Stock Car Extreme Mods (merged)

ML2166 · Feb 14, 2012

Hey guys

Okay here are the skins created by me over the last few weeks.

38 in total, 19 Chevrolet and 19 Peugeot.

All completely fictional of course, but I hope you enjoy them.

I have given all the cars different numbers and names from the originals in game, so you should be able to run them alongside the original skins.

Pretty new to the modding aspect on the rfactor platform, and this is my first attempt.

Haven't found a way to have the game read a new RFM file hence the reason for the new numbers and names.

Hope you enjoy them........happy racing fellas!

Chevrolet Part 1

Chevrolet Part 2

Peugeot's

Diego Balzarini · Feb 14, 2016

I don't think I can pay hundreds of dollars for a program( looks like 3dsmax is about 2k Au$)...my job is not in IT. I guess i have to deal with driving crappy old tracks

Just as curiosity, I'm a sort of a quick learner, would it take a long time to learn 3ds max?
You do amazing tracks and I'm sure you know your way around max but I can sense that each upgrade takes a lot of your time @Patrick Giranthon

PATR10T · Feb 14, 2016

all you need is 3dsimed http://www.sim-garage.co.uk and notepad https://notepad-plus-plus.org

you dont need to be a magician to convert stuff

you just need some time and patience

Diego Balzarini · Feb 14, 2016

PATR10T said:
all you need is 3dsimed http://www.sim-garage.co.uk and notepad https://notepad-plus-plus.org

you dont need to be a magician to convert stuff you just need some time and patience

I think notepad comes pretty much with everything ( It hink I found it in my breakast cereals too)

I have plenty of patience and i get very enthusiastic about learning new stuff.
I'll have a look at that link of 3dsimed.
I'm not a computer genius but i can get around,
Thanks for the links

PATR10T · Feb 14, 2016

to start you can use the rf to gsc tool too... there you can easy bring the track into sce and once you have it there working you can start to edit it

Patrick Giranthon · Feb 14, 2016

Concerning the road itself, It can be a long work. The 3D mesh has to be very specific If You want to add bumps according to Reiza standards. 5% of tracks are usable directly In terms of bumps adding. You Have to rework the mesh. And concerning texturing , 2% are usable due to small texture size and strange mapping process. So updating tracks are copy/paste for some parameters, obviously, but also some long (and sometimes boring) specific processes. And most of time you cant do them directly because of the weird things done on the original track. So I definitely dont see a track update as a simple copy/paste process. Repetitive things for sure, but mainly trying to solve problems that should not exist.
I Fully understand what Alex told me one day : "It Is most of time faster to start from zero rather than updating a track".
But I would release 1 track a year I suppose.... Because I am not Alex

Patrick Giranthon · Feb 14, 2016

Diego Balzarini said:
I think notepad comes pretty much with everything ( It hink I found it in my breakast cereals too)
I have plenty of patience and i get very enthusiastic about learning new stuff.
I'll have a look at that link of 3dsimed.
I'm not a computer genius but i can get around,
Thanks for the links

I wish You a very good luck to update anything on tracks with 3dsimed. I mean GSC standards. It Is clearly IMPOSSIBLE.

Patrick Giranthon · Feb 14, 2016

Diego Balzarini said:
I don't think I can pay hundreds of dollars for a program( looks like 3dsmax is about 2k Au$)...my job is not in IT. I guess i have to deal with driving crappy old tracks
Just as curiosity, I'm a sort of a quick learner, would it take a long time to learn 3ds max?

3ds Is not known to be an easy tool unfortunately. But It Is powerful. I had to learn things because of specific processes And also because of many unexpected things done on tracks initially. And I am still learning...

Diego Balzarini · Feb 14, 2016

I downloaded 3dsimed and the only files i can import are aiw and cam.
I have no idea what im doing but i can definitely tell you that copy and paste is easier

PATR10T · Feb 14, 2016

if you want to open just one gmt you can drag and drop them into 3dsimed... use import as objects funktion and select gmt there so you can import more files... if its a already working track ingame you have to decrypt the gmt files first otherwise 3dsimed cant read them...

Diego Balzarini · Feb 14, 2016

gmt didnt' open cos its a working track, bedtime here, I'll have a look tomorrow, thanks for your tips

Diego Balzarini · Feb 15, 2016

Diego Balzarini said:
gmt didnt' open cos its a working track, bedtime here, I'll have a look tomorrow, thanks for your tips

I managed to unpack mas and decrypt gmt. Now i can see the scn. Any link that would help an helpless noob like me.. I just want to add or change textures. If i create textures with gimp what dxt should i use to save dds?
Sorry for being annoying

PATR10T · Feb 15, 2016

what shaders you will use? if you want to use reiza shaders you have to save them as dxt5 with a darker alpha channel... if i remember right gimp isnt the best solution when working with dxt5 and alpha channels, photoshop would be much better there...
if you still want to use the older shaders you can save them as dxt1 but then you have to make a separate specular texture...

to use the reiza shaders you have to create a folder called "hardwareshaders" in your 3dsimed install folder... http://www.mediafire.com/download/f7d259mk1dqwnwe/hardwareshaders.rar i uploaded all the needed shaders, just download and drop the gfx files into your created folder... in 3dsimed you will be able to select shaders starting with rz

best will be if you unpack a reiza track too and learn from it

Diego Balzarini · Feb 15, 2016

Thanks @PATR10T , i think i need to do a lot of reading first because i know very close to nothing about it

alexSchmurtz · Feb 15, 2016

PATR10T is right, it seems Gimp is not handling alpha layers very well… Adobe is giving Photoshop CS2 for free for a couple years now. It is a pretty old version now but it is probably more than sufficient for editing textures. You could also continue using Gimp if you are more comfortable and just use Photoshop to export to dds (with the Nvidia plugin that you also need to download).
It seems difficult to find a link on the Adobe site, try this page:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads
It asks you to make an Adobe account right away tho...

Diego Balzarini · Feb 15, 2016

Thanks @alexSchmurtz i'll do that. I think i try to solve the problem with gimp anyway , because im stubborn.

Gringo · Feb 16, 2016

This is another very good editor. It supports DDS out of the box and handles alpha / transparency in a different way compared to most.

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

EDIT: I should say it is freeware.

Diego Balzarini · Feb 16, 2016

I don't know why I'm still surprised about RD community, everyone is so helpful, Thanks for your help...
Thanks to my stubborness i manage to get the skin right with GIMP, the solution is pretty simple...
1 Flatten the image ( we get rid of trasparency from the psd template)
2 Create layer mask-> alpha channel
3 Change opacity of the layer
4 ready for dds export and Voila' ( I'm not that dumb

)

I did install cs2 and i get an error message when i try to export in dds... I'm planning to solve that one too

alexSchmurtz · Feb 16, 2016

Well I'm learning too! I never used Gimp but saw so many posts of people having issue with alpha layers that I thought Gimp was unable to handle them properly!

Good to know it works; I'll be able to give the right information now.

roby13 · Feb 16, 2016

Diego Balzarini said:
I don't know why I'm still surprised about RD community, everyone is so helpful, Thanks for your help...
Thanks to my stubborness i manage to get the skin right with GIMP, the solution is pretty simple...
1 Flatten the image ( we get rid of trasparency from the psd template)
2 Create layer mask-> alpha channel
3 Change opacity of the layer
4 ready for dds export and Voila' ( I'm not that dumb )

I did install cs2 and i get an error message when i try to export in dds... I'm planning to solve that one too