SHO PnG Retrofit V5

Power & Glory Historical Immersion Enhancements

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SHO PnG Retrofit is a set of changes to Power & Glory 3.2 to enhance historical immersion. The mod will start by adding in historic versions of tracks and historic championships and grow from there. Any changes that could enhance immersion will be considered.

*Please see "README SHO PnG Retrofit.txt" as it contains helpful details on install/uninstall, tips, questions, known/open issues, testing notes, changes, and development notes. You might be reading this file right now: I've included this note here for easy copy&paste to download descriptions.

Features

- Historic Tracks: Aintree, Brands Hatch, Croft, Crystal Palace, Donington Park, Goodwood, Ingliston, Mallory Park, Nurburgring Nordschleife, Oulton Park, Silverstone, Spa, Snetterton, Thruxton, Zandvoort, and Zolder (period-appropriate whenever possible), and more to come

- Historic Championships: British Saloon Car Championship (BSCC) Group 2 1961-1965, 1966-1969 Group 5, 1971-1973 Group 2, 1974-1979 Group 1B, European Touring Car Championship Group 2 1963, and more championships and years to come

- Historic Focus: Modern-era content removed from GTR2 to enhance immersion (Optional)

Goals

- Historic Immersion: Historic period-appropriate tracks, championships, and 24H races

- Historic Enhancements: Include any enhancements that will bring historic immersion value to Power & Glory. This might include cars, tracks, bug fixes, etc.

- Historic Focus: Remove remaining modern era content such as original GTR2 tracks, cars, talent, championships, and 24H races. This is optional, however.

Latest Release Notes

See Release Notes section for older versions.

Version 5 (2022-09-19..2022-10-20)

Highlights:

• [Tracks] New added tracks:
  • Donington Park 1990s Grand Prix and National Layouts (Donington 90s v1_0 by GTP_Furinkazen.7z)
  • Ingliston 1987 (Ingliston_PnG_V1_0.7z by Zwiss/derDumeklemmer)
• [Championships] New and updated championships:
  • Completed BSCC 1960s: 1963-1965 Group 2, 1966-1969 Group 5
  • Completed BSCC 1970s: 1971-1973 Group 2, 1974-1979 Group 1B
  • Added in new races for rounds with multiple heats where applicable

Action Required:

• [Action Required*] Delete or rename GameData\Locations\90sDonington\ files: 90DG_LOD.jpg, 90DG_LOD_2.jpg
• [Action Required*] Delete or rename GameData\Locations\90sCroft\ files: 90CR_LOD.jpg, 90CR_lod_2.jpg

*Not required if new install or uninstalling/installing using a tool like JSGME/OVGME

Full Release Notes:

• [Action Required] Delete or rename GameData\Locations\90sDonington\ files: 90DG_LOD.jpg, 90DG_LOD_2.jpg
• [Action Required] Delete or rename GameData\Locations\90sCroft\ files: 90CR_LOD.jpg, 90CR_lod_2.jpg
• [Tracks] Added Donington Park 1990s Grand Prix and National Layouts (Donington 90s v1_0 by GTP_Furinkazen.7z)
• [Tracks] Added Ingliston 1987 (Ingliston_PnG_V1_0.7z by Zwiss/derDumeklemmer)
• [Championships] Added in new races for rounds with multiple heats where applicable
• [Championships] Completed BSCC 1970s: 1971-1973 Group 2, 1974-1979 Group 1B
• [Championships] Completed BSCC 1960s: 1963-1965 Group 2, 1966-1969 Group 5
• [Championships] Removed non-basic ascii characters from championship files to avoid corrupted display in-game
• [Brands Hatch 1970s] Fixed mis-named LOD file
• [Donington 1990s] Disabled custom loading screen to use default PnG loading screen for aesthetic consistency
• [Croft 1990s] Disabled custom loading screen to use default PnG loading screen for aesthetic consistency
• [Test] [Championships] Test new BSCC 1970s: 1971-1979 (OK)
• [Test] [Championships] Tested new BSCC 1960s: 1963-1969 (OK)
• [Test] New track Ingliston 1987
• [Test] New track Donington Park 1990s

Requirements

- Power& Glory 3.2 (Full download and setup instructions in the Install section)

What is Power & Glory?

"The aim of the Power&Glory mod is to produce the cars included in Simbin's GT Legends as close as we can to the way they were in the 60s and 70s. All cars have new physics and sounds, along with extensive textures and 3D modifications. We have also included some of the extra cars produced for GTL (with the permission of their creators of course)."

Download here: https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/power-glory-for-gtr-2.21450/

What does SHO stand for?

