Ok, I have done it.
For now for myself only. Didn't yet ask for permition but I have planed to.
And that's a must cause now I have some crazy idea of publishing it.
But... guess like in all similar matters I run into a few ...troubles.
But before I begin, the million dollar question - yes, the mod is a perfectlly driveable.
That's may be the most interesting to you. I run many laps on Cleveland airport track, in practice and the race mod.
But eh, enough with good news... let's talk about the problems now....
I'll name them first, then I'll explain each in details.
1 - Not being stand alone mod.
2 - Not able to use all of the (alternate) skins and not be able to use them PROPERLY!
3 - Only high downforce car models appear. Ok for short ovals but not so for speedways.
4 - And, at last but not the least... physic. Cars behave not so great/realitic. But that's got nothing with this conversion but with the mod itself.
1) First of all... not being stand alone. That's not major problem, many other mods are not stand alone - namely the one indycar IZOD mod that I have (I think it's 2012 or 2013) is only available if you go to "all cars" page. Also, one of the most popular mods around here FIA GT3 2010 mod is the same. Plus... that's the problem I can figure it out by myself. Hopefully.
2) Skins then....
Well, how do I put this.... Reiza is weird about this, don't know if you've notice this but... if there's many cars into one team then the last one, the one on the bottom, you just can't select !?? You can't click on them, simply put. Kinky stuff, yeah. It may seems irrelevant but, trust me, it isn't. You can see that car is there but is beyond your reach. OR is it just me? But doubt that.
Also, it's not like in rFactor, you can't really choose AI cars to which skin/paint they willl use, so more likely than not, you'll end up with two, say, Mauricio Gugelmin. And none of the Robby Gordon. Asuming that you stick with realistic numbers of cars on track. And I personally don't think it's amusing - having two same drivers in different liveries and regular season driver being kick out, to respect numbers of ai slots. You?
Yup, didn't think you do.
I don't know is there any (reasonable) solution for this. I doubt. I saw that mod Formula Nippon (2010 I think), to name one, has the same problem. Cars are ok but all the extra skins (they are into every car new folder named "skins" just won't show up.
In this mod (CART 94/95) they do, but like I said... they are considered as separate cars and you'll end up with really weird looking grid.
The solution, for now at least, is - that you (or I, before publishing) delete some less important skins and, for each car, use only one. Problem would disappear. But stil.... it's a shame you know... :-/ since, they have done all these skins. This is from original read me "I would say that the 95 season is 99,9% completed. We have a total of 55 different drivers with about 180+ skin variations". Really... shame.
3) Ok, that was long. :-P The next one...
Only Road/street/short ovals cars model show up.
There won't be much talking here. I don't know, for now at least, why this happends. And, I know, it's really not realistic to see road configured cars on ....Indy, say.
On second thought, I realise now that I only "test" this problem in spinner/showroom, maybe, just maybe... the appropriate model will show up once you enter some speedway track. Ok, let's put this problem on hold... untill some more testing is done. Can't test it right now, sadly, I'm at work)
Maybe it's not properly configured "Trackconfig.ini". Like I said... I'll investigate some more, sorry.
4) Fourth problem ...well ...perhaps isn't the real problem after all. I know, you'll say - why then making it for youself, it's not like you don't have any other. Yes, I do but this one really bothers me. Physic for this mod is different compared to, imho, most of the other mods. Compared to recently published CART Extreme these cars are not so joyful to drive. Don't know, once again, is it just me but... car behaviour... as you exiting the curve, step on the throttle ...is not so amusing. And realistic I would add. Car start to go to some... slow spin... or whatever would be the right name for it. If you have played this mod mod for rFactor - then you'll know what I'm talking about.
I have and it acts the very same in both games. Amazingly, I played this same mod converted for Race 07 game and... well... although cars are handful to drive that "slow spin" is not so notable.
And yes, I did try all the options - TC off, on one notch, two, three, stability on, off, wheel help on, off, you name it ...I did. Car just won't feel.... alive. And like it have some hidden TC. :-S
So, after such a big intro, my question would be - is there someone that knows what needs to be changed / tweaked to make cars behave more realistic/easier to drive/more CART Extreme like ? :-/
I hope you read... at least most of it and hope that there's some one who could help me to publish one of the better mods for this great game.
shnala aka gamer19
For now for myself only. Didn't yet ask for permition but I have planed to.
