WIP Williams 09

Continuing our weekly sifting through the WIP-shots done in the past 2 months. I got a bunch of pictures of Williams 09. Done by Kevin ‘Fongu’ Wong. Fongu is not new and has frequently worked for CTDP before. Among his works are the models of the Super Aguri SA-05 and SA-06 in the F1-2006 mod. The car was also started in January. You gotta love the Williams Team, they released a couple of promotion renders of their car in orthogonal views. Since the presentation car in January, many things have been changed, which weren’t updated in the model yet. Which is why you see the presentation-nose on the car, not the one used in Melbourne. This will be done later.

Posted in Cars, F1 2009, Models, Work in Progress | 6 Comments »

WIP Helmets 09 and call for help…

Another few WIPs. This time I post a few helmet-texture shots. The helmet models will be reused from the F1-2006. Revisions and updates will be done where necessary, for example the Arai-helmet. Usually helmet textures are done “in between”. When a painter is bored, he picks one and does his art. The two textures shown here are done by Shaun ‘Whata’ Stroud. Shaun joined us during the F1-2006 mod and has grown into the team, we wouldn’t want to miss him. Some of his work was the Midland/Spyker-, the Super Aguri- and the Safety-car, along with many of the 2006 helmets. He’ll also be involved with the car textures for F1-2009.

At this point we’d like to issue a call for help. While we are on the topics of helmets, we are in need of a helmet-modeler. Out car-modelers are occupied or have no experience modeling helmets. Helmets are not just spheres with a cut-out for the visor. Modeling the helmets has become quite an art. While the changes for 2009 are manageable. 1994 requires much more helmet work with more limited resources and we are struggling to find somebody to help us out. So if you are a dedicated helmet-modeler, or know somebody we could ask. Tell us here or contact us at dahie at ctdpworld.org

Posted in Announcement, F1 2009, Helmets | 10 Comments »

Making of Ferrari F60 detail shots

Racervieh got me a few additional detail shots of his Ferrari-model. They show the current state of the car, though I can not tell which track-configuration this is.

Posted in Cars, F1 2009, Models, Work in Progress | 14 Comments »

Making of Ferrari F60 Model

Lets take a look at another car for the 2009 mod, which has been in progress so far. For our 2009 mod we could get David ‘Racervieh’ Bennewitz as a new modeller. His first car was Ferrari, which he worked on from January to March. The model is mostly done, will get some updates in the time to come. Racervieh documented his progress really thoroughly, so you can see the progression on the car.

David started in January and was the first in our team to start the car. He also comes from the GP4-community and had a thread describing his progress in more detail.

At the moment, we have several models in progress. At this early stage of the mod, we do not develop for one specific game. The raw-models and textures could be used for any game and it is in later stages, that we actually optimize the data for a specific game. Reports of this being the first mod for rFactor2 are exaggerated. At this point we just work and see what game is available when we are done with the basics. Knowing our speed, rFactor2 might become  the option of choice.

Posted in Cars, F1 2009, Models, Work in Progress | 12 Comments »

Ferrari 1994 WIP

I’ve been working on the Ferrari for a few months now, updating the texture to 2048×2048. I still have some changes to make, sponsors to add, plus the other specific race liveries, but I wanted to show some of the progress so far.

This is my first job for CTDP, but I hope you like what you see at the moment!

Posted in F1 1994, Textures, Work in Progress | 10 Comments »

WIP McLaren 09

This car was actually started, before we decided to beginn the mod. Zunic ‘Spoony’ Bekir was already working on the car and showing WIPs, which looked very promising. So we invited him to join us and he agreed. At the moment he is working on the BrawnGP.

Those previews were made in the first week of may. You can more details about the model in the development thread at GrandPrixGames.com

Disclaimer: Please note, that the shots are a couple of weeks old, since then the models have been updated and to the Australia-configuration. Therefore, these WIPs can have inconsistancies.

Posted in F1 2009, Work in Progress | 19 Comments »

Time of a season

The guys of CTDP aren’t robots. This is unfortunate, because I could force them to work harder, longer, better and if anyone would get paid, I could cut their salary. Anyway, The guys of CTDP are humanshave some human traits. For example, every year in the months of April and May, the chats get empty and the forums are dead. The reason is quite hard to understand, but I try to elaborate.

I actually tried and had to see for myself. I did the following: I stood up from the comfy chair I’m working in. I went to one of the walls, this one was specifically prepared in a way, that there is sort of a hole in a wall, stuffed with a glas-surface. I was pretty amazed seeing, you can not only look through it, but this one can be opened. Outside it is … the opposite of dark. A warm, breeze of fresh air got into the room. It felt great! I held my head out of the hole in the wall and I could see all this amazing stuff. Trees wore green, skies wore blue and women wore less. I jumped out of the window and went to the next park, lied in the gras and remained there for weeks.

Ladies and Gentlemen the CTDP has been infected with a case of Spring. I hope this is not permanent and that soon they get fed up with sun and cocktails and get back cracking. Untill then I will prepare a few articles about some of the work we have done up until now and show some WIPs we have been holding back, because we knew, we might need some filler one day.

Posted in Announcement | 19 Comments »

RIP Duke

Duke Nukem Forever, RIP

Duke, we will miss you! Thanks for making us look not quite as bad with our postponed mod releases.  We appreciated that! Goodbye!

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Our 8th Birthday! – Bahrain V2 Public Beta Release

Exactly 8 years ago, we started a little project. Today the “Cars & Tracks Development Project” is one of the most respected modding group’s. We could never have expected such success would happen, Our mods are used on public simulators, on TV, even at Games Convention’s. We did a lot of mods for many different games in the past eight years and for sure we will continune our work for rFactor and its successor.

Bahrain International Circuit v1.0 was the first CTDP release for rFactor and brought you one of the newest and also most exciting GP circuits in the modern era, Dusty surface and desert feeling guaranteed!

Now exactly 3 years later, on CTDP’s 8th birthday, we gave the track a major facelift with new Textures, Shaders and additional layouts and cool features. We hope the community enjoys our birthday present!

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3D arms addon for CTDP 2006 1.1 released

Good evening,

After much waiting we release the 3D arms addon for CTDP 1.1, thanks to Codan for the installer & configuration tool.  Enjoy

Instructions

1. Download from http://rapidshare.com/files/227051946/3d-arms-addon.rar or http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3B206XNA
2. Extract the contents from the rar file and run the installer.
3. If you made a shortcut when the installer asked you can launch it directly from there by double clicking on it. In case you did not make a shortcut, inside  you rfactor installation navigate to the  ModData\CTDP\CTDP06\3DArmsAddOn folder and double click the “arsmaddon” tool.  Note that  with the upcoming 1.2 release of CDP mod a button will show up in the ctdp control center after installation, from which the 3D arms config tool can be launched directly, but this does not function in the mod 1.1 release as more than likely the button will not show up.
4. Pick the option to have arms in tvcockpit, arms in both tvcockpit and cockpit view, or no arms.
5. Drive and enjoy.

Posted in Announcement, Anything else, Steering Wheels | 30 Comments »