About NR Car Creator
NR Car Creator (also known as NRCC) allows you to Create and Manage your .car files with ease. No more manual work having to create .car files one by one in the NR2003 menu, or editing 1 car at a time in winmip2, or having to play the copy/paste game in your file explorer to make tedious duplicates of the same driver using different schemes. NRCC is the WinMip2 Car file editor option expanded to give you all the tools to quickly generate your cars so you can spend more time painting and racing instead of tedious car file creation.
Download
(note: ADRD is not responsible for any issues that may arise on your computer from use)
Windows Exe: NR_Car_Creator-1.0.0-Windows.zip
Linux Appimage: NR_Car_Creator-1.0.0-Linux.zip
Known Issues/Missing Features
Future Possible Features
How to use NRCC
Prerequisites:
Because NRCC deals with importing and editing .car files and you can compress the MIP files make sure you have the prerequisites installed on your machine, The Appimage download comes with 'AppImage_Linux_Setup.txt' file to guide you though Node.js and CompressonatorCLI is installed for your distro (if they are not already installed)
App Core features:
- Save projects if you are working on a carset in progress or making constant ratings changes to certain cars you can easily open the project up each time and continue where you left off
- Hide previews for created cars, if you don't need to see the MIP previews for created car files or just want faster load time when importing many car files you can disable in settings the .car file Mip previews
- Auto save functionality so as you work your project updates
- Backup feature so you never have to worry about any .car files imported accidentally get corrupted, you can have them created automatically by day any .car files you import so if you need to restore an old .car file you can retrieve it from a backup folder the app creates
Create Tab:
Here you can create brand new .car files, you can even drag and drop your PNG/TGAs right into the app and it will automatically create a new row for each potential .car file. For the most effective processes if your paint scheme and crew file have matching names and your pitcrew file has the name 'crew' somewhere in it the app is smart enough to link the pit crew scheme
Create tab features:
- Easily Drag and drop your painted creations right into the app to create new car files, you can even drag a paint scheme over an existing row to replace the image
- Edit, duplicate, and fill out fields either by Bulk random generation or manually all the car details you would in NR2003
- Created car files can follow standardized naming conventions so you don't have to worry about hundreds and hundreds of created .car files ever having the same file name
- Automatically create the physics type of every .car file (CUP, GNS, CTS, PTA) all at once
- Create 43+ randomized car fields automatically (great for devs testing new mods that need a carset to be created quickly as they iterate on a mod)
View attachment Create.webm
Manage Tab:
The Manage tab allows users to manage existing .car files. Whether you just freshly created them from the create tab or need to tweak an existing car file you have many options to
Manage tab features:
- Replace paint scheme or crew images with existing .car files and re-save the car file with the changes instantly
- Update any car file details (driver name car #, sponsor etc)
- Generate other physics types or change car make
- Instantly create roster files for NR2003, no more having to manually check every car in the roster list in the game
- Preview the embedded Paint and Crew MIPS for .car files, even inspect the MIP levels
- Have a driver that has multiple paint schemes for their car? No problem, you can duplicate an existing .car file to replace paint and crew images
- Compress the paint and crew textures (WARNING, make sure you have Backups enabled or a copy of .car files, compression of textures reduces file size but higher compression will cause lower quality MIPs)
View attachment Manage.webm
Ratings Tab:
Inspired from one of the best NR2003 Ratings tools NRatings comes the Ratings Tab in NRCC. The Ratings tab allows you to manually edit the .car file ratings of one or more .car files. You can even visually see how good or bad a driver's overall stats are.
Ratings tab features:
- Cars you already imported from Manage tab also appear in Ratings tab and vice versa
- Easily edit .car ratings and save changes on the go
- Instantly randomize car ratings for one or more files with the randomize button (use checkbox to select one or all, can double click checkbox to quickly select all or select none)
- Apply custom rating presets you've created directly to one or more car files right from the table from the drop down column
- Bulk Modify Ratings is a powerful tool to not just modify car files on the go from random, within a certain range, or specific value. You can also create and save presets so if you like using certain ratings formulas for your files you can easily apply them to your car without having to type in the same settings and values each time.
- Visually see in the table the actual ratings performance each .car file has for Overall, Driver, Vehicle, and Pitcrew so car creators can quickly identify any errors in too high/low ratings or adjust certain .car files they feel are out of the bounds they prefer (if you want a more traditional Ratings table with with no charts this can be toggled off at the bottom of the right Ratings pane even)
View attachment Ratings.webm
NR Car Creator (also known as NRCC) allows you to Create and Manage your .car files with ease. No more manual work having to create .car files one by one in the NR2003 menu, or editing 1 car at a time in winmip2, or having to play the copy/paste game in your file explorer to make tedious duplicates of the same driver using different schemes. NRCC is the WinMip2 Car file editor option expanded to give you all the tools to quickly generate your cars so you can spend more time painting and racing instead of tedious car file creation.
