rec.autos.simulators

Getting bored with the NFS II demo? Get the NFS3 VIV Extractor/Builder from
Espen Grimsgaard at http://www.racesimcentral.net/(He'll have a
patched, improved version on later, so he told me). Use the eviv.exe to
extract the car.viv and the bviv.exe to put all files together again. I
fooled around with it and it's great! I changed some parameters in the
Carp.txt (see the end of this message for my changes: you can change
anything you want of course) and now the car finally runs great: really
fast, the way it should be. Powersliding through corners is a breeze! Also
by extracting the police car file, and putting these files in the Corvette
car.viv (you'll figure out how to do that :-) you can drive the police car,
with the Corv dashboard though, but the right sounds and exteriour looks!.
It's fun to see the AI having troubles with the car improvements (all cars
are Corvettes, so all cars are altered): during weather races they have a
hard time staying on the road! I even managed to win a normal race with
aggressive AI and weather, something that I didn't succeed in first.

Have fun!

Jeroen

My changes (you can copy this entire part into the carp.txt):

number of gears (reverse + neutral + forward gears)(3)
8
number of gears (automatic, r, n, forward)(75)
8
gear shift delay (ticks)(4)
1
shift blip in rpm (size 8)(5)
0,0,300,225,200,175,150,100
brake blip in rpm (size 8)(6)
0,0,300,225,200,175,150,100
velocity to rpm ratio (size 8)(7)
-279.710358,0.000000,256.561890,171.684280,125.387398,96.451843,84.877625,76
.196953
velocity to rpm ratio automatic(size 8)(76)
-279.710358,0.000000,256.561890,171.684280,125.387398,96.451843,84.877625,76
.196953
gear ratios (size 8)(8)
2.900000,0.000000,2.660000,1.780000,1.300000,1.000000,0.740000,0.500000
gear ratios automatic (size 8)(77)
2.900000,0.000000,2.660000,1.780000,1.300000,1.000000,0.740000,0.500000
gear efficiency (size 8)(9)
0.799988,0.000000,0.870000,0.870000,0.849991,0.899994,0.950000,1.120000
gear efficiency automatic (size 8)(78)
0.799988,0.000000,0.870000,0.870000,0.849991,0.899994,0.950000,1.120000
torque curve (size 41) in 256rpm increments(10)
190.000000,190.452438,195.723282,292.907043,381.565521,387.813019,394.548645
,404.267029,412.944153,417.109161,422.738434,433.150970,442.587341,449.52905
3,457.609619,468.022156,474.529999,474.529999,467.208679,449.854431,432.5002
14,415.145966,397.791718,380.437469,363.083252,345.729004,328.374756,311.020
508,293.666290,276.312042,258.957794,241.603561,224.249313,206.895081,189.54
0833,172.186600,154.832367,137.478119,120.123878,102.769638,85.415398
final gear(11)
3.420000
final gear automatic(79)
3.420000
engine minimum rpm(12)
900
engine redline in rpm(13)
6000
maximum velocity of car [m/s](14)
15000.230003
top speed cap [m/s](15)
15000.230003