A Quick Question....

[HarleyRider]

OK, a quick question.

I got a helmet template and painted it and installed it in the GTR 2 game. Works great.
Now, I would like to change my drivers suit to a different color. How is this done in GTR 2? Are there templates? If so, where, and when finished painting the suit how do you put it in the game so it will show up with the car you drive?

Oh well, I guess it wasn't that quick a question, sorry, but any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers!!!

[HarleyRider]

Anyone? Anyone at all? Pleeeeeeease...........

[Biek]

All I know is how to choose from the already available drivers suits, maybe this helps you in any way. This is a copy/paste from my forums:

The thing I was struggling with the most was how to change the drivers suit. The helmet's were a copy/paste action from GTR1 so they needed no changes but I wasn't able to skin the racing overall.

After a lot of puzzling and looking at other Vette's in-game I came to the conclusion that there were a lot of suit colors already in the game and the one place such things are selected is in the .car file, with the GenString code.

We needed that GenString code before with Bas' Vette as I wanted the car to fit the 2004 design instead of the and that was set in the code aswell.

For the Corvette the GenString is 4 digits:

1 Car style (1 for 2003 and 2 for 2004 model)
2 Wheel style (needs Vince Klortho's Corvette New Wheels v1.02 (http://forum.rscnet.org/showpost.php?p=3215151&postcount=4) from this RSC thread (http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=268355) to work)
3 No idea, sorry
4 Drivers suit, see scheme below

This is the scheme you can use to alter the color of your drivers suit and gloves:

Gen. Suit color - gloves - in-car
2 - Blue - black - black
3 - Blue/white - black - black
4 - Green/white - black - black
5 - White - black - black
6 - Red - black - blue
7- Red/white - black - black
8 - White suit - black - blue
9 - White blue - black - black

For reasons beyond what I know there's sometimes a difference between the color of the gloves we see inside the car while driving and the ones you see when looking from the outside in, with the TV cam for example.

Hopefully this helps the other Corvette drivers to choose a nice suit to go with their cars.

[HarleyRider]

Thanks alot Biek. That's a great help and a very good starting point. I also would not know why the gloves would be a different color inside the car than outside. Maybe someone else will get on this thread and explain this to us. Once again, many thanks!

Cheers!!!

[Biek]

No problem. What I also found out is that the add-on Corvette C6R has custom drivers suits so I'll look into it to find out what files they used. That should point to what we need to change to have fully custom suits.

I'll be in touch ... ;)

[HarleyRider]

Biek or anyone else,

This did not work for me using my Maserati. There is only one number in the GenString. Man, I would LOVE to be able to change suits of my driver, even the ones that are already in the game. Right now it's the blue one in my 2004 Maserati and I'm wanting the white one with the black gloves.

If there's anyone else out there that knows how to change the colors of the drivers suit(for the Maserati), in and outside the car, to preferably white with the black gloves, PLEASE let me know. Thanks alot!

Cheers!!!

[Biek]

I just found it, I'm typing it up as we speak. Hold on, it's worth it. ;)

[Biek]

Maserati ... hmmm that's Italian, ain't it? ... Okay, okay. Here's the step by step example. ;)

First of all you need to make a custom driver file. The default formatting of the name of this file is lastname.rcd. So if I were to have Mr. Dan Gurney to be my driver (which would obviously honor me very much ;)), his driver file would be called gurney.rcd.

It would start with the bit below, and the rest of the file can be left alone:

Dan Gurney
{
//Driver Info
Abbreviation=D. Gurney
Nationality=USA

Once finished, save it and place this file into your own car folder.

Now we need to tell GTR2 which driver will be driving the car. This is done in the .car file. So, if we would like Mr. Gurney to drive the number 33 AF Corse Maserati we open the 04033_GT_MC12.car file and edit the bold part:

Number=04033
Team="AF Corse"
PitGroup="AFC"
Driver="Dan Gurney"
Driver1="Dan Gurney"
Driver2="Dan Gurney"
Description="Maserati MC12"
Engine="Maserati V12"
Manufacturer="MASERATI_MC12"

This way GTR2 'knows' Mr. Gurney is going to drive the Maserati (and probably won't believe it's ears, but that's another story LOL).

Next we need to explain GTR2 exactly what Mr. Gurney will wear ... Yes yes, I know you're still listening. ;)

There are three 'magic' files we now first need to paint, save and then give the correct location. Again those three go into your car folder and the naming should be:

DAN GURNEY_ARMS.dds
DAN GURNEY_BODY.dds
DAN GURNEY_HELMET.dds

Easy, huh? We could have come with something like that ourselves, couldn't we? :up:

In the rar file I've attached you'll find all the files you need to understand what I did: the .rcd file, the example .car file and the .dds files.

