Good stuff!

RACEFEST is coming back better

Vin Petrol [author] 2 minutes ago
I am fixing this currently, it will work on the Ai sets I include, I’ll finish a few sets first then I’ll publish, I’ll then continue to add sets until we practically have racefest back, perhaps not every car like dlc but every car on track will be 23 different cars and all race focussed which is the set I’ve just finished.
The mod will also have different individually painted skins for each car.
It takes time but it’s possible and it’s happening
Thanks

Looking forward to it Vin!

Vin, as you know, I'm a "skinner", and I saw your messages on a couple of my skins. If you can make the cars, and supply a template, I'll be happy to do the skins. I tried Blender a few years ago for European Truck Sim 2 and it did my head in. All I managed to get to work was being able to produce a template so I could skin it, so I leave 3D modelling alone now. At the mo, i'm in the middle of doing a Daisy's Jeep from the Dukes of Hazzard.

Originally posted by Jimbo:

Vin, as you know, I'm a "skinner", and I saw your messages on a couple of my skins. If you can make the cars, and supply a template, I'll be happy to do the skins. I tried Blender a few years ago for European Truck Sim 2 and it did my head in. All I managed to get to work was being able to produce a template so I could skin it, so I leave 3D modelling alone now.

Hi Jim
Sorry but I’m the same as you, I began as a skinner just using Windows paint, the whole of nascar legends, pro series, DDmods, ASSR etc hundreds of skins were all hand painted in paint, no layers.
Then I learned the Ai modding part as well as effects etc. 3D modelling is like the only type of mod I haven’t made on this lol
The wreckfest car models in your mod are great, but it would be awesome to get the Ai to use them, and as I said the newer cars and dlcs are very difficult, I could put the skins in but to change the parts the cars need rebuilding and there isn’t any files to copy, every part name would have to be guessed! :/
It’s what stopped me when I was about to make a film car set mod with Ai

When I do a skin, I always put it direct in to my game files so I can keep the game running with the car I'm doing in the garage paint shop. I just have to flick between car skins to instantly see the difference. Well... Because I have chosen skins the AI use sometimes I do find myself racing my own cars. It depends whether it's a race or derby skin.

Originally posted by Jimbo:

When I do a skin, I always put it direct in to my game files so I can keep the game running with the car I'm doing in the garage paint shop. I just have to flick between car skins to instantly see the difference. Well... Because I have chosen skins the AI use sometimes I do find myself racing my own cars. It depends whether it's a race or derby skin.

Yes skins you can do, but for example if you wanted to put white wheels on herbie or take the wideboy kit off the mini you need to edit Ai parts, and that’s the problem, as I say it’s possible but much more difficult with some of the cars.
Thanks

Oh yes, I see, good luck, that's a little above my expertise at the moment, but i'll have a study up and see what I can figure out. If you do eventually figure it out, with you doing the bodywork and me the skin, I think we would make a good modding team.

Originally posted by Jimbo:

Oh yes, I see, good luck, that's a little above my expertise at the moment, but i'll have a study up and see what I can figure out. If you do eventually figure it out, with you doing the bodywork and me the skin, I think we would make a good modding team.

That would be amazing, I managed to get the limo working by guessing parts so I’ll have a look into the rest.
The skinning takes so long, i was doing 1 or 2 per night for nascar legends and doing the same car over and over you get quick.
So it would take me weeks / months to make every film car, you’ve done lots already.
You are welcome to throw my smokey and the bandit and starsky and hutch skins into your mod if you like, but I understand if you want to redo them yourself, it is fun.

I’ve got every car in the game working as Ai for Racefest, and we can put whatever skins onto every car, but the parts are still a problem, the parts are all in the cav file and it would have to be created part for part exactly how they are in game, with it being invisible it’s a long shot, but we can have all of your skins on the correct cars as an Ai set, just no part or performance changes

Most of them ain’t too bad, the Cardinal has sirens and the right wheels, herbie would look good but no headlights, it’s doable but not perfect

Mr bean would have a wideboy kit and huge spoiler lol

Yeah, i'd like my skins to always be used by the AI which I know nothing about. That stuff will be down to you. I'm sure you'll get it. I just need to be mentioned as a contributor. With all the road versions i'm doing, you could always do a road car AI or something...