Change player car-not original carshape?

[willfla29]

Hi all,

I searched the forums here but haven't seen this clearly stated:  is it possible to change the default car outside of the paintkit?  The paintkit can seemingly only deal with the original carshape.  Am I missing something obvious?  I've looked around at the game's files and tried moving the driver I'd like to play as to the top in DRIVERS.TXT, but that seemed to crash the game.

Thanks!

And PS thanks for the help in getting my wheel working, this is my last impediment to full enjoyment.

[samsepi0l]

Hi all,

I searched the forums here but haven't seen this clearly stated:  is it possible to change the default car outside of the paintkit?  The paintkit can seemingly only deal with the original carshape.  Am I missing something obvious?  I've looked around at the game's files and tried moving the driver I'd like to play as to the top in DRIVERS.TXT, but that seemed to crash the game.

Thanks!

And PS thanks for the help in getting my wheel working, this is my last impediment to full enjoyment.

Yes - you can make a different carset for the player car or the opponents with a different carset.

You need to start by UNPACKING the carset DAT file.

Once you do that it will contain MIPs and 3DOs. Find a carset with the shape you want, and steal those 3DOs for your shape. I personally like the reynard carshape.

the MIPS inside of the DAT will have the images. They are made with WINMIP. It basically converts BMP to MIP, MIP is the papyrus image format.

I know it sounds complicated the first time you hear it but it isn't that hard.