Toca Touring Car 97 Mod

[robbyd]

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Toca Touring Car 97 Mod

STATUS

- Car handling, speed and acceleration complete.
- All teams, drivers, driver stats complete.
- All car liveries complete.
- Donnington Park and Silverstone International added
- Donnington Park Short Circuit added.
- RAF Thruxton Added

IN PROGRESS

- Fuel weight effect.
- KERS / Turbocharger effect
- Fuel Consumption, Tyre Wear, Grass/Gravel friction.
- Tracks
- Career mode
- Historic Touring Car Unlockables
- Overtaking and damage engine.

I'm embarking upon creating a full conversion of New Star GP to "NS BTCC 97". 1997 was one of the most exciting seasons, with the emergance of Jason Plato, the dominence of the Renault, and the new Ford Mondeo being unvealed.


Toca NSGP 97

- All 13 permanent teams from the 97 season, including 4 independant drivers and manufacturers.

- 24 rounds of racing in a fully functional season, including custom made tracks such as Silverstone, Thruxton, Brands Hatch, Donnington and Oulton Park.

- Accurate car stats, liveries and driver specific trim.

- All new handling, speed and acceleration engine, bumper to bumper racing with paint swapping damage stats, new BTCC specific tyre wear and fuel economy.

But of course, I will be needing some help. I'm particularly keen to bring someone on board with knowledge of AI and the database file, as well as sharing the collosal load of creating 8 new tracks from scratch to very accurate asthetic proportions.

Hope I can get some guys on board to give me a hand.

[ecoraph]

Most of the tracks are on here

http://www.trackdays.co.uk/tracks/


There is a track map and satelite view for each, although maybe a bit small. Google maps would be best probably.

The 1997 results were:

Championship Title: 1997 Auto Trader RAC Touring Car Championship

Rounds 1&2 - March 31st, Donington Park (GP)
Rounds 3&4 - April 20th, Silverstone (International)
Rounds 5&6 - May 5th, Thruxton
Rounds 7&8 - May 18th, Brands Hatch (Indy)
Rounds 9&10 - May 26th, Oulton Park (Fosters)
Rounds 11&12 - June 15th, Donington Park (Short)
Rounds 13&14 - June 29th, Croft
Rounds 15&16 - August 2nd, Knockhill
Rounds 17&18 - August 10th, Snetterton
Rounds 19&20 - August 25th, Thruxton
Rounds 21&22 - September 7th, Brands Hatch (Indy)
Rounds 23&24 - September 21st, Silverstone (International)

Championship Standings

Drivers

POS DRIVER CAR POINTS
1 Alain Menu Renault Laguna 281
2 Frank Biela Audi A4 Quattro 171
3 Jason Plato Renault Laguna 170
4 Rickard Rydell Volvo S40 137
5 James Thompson Honda Accord 132
6 Gabriele Tarquini Honda Accord 130
7 John Bintcliffe Audi A4 Quattro 119
8 David Leslie Nissan Primera 87
9 Tim Harvey Peugeot 406 66
10 Kelvin Burt Volvo S40 60
11 Anthony Reid Nissan Primera 56
12 John Cleland Vauxhall Vectra 44
13 Paul Radisich Ford Mondeo 41
14 Derek Warwick Vauxhall Vectra 33
15 Will Hoy Ford Mondeo 27
16 Patrick Watts Peugeot 406 26

Privateers

POS DRIVER CAR POINTS
1 Robb Gravett Honda Accord 236
2 Lee Brookes Peugeot 406 225
3 Colin Gallie BMW 320i 225
4 Jamie Wall Vauxhall Cavalier 168
5 Matt Neal Mondeo and Primera 166
6 Jan Brunstedt Opel Vectra 12
7 Ian Heward Vauxhall Cavalier 6

Constructors

1 Renault 278 pts
2 Audi 210
3 Honda 209
4 Volvo 191
5 Nissan 155

[bazik]

Oh by the way basik, take a look at the TOCA mod topic in "the garage" see if you're interested.

If so, I could do with a hand... :doh:

hi rob, well i dont think i'm much help in this one, i live in a country where Touring cars dont get much coverage, so i never got into them, and know close to nothing about them :S.

