Making a GP4 car tutorial by Vicente pdf version
In this tutorial I explain how to make a gp4 car. There are a lot of photos.
Enjoy it!!!!

You can dowload it in: Download the tutorial (5.0 MB)

Iexplain how to make a track for torcs using trackeditor to create the track and then modify the xml file of the track (the phisical description) with a text editor and then make the 3d description (ac file) using trackgen. Note that trackeditor and trackgen are provided wiht torcs. you can get the pdf tutorial on the next link
NEW TORCS tutorial (make a track for torcs)

3D design is a strange world for most people, and it's difficult to begin in this beautiful world. This is because the bet 3D deisgn programs like 3D studio Max cost a lot of money and they are very complicated to use.
Nevertheless, there are some free 3D design programs like ZModeler. With this wonderful program we can make an endless number of things designing 3D objects.

ZModeler is an independent 3D editor, that creates objects to Direct3D based games (like GrandPrix 4). So we can make cars for this nice game. Anothes important thing is that ZModeler is a low polygon design program, therefore we can make nice objects with few poligons. Moreover we can export an import objects for other 3D programs like 3D studio Max.

In this tutorial I try to explain the esential steps to modify an original gp4 car and we will see that the result is good. You should read the ZModeler user guide to be familiar with the program. I'm not a desginer so some steps could be done in a more easy way. If you know how to improve the tutorial please tell me in order to update the tutorial and improve it.

Finally, my intention is to make a guide that explain the proces of modifying a car:
  • get it out from the game
  • edit it with ZModeler
  • create a new textures using Photoshop or the Gimp
  • finaly, get the car and the textures in the game

Whit some practice modeling in ZModeler, I'm sure that you will become in a great 3D designer.

Please e-mail me to make suggestions to improve this tutorial.
vtemarticent AT hotmail DOT com

Enjoy desgining F1 cars.

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