Grand Prix 4 - First Order Stormtrooper helmet

Star Wars!

Can you tell I'm excited?

Just in case you missed it:

STAR WARS!

In honour of this most fantastic of events, here is a Stormtrooper helmet - one of the new ones - rigged up for Grand Prix 4.

Included are the shapes (*.gp4), one texture (*.tex) ready to go and a bunch of template files to create your own designs.

Full details in the enclosed Readme files, and download link after the pretty pictures.




Download: The Force Awakens - First Order Stormtrooper helmet.

Grand Prix 4 - F1 Graphics Swapper

All of Grand Prix 4's basic graphics options are accessible via the appropriate in-game menu. These options, along with the multitude of advanced settings, are stored in a .cfg style file titled 'F1Graphics.cfg'.

At the very least, most users will have to modify this file for the purpose of changing the game's screen resolution - 'modern' resolutions aren't listed in the in-game options.

Other settings located in this file include clipping distance for cars and scenery, distances over which to display reflections, and finer control over many of the in-game settings.

Owing to today's modern and powerful computer hardware, many users opt to edit this file in such a way that will maximize all settings well beyond what was practical in 2002.

However, many of the mods today feature models and textures that far outweigh the originals in terms of computing power required to display them; there are, for instance, user created helmet models that are composed of more faces than the original cars!

So, while your computer may be able to display the original cars and tracks in all their glory, it might struggle with newer creations.

The solution is simple of course; Have multiple F1Graphics files, and manually swap them depending on which mod you are using.

As someone who had to do this on a regular basis, I got sick of it really quickly.

And so I made F1 Graphics Swapper.

1. Have multiple f1graphics.cfg files in your GP4 directory. (Eg 'High.cfg', 'Normal.cfg' & 'Low.cfg')
2. Run 'F1 Graphics Swapper.exe' from anywhere on your PC.
3. Find your GP4 Installation using the 'GP4 Location...' button.
4. Select the desired .cfg from the combo box. 
5. Press 'Swap!'

Download: F1 Graphics Swapper

More detailed instructions can be found in the enclosed 'README.txt'.

Feel free to host this file anywhere, but please remember to give credit where it is due, and I request that the README be kept in-tact and in-place.

Grand Prix 4 - Torque .cap Maker

The Carset Manager (CSM) component of ZaZ's tools is capable of  patching the GP4.exe at runtime, by inserting files with a .cap extension.

These patches can be anything: Allowing for alternative CSM mod structure, enabling tweaks from GP4Tweaker.........and altering the game's Torque Curve.

Altering the Torque Curve is a relatively simple task, thanks to the Torque Editor by Patrick Cloosterman; However it only allows you to inject this new curve straight back into the .exe - which renders it incompatible with CSM - or to export it as an .ini file.

As of GPxPatch v4.44, my tool is no longer necessary.
GPxPatch can now read the .ini files produced by Patrick's Torque Editor, and I thoroughly suggest doing it that way instead.

Extracting the torque curve from the .exe to a .cap file is a relatively simple process using a HEX Editor, but it is prone to user error.

My 'Torque .cap Maker' solves this.

1) Modify a GP4.exe using the Torque Editor.
2) Open the .cap Maker, and find your newly modified .exe using the 'GP4 EXE' button.
3) Press 'Save Torque .cap file'

Repeat for as many torque curves as you have.

I personally have used this for my current mod, which allows the user to select from four combinations of BHP and rev limits; I needed four different torque curves, one for each of these combinations.

Download: Torque .cap Maker

More detailed instructions - including rehosting information - in the enclosed README.TXT