If you use Microsoft Defender (Windows' default antivirus), add an exclusion for 7z file extensions while you download and install this, then put it back the way it was. Defender truly has jumped the shark.
The download now installs a separate track layout, which is used to activate the skin changes handled by CSP. No hand-edits required to the original
ext_config.ini file, and the whole thing is now capable of being drag-and-drop installed via Content Manager.
To run this skin:
- Install everything from the download
- Enable the 'Early 1960s extension" track layout
- Enable the "Early 1960s" skin
- Optionally, enable the "Early 1960s Line Paint" to keep the track limits visible.
The track layout It is identical to the originally track's 1954-72 international no-chicane; it just enables the CSP changes needed by the skin, plus some load-in pictures. I've baked a reminder about enabling the skin in the track layout preview image; if that bothers you, there is an alternative/plain
preview.png file without the reminder in the
ui\skinned-60s\ directory you can use to replace it.
Other changes from version 1 to 2:
- Reduced the number of possible aircraft to 2 hot air balloons and a blimp, reskinned
- Improvements to night lighting / emissives. No more mysterious bright patches where the portable lights used to be, grandstands are under-lit, some sponsorship now illuminated etc
- Revised the wood texture on the "armco", apex markers and grandstands
- Fixed some z-fighting between Dunlop/BP signage on grandstands
- Period paint on the spectator parked cars (they're still modern cars, so please squint and imagine Land Rovers and Morris Minors), dialled back the Pirelli festival on shipping containers etc
- Orange fence / wall boards replaced with chevrons or plain plastic
- Colours on some tents
- Repainted marshal posts (sadly the catch fences can't be removed without breaking other things, oh how I tried) and the building at the pit exit
- Removed security cameras and their support poles, some remnants of electronic flags etc
Please let me know if I missed anything.