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]

Flickering headlights are still a thing, correct? Any updated workarounds?

which flickering ?
- if you speak about porsche 996rs/rsr then I have made a hotfix 14.4.3 to apply over 14.4.0
- if you speak about general flickering textures then nocd1 has got less flickering than digital nocd2 but you won't be able to run GID, CC or native VR
- if you speak about headlights flickering by night and from cockpit view then yes there is a workaround that I did for HQ tracks : replace the first clipplanes line you find in all your tracks in TRK file with notepad
clipplanes=(0.5,99000)

Moreover, when you run GTR2_SETUP.BAT and you choose a nocd version at page III then you MUST also select at page IV a HQ defviews.cam file (pick fov 60 if you don't know which one to choose) with clipplanes especially modified for the nocd version you have selected in order to reduce a lot of flickering

 

[paokkerkir]

- if you speak about headlights flickering by night and from cockpit view then yes there is a workaround that I did for HQ tracks : replace the first clipplanes line you find in all your tracks in TRK file with notepad
clipplanes=(0.5,99000)

This. It happens on other mod tracks. Thank you, I'll do that.

 

[GTR233]

New ferrari brake calipers are available right now in last HQ Anniversary Patch 14.5.0

 

[paokkerkir]

What is the second clipplanes line in the .trk files reffering to? It is usually much much lower than the first.

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

What is the second clipplanes line in the .trk files reffering to? It is usually much much lower than the first.

Rearview mirrors clip planes

 

[paokkerkir]

Ok thank you!
Do you think there would be a problem if I also edited the second clipplanes to clipplanes=(0.5,99000)?
I'm trying to mass edit my large number of tracks, thats why.

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

Not a problem unless you like low fps
But try on one track.
If you use the Steam version of Gtr2.exe this will not solve the headlight and under car shadows flicker on some tracks anyway.
Try Brno and check if it helps.
Enlarging the far clip plan will drop the fpsy drawing things you will not even see in the distance and can make lite texture flicker that wasn't there before.
But it it works for you than that is good.

 

[GTR233]

Totally reworked driving school mod for PnG3 : 17 different physics are available now for 911iroc, Viper engine into this car is great on nordschleife
I have also enabled ghost/instructor car this time : it is available right now here

Misc - GTR2 HQ Anniversary PATCH part-2

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[GTR233]

We enter the 15th year of GTR2...but I still continue to bring updates
Just started today to add rain/dirt on side windows for a better immersion
Also noticed that one of the 2 corvettes has got safety net, Simbin did it in external view, on right window only though, but nothing in cockpit : it's fixed now 15 years later

 

[Jempy]

Have fun with those side windows .... that's surely a lot of work, Paul, as I suspect you have to separate those side windows from the main one in order to prepare them with rain or/and dirt. ( and of course afterwards put them back at their original place.

NB: I just did it once for a mod and this was the only solution to get the result working fine, as it needs a "Rescale Tex".

 

[tgk1971]

can we use the patch now in vr?

 

[GTR233]

can we use the patch now in vr?

yes 14.5.0 is fully compatible with crew chief and native vr but not by default, I mean just after installing hq anniv. patch you must run GTR2_SETUP.BAT and select RaceRoom binary (answer 2 at page III) then update fov defviews at page IV and PLR at page V (you can rename "PLAYER" by your name)

@Jempy : yes this is it, long work as I have just finished 24h class after 2 days of work...and waste some time with last ViperCC : I was happy on track with dirt and rain effects till I realized this car has no side windows

 

[GTR233]

@The Iron Wolf helped me to fix a major issue in DucFreak GTR2 UI MOD : there was a huge memory leak due to a bootloop which eats your free RAM (1mb every 5 seconds) and you may experienced CTD after long play session because you run out of free memory at some point. I spent 4 days to check the 50 000 lines of gtr2ui.mnu but it was not a waste of time as I noticed many useless entries (leftover from gtr1 or abandoned WIP) so I deeply cleaned UI and now GTR2 UI is much more responsive and It is as fast as original low resolution GTR2 menu...but in HD
Plus I removed background images (only 1 carbon texture for all pages) to get more free memory for the mods/tracks.
Will be soon available in HQ Anniversary Patch v15.0.0

 

[paokkerkir]

50% more fps in the menu or everywhere?

 

[GTR233]

I edited my post to add precision : I meant DucFreak UI is as fast as original GTR2 now that memory leak is fixed and that I removed useless entries which are not displayed on screen but loaded in RAM.

 

[GTR233]

I have captured RaceOn wiper animation then applied it over AL raindrop animation texture at 20fps to keep good framerate. Each frame is in 1024*1024 but raindrop resolution is a bit lower than actual one in HQ Patch v15.0 : indeed, due to wiper animation, I need to use full image and no more a pattern repeated XX times.
It is lot of work because it need lot of texture remap for each car : do you think it worth it ? I have only made m3gtr at the moment so if you want it in next HQ Anniversary Patch then you will have to wait at least 1 month...

 

[Kenny Paton]

I have captured RaceOn wiper animation

First let me say incredible work mate
After 13 years of racing without wipers I'm pretty well used to it, but I'm sure many others will be delighted.
Just imagine the joy of binding a key or button to toggle wipers after all these years.

 

[Bjarne Hansen]

I have captured RaceOn wiper animation

Ups! I forgot to do it as I had promised

Just imagine the joy of binding a key or button to toggle wipers after all these years.

Doubt it will be like that. My guess is it will be part of rain drops on windscreen animation

 

[Kenny Paton]

Ups! I forgot to do it as I had promised


Doubt it will be like that. My guess is it will be part of rain drops on windscreen animation

As I said it's not something I'm concerned about, nowadays I'm a fair weather driver

 

[GTR233]

No kenny there are no key to toggle wipers because it is an automatic animation whenever it rains. I would have preferred to record Pcars rain animation but it requires to make a nude car with windscreen only and to be in front of a plain green wall : modding required...it was easier for me to do that with RaceOn

I have done m3gtr, z3 and c5r today so it will be finished...when it will be finished