STCC 2015

[AndreasFSC]

This is what I have made so far. The TTA (s60) bodyshell is just a placeholder:

 

[Dave R]

Looking fantastic. Thanks so much.

 

[jsmee]

Amazing! About time we had some new touring car models!
Hope you can do NGTC sometime soon

 

[H34d5h07]

WOW, this is awesome! I would not hesitate to install R07/STCC again, just to drive these cars!

//EDIT

Wait, what?... Prince Carl Philip on pole? LOL!

 

[AndreasFSC]

Reversed grid maybe?

 

[Dave R]

With R3E releasing WTCC14 and these coming out soon, I'm getting ready to be in Touring Car Heaven. Thanks AndreasFSC

 

[sKeno]

would be cool if we could have WTCC 2014/15 for Race07 as well one day. but i'm happy what we get, STCC 2015 looks great.

 

[AndreasFSC]

All car models are in game, but there is much work left:

 

[H34d5h07]

Absolutely incredible! Can't wait til' I crash them on the Eco Drive Arena track

 

[Björn]

would be cool if we could have WTCC 2014/15 for Race07 as well one day. but i'm happy what we get, STCC 2015 looks great.

WTCC14 is available as a mod somewhere, though I'm unsure about the quality as I haven't tried it. Also, it might be/very likely is an illegal conversion, so I shall not link it

 

[Dave R]

The WTCC 14 Mod I could never get to work Bjorn. It would crash every time I tried to start a race. There is an excellent BTCC 2013 mod floating around thats quite good for R07.

 

[AndreasFSC]

The cars are starting to look ok now. Some sponsors and livery details are still missing. I have added a temporary interior to use untill I have made a new one. The physics are tricky, because I don't know how to set up a Solution F STCC car. There are some basic information available such as HP and wheel dimensions, but nothing about springs, dampers, toe, camber, caster, gears and downforce. I guess the STCC cars are quite alike the WTCC extreme cars, so I use them as a base. I guess I will release a beta version soon, so the pack can be raced during the STCC '15 season.

 

[Sven Hielscher]

Would love to see a first release and really looking forward to this!
Race07 will never die!

 

[Sven Hielscher]

Posting my observations here, hopefully this is OK (cause there is the second thread in the mods section).

So first thing I noticed was that the tires seem to small and stick in the ground. I looked at the tire definition and changed EVERYTHING and nothing worked. In the end I found the problem is the non-unique filename! I guess Race07 finds the other definition file in a parent directory and therefore skips the file in the mod's folder.
Solution: Naming the tire definition "TTA_RWD.tyr" is unique and worked very well Radius of 0.360 looked good but maybe a slightly higher value would be better

Then I watched some racing action from TV cam and found the cars do look like they have a much too big ride high. So I reduced it by altering the graphical offset to: "GraphicalOffset=(0.0, -0.025, 0.0)"
This looks pretty good but maybe -0.02 could be better to avoid clipping of the wheels through the body shell.

Last but not least some general wishes or observations:

• rear diffuser looks a bit too thin and could be just a little thicker, though this could just be a optical thing because compared to real pictures there no much difference (guess the subshadow is a bit too bright)
• texture quality is very low, especially the grills and mesh could be in a much higher resolution
• higher poly count at least on some important parts like head-/rearlights and door handles

This should be enough for the moment. But I don't want to leave you alone with just critics and comments! Please find a rendered static shadowmap for the KIA at the following link. Add this to your template with "multiply" (maybe two layers for the shadowmap to increase its influence). As this layer has an alpha channel you could use it to add a general mask to your template
http://abload.de/img/kia_shading_fullrende03zlj.png

Cheers,
Sven

PS: If the shadowmap works well for you, I could do the other cars and the rim too

 

[AndreasFSC]

The next preview version will be out soon. It is an update to the graphics mainly. In the final version I'll try to update the physics also, but there isn't much information to use

 

[Dave R]

Looks amazing Andreas!!

 

[ajokay]

Does this mod work online? I have no other car mods installed on my server or my machine, but the only non-unknown car coming up in the server list is the Saab