Gourmet Carmageddon

Hello, let me get this straight, this is actually the ENB mod for GTA Vice City! Only two functions work correctly with C2: bloom and occlusion. Bloom is very easy to get going without losing much fps at all. While occlusion is a ressource hog, only use it if you have a powerful computer.

This archive should include everything you need:
- ENB Series (d3d9.dll)
- Needed DirectX dependencies (d3dx9_26.dll, d3dx9_40.dll)
- Config files (enbseries.ini)
- The DX9 glide wrapper, dgVoodoo (glide2x.dll)
- dgVoodoo setup (dgVoodooSetup.exe)

There are three config files:
- enbseries.ini (this is mine, Toshiba, only subtle bloom and color correction)
- enbseries_hazardic.ini (this is Hazardic's, heavy dark bloom, very dark and oppressive)
- enbseries_chevy2.ini (ChevyII's, with occlusion)

Put all these files in your C2 folder.

If you want to use Hazardic's or ChevyII's, simply delete or rename mine, then rename the wanted one to enbseries.ini. Pay attention that ChevyII's config activate occlusion, you'll quickly notice whether your comp can run it or not.

You can ofcourse modify the config file yourself. Just head to enbdev.com and read up documentation etc. The thing isn't that easy to handle.

Once you've extracted the files into your C2 folder, configure dgVoodoo by executing dgVoodooSetup.exe and setting it up to your likings. The important part is to use the DirectX9 API instead of DirectX7.

ABOUT THE GLIDE WRAPPER:
There are a few DX9 glide wrappers but only one is known to work with ENB and it is dgVoodoo. If you already have dgVoodoo installed on your comp, having another instance of it within another folder will not change a thing. If you have another glide wrapper installed (Zeckensack's for example), extracting dgVoodoo with ENB in a C2 folder will make this very C2 use dg rather than Zeckensack's but all other glide games will use Zecken'.

PAY ATTENTION THAT THIS MIGHT SIMPLY NOT WORK WITH ALL GFX CARDS.
Not much to do if it's the case with yours :(

ENB Series is made by Boris Vorontsov: http://www.enbdev.com
dgVoodoo is made by dege: http://dege.freeweb.hu

Oh, by the way you can download this little pack at Road Reaction in the PC tools part. And yes you guessed it, I just posted the readme I just wrote...

Hello,

I'll make this one kinda short. There's a way to have full lit colors and textures on your peds, cars, noncars, etc. even though you can't use the track full-lit trick. The idea is to use a material/texture from the REG folder! In order to achieve that, you have to create a reference to this external MAT file within the model DAT file only (and thus no entry in the normal car MAT file).

Usually working in PT2, when you save your car/ped, PT2 creates/updates the MAT file to make it include all the materials in use on said model. If you happen to want a full bright yellow color on some part, here's what you'll do:
C2 includes SimpMats (if you're an advanced modder you should know that) and one of them is a full bright yellow, M38.MAT. So in PT2, create a new empty material named M38.MAT (flags and the likes doesn't matter at all, we just need the exact material name) and then assign it to the triangles you want. Save your model, PT2 creates/updates the MAT file. This car MAT file includes M38.MAT and this is bad as we want the game to use the external one (from the REG folder uh (it's inside simpmat.mat which is loaded automaticaly)). So open up your car MAT file with a hex editor, find the M38.MAT entry and delete it (correctly). And voila, your car will now use the generic M38 material which will render full lit ingame.

Ofcourse so far this shows limited uses, only full lit colors. You can still achieve very interesting design touches though. As example look there Coffeycup's Zenabot is using this trick to have green glowing eyes. They come out very well out of the metalic chrome effect.

But yeah... it's possible to go further. You can put your textures in the REG/PIXELMAP folder (usualy twatted though) and create a specific MAT file for them all. The main difference with the SimpMat.mat is that you can have other lighting settings than full lit (setup via PT2), not sure about diffuse colors. Once again referencing the external material in the DAT file only (and not in the car/ped mat file) will load the new MAT file from the REG folder. The textures will render ingame as full lit (or as set up) but also unfiltered (might still be dithered though (if flagged)).

You guessed it, it's not very comfortable to use as usualy the REG datas are twatted. Still it's an interesting feature for modders working on total convertions. Also I'm positive it should be possible to hack the main C2 executable to make it load other TWT files (and thus addon ressources).

Well anyway... seriously I could use these SimpMats for a million things. And so do you.

Hello, here's some news about my doings.

I'm currently working on an update for BBQ, a lot of things are already changed/added and right now the StuntPark from TDR is in the works (based on Errol's Hollowood port) and I'm also completing the Mayan Mayhem level by adding powerups! I automated the importation of the original C1 powerups, I just have to create custom powerup models (3d versions of the C1 sprites uh) and they'll be there! Good thing it's all automated and we now have Dan's noncar tool to plot these instantly, else I wouldn't have placed 421 powerups by hand in PT2... Once both of these are done I'll release them as standalone for singleplayer mode.

I'll probably write another couple of tutorials or more (in the near future), about special materials for cars/peds/drones, the api wrappers, and maybe one about the noncar tool, but it will be for advanced users, it takes a bit too much time to explain everything from scratch.

I also want to test that unused Force Front flag in PT2 material options. Got an idea by looking at one of Agent Orange's drawings.

After finding out how to give and offset to the track in the minimap texture (usualy centered) I can now rotate it. Gonna be handy with that StuntPark track as I'm rotating it so that it faces the C2 light vector the way I want. And then I rotate the minimap back so that I can use the original horizontal minimap from TDR.

Did you know it's possible to load the materials through the actor instead of directly with the model? I wonder if it's possible to cumulate materials or create interesting effects with this.

And finally I REALLY want to find how to get rid of those hardcoded blue boxes around the timer in the ingame HUD. Using a process memory dumper to watch what's going on, might help me as I'm clueless as to where it could be in the exe binary.

Digga has been updated.

The driver's texture is now two sided (for the hand that is), some textures lighting specs are tweaked, new bounding boxes, changed the physics: now more arcade and more playable.

If you use this car, just download the archive from RR again and overwrite the previous installation.

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It's better to have VSYNC always on, unless you have trouble recording videos with FRAPS (slowdowns), or have a lower-end comp and too many hi details cars installed.
According to Zeckensack's documentation, trying to apply trilinear filtering is useless if the game doesn't support mipmapping, I don't think that C2 does so Generating Mipmaps will fix that AND apply trilinear filtering on them.
A negative LOD bias increases the sharpness of the textures with trilinear filtering, max is -3, it doesn't have an effect on the framerate, but can cause shimmering in too low resolutions I think. Need to lock the value, as C2 might use its internal lod bias if it has any.
Old games like C2 won't kill your comp if you add some 2X or 4X anisotropy :]
It's useless to load most fancy shaders as C2 doesn't use any, Simple Shaders are enough and don't make C2O look like a psychedelic progie.
And for the Thread Policy: I think that choosing Classic is the safest option, unless someone experiences craches running the glidewrapper while another opengl program is running.
Ah and refresh rate, I'm not sure that it really works with XP, anyway "by app" is the safest.