GRID 2 Modding Questions

[Dan Hawkins]

Hey Guys

Please post any Modding Questions in this thread, do not create individual threads.

GRID2 Team

 

[Leon Charmant]

Feel free to use this thread for any modding requests you have

 

[Leon Charmant]

Post your work-in-progress projects here and discuss it with members of the forum! Make sure to include plenty of pictures for everyone to enjoy

Once you have finalized your WIP projects into a full blown working mod please upload and share it in our state-of-the-art resource manager so our 150,000 members and the rest of the sim racing community can enjoy your fantastic work: http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/resources/

Go modders

 

[Team_MoFF-No2]

I'm just Curious, Because of all this annoying hate towards the missing Cockpit view.

Question: Don't you think it will be possible to create some kind of Cockpit view as a mod for the PC version ?..
It probably demands a very creative thought to do it, but Camera placement and maybe a texture with transparent view to simulate the view out of the window, could do the trick ( like with looking out through a helmet )

I'm just wondering, :o)

Gran Turismo did something similar to the standard cars, and that works fine..

 

[Leon Charmant]

We'd all love that But is there anyone out there willing and capable of producing high-detailed cockpits (including movable parts such as a steering wheel) for a ton of cars? Even then I wouldn't know if it'd be compatible online. Maybe an experienced modder can help us out!

 

[Petar Tasev]

Just got the game. There seems to be textures, and models for the interiors. So maybe if we can get the proper changes done to the cameras.xml file we can enable an interior view.

EDIT: I just did a test. I can confirm interior view works. The textures look awful though.

Edit2:

I think the cockpit view can be improved immensely. The screen you see there was just a quick try, and the reason for the blur is because of the camera settings that I copy/pasted straight from the original grid.

 

[Leon Charmant]

Ryder25 You're a legend, haha!

I'm waiting for the people on the CM forums to go into full rage mode now and say ''butt if codmastr did cockpit already y cant we dirve it''

I'd assume that these low-res cockpit models with low-res textures are in the gamefiles because when the car is displayed in the menu, we can see it through the windows?

There seems to be a blurring effect, though. Maybe to cover up the low-res textures. If, in the enormously awesome case, someone would manage to create a highly detailed version of the cockpit.. I think that creating a moving steering wheel isn't possible?

What do you reckon?

BTW: Suppose, everything would come together and we'd end up with a working and presentable cockpit-view in the future, we'll call it a RaceDepartment exclusive, eh?

 

[Petar Tasev]

I'm sure once everyone gets their hands on the game, they'll be working on making a solid cockpit mod. That's probably the first thing on people's minds in terms of mod. The picture is just for demonstration purposes, but I believe it can be made waaay better.

 

[Leon Charmant]

Question is, will it be compatible online? If it isn't, I personally don't see the point in putting this much effort into creating a cockpit view.

 

[HoiHman]

Great stuff Ryder25,

Is the database editor compatible with Grid2 ??

 

[ML2166]

Great stuff Ryder25,

Is the database editor compatible with Grid2 ??

I think the database appears to be hidden in the .exe file Ryder explained to me.

 

[Alex.Outer]

Anyone knows if there is a way to remove the black bars from replay?

 

[ML2166]

Only have a couple of models to test......but let the fun begin

 

[Leon Charmant]

Legends. All of you modders!

 

[Austin Ogonoski]

No different than GT5's "standard" interiors.

 

[Petar Tasev]

I think the cockpit view can be improved immensely. The screen you see there was just a quick try, and the reason for the blur is because of the camera settings that I copy/pasted straight from the original grid.

 

[ML2166]

Volvo S60 carbon test model.

KTM Red Bull test.

WIP

 

[jytrace]

Just got the game. There seems to be textures, and models for the interiors. So maybe if we can get the proper changes done to the cameras.xml file we can enable an interior view.

EDIT: I just did a test. I can confirm interior view works. The textures look awful though.

Edit2:

can u please post the " cameras.xml " file or upload it somewhere, cause due to hard disk space and internet speed i will not download grid 1 (eu release 31rst ) from the bonus pack
or will probably gift it away. so on which file on grid 2 folders do we replace it to ?
also , will u please test if it works on multi ?
regards, thanks in advance

 

[zeno dyk]

Hell yeah, vrooom! Nice one ML.

 

[GETEDA]

I dont like the tire smoke, im working for that in a xml. if you want to test, take my mod:

Less tyre smoke Mod by XZERO v0.0.1


http://bit.ly/116HlAu

Noobie mod.