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

 

[Andrew C. Clegg]

Thanks for all these. Very much appreciated.

 

[Maxell]

I just tested new wipers animation. They look great but IMO they have to be in 60 FPS, right now it's a bit off-putting. I don't know if it's possible to achieve tho.

 

[GTR233]

no not possible on my pc : random ctd at 30fps so 60fps is unreachable. I have tested many combos during 2 months before release and 20fps is the best to be compatible with most PCs without big performance hit.
There is a subtility in gtr2 : game fps and rain animation fps are not synchronized ! To see smooth wiper animation at 20 fps (cinema is 24fps) you need at least 60fps in game so check with CTRL+F to show game fps. Indeed, if you have 30fps in game then wiper animation won't be 20fps but hugely reduced automatically like 5-10 fps in order to save resources. So the best test is to run a single car on track alone first.
I know ArmedLightning proposed 60fps in his mod but this is a tiny pattern repeated 30 times so far less impacting resources than a single huge image which covers ALL windows (side+front) as I did.

 

[Maxell]

Ah ok, fair enough

 

[GTR233]

fixed another 14 years old bug : mosler chassis2b (medium/low graphics) showed stretched map, now it is over

 

[GTR233]

I have heavily reworked lighting and cube maps with more 4k clouds, higher contrast, deeper black and enhanced colors. I precise that no plugin is used on screenshot so no reshade/sweetfx/enb but only good old GTR2 engine.
Will be available in next HQ ANNIVERSARY PATCH 15.2.0 in march so stay tuned to RaceDepartment...

 

[Durge Driven]

Will be available in next HQ ANNIVERSARY PATCH 15.2.0 ...

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[mikeae1]

Thank you GTR233 (Paul)
really fantastic your support, nowadays i am cant run GTR2 "playable" (Hardware) but what i see looks really nice (new 32bit night sky textures ...... etc.....etc)
New lightning and cubemaps - no reshade/sweetfx/enb - will be interest.

 

[Maxell]

I have heavily reworked lighting and cube maps with more 4k clouds, higher contrast, deeper black and enhanced colors. I precise that no plugin is used on screenshot so no reshade/sweetfx/enb but only good old GTR2 engine.
Will be available in next HQ ANNIVERSARY PATCH 15.2.0 in march so stay tuned to RaceDepartment...

Isn't that a bit too shiny for a racecar?

 

[mikeae1]

Best will be - try it out - IMO- If you dont like it, use other cupemaps

 

[GTR233]

There will be 4 levels available : low, normal, shiny, ultra shiny (lambo screenshot is ultra shiny example to really see clouds over car body).
Moreover there will be 2 areas : forest (quite similar to what you can see in 15.1) + new desert (no trees) so all in all you will have the choice of 8 new sets of cube maps

Race cars are shiny : look at the nice videos uploaded by @MJQT :
https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/thinking-about-making-a-gtr2-sound-mod.198995/unread
mc12 is super shiny

Today I have fixed other 14 years old bugs in lambo chassis (lots of 3d updates) : by default rear grill below rear lights are shiny which is not normal so it is fixed now. Moreover, there is a black polygon in front of headlights in 3dsimed (It's weird because we don't really see it in game...but it bothered me lol) and it is fixed too

 

[roby13]

That polygon is probably a forgotten leftover, but I'd check if it has any material settings just to make sure it isn't there to load those into memory

 

[Zipdrive]

Moreover, there is a black polygon in front of headlights in 3dsimed (It's weird because we don't really see it in game...but it bothered me lol) and it is fixed too

That's the backside of the front inner fender/wheel well Paul. In 3DSimed it's visible until you change the display option for the Polygon's face (None, Back Face, Front Face).

In game it's not visible because they are one sided Polygons with the visible face being the one that's facing the inside of the fender well. Deleting these "black polys" will create a hole in the car when in game because the cars body is also one sided polygons with the visible faces facing outward, which is why the cars have these basic black inner fenders.

FYI, before deleting any polys from the mesh always switch from None to the Back Face option in 3DSimed to see whats going to be visible in the game.

 

[GTR233]

No anniversary patch update next month...but something else is coming in april

 

[mikeae1]

Very nice Paul, i miss since 2005 the rpm in the motec, is this possible ?
If i remember correct - in AMS1 any motecs include the rpm for in digits.

 

[GTR233]

Some cars have it but not others : hit space bar (depends on if you mapped another key) and you can display 4 pages :
- laptime in qualif/practice or laps in race
- oil/water temps and engine RPM
- tyres temperatures
- brakes temperatures

Benetton, ferrari, sauber...well half cars will have it but not the other half : ligier, simtek, lotus...

 

[GTR233]

Just finished to optimize tyres in all conditions, car mod and tracks pack are ready for upload this week end

 

[mikeae1]

Thanks GTR233 for the 4 pages with the space bar.
This is direct a button on my G25.
Different Wheather Conditions in the Race, and to see the tyre-compounds, try-slick, intermediate, wet will be very interesting,
best greetings - and thanks for all your work

 

[GTR233]

Today I have fixed another 15 years old bug : enabled ferrari 360 endurance lights on Cirtek #72 : will be available in next Anniversary Patch 15.3

PS: each month I have messages or bad rating from NOOBS who say that they still have grey cars... look the screenshot, ferr/porsch are not grey with Anniversary Patch if you READ ENTIRELY and FOLLOW STEPS in install.txt within archive.
YOU MUST OVERWRITE ALL FILES+FOLDERS (not only GameData but ALL) AND RUN GTR2_SETUP.CMD TO SET OPTIONS LIKE CREWCHIEF COMPATIBILITY.

 

[smasha]

Ignore.