Will a real name and skin pack for Dallara DW12 Indycar be available?

I know it is early, but I am wondering if there is work being done on the real life names and skins?

Love the Indy mod, just brilliant.

Mike

 

Hope so Mike. There are a lot of talented skinners out there. Soramame has a few in the skins thread. Check them out.

 

The car liveries won't mean much without helmets and suits (and gloves) to go along.

 

There's some on here: http://rfactor.net/web/rf2/cars/

 

Great to see it's up now, can't wait to check them once I'm home

 

Let me know if there's a problem, good for me to ask for things while it's fresh.

 

Oh goodness, that (20)14 helmet template will be a nightmare! Any info on us being able to edit gloves?

Edit: I made the visor black (30,30,30) but as you can see the reflection is a weird diffuse. Visor is one of the few things that should be sharp. Also of note is the transparency issue with the air pieces.
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They're supposed to be transparent, no?

Regarding gloves, it's EXTRA0 EXTRA1 EXTRA5 or EXTRA6 and just a 128 x 128 px colored fabric square.

 

Tim, this should change with EXTRAs, 4 of them are not really used, barelly somebody is using those and its taking far to many extras overall that modders could use on other things.

 

Yes but the transparency ingame doesn't translate it too well. It's very obtrusive.

*starts chanting*
New gloves! New gloves! New gloves! And templates! And templates!

 

Hey Tim, just wanted to pass on to you a couple of mapping issues that deform things. In the template I've aligned bits properly but the way it translates into the game highlights something on the left shoulder/back area.

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This image isn't the greatest but look at upper left Marlboro
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I'd be happy to do a skinpack for the 2014 season, I actually started some but I have no idea on how to create new .VEHs.

Do I do that on ModDev? I'd need to load the DW12 there, right? I just can't, because the .MAS is locked.

Any ideas? Tim?

Thanks.

 

Don't create a new .veh, create only .mas packs with the car, driver suit, and helmet textures. That way it will not need to be installed as a separate thing.

 

Yeah, I was trying to avoid it and set the right info for each car. But now I remembered that the cars are already set correctly, just without the right liveries. Will do that!

Anyhow, the question still open, it could be useful for other situations.

 

I think before we have things go crazy with separate skins, we should try to work on a centralized naming system so it's easy to piece everything together (plus the other OCD folks will appreciate). I thought something like:

name#_variant_alt.dds/.mas
or
name_#_variant/track_alt
or
InitialLastname_#_variant #_alt

Example:

Helio3_Base_alt
Helio3_P_alt (P for Pennzoil)
JPM2_Indy_alt

or

Kanaan_Base_alt
Hcliffe_Base_alt

or

GRahal_#_alt
GRahal_#_2_alt

Thoughts?

 

Hey Ales, perhaps you not using all of them would explain why the area for the seams in the gloves are see through in T5 and EGT mods?

 

Tim I have tried changing the veh files and when I try to create the mas, the size is smaller than the main one. Can you help?

 

Has there been any progress here? I've seen the new skins, now I want to permanent replace the AI cars with these skins, and change the names. Seems simple enough...

If I have to make the custom car route (create new direct, change skin, create driver name and team) how do I then go back and permanently delete the old AI car?

Thanks!

jpb

 

It would be great to be able to set the AI to run on custom textures, even the real life name

 

I agree, I would love that.