Name: 1982-1988 F1 Turbo Mega Update

Author: f1freek

Description:

TurboMegaUpdate v0.9

This includes the 1982-1988 F1 seasons. Cars aren't made by me!
The credits go to Neiln1, Carlson1984 and others.
I haven't made any changes to the models at all.

I've been downloading and collecting all the stuff for the Turbo F1 seasons, more than 2GB unpacked (or something like that). I already downloaded the 1988 F1 season a long while ago, and after trying out this stunning turbo season, I started installing the other spectacular turbo seasons. After having almost all downloadable F1 cars installed, the first thing I did was reducing the huge size, and renaming the files and folders.

But that's not all that had to be done. The tracks are all collected, thanks to wookey for his permission and his great site (http://alliance.bondurand.com/f1c_tracks.htm)
Just two tracks are missing; Dallas and Paul Ricard (long version).

I already read there was someone doing a TurboMegaUpdate, but it was quiet for quite a while. As the authors of the initial TurboMegaUpdate "left" the project, I said I would be doing/ starting the same project, more or less. After about 5 months of work (and breaks, because of school), I decided to upload the whole thing as it is. The main reason is that I haven't got that much time for doing things like this. Don't think this TurboMegaUpdate is incomplete, it's more or less complete, but with some bugs.

So, there still are some problems here and there that need to be fixed. The problems I've collated;

- Helmets are floating above drivers' bodies. Mostly in the 1986 and 1987 season.
- Cars don't display properly in the spinner (too big and off-center).
- .gdb files (for tracks and for seasons); any effort there would be appreciated. We sure need realistic races, and we don't want the backmarkers to run in the front of the field, do we? Maybe the driver .rcd files are needed to for realism (like the 1994-200x pack by danil89).
- Some tyres don't use the intermediate/ wet/ monsoon tyre textures. Also, some of the tyres may be transparant.

If the F1C community will make some fixes to this TurboMegaUpdate and post it in this thread (or PM/ email), I will collect all the updates and will release a new version when needed. Keep in mind that this still is version 0.9, and a new version will be released later on!

I'm doing this in favour of the community, and sort of a tribute to the great drivers back then, Mansell, Senna etc. etc. and to the great creators of these Turbo cars, Neiln1, pk4ever and carlson.

TurboMegaUpdate v0.9: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K9I47ZK6
1988 fixes: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FMKWQTJD
TurboMegaUpdate TrackPack v0.9: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8WIH2OVR

CREDITS:

Special thanks to:
* Thrasher: Without Thrasher’s wonderful original cars (1986-1987), there would be no Turbo Mod. Enough said.
* Neiln1: Without him, there wouldn't be a TurboMegaUpdate at all. All those years, 1982-1988, there is no season at all that doesn't include something neiln1 didn't make.
* Carlson1984: For those great cars (1983) and base cars for neiln1.
* Pk4ever: For his great Rio track and his great help with modeling the F1 Turbo cars

Further thanks to:
* OllieC: 3d mesh editing, including LODs, and extra cars

* f1fr33k: reducing file size, creating driver icons, team icons, track lods
* face_lol: creating track lods
* Wookey: for uploading tracks and letting me use the tracks off his site:
- http://alliance.bondurand.com/f1c_tracks.htm -