[Mod] Gran Turismo 2 plus (bug fixes, restored content and new content) - beta 7 released
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Remember these? If not then it's easy to get the concept of it. You fill in the image with the colors assigned to the numbers. Anyways, this is basically what we're working with. And we change the image's colors by changing what the colors up top are. And when we modify a texture in order to remove decals, fix transparency issues etc. we're changing the numbers inside the various spaces (or pixels in our case).
This is the simplest way I can think of to explain what GT textures are.
This is the simplest way I can think of to explain what GT textures are.
Alpha 4 is officially complete as of yesterday.
However, as expected would happen at some point, I've run headlong into a limit of how many cars GT2 can actually handle at once. Long story short, anything more than 1,122 car bodies appears to crash the game. The stock game has 1,110, so that's not actually a lot of extra space. Fortunately there are some unused bodies on the retail disc that can be deleted to free up some space.
What this means in the short term is a delay to alpha 4 while I start making space for its content. It also means that some of the less interesting new cars like the non-turbo Venturi and the Opel version of the Vectra 2.0 probably will be cut, however everything will be available as standalone mods eventually.
Just to be clear on what the line is for what is more or less likely to remain in alpha 4 - the focus is on restoring cut content from GT1 and pre-release versions of GT2. They'll take priority over any all-new addons, so something custom like the R34 GT-R N1 is much more likely to be removed than the RUF CR4 is, for example.
I don't expect to have to cut much, but it's going to be a fairly tight squeeze!
However, as expected would happen at some point, I've run headlong into a limit of how many cars GT2 can actually handle at once. Long story short, anything more than 1,122 car bodies appears to crash the game. The stock game has 1,110, so that's not actually a lot of extra space. Fortunately there are some unused bodies on the retail disc that can be deleted to free up some space.
What this means in the short term is a delay to alpha 4 while I start making space for its content. It also means that some of the less interesting new cars like the non-turbo Venturi and the Opel version of the Vectra 2.0 probably will be cut, however everything will be available as standalone mods eventually.
Just to be clear on what the line is for what is more or less likely to remain in alpha 4 - the focus is on restoring cut content from GT1 and pre-release versions of GT2. They'll take priority over any all-new addons, so something custom like the R34 GT-R N1 is much more likely to be removed than the RUF CR4 is, for example.
I don't expect to have to cut much, but it's going to be a fairly tight squeeze!
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- Goreseeker666
You'll have to remove all the aditional cars or just the less hotter ones? More interesting cars like the R34 GT-R N1 will still be in the game? It's so good to know that the Alpha 4 is close to a release! Can't wait to drive the NSX LM GT2! Thanks to all you guys that are making this possible!
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Such a shame yeah. It was bound to happen but it's still very disappointing.
There's technically just about enough room to fit everything in alpha 4, however I need to leave space for a few things that PD cut and I want to bring back, so I'd rather omit custom cars now rather than taking them out later.
I won't be removing all the custom cars either way, and anything based on cut PD content like the CR4 or Integra LS is very likely to stay.
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I get it. Now you'll free some space in the ISO by deleting some unused bodies, right? You have an idea of how much you'll be freeing? And I wish you luck with that and the rest of the patch, thanks, man!
I'll probably not be removing any PD content that's in use - this is always intended to be an addition to GT2, not an overhaul.
As for tweaking the limit, I assume it's in the executable somewhere, and assume that it's running out of memory somewhere. Not trivial in either case, not something I see myself even being able to find or diagnose, never mind change.
As for tweaking the limit, I assume it's in the executable somewhere, and assume that it's running out of memory somewhere. Not trivial in either case, not something I see myself even being able to find or diagnose, never mind change.
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All of the menu artifacts are inbedded intot he background image so I'm not sure they're fixable. But about the race mod of the NSX-R LM GT2 yeah that'll be fixed.
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- Salva-the_gamer
Is possible to replace them from NTSCs releases in some way? So fixes also the track names
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That I don't know. Plus, if those artifacts are on other languages than english as well then it wouldn't even be worth it because those would'nt be fixed.
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Known issue. The non-vented bumper should go to the 2.0Ts while the vented one is for the V6. I believe Pez has fixed it, or at least knows about it, and I have made my own version of the fix, which I extended tot he RMs as well.
