F1 2017 Modding Questions Thread

[MaxPovesmo]

Tutorial for Shark fin numbers

Hi! How do you changed the model of the helmet in the game? Please tell me!

 

[rendgineer]

For anybody who need's help importing or exporting livery, decals here is a tutorial

livery, decals aren't displayed

 

[KingScania]

I have a stupid question i think. lel.
I followed the shark fin tutorial closely, step by step, but my car turns invisible. I did the Renault one, and when i went into the game, my car was gone, it was just my driver and four tires

 

[Deleted member 244321]

I have a stupid question i think. lel.
I followed the shark fin tutorial closely, step by step, but my car turns invisible. I did the Renault one, and when i went into the game, my car was gone, it was just my driver and four tires

Is because you haven't exported the dds as dxt5

 

[Molda22]

Please how can you make a glossy/shiny custom helmet? I can make my own custom helmets (thanks to tutorial from Kris) but the helmets are always matte. I've seen lot of helmets here, that have glossy look. (and i dont mean some photoshop effect, it is in-game thing) Can someone help? thanks

 

[Bruce Banner]

COM 6 ( the one that Kris uses in the vid ) is pretty shiny . It shines in my game anyway with a black Haas helmet installed . Are you sure it's not your graphic settings in game ?

 

[peterthelemon]

Does anyone know if it would be possible to port the German GP track to F1 2017? I was thinking that an existing track could be overwritten with the German GP files.

 

[Molda22]

COM 6 ( the one that Kris uses in the vid ) is pretty shiny . It shines in my game anyway with a black Haas helmet installed . Are you sure it's not your graphic settings in game ?

I have almost all graphic settings very high or maxed. And the original helmets from F1 drivers that are supposed to be glossy and shiny, they are. But my custom helmets are not. Look at this comparison:
look at the big difference of my matte helmet which is not shiny at all:
http://www.imagehosting.cz/?v=f120170809.jpg

And now look at this example of one of the racedepartment helmet mods with very nice shiny look. lot of real drivers have this kind of glossy shiny coloured helmets:
http://www.racedepartment.com/attachments/2-jpg.216488/
http://www.racedepartment.com/attachments/2-jpg.216488/
So how can you achieve this shiny/glossy/metallic effect? The texture of the gold looking helmet above is simple (yellow) color, so it is something in-game and not any photoshop effect

 

[Bruce Banner]

Oh I didnt think you meant quite that shiny . Better to ask Kris I think with that one .

Also a question from myself for anyone which Ive already asked but noones helped , how do I edit the individual slices of a texarray file in either Photoshop , Paint.Net or GIMP ? I have seen files on here such as this ( http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/f1-2017-garage-driving-status-icons-to-words-mod.142049 ) that have modified texarray files . So how do you edit the individual elements of the texarray file ? Ive tried looking on google , Ive tried opening them in all 3 of the above softwares but cant get anywhere . A lot of textures in this game are tucked away in texarray files so it would help greatly if someone could let me know how to access them please . Some people obviously know hence the download I linked to , so can someone help me please .

 

[Andrew King]

I have almost all graphic settings very high or maxed. And the original helmets from F1 drivers that are supposed to be glossy and shiny, they are. But my custom helmets are not. Look at this comparison:
look at the big difference of my matte helmet which is not shiny at all:
http://www.imagehosting.cz/?v=f120170809.jpg

And now look at this example of one of the racedepartment helmet mods with very nice shiny look. lot of real drivers have this kind of glossy shiny coloured helmets:
http://www.racedepartment.com/attachments/2-jpg.216488/
So how can you achieve this shiny/glossy/metallic effect? The texture of the gold looking helmet above is simple (yellow) color, so it is something in-game and not any photoshop effect

I have the opposite problem, I made a renault helmet and in photoshop looks pretty good because its not shiny but in game looks pretty bad because it is glossy so is there any way to get it to look a little more like matte?

 

[Christiceman]

i dont have photoshop, any other program that can be used to mod the f1 2017 cars or a way to get photoshop, money tight so buying unfortunately isnt a option

 

[Kris]

Hey guy's so for the helmets, if you wan't shine, sparkle matte etc it's to do with the sfc files. Last year a modder made this http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/helmet-finishes.12073/ for 2016.You can try these and see what works I haven't yet but I sue the matte so It should work for what you want

 

[TheSevi]

Hi, which is the better version of EGO ERP Archiver for F1 2017? I use 5.2 but i have problems (the game locked after some seconds).
By last, how i can export models of cars? Example: Put mercedes chassis on Renault.

Thanks!

 

[KeisariKine]

Hi, which is the better version of EGO ERP Archiver for F1 2017? I use 5.2 but i have problems (the game locked after some seconds).
By last, how i can export models of cars? Example: Put mercedes chassis on Renault.

Thanks!

5.2 works fine if you use the intel DDS plugin for saving so you can save in the srgb version of th eformat if needed (like helmets are DXT1 srgb).

The chassis switch is the same as it was last year so just go to the pkg files export the carmodel.layer.json (or something like that) of both the car you are editing and the chassis you are using, then copy the line for model : "..." from the chassis you want (say Mercedes) and paste it over the matching line in the Renault version of the carmodel json file. There's a detailed tutorial for it in the F1 2016 forum if you need it, same principle.

 

[rendgineer]

what EGO ERP Archiver version is necessary to open livery and decals?

 

[filipos6]

Can you play invitational events if you mod the skins?

 

[Andrew King]

Hey guy's so for the helmets, if you wan't shine, sparkle matte etc it's to do with the sfc files. Last year a modder made this http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/helmet-finishes.12073/ for 2016.You can try these and see what works I haven't yet but I sue the matte so It should work for what you want

worked! ty so much ily

 

[tigurce]

Anyone knows how decrease fuel consommation ?

 

[ParkYongLee]

Anyone knows how decrease fuel consommation ?

If you want to try yourself, check the TEAM.vtf (xml) files in the
F1 2017\asset_groups\f1_2017_vehicle_package\teams\TEAM\wep\TEAM.erp and try messing around with FuelBurnScale values. I haven't done that but after a quick view (also at the upgrades) I thought it could be useful.

 

[45telliTim]

Anyone knows how to change flags, i want to change drivers but i want the flags to be right also