If its F1 i'll be able to give more of a help.

Regarding help on the AI / database, maybe i can help, what do you need?

[robbyd]

hi rob, well i dont think i'm much help in this one, i live in a country where Touring cars dont get much coverage, so i never got into them, and know close to nothing about them :S.

If its F1 i'll be able to give more of a help.

Regarding help on the AI / database, maybe i can help, what do you need?

Don't get much coverage?! Jesus, you guys are missing out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIw6NGQ85ig

As far as the database file and settings go, heres my christmas list:

-I want to be able to have teams of one car as well as teams of two, with 12 teams in total - is this possible?
-I want the cars to have the same feel as the very top end unlockable sports cars in season mode, with lots of lovely drift!
-I want reduced damage, reduced fuel consumption (one stop per race), greater speed over the gravel and grass (so if you do make a mistake, the close racing isn't compromised).
-I also want to know why the quick race isn't reflecting my changes :blimey:
-I want ice-cream
-I want sweets
-I want a pony...

Thanks dude, for any help you can give, and get reading into Classic Touring Cars, I promise you'll love it!

[bazik]

Don't get much coverage?! Jesus, you guys are missing out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIw6NGQ85ig

I do watch EVERY topgear for the last 6 years maybe, but i have to download it :P

as for the rest..


Teams always have 2 drivers, with the Db now in place, there is nothing you can do about it.



i never bought any cars of the unlocable ones, so i dont really know what you mean, but i sense you cannot, since the unlocable cars are not defined in the sames terms of the F1 cars (speed handling acce) at least they are not in the database, instead they are defined using the cars.ini which as this format:
sportscar_1, 4, -3, -4, 22, 17 that is 5 values for each car, with even negative values so, i would say no. Maybe the drift=0.955 value in the engine.ini affects the f1 cars, but i never tested it or changed it, maybe siread can help you here.
all this can be done in the settings.ini on your mod.

this controls damage:
damage_wall=2.0
damage_cars=0.8



fuel consuption:
fuelconsumption=0.0008
speed over grass and gravel:
fric_grass=0.945
fric_gravel=0.925

Now for the value you need, you need to fiddle with them and test them.
quick race uses a different db, so you have to replace that db too, i believe they are in the save directory, but i'm not sure
Ice Cream, sweets and a pony a probably harder ;)

Good luck ;)

[robbyd]

I do watch EVERY topgear for the last 6 years maybe, but i have to download it :P

as for the rest..


Teams always have 2 drivers, with the Db now in place, there is nothing you can do about it.



i never bought any cars of the unlocable ones, so i dont really know what you mean, but i sense you cannot, since the unlocable cars are not defined in the sames terms of the F1 cars (speed handling acce) at least they are not in the database, instead they are defined using the cars.ini which as this format:
sportscar_1, 4, -3, -4, 22, 17 that is 5 values for each car, with even negative values so, i would say no. Maybe the drift=0.955 value in the engine.ini affects the f1 cars, but i never tested it or changed it, maybe siread can help you here.
all this can be done in the settings.ini on your mod.

this controls damage:
damage_wall=2.0
damage_cars=0.8



fuel consuption:
fuelconsumption=0.0008
speed over grass and gravel:
fric_grass=0.945
fric_gravel=0.925

Now for the value you need, you need to fiddle with them and test them.
quick race uses a different db, so you have to replace that db too, i believe they are in the save directory, but i'm not sure
Ice Cream, sweets and a pony a probably harder ;)

Good luck ;)

Thanks buddy, I'm really stuggling matching up the stats from the unlockables to reflect those in the F1 database...i'll need to do a bit of einsteining...

NSGP seems to just want to crash now. I've re-named all the teams and drivers, got rid of all the independents so there are now 8 teams and 16 drivers from the constructors championship...yet the whole thing is having a giant paddy, I don't know what i'm doing wrong.

[robbyd]

screenshot and progress report added

[Kega]

Hey robbyd.

I was just wondering if you are still working on this mod. Because it would be great to see this finish, or just with the additions from your to-do-list.
I personally would like to play this more than F1. So am crossing my fingers :)

[LBStrange]

Is this MOD still available for download Robby?