FRM TOURING CARS by FRM TEAM - RELEASE: SUPER TOURING V1.1 Update

AlexGRFan97 wrote:Since the mod presently doesn't have it, I decided to recreate the livery Nissan used for the first half of the 1997 BTCC season (old Vodafone logo, like the one that appears in the first Toca game), using the currently-available 1997 skin. Without a template I'm a bit limited, but I think this looks fine. Hardest part was the two front quarter panels - had to rely on quite a bit of Content Aware Fill to retain the splashes of paint whilst erasing the Vodafone logos. Really the only difference is the aforementioned logo, as midway through the year they updated the typeface and logo to the one that they retain to this day.
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Slight inaccuracy with regards to the yellow splashes - on the real car they went all the way up to the A-Pillar, but that's down to the original painter rather than something I did. I also deleted the Nissan Motorsport URL towards the back of the roof, as the car didn't have it at the beginning of the season. What made matters slightly difficult is that the version of the Vodafone logo that appears on the '97 Primera doesn't have a line striking through the middle of it, yet every single depiction of the pre-1997 logo does. I had to make a custom '85 - '97 Vodafone logo without a strikethrough, which I can provide if anyone needs it.

I also decided to replace the headlight textures with cleaner, sharper, higher resolution ones sourced by my good friend RacingFreak. The tail lights are a bit too finicky, particularly in regards to their mapping, so I've left them for now.

On the whole, looking through the otherwise terrific mod top to bottom, there are quite a few skins that look (and probably are) 15 years old or older and are very unkempt by today's standards. I'd love to help with skin making if it's a role you require. If and when my account is approved, I ought to start up a skin thread.

bintang555 wrote:Hoping to see more Spa 24h cars soon, like the Peugeot 806 which ran in 95

bintang555 wrote:Hoping to see more Spa 24h cars soon, like the Peugeot 806 which ran in 95

matteo1974 wrote:

bintang555 wrote:Hoping to see more Spa 24h cars soon, like the Peugeot 806 which ran in 95

Those years before Spa24 turned to GTs were full of many exotic and strange cars (among them even some Fiat Tipo, Opel Calibra, Saab and SLK). Private efforts at their best!

GTP_furinkazen wrote:

matteo1974 wrote:

bintang555 wrote:Hoping to see more Spa 24h cars soon, like the Peugeot 806 which ran in 95

Those years before Spa24 turned to GTs were full of many exotic and strange cars (among them even some Fiat Tipo, Opel Calibra, Saab and SLK). Private efforts at their best!

Very reminiscent of the glory years of the VLN, with the "weekend warrior" in almost stock road cars!

Hemisfear68 wrote:

GTP_furinkazen wrote:

matteo1974 wrote:

bintang555 wrote:Hoping to see more Spa 24h cars soon, like the Peugeot 806 which ran in 95

Those years before Spa24 turned to GTs were full of many exotic and strange cars (among them even some Fiat Tipo, Opel Calibra, Saab and SLK). Private efforts at their best!

Very reminiscent of the glory years of the VLN, with the "weekend warrior" in almost stock road cars!

Sadly, those days will never return, not in VLN at least. Back when that sort of cars was the norm, you didn't have all these works teams, all these millions being spent. The series now is so much more professional and that drove the costs way up and also the performance way up, driving these weekend warriors out. I think entry fees alone went up five fold in the past 20 years or more. And the smallest classes were taken out anyway because the big guys didn't like the huge speed differences in the really quick bits.

nicki87 wrote:Sorry for the question: where is it possible to find any suitable trackpack for the mod? Thanks in advance

intelpower wrote:I ntoiced the exaust smoke bug still present  

maybe just re upload 1.15  with it removed and those missing CAS files?