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Installations instructions (based on text prepared by Rich):

Download carpack from here: https://www.simracing.org.uk/downloads/SROU_Car_Pack_1.5.zip
Download GTRmanager here: http://www.gtr4u.de/dl/GTRManager13final.zip.
(You may want to look at ModMan (http://www.checksix-fr.com/bibliotheque/index.php?page=detail&ID=4100) which includes GTRManager but also supports GTL, rFactor, and a host of other games.)

Important! You must ensure that any previously installed version of the car pack is fully uninstalled before trying to replace it with the latest version. See below for instructions.

Install GTRmanager and load the program. On the screen that appears got to options and select the path to your main GTR root directory e.g. C:\Pogram Fles\GTR\ and click OK. Now place the recently downloaded carpack into addons_GTR folder e.g. C:\Program Files\GTRManager\addons_GTR.

Start GTRManager and click 'Addon Manager' and a new window with a list of addons appears. Those in green are installed and those in red are not installed. You will see the SimRacing.org.uk Endurance S2 Carpack v1.4 as red. Click the box to the far left, this will put a tick in it.

Then look at top right, in the Install or Uninstall toolbox click 'Install!'. This will install the car pack and the light at the end of the pack's row will turn green. Exit GTRmanager and the carpack will be installed. To uninstall do the same porcedure except click Uninstall!

Non-GTRManager users can simply upack the zip file in their GTR directory.

Here's Rich's text about uninstalling and reinstalling the car pack. Might be useful for those doing manual installations or who are having problems.

Firstly, open GTRManager and uninstall SimRacing.org.uk carpack. If it is installed then it will be in the green list. Put a tick in the tick box on left in line with carpack and now in top right click the 'Uninstal!' option. Don't click Uninstall all !!!

Once uninstalled you MUST delete car pack from addons folder before installing new car pack i.e. C:\Program Files\GTRManager\addons_GTR\UKGTR ES2.zip .. now download latest carpack (see above). Put this downloaded carpack into C:\Program Files\GTRManager\addons_GTR.

Now got to C:\Program Files\GTR\GameData\Teams. Look in the following folders for any UKGTR or UKGTR ES2 folders and delete them.


24H/Mosler
24H/Porsche 996 Turbo
GT/Ferrari_550
GT/Lister
GT/Porsche993GT2
GT/Lamborghini
GT/Viper
nGT/Ferrari_360
nGT/Porsche996GT3
nGT/Morgan

Once you've deleted any remaining UKGTR ES2 cars, open GTRManager and install the latest carpack as explained above.

This may seem a pain to do but it's actually quite simple. I know if I install latest and then straight away uninstall it works - removing every single file. If things get tampered with, things can get left in installation and affect installations made later on.

Sticky?

Works for me, pic, sound and all. YAY, Jon and Rich and all!  ;D

Big thanks to everyone who has worked so hard on making this happen. 8)

It is already.

Ah is that what it means   :D

Thanks to everyone concerned. I am trying do do it now.cheers gerald

Yeah, thanks everybody but especially Rich for the hard work  ;D

 awsome worked for me  ;D thanks guys

Had a look through all the cars that have been done and I have to say they are fantastic. The standard of the artwork, the attention to detail, the.....as you may guess I'm blown away by the results, a very big thank you to ALL our designers out there  ;D

Ditto to that - a fantastic effort, with brilliant results.

Cheers

Rob

Have been doing a bit of practice at Oschers,  I pretty much refuse to do hotlapping, so I tend to have full practice sessions at 100% so there's a car or something to overtake every 5 or so laps. Anyway I was beating TrueTom, Mo and Rich_A  :D

Yeah, I'm not used to the remote.  ;D

hi Dave sry to be a pain in the arse but my systerm crashed and had to reinstall the game everything cool there but my lobby name and driver name has changed to
lobby   Demonic@ProEco-motorsports
Drivers name Demonic Dan(Pro Eco)
hope this is not a problem many thanks and see you tonight if thats ok Demonic Dan  ;D

Lol he's got more identities than a bent passport office worker

LOL! Or more than a schizophrenic Penguin psychiatrist who's insane! ;) :P

T

Good idea to add the text about uninstalling previous version correctly to first post here.

Currently it's in Magny Cours thread here https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1328.msg18035#msg18035..

Done. ;)

Version 1.4 of the car pack has been uploaded and the instructions updated to match.

Is it me or has Shark's shark got a Fu man chu 'tash?
(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/meljon/shark.JPG)
 :D 8) ;)

Sweet! Thanks for your hard work Rich, we do appreciate it  :-*

Pops

At least it means you are looking at all my hard work Jon!  ;D

Looks like i'll have new X1900XT by beginning of next week. :) Will be sorted along with my 2.75ghz San Diego.

How bout starting new carpack update v1.5 thread so everyone can post new cars or updates? 

