Chevette Livery Pack - Download Inside

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  1. TekNeil

    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    65 Mini Cooper S Livery Pack here > 65 Mini Cooper S Livery - Murray Walker Edition
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    I made a full replacement livery pack for the Chevette. I'm no expert in Photoshop, and it's been really hard having it on an old I3 all in-one PC upstairs, keep running up/down to check progress etc.
    Also the image maps aren't very well aligned, and frustratingly, things are even half a pixel out... :eek: But I wanted to add some oldskool group B style liveries for the hell of it.

    Ideally I'd like more than the 10 cars we have :-( Hopefully at some stage @Renato Simioni ? Needed for leagues too...

    Download: https://www.tekneil.com/downloads/ams2/livery/chevette.zip

    Extract/Unzip the folder, then place it (chevette folder) in:
    :\Steam\steamapps\common\Automobilista 2\Vehicles\Textures\CustomLiveries\Overrides\

    So you will then have:
    :\Steam\steamapps\common\Automobilista 2\Vehicles\Textures\CustomLiveries\Overrides\chevette\TekNeil_Sim_Racing

    Doing so will overwrite any custom Chevette livery's you already have.
    I know the 'preview' images aren't great, nor the photoshop skills...
    But let me know what you think, and please give credit if used in any media. :)

    #1 Homologation car.
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    #10 Heat For Hire (Russell Brookes).
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    #16 Rothmans (Henri Toivonen)
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    #22 AC Delco (Jimmy McRae)
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    #32 Dealer Opel Team Ireland (Austin McHale)
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    #33 Dealer Opel Team Ireland (Purple)
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    #44 Conrero White
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    #45 Conrero Orange
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    #79 My own Blue/Yellow
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    #80 My own Red/Yellow
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    EDIT: Just corrected the folder structure (Removed second 'chevette' folder). Apologies.

    EDIT: Custom Driver names added.
    * Use 10 A.I in-game to get the max drivers/liveries showing.
    1/ Download the attached '
    CopaClassicB.xml'
    (Bottom of this post)

    2/ Add it to the following folder on your installation:

    YourDriveLetterHere:\Steam\steamapps\common\Automobilista 2\UserData\CustomAIDrivers\

    3/ You should now have:
    YourDriveLetterHere:\Steam\steamapps\common\Automobilista 2\UserData\CustomAIDrivers\CopaClassicB.xml

    4/ This will only provide the 'mostly' real driver names below so that you can use the in-game sliders for A.I strength.
    Read #5 to edit individual driver parameters such as race/qualifying strength etc.
    Ari Vatanen
    Austin McHale
    Bertie Fisher
    Henri Toivenen
    Jimmy McRae
    Jorge Sabater
    Neil Son
    Russell Brookes
    Salvador Servia

    Tek Neil

    5/ If you would like to edit driver parameters, open the 'CopaClassicB.xml' with notepad/notepad++ or similar (Be careful with wordpad as it can select multiple characters).
    You will see lines that are commented out, in other words, they are inactive.

    They look like this:
    <!-- <race_skill>0.85</race_skill> -->


    To make this line active and editable, you must remove the below. This is a comment, and anything inbetween is inactive/ignored by the game:
    <!-- -->
    Example: <!-- THIS IS INACTIVE TEXT -->

    Remove the start and end comment tags, so you are left with:
    <race_skill>0.85</race_skill>

    So you've gone:
    From:
    <!-- <race_skill>0.85</race_skill> -->
    To: <race_skill>0.85</race_skill>

    You can edit each parameter from 0-1 inclusive, and anything inbetween. 0.1, 0.5, 0.85, 0.9, 0.98, 1 etc.

