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I had a little play around with the GDB files today and have some research to document. Some may already be known and some may not, I'm just putting down everything I discovered. Before I continue, I'd like to give a big thanks to WillKirkby - who no LR modder here can thank enough - for his >Binary File Editor. 1. Jumbo Racers Of all the various GDB part files I went through, both in GAMEDATA and MENUDATA, every one has a scale variable near the top. Based on the files I've examined this number is always 0.015625. That is the scale LEGO Racers uses, for its figures and their individual parts at least. To clarify: this is a scale, not a size, which is why all parts and figures use it no matter their size. I played around with this is a little, bumping up the values to 0.2. The figures don't count for hit testing; they pass right through ceilings and such. Hence the hitbox for a racer doesn't count its driver, only the car. Also, this could be quite handy for people testing out custom textures or (hopefully in future) models, as I found when trying out things later. 2. High-Poly Models I'm sure this is a long-desired feature. I attempted to replace Captain Redbeard's in-game head with a menu head, and this resulted in the following: Unfortunately, however, I also discovered that the developers were rather lazy (or clever, depending on how you look at it). The menu models don't have backs. That, or I made a pretty big mistake. So I guess high-poly models will require a little more work. 3. GDB Sections Here's some notes I wrote down on the GDB files. They may or may not be clear as they are brief notes I made to myself. One modding request for LEGO Racers has often been to change individual parts of an opponent racer. Here are my initial attempts to copy Rocket Racer's entire GDB over to Redbeard's while maintaining textures and such. Vertices Only - Messed up. Very messed up. Vertices and Indices - There's some form in it now. Except Redbeard has a huge spike out of his head and a beak (which I believe to be the legs). All Three - Voila! Rocket Racer with Redbeard's textures. Of course, the final part of that is pretty much the same as simply renaming RRPELVIS.GDB to CRPELVIS.GDB. I was just playing around, and this also showed me that it might be possible to edit individual parts. 4. Modding Individual Parts The final step! Here I tried to copy across Rocket Racer's helmet alone. The results: Not quite there, but from the back it looks better. I must have missed out some entries or something, or perhaps didn't do all the Bones. But it shows that it is definitely possible to edit - and even create from scratch - individual parts of a racer. You could easily have a standard Rocket Racer with a storm cloud flying above his head. However, with the current method of modification being restricted to text-based editing, this is very difficult. And there you have it! A little documentation of my GDB experiments today. As usual, I completely forgot about eating lunch as I got so wrapped up in this. I best be off.

Using textures from LR2, I turned Imperial Grand Prix, into Dino Grand Prix! (although there is no dinosaurs in this part of the land... ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuS7rNlAy4c I did a tiny bit of changes after the recording of this vid, though nothing major. Enjoy! DGP.zip

Over the past week or so, I've been attempting to make a pack of skins that not only features texture corrections for two of the game's characters, but also features several classic minifigures to replace the more boring body parts (i.e. the racing suits, Majisto's body, the regular moustache/sunglasses/skeleton heads). The pack provides a corrected chest texture for Commander Cold, and textures for Black Knight that match the actual Black Knight minifigure (no more mish-mash Fright Knights and Dragon Knights parts...). This includes a new face, chest and swapped helmet colours. The MAP has also been modified for Black Knight (Commander Cold doesn't need one). Meanwhile, here's the list so far for the additional characters, check out the spoiler at the end of the post to see them in action: Señor Palomar - Amazon Adventurers Sheriff Deputy - Western Spyrius Agent - Spyrius Space Port Astronaut - Space Port (Rocket Racers homage ) ??? - Castle character The last figure brings me to a question - I wanted to use the black Castle helmet in a figure, so do you guys think I should do a Fright Knight character or a Black Falcon? I'll try and get the textures up by next week! Señor Palomar (expressions and corrected face needed): Sheriff Deputy (complete): Spyrius Agent (expressions and retextured helmet needed): Space Port Astronaut (corrected face and Space Port chest needed): Corrected Commander Cold: Corrected Black Knight (Expressions needed):

I finally made a pack, and its based off one of my favorite themes; Blacktron. I was interested in making this when i looked at RobExplorien's Space Racer pack. I haven't tested it so i guess i could consider this "Work In Progress". Changelog: v0.1 * First Release * Studs on textures are White instead of Black. * Some things are untextured. (explorien mining the rock, lazers, etc.) * Not yet tested! But that doesn't mean it stinks, it just means i haven't used it yet. LRTextures_v9_991919.zip

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Download a file archiver like 7-Zip or WinRar. Then you can open and unpack the file.

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