Do you think that if we set a submission deadline of the end of Wednesday the 17th, you could have an updated pack ready by the 20th with the aim of holding a test race on the 21st, with Endurance Season 3 to kick off a week later? ;)

Yep go for it..  8)


One thing I will ask of anyone making update or new car, please compare it to an original GTR car of same car. The things to check are contents of tex and ultra tex, they ought to be exact same as GTR files. And also check file sizes, usually tex is half the size of ultra. Just look at original GTR car and check those two things please, contents and file sizes. For sizes check and compare all files within tex and ultra, thnx. I will be checking it but this is what takes most time to rectify for me.

Hopefully we will have some team cars to be included in the pack.  ;D

Hehe.. nice.

When I say check file sizes, I actually mean check resolution size. Tex are usually half the size of Ultra i.e Ultra is 2048x2048 and Tex is 1024x1024 for example. Follow originals as guides for resolution sizes, cheers..

Of course all cars have different resolutions, it's easy to check what resolution should be by opening original GTR car in Locutus GEditor, it gives resolution on right hand side where info is.. height and width is resolution.

Can a mod edit first post here?

It says..

Now got to C:\Program Files\GTR\GameData\Teams. Look in the following folders for any UKGTR ES2 folders and delete them.

Change it to read -

Now got to C:\Program Files\GTR\GameData\Teams. Look in the following folders for any UKGTR or UKGTR ES2 folders and delete them.

Also can you add these directories -

GT\Lamborghini
GT\Viper

Also please emphazise deleting previous Car Pack from addons folder.

It reads -

Once uninstalled delete carpack from addons folder

Can you change to..

Once uninstalled you MUST delete car pack from addons folder before installing new car pack i.e,

 

Original post updated with v1.5 of the car pack.

New download location is...
http://www.ukgtr.org/downloads/SROU_Car_Pack_1.5.zip

hi all this biffing around and no one has mentioned where you get the pack from lol

The first post in this thread... it's been updated you see... :P

Right before your post...

For the avoidance of doubt, the new pack (1.5) will be in use from tonight's Season 3 Sprint race onwards.

lol i thought it would be at the top that will teach me lol

I've done an update to SpaceFox's Saleen, namely windows and some nice graphite tyre rims ..

Extract contents of zip to GTR root folder, the structure is done and will put the DDS files directly into right folder. There's no .car changes so won't be any mismatches.

Put it on RSC cause my FTP playin up again !! http://forum.rscnet.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=371620&d=1148743793

could i add a team number on one of the cars

You're too late to get a skin into the GTR carpack.

And we still don't really know what you're talking about! :-\

Guys, will there be no other updates to this car pack now for the rest of the season?

RS

Sane and insane persons are for once in total agreement here! ;) ;D :P

:angel:

T

It's unlikely as GTR2 is (hopefully) just around the corner.

A GTL pack is more likely... (hint hint etc etc ;))

Download GTRmanager here: http://www.gtrresource.com/downloads/GTRManager13final.exe.

Quite annoyingly... That 1 is not really working in the way that we want it to ;). Maybe Shark can upload it to FTP and change link? :)

T

There's no real reason to be using raw GTRManager now that ModMan (http://www.checksix-fr.com/bibliotheque/index.php?page=detail&ID=4100) includes it.

Uuh I meant that the link at the start post isn't working anymore m8!

I'm just not very clear today, lol!

/me reaches for the clearasil-ikklemore ;) :P

T

Seems when the 07 Graham Nash car is running it overwrites my graphite rims. There's probably a way to assign a new naming structure to my CBFR Saleen rims, probably a zmodeler job!! Anyhow if I paste the SALEEN_WHEEL_STYLE200, 201 and 202 from the .zip above into Graham Nash they work again although of course the 07 car has my graphite rims!! The 08 uses different rims so it's unaffected.

There must have been a 07 driver in lasts nights sprint cause rims are white on my Saleen. Well, my graphite rims look great so i'll be doing it that way from now on cause I can't imagine there's too many 07 Graham Nash drivers and besides which SpaceFox will be right upfront very shortly.  :P

Link fixed.

I don't really like Modman. It's package conversion NEVER works and it's package creation is very odd.

The package creation for GTR is just GTR Manager anyway.

The creation for the other sims seems exactly the same... It is a bit odd though...

When I tried it for packaging up the GTL tracks it really went mad.
Worked a lot better for Picnic than me.

I gave up using it for rFactor cause all the mods are so screwed up with rFactor in their different installers and so on that the whole thing just becomes a bit of a shambles.

rFactor mods are generally really easy - for the ones which use .EXE installers I just lie about where rFactor is, let it create the files and directories (most of them are just self-extracting archives anyway), then point ModMan at it to build the package. Easy lemon squeezy peesy.

Will there be a updated Endurance Car Pack in mild season?

No, there won't be a mid-season update because GTR2 will be here before the next season begins, so we'd only get a half a season of use out of it.