Download
(note: ADRD is not responsible for any issues that may arise on your computer from use)
Windows Exe: NR_Car_Creator-1.0.0-Windows.zip
Linux Appimage: NR_Car_Creator-1.0.0-Linux.zip
Known Issues/Missing Features
- It is recommended you enable the BACKUP system in NR Car Creator, this will create a copy of any .car files you import into the App. While thorough testing has been done and no .car file corruption should occur, this is a Beta and there could be possible issues that were not found
Future Possible Features
- n/a at this time, more testing and any feature requests will be considered
How to use NRCC
Prerequisites:
Because NRCC deals with importing and editing .car files and you can compress the MIP files make sure you have the prerequisites installed on your machine, The Appimage download comes with 'AppImage_Linux_Setup.txt' file to guide you though Node.js and CompressonatorCLI is installed for your distro (if they are not already installed)
App Core features:
- Save projects if you are working on a carset in progress or making constant ratings changes to certain cars you can easily open the project up each time and continue where you left off
- Hide previews for created cars, if you don't need to see the MIP previews for created car files or just want faster load time when importing many car files you can disable in settings the .car file Mip previews
- Auto save functionality so as you work your project updates
- Backup feature so you never have to worry about any .car files imported accidentally get corrupted, you can have them created automatically by day any .car files you import so if you need to restore an old .car file you can retrieve it from a backup folder the app creates
Create Tab:
Here you can create brand new .car files, you can even drag and drop your PNG/TGAs right into the app and it will automatically create a new row for each potential .car file. For the most effective processes if your paint scheme and crew file have matching names and your pitcrew file has the name 'crew' somewhere in it the app is smart enough to link the pit crew scheme
Create tab features:
- Easily Drag and drop your painted creations right into the app to create new car files, you can even drag a paint scheme over an existing row to replace the image
- Edit, duplicate, and fill out fields either by Bulk random generation or manually all the car details you would in NR2003
- Created car files can follow standardized naming conventions so you don't have to worry about hundreds and hundreds of created .car files ever having the same file name
- Automatically create the physics type of every .car file (CUP, GNS, CTS, PTA) all at once
- Create 43+ randomized car fields automatically (great for devs testing new mods that need a carset to be created quickly as they iterate on a mod)
View attachment Create.webm
Manage Tab:
The Manage tab allows users to manage existing .car files. Whether you just freshly created them from the create tab or need to tweak an existing car file you have many options to
Manage tab features:
- Replace paint scheme or crew images with existing .car files and re-save the car file with the changes instantly
- Update any car file details (driver name car #, sponsor etc)
- Generate other physics types or change car make
- Instantly create roster files for NR2003, no more having to manually check every car in the roster list in the game
- Preview the embedded Paint and Crew MIPS for .car files, even inspect the MIP levels
- Have a driver that has multiple paint schemes for their car? No problem, you can duplicate an existing .car file to replace paint and crew images
- Compress the paint and crew textures (WARNING, make sure you have Backups enabled or a copy of .car files, compression of textures reduces file size but higher compression will cause lower quality MIPs)
View attachment Manage.webm
Ratings Tab:
Inspired from one of the best NR2003 Ratings tools NRatings comes the Ratings Tab in NRCC. The Ratings tab allows you to manually edit the .car file ratings of one or more .car files. You can even visually see how good or bad a driver's overall stats are.
Ratings tab features:
- Cars you already imported from Manage tab also appear in Ratings tab and vice versa
- Easily edit .car ratings and save changes on the go
- Instantly randomize car ratings for one or more files with the randomize button (use checkbox to select one or all, can double click checkbox to quickly select all or select none)
- Apply custom rating presets you've created directly to one or more car files right from the table from the drop down column
- Bulk Modify Ratings is a powerful tool to not just modify car files on the go from random, within a certain range, or specific value. You can also create and save presets so if you like using certain ratings formulas for your files you can easily apply them to your car without having to type in the same settings and values each time.
- Visually see in the table the actual ratings performance each .car file has for Overall, Driver, Vehicle, and Pitcrew so car creators can quickly identify any errors in too high/low ratings or adjust certain .car files they feel are out of the bounds they prefer (if you want a more traditional Ratings table with with no charts this can be toggled off at the bottom of the right Ratings pane even)
View attachment Ratings.webm
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