock simbin v1.1), second is HQ game with all patches and updates. Some textures updates can be shared between both (4K skies, hq rain,...) but the most important are exclusive to HQ version (moving wipers, motec and most patches, dynamic clouds...). There are tons of small bugs and glitches in simbin v1.1 so when I read some people saying they prefer stock game experience I think to myself they certainly not have played GTR2 enough to see all these bugs, it is like press journalists or now youtubers who give a review/notation after only few hours of gameplay.

Good tips, thank you! For sure, I'll wait until September 10. I suspect I'll end up deleting the base game via GTR2_SETUP.CMD and go strictly with the HQ version.

 

[GTR233]

this week I have updated TVR cockpit because this car has great physics but view is not correct by default with a huge dead angle where you could not see the opponents in that angle view.
Now it is a lot more drivable and will be available next week for 16 years anniversary patch