Marcos LM600 mod gfx update

hi to all Marcos LM600 mod fans.
Ive decied to put here a small info what I am trying latest days

the Marcos LM600 mod was released at 2007, and was a nice success, I would say.
still some people noticed a strange mesh shading, mainly the car hood. it was fault of a very old, low poly and bad made 3d model (many times reworked), together with unhappy ZModeler mesh smooth shade settings.

few days back Ive tried to fix it, just for fun.
well, unfortunately it would need to create the mesh newly infact, to make it properly looking... but Ive tried just simply resmooth (subpatch) the old mesh, and it doesnt look so bad, I suppose. Ive also added some rear car body wheel 3d intakes.

if there will be interest, I could try to make it public releasable. the only thing I am affraid of all the additional skins, available at NoGrip -they will be not 100% compatible because of a new mesh re-uv mapping.

here is a very early ingame car screenshot without textures and specular maps.
do you like it?



this are the original mod car pack screenshots:

a beautifully ugly Marcos...of course I'm interested!   

ok I personally call the Marcos a "beast"   

Of course we could give it a try. For the extra skins we can use two folders with new and "old" mod.

yeah... ok, Ive tried to keep the original mapping composition / texture template as it gets. here are two (unedited) images of a quickly re-uv mapped car body, mesh style 1. this is what I got sofar (note: the new glass mesh isnt properly textured yet):



I will correct some mesh vertex positions yet and I think the old skins will fit well. not perfect, but well enough, I would say.

well, here is one new skin I always wanted try to make. now was the right time. Ive used the original v.1.1 skin templates sofar, and I think If will change something paint template related, then only for windows.

ok, some news, guys.
it is 10 years since the GTR2 mod has been released, so I think I could release it as a new mod repack, celebrating the nice anniversary.

repack changes:
* reshaded car body polygonal mesh (done)
* different, bit more accurate wheel/rim styles (wip)
* new wiper animation (done)

as to the wiper feature, this is the old solution:
https://youtu.be/WArh3zM4Oqg

this is the new solution:

ok, the final version of rain / wiper animation is implemented into all Marcos car styles.

just like the original 2007 mod pack, the feature can be activated manually by editting one single leter at current .car file and defaultly is set for the WIDI racing team only.

I am not too much happy of the SimBins GTR2 raindrop texture, so Ive apllied own solution, known from LE MANS CLASSICS and F1 LEGENDS RACING 2.0 mod releases, image and video sample attached.

and here are the new wheel styles:

Wow, very nice job...

BorekS wrote:

Wow, the wiper animation looks really good now!

Dear BorekS----as always your work is amazing---I've been away for a couple of years---coming back was excited ti see the CLASSICS release

Thanks for all your work

Dragon, WildBill, Whipcracker---lol

WHIPCRACKER wrote:

Dear BorekS----as always your work is amazing---I've been away for a couple of years---coming back was excited ti see the CLASSICS release

Thanks for all your work

Dragon, WildBill, Whipcracker---lol

Hi Bill and Merry Xmas and a Happy new Year my old friend. Hope you weren't in that place were you have to be careful if you drop the soap... teeee heeeee!!

Gordon----NOPE ON THE SOAP

Lost both Dad and Mom last couple of years so simracing has been on the backburner.

Tough time really but nice to be back. Hope you are OK m8.

D

Very sorry to hear about your parents, now you are an orphan like me

Not so good health wise but hope to get better. Are you okay?

I'm fine GeeDee----retired now and living the nightmare of deciding what the hell I'm going to do for the rest of my life---LOL

I do have a new toy though----2003 Mini Cooper S with a John Cooper Works kit----ooh--la la-----tres vite

Nice to hear from you Gordon

D

hello and sorry for lifting this post,
but I'm looking for skins of the extinct nogrip for this car, or where I can find skin # 44 that is in the images above.
Regards

Hi all does anyone have a link to Boreks updates , the old mod or any of its skins skins.

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: Here

https://esport-racing.de/sdm_downloads/marcos-mantara-lm600-for-gtr2/

I think this includes all of Boreks update's.

If any one has any of the skins from No Grip they would be much appreciated.

Hi to all,
the #44 skin is not included in any public release of my Marcos LM600 mod, not the one I made at least

I'm sorry for answering a month later, but I enter every month.
thanks @fatgus for posting the car but I wanted to find skins.
@BorekS you won't have that 44 skin or you don't have any of this car anymore.
regards

Hi,
I think I did the #44 skin for a bit overhauled 3d model, not for the one in the public mod release. It means it would need a redo to match the original LM600 mod car mesh texture mapping.

I should have the mod sources somewhere, however I dont use the modding tools anymore. I remember it ran under my WinXP disc partition. The needed mod data still exists, but my current operating system at that old PC is a Linux distro, so I cant simply check all the mod stuff from there. Anyway I could try to make booting the dust covered WinXP system and will see.

OK, this could work, the #44 skin download:
GTR2 Marcos LM600 add-on skin Nr 44 by BorekS

And here is the original mod download:
GTR2 Marcos LM600 add-on  v.1.1 by BorekS

Thank you

thank you very much for the skin BoreKs , this car is wonderful