And that's a must cause now I have some crazy idea of publishing it.
But... guess like in all similar matters I run into a few ...troubles.
But before I begin, the million dollar question - yes, the mod is a perfectlly driveable.
That's may be the most interesting to you. I run many laps on Cleveland airport track, in practice and the race mod.
But eh, enough with good news... let's talk about the problems now....
I'll name them first, then I'll explain each in details.
1 - Not being stand alone mod.
2 - Not able to use all of the (alternate) skins and not be able to use them PROPERLY!
3 - Only high downforce car models appear. Ok for short ovals but not so for speedways.
4 - And, at last but not the least... physic. Cars behave not so great/realitic. But that's got nothing with this conversion but with the mod itself.
1) First of all... not being stand alone. That's not major problem, many other mods are not stand alone - namely the one indycar IZOD mod that I have (I think it's 2012 or 2013) is only available if you go to "all cars" page. Also, one of the most popular mods around here FIA GT3 2010 mod is the same. Plus... that's the problem I can figure it out by myself. Hopefully.
2) Skins then....
Well, how do I put this.... Reiza is weird about this, don't know if you've notice this but... if there's many cars into one team then the last one, the one on the bottom, you just can't select !?? You can't click on them, simply put. Kinky stuff, yeah. It may seems irrelevant but, trust me, it isn't. You can see that car is there but is beyond your reach. OR is it just me? But doubt that.
Also, it's not like in rFactor, you can't really choose AI cars to which skin/paint they willl use, so more likely than not, you'll end up with two, say, Mauricio Gugelmin. And none of the Robby Gordon. Asuming that you stick with realistic numbers of cars on track. And I personally don't think it's amusing - having two same drivers in different liveries and regular season driver being kick out, to respect numbers of ai slots. You?
Yup, didn't think you do.
I don't know is there any (reasonable) solution for this. I doubt. I saw that mod Formula Nippon (2010 I think), to name one, has the same problem. Cars are ok but all the extra skins (they are into every car new folder named "skins" just won't show up.
In this mod (CART 94/95) they do, but like I said... they are considered as separate cars and you'll end up with really weird looking grid.
The solution, for now at least, is - that you (or I, before publishing) delete some less important skins and, for each car, use only one. Problem would disappear. But stil.... it's a shame you know... :-/ since, they have done all these skins. This is from original read me "I would say that the 95 season is 99,9% completed. We have a total of 55 different drivers with about 180+ skin variations". Really... shame.
3) Ok, that was long. :-P The next one...
Only Road/street/short ovals cars model show up.
There won't be much talking here. I don't know, for now at least, why this happends. And, I know, it's really not realistic to see road configured cars on ....Indy, say.
On second thought, I realise now that I only "test" this problem in spinner/showroom, maybe, just maybe... the appropriate model will show up once you enter some speedway track. Ok, let's put this problem on hold... untill some more testing is done. Can't test it right now, sadly, I'm at work)
Maybe it's not properly configured "Trackconfig.ini". Like I said... I'll investigate some more, sorry.
4) Fourth problem ...well ...perhaps isn't the real problem after all. I know, you'll say - why then making it for youself, it's not like you don't have any other.
Yes, I do but this one really bothers me. Physic for this mod is different compared to, imho, most of the other mods. Compared to recently published CART Extreme these cars are not so joyful to drive. Don't know, once again, is it just me but... car behaviour... as you exiting the curve, step on the throttle ...is not so amusing. And realistic I would add. Car start to go to some... slow spin... or whatever would be the right name for it. If you have played this mod mod for rFactor - then you'll know what I'm talking about. I have and it acts the very same in both games. Amazingly, I played this same mod converted for Race 07 game and... well... although cars are handful to drive that "slow spin" is not so notable.
And yes, I did try all the options - TC off, on one notch, two, three, stability on, off, wheel help on, off, you name it ...I did. Car just won't feel.... alive. And like it have some hidden TC. :-S
So, after such a big intro, my question would be - is there someone that knows what needs to be changed / tweaked to make cars behave more realistic/easier to drive/more CART Extreme like ? :-/
I hope you read... at least most of it
and hope that there's some one who could help me to publish one of the better mods for this great game. shnala aka gamer19
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