Gran Turismo 4 High Contrast mod

[Beansta]

Gran Turismo 4 High Contrast Mod

I present my work in progress mod, a proper Dark Theme mod for Gran Turismo 4. Built on top of GT4 Spec II and using some elements from the HD HUD and UI mod, plus a bunch of custom textures and internal data edits, I have spent the last few days creating a mod that many will want to use. If they are like me and hate using anything that has a light theme, that is...

Anyway. Nearly every single UI element has been modified to be easier on the eyes, and on your screens if you use high quality OLED or AMOLED screens.

Because this is a hybrid mod, as in, makes both external and internal changes, this mod is only compatible with PS2 Emulators. If I can figure out how to physically replace images in the vol data I may make a fully internalised version one day (or someone else can do it...)

Instructions for how to install and use are in the included readme.

It does have the following minor issues currently:

• Diary log text cannot have its text colour changed. It is done internally via scripts, not via the configurable mproject files.
• Info/error tooltip popups have not been changed yet. This requires further steps that I have not get gotten around to making before I can change them.
• Endurance Races background may not have been changed. I sadly do not have a save file that can yet access them to dump the textures...

Credits:

• TheAdmeister: for his excellent GT4 Spec II mod and for helping me track down some of the more obscure data anchors.
• SilentWinter1: for his excellent HD HUD and UI pack, of which provided about 50% of the source files for this mod.
• Arnie: For getting bored of waiting for someone else to make a Dark theme mod for Gran Turismo 4 so learned how to mod the game to make it himself.

Happy trails

Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/cyawktxrmbqpv3s/GT4_High_Contrast_Mod_BETA.7z/file

 

[Old_Setzer]

I think that look incredible.

I'm very bad with mods/pc, but I will try later.

Thanks for this!

Pd: Imagine how cool would have been if we had the option to change between light and dark theme in the og game.

 

[Beansta]

I think that look incredible.

I'm very bad with mods/pc, but I will try later.

Thanks for this!

Pd: Imagine how cool would have been if we had the option to change between light and dark theme in the og game.

That was actually very briefly discussed in the GT Racing Cafe discord with TheAdmeister. It would at the very least require that I redo half of the textures so that we can make them internalised textures. Many of the custom textures are 2560x1920 - luckily an exact 4:1 ratio of the originals.

I do potentially plan on making a fully internal version so that it can be made hardware compatible, after all.