GP4: IMSA vs WEC Hypercar mod update v1.1

Congratulations to the AF Corse Ferrari team for winning the 2024 Le Mans 24 hour race with the number 50 car.  

I'm pleased to announce that the IMSA vs WEC Hypercar mod has been updated and you can download version 1.1 below. The original release had a definitive deadline, the 2024 Le Mans race, and I was pleased to release a good mod then. But I always felt there were areas that could be impoved and some bugs ironed out. Hopefully this new version addresses many of those things.  

This update is more than just a hurried patch, however, but it brings a tonne of tweaks and new content.

New Mod Variant - Le Mans 2024

First up, there's a new mod variant, the 2024 Le Mans mod, featuring 22 of the 23 cars of the grid. Not all the car liveries have been updated yet, but the structure is all in place for future skin updates to be easily inserted when they are available. Even though everything is together in one mod, there's still quite a lot of config work to do with the cars, helmets, tweaker, gpxpatch, teamarts and so on. This mod variant also has a new updated performance file based on this year's race. It's a shame the Vanwall and Glickenhaus are now gone from the grid, but we have a full grid of a good variety of cars, all fairly competitive. 

Updates

The sounds have been updated and tweaked. This is basically me understanding more about how the configuration files work, thanks in large part to Mitsuro Sano's previous work and just a lot of trial and error. The sounds aren't perfect, there's still some distortion from t-cam view, but otherwise it's an improvement on the first iteration. 

The physics have also been updated to make it easier to drive without making it unrealistic. There's more mechanical tyre grip, and also turning off power and grip dependancy in GPxPatch also makes things a lot easier. I'd still like to make the car a bit more forgiving, but watching Kevin Estre's pole lap at le Sarthe, the car was on a knife edge the whole time. Doing some side by side of onboard laps compared with this GP4 mod, the results are not bad at Spa, Monza and Imola. 

Both the internal cockpit and steering wheel and the external steering wheels have been updated. Actually the whole internal cockpit has moved. Previously it was too low to the ground and had many related bugs. Now the cockpit is better positioned and the views and positions amended to be more realistic. I've utilised the extra screen on the internal dashboard to put a few more items on, namely driver aids, car damage indicator and a more obvious pit indicator. The external wheel now has rev lights added too. 

Also new is that it's now possible to crack the front windscreen. Thanks to Carl_gpgames for the idea from the 1989 cockpit, damaging any of the front area of your car will generate different cracks. 

I've also made the dials 'glow-in-the-dark' on the steering wheel too. All in all, it's a much better driving experience. 

I've added some WEC TV style graphic variants to the main GPxSat graphics, depending on which mod variant you choose to run. 

I'm really pleased that TheCameraGuy has allowed me to include his 2023 Le Mans helmets for this mod, they look brilliant. Raphael Rodrigues has added some 2024 helmets which are included too, with the odd one by me thrown in there too. I've left the generic helmet in for the IMSA vs WEC mod variant, but it's nice to have a bit of variety and colour in the IMSA and Le Mans mods.  

Fixes

For those of you who have parts of your own car showing in your mirrors, you would have found that the onboard mirrors rarely worked. So inbuilt into the mod, the feature disables it whilst running this mod only. 

I've been able to stop GPxPatch from displaying an error message upon exiting the game. 

The qualifying performance values for Le Mans 2023 are now corrected to reflect reality. 

Some of the menu's still referenced the 1991 season. There are some legacy references if you look hard enough, but most of them are now replaced. 
I've removed the individual helmet tweak, as it wasn't really needed and to save space. 

Car Updates

The Ferrari 499P had a slight gap in the door from internal view, which has now been fixed. I've now added a full set of 2024 Le Mans livery by Martin Designs, which replaces the previous ones by Adisar modding, due to it being more up to date. 

Thanks to Paradoz, I'm able to bring you the 2023 liveries for the Glickenhaus and the Peugeot. Both look stunning in my opinion and I'm pleased to include them in this update. 

I've also included updated Alpine Le Mans 2024 liveries by Adrien Vowles, who also did the 2024 helmets, including Charles Milesi's Senna tribute helmet he ran in Imola. 

The Porsche 963 LMDh includes the Proton livery ran in WEC this season, which is a tribute of a classic 1990s livery on the 962C. Thanks again to Martin Designs for this beauty. Previously the inner tyre walls were transparent, that's now fixed. 

The BMW M Hybrid has a slight tweak in that the lights around the front grill inlet now glow purple instead of white. 

And the Lamborghini SC63, I've decided to redo it to a much better quality and accuracy than before. The missing logos are now there, as well as the red trim on the floor and the screws and bolts are much better handled. The car shape also has much less imperfections now. There are three versions of this, the white Le Mans number 19 car at Le Mans, the black 63 car at Le Mans and a kind of hybrid 63 car for IMSA. 

Thanks for your support and enthusiasm for this mod. I really want to thank Meteoro405, without whom this mod would simply not exist. I want to thank Oggo for his support in helping me with some bugs and KerleyF1 and Quickslick for their feedback and suggestions. Thanks to all the authors who have contributed to this mod. 

This is a new mod, so you do not need to install the original version for this to work. If you do have v1.0, you can delete it. Here's the download, enjoy!