Thanks a lot to Davide Graci and Stex68 for designing the liveries and preparing the upload!!
Instructions follow, with details at the end of the message.
I am trying to pay attention to this forum but if you have any question please email me as well.
Car liveries
- backup your "cars67" directory in the gpl/cars/ folder. Just name it cars67_backup , for instance
- download the gpfun/ukgpl carset at
http://www.gpfun.net/public/downloads/Files/Carset/carset_ukgpl.rar
- on race day we will enter the server in a particular order; do not join unless instructed to do so !
Everybody from ukgpl will join the server, then everybody from gpfun will get in. At this stage we will start the practice session.
- All the GPFun drivers will have #67, all the ukgpl ones #90
After the race you can simply restore your backed up "cars67" folder, if you want.
Similarly, should you experience any problem simply restore your old "cars" folder.
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What's in the download?The standard gplea cars (not hi-res) plus the GPFun and UKGPL liveries
What if I don't want to install them?No problem. You will just see the standard gpl liveries (red Ferrari, white honda etc) with no numbers
Will I see the liveries any time I use gpl?No. GPL online uses numbers from 1 to 22 to allocate liveries; we use numbers above those so that our skins are displayed only on aptly set servers.
Is there any risk, crashes etc?Not really, we have been using personalized skins since 2003 and never had problems.
There is one important exception, however: the skins are designed for specific versions of the cars. If you use a Ferrari36V, for instance, with a livery made for the Ferrari48v , then your computer may crash.
That's why we prepared a download with all the cars, not just the additional liveries.
How does gpl know which livery to assign me?Online liveries are called by specific 3do. If a Brabham driver is assigned #44, then he will use the brab44.3do
We can edit the 3do so that it calls the #44 mips, where we stored the desired livery.
Drivers are assigned numbers in accordance to the driver.ini and their order of entrance in the server. The first driver to enter the server will have the number of driver 19 in the driver.ini , the 2nd to enter will be driver18 and so forth.
By having drivers entering the server in a specific order we can ensure that they get assigned the numbers, hence the liveries, that we want.
Can I drive my personalized livery offline?GPL uses number 4 for the offline driver. There is a utility that you can use to change this number to anything you wish. Then it is simply a matter of storing the desired livery in the appropriate 3do file.
