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F12002
uses a single game.gdb file to run the quick races and the championship.
You can fiind the file in the Season02 folder (or the Season folder
of a mod).
Part
1: Modifying the game.gdb
Open
the game.gdb file with wordpad and you will see a long list of
track, season, pit strategy, weather information.
Now
download my "generic" game.gdb in the downloads
section. Open it up with wordpad and compare the two
game.gdb files. You will notice that I do not include
all the season, pit strategy information. That's for two
reasons 1) the game ususally randomizes this data anyway 2)
the data is specific to F1 drivers and would not be recognized
by the mods.
This
first section is important because it's what the game looks at
to see how many laps it should run and what the title of the
track is. You can change both of these. If you
install a track and it's not in the game.gdb then it will only
run 5 laps no matter what you put in for race length.
Part
2: Creating a custom season
To
create a custom season all you need to do is copy each track
information section (just like I have in my game.gdb) in the
order that you want. You
can have as many tracks as you want in your season and in any
order. Don't worry about changing any of the information
at the end of the file . . . times, .svm's, points, etc.
Just keep this the same as my generic.gdb.
IMPORTANT:
Make sure the brackets are the right type and the right way
around . . . { . . . not [ or (.
When
you have the new game.gdb created, save it in the main
Season02 folder (or the season folder in a mod) and then test
it. You can do a simple test to make sure it's working
by starting a championship and then just after the first race
starts, hit escape to quit. The game will end the race
and award points. If there are no points awarded, then
the game.gdb didn't work properlyl. There is a mistake
somewhere in the file. Either a bracket is missing or
the wrong way around. Go through it and compare to a
good working game.gdb to find the mistake.
Part
3: Multiple Seasons in GTR
The
GTR mod was created with the ability to select various
seasons. When you start GTR from the main menu and go to
create a championship, it has a menu bar at the top where you
can select different championship game.gdb files.
Look
in the GTR2002Season/Championship folder and you will see
several .gdb files. Each one is for a different season
or add on mod.
All
you need to do is create a custom game.gdb file like above and
put the new file into the Championship folder. Then
create a new championship and select the file.
NOTE:
The first line in the game.gdb is what GTR puts in the
selection box in the championship creation menu. You can
change this title to anything you want, but make sure there is
one space after the backslashes.
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