It's the first three letters of my username (Shovas) but also happens to be an acronym used by Ford in the 90s which stood for "Super High Output" so I feel it's a fun and appropriate thing for a sim racing

Hall of Glory

A tribute to the historians of classic championships and the talented authors of magnificently recreated tracks that bring this historic racing mod to life.

Tracks (Alphabetical):

Aintree 1960s by Philrob/Kinnunen
Brands Hatch 1970s (EarlyBrands) by Philrob
Croft 1990s by GTP_Furinkazen
Crystal Palace 1970s by Motorfx/GPLea/derDumeklemmer
Donington 1990s by GTP_Furinkazen
Goodwood 1960s by Motorfx/GPLea/derDumeklemmer
Ingliston 1987 by Zwiss/derDumeklemmer (1987)
Mallory Park 1970 by Philrob/Motorfx
Nürburgring Nordschleife 1975 by Motorfx
Oulton Park 1960s by Philrob/Kinnunen
Silverstone 1975 by Motorfx
Spa 1967 by Zwiss
Spa 1978 by derDumeklemmer
Spa 1988 by derDumeklemmer
Snetterton 1964 by N2LO/Bill Guillaume
Thruxton 1960s by sunalp2/lasercutter
Zandvoort 1967 by derDumeklemmer/DutchDevil
Zolder 1967 by derDumeklemmer

Historians:

Frank de Jong whose British Saloon Car Championship (BSCC) and European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) history at touringcarracing.net provided the details for the BSCC/ETCC championships in this mod.

Thank You

Thank you to the Philrob, Motorfx, Zwiss, derDumeklemmer, GTP_Furinkazen, Lasercutter, and Sunalp2 for their work and permission to use their historic tracks in this mod, (the late) Frank de Jong for his TouringCarRacing.net history, GTR233 for CMD scripts inspiration, the Power & Glory Team for possibly the most epic mod ever, Race Department for forums and downloads, European Endurance Center (EEC) for forums, F1 Classic (F1C) for forums, Trackaholics for forums, Sim Racing Mirror Zone (SRMZ) for forums, eSport-Racing.de for downloads, Festbierbude.de for forums/downloads, Koelschbierbude.de for forums/downloads, SimBin for GTR2, and many others for assistance, input, reference, help, contributions, and inspiration in the making of this mod!

Request

Please contact me if you have any historic tracks that you could send. I have most/all historic tracks from racedepartment.com, esports-racing.de, festbierbude.de, and koelschbierbude.de as of 6/30/22. Contact details below.

I am also particularly looking for decade-appropriate tracks for the British Saloon/Touring Car Championship (BSCC/BTCC) and decade-appropriate tracks for the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC). Please contact me if you have a track, a link, or can make a track or convert an existing track. Contact details below.

BSCC circuits: http://touringcarracing.net/Pages/BSCC.html

ETCC circuits: http://touringcarracing.net/Pages/ETCC.html

Thank you!

Help Wanted

Here are some areas I've noticed could be improved by someone with the right interest and skill-set:

- AI Enhancements: AI are pretty good but lines could be better for P&G AI that aren't used to the new tracks.

- New AI Drivers: Add in era and championship-correct AI drivers

- Add/Update Historic Tracks: Some tracks don't exist, some tracks are the wrong era and could be retrofitted to be era-correct, some tracks exist with one layout but missing another (Ex. EarlyBrands has GP layout but not Indy)

- Enhance Track Graphics: Reduce object pop-in, increase frame rate, improve draw distance for all views including mirrors, replace/improve track-side objects/billboards that might be out-of-era

- Enhance Power & Glory Car Graphics: The graphics are aging a little bit and could use some improvements like sharper textures or higher poly counts.

- Add Championships and 24H Races: Make your favourite championship!

License

See MODS\SHO PnG Retrofit\License.txt for full details.

SHO PnG Retrofit © 2022 by Shovas is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. This license requires that users give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for noncommercial purposes only.

This license does not apply to third party content included and used with permission: Third party content reserve all rights.

View the full license here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

You don't have to ask permission for legitimate uses. You just have to give credit.

I think this provides clarity and is a nice compromise that maintains modding freedom while protecting the people that made them from losing credit to their work and against people who would cut out authors from profit from copying it.

Permissions

See MODS\SHO PnG Retrofit\Permissions.txt for full details on permissions received to use third party content.

Contact

You can reach me, Shovas, on Race Department, European Endurance Center (EEC), F1 Classic, Trackaholics, Sim Racing Mirror Zone, eSport-Racing.de, Festbierbude.de, Koelschbierbude.de, or Altbierbude.de, or @Shovas on Twitter, or my website Selah.ca.