    Here is an example of a driver name only markup (File downloaded without editing):

    <driver livery_name="TSR #10 Heat For Hire">
    <name>Russell Brookes</name>
    <country>GBR</country>
    <!-- <race_skill>0.85</race_skill> -->
    <!-- <qualifying_skill>0.9</qualifying_skill> -->
    <!-- <aggression>0.8</aggression> -->
    <!-- <defending>0.8</defending> -->
    <!-- <stamina>0.998</stamina> -->
    <!-- <consistency>0.2</consistency> -->
    <!-- <start_reactions>0.9</start_reactions> -->
    <!-- <wet_skill>0.6</wet_skill> -->
    <!-- <tyre_management>0.85</tyre_management> -->
    <!-- <blue_flag_conceding>0.5</blue_flag_conceding> -->
    <!-- <weather_tyre_changes>1.0</weather_tyre_changes> -->
    </driver>

    And here is the same driver with the commenting out removed to make the parameters active/editable, notice there are no: <!-- OR -->

    <driver livery_name="TSR #10 Heat For Hire">
    <name>Russell Brookes</name>
    <country>GBR</country>
    <race_skill>0.85</race_skill>
    <qualifying_skill>0.9</qualifying_skill>
    <aggression>0.8</aggression>
    <defending>0.8</defending>
    <stamina>0.998</stamina>
    <consistency>0.2</consistency>
    <start_reactions>0.9</start_reactions>
    <wet_skill>0.6</wet_skill>
    <tyre_management>0.85</tyre_management>
    <blue_flag_conceding>0.5</blue_flag_conceding>
    <weather_tyre_changes>1.0</weather_tyre_changes>
    </driver>
     

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  2. DaveC187

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    Thanks for doing this. I really like the skins!
     
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  3. TekNeil

    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    Glad you like em, hopefully I've just about done justice to legends, past and present.
     
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    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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  5. sampopel

    sampopel Active Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Thanks for these - they look great in game. The preview images look good, too.

    Do you plan to do any more, either for this car or any of the other cars in need of a bit of sprucing up?
     
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  6. John Hargreaves

    John Hargreaves Well-Known Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Nice collection of skins, looks like lots of fun, thanks for your work on this.
     
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  7. mcoak

    mcoak Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Very cool. I really liked the skins. Congratulations. :)

    Don't worry too much about the alignment of the image maps.

    If there are any, most of them can only be noticed in the showroom.

    On the track, you won't be able to notice them. ;)
     
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  8. F1 Hero

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    Great job. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
     
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  9. TekNeil

    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    No worries, enjoy. :)

    Oh good to hear, cheers. I'm currently doing something with the Mini Cooper S (65). But illness is getting in the way a bit at the moment.

    Yeah, fair point:cool: I started off trying to be pixel perfect, and also historically correct, but I had to admit defeat. Glad people like them.
     
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    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    Made a start on the Minis. Few colour variations on the first attempt. The black trims and boot lid are proving a bit of a nightmare. Will post a new topic for these when ready.
    EDIT: Hmm, I think even a very basic design like this is still too much for the 60's...Thoughts?
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    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    Saddened by the news, passing of a legend. Hence 'Legend Edition' Mini Livery underway...

    walker-2b.png

    walker-3B.png
     
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    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    Just bumping this up, as I realise that there have probably been some deleting of game folders, and hence liveries being removed. (DejaVu):D
     
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    Kuku Flying Kiwi AMS2 Club Member

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    I’ve had the minis for a while but didn’t realise about the chevette :cool:
     
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  14. sampopel

    sampopel Active Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Just a note to say that I play with Chevettes quite a lot and always love seeing your liveries - they look very fitting in this beautiful game.

    There are quite a few other tin-tops (Gols & Passats in the same class, the Mitsubishis) that are in need of someone with the talent and know-how to give them a lick of paint :whistle:.
     
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    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    @sampopel Cheers, if at least one person enjoys them, then that's all good. They are classics eh:cool:
    I'd maybe look at doing some for those cars, but time isn't on my side lately unfortunately. I will if I can, but thankfully there are people on here much more capable than me, and they may get around to doing them too.

    Hope you like em mate. :cool:
     
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    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    Added custom driver names file to first post.
    Use 10 A.I in-game to get the max drivers/liveries showing.
     
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    TekNeil Take me back to the 2.4l, twin 50 weber days...

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    Corrected an error, please re-download the CopaClassicB.xml and replace/overwrite the previous one if you used it.
    Use 10 A.I in-game to get the max drivers/liveries showing.
     
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