I hope you'll be able to do what you like now maestro, have fun painting! Should anything come up, just let me know what and we'll figure it out.

[HarleyRider]

WHOA!!!! That's GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again Biek! What a great help. I'm sure this will do it.

I'm sure other painters will want to do this too. Maybe this should be a STICKY.(?)

Once again...THANKS LOADS!!!

Have one on me...

Cheers!!!

[Biek]

Maybe this should be a STICKY.(?)

Well if it works then maybe that would be nice, but please first try it out and let me know if it worked for you Sir.

[HarleyRider]

OK Biek. I'll probably be doing this today(Saturday), or Monday. Sunday is out. The NFL Championship games are on TV so I'll be glued to the set. I will get back to you here or I'll PM you and let you know how they came out.

One more question...When I complete the paint work on the Body and Arm dds files, do I put them in the "Gamedata/Teams" folder along with my helmet, (which is already there and shows up well in the game), Or will I want to put them in my Maserati folder? Thanks...

Cheers!!!

[Biek]

No problem Sir, please try it when it suits you. No rush whatsoever from my side of course. ;)

You save the files in your 'own' Maserati folder. So lets say you made a team called 'Ohio Racing', then the place where you save all the files should be C:\GTR2\GameData\Teams\GT\Maserati MC12 Teams\Ohio Racing\

Good luck Sir.

[nitromater]

All I know is how to choose from the already available drivers suits, maybe this helps you in any way. This is a copy/paste from my forums:

The thing I was struggling with the most was how to change the drivers suit. The helmet's were a copy/paste action from GTR1 so they needed no changes but I wasn't able to skin the racing overall.

After a lot of puzzling and looking at other Vette's in-game I came to the conclusion that there were a lot of suit colors already in the game and the one place such things are selected is in the .car file, with the GenString code.

We needed that GenString code before with Bas' Vette as I wanted the car to fit the 2004 design instead of the and that was set in the code aswell.

For the Corvette the GenString is 4 digits:

1 Car style (1 for 2003 and 2 for 2004 model)
2 Wheel style (needs Vince Klortho's Corvette New Wheels v1.02 (http://forum.rscnet.org/showpost.php?p=3215151&postcount=4) from this RSC thread (http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=268355) to work)
3 No idea, sorry
4 Drivers suit, see scheme below

This is the scheme you can use to alter the color of your drivers suit and gloves:

Gen. Suit color - gloves - in-car
2 - Blue - black - black
3 - Blue/white - black - black
4 - Green/white - black - black
5 - White - black - black
6 - Red - black - blue
7- Red/white - black - black
8 - White suit - black - blue
9 - White blue - black - black

For reasons beyond what I know there's sometimes a difference between the color of the gloves we see inside the car while driving and the ones you see when looking from the outside in, with the TV cam for example.

Hopefully this helps the other Corvette drivers to choose a nice suit to go with their cars.

The last two numbers in the GenString Are the drivers suit (color). Your color list above should be like this:

01 - Black/White
02 - Blue
03 - Blue/White
04 - Green/White
05 - Grey
06 - Red
07 - Red/White
08 - White
09 - White/Blue
10 - Yellow

[HarleyRider]

Appriciate your help ! I've changed my drivers suit in a couple of my cars (i've got 4 cars in the game). What about the Maserati, the GenString only has one number ? How do I change the drivers suit for that car ???
Again, thanks for your help !!!
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Ditto...

I would also like to know how to change the suit for the Maserati car I painted. Like Nitromater mentioned above, there are some cars with just a "1" in the .car GenString line as with the Maserati. How would you add, for example, the red (06) suit to the Maserati so it will show up in the game?

Any help GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers!!!

[Biek]

The last two numbers in the GenString Are the drivers suit (color). Your color list above should be like this:

01 - Black/White
02 - Blue
03 - Blue/White
04 - Green/White
05 - Grey
06 - Red
07 - Red/White
08 - White
09 - White/Blue
10 - Yellow

Duh! How come I didn't think of this. :rolleyes: Thanks for clearing this up.

[HarleyRider]

Editing the last 2 numbers in the GenString will change the suit color on all cars EXCEPT the Mazerati. The only way you can change the suit color for this car is to go into both of it's ".cas" files and change the lines under the DRIVER section. The first line is for the internal driver and the next four are for the pit crew. You will see where to change the number. The default one is 02(the blue suit). So, to change the suit color, change this 02 number to one of the other numbers listed in the above post.

However, keep this in mind. By doing it this way you also change ALL of the Mazerati driver and pit crews to this color.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

Cheers!!!

(Hi Nitro and Biek...)

[Biek]

Great research maestro, this will go into my archives :-)

Thanks for the heads-up.

[landmotorsport]

Has anybody a clue how to do this with colvin's 997 RSR