GP4: 2021 Car Livery updates

Having completed the helmets for 2021, I have turned my attention back to the cars and updated some of the liveries to the end of the season. 

2021 Mercedes-AMG F1 W12 E-Performance

I've updated the car driven by Bottas at the final race, emblazoned with Kiitos logos, the team saying thanks to Valterri for his contributions over the past couple of seasons. His number has returned to a blue outline, and I amended his race suit (not that you can really tell). 

2021 Williams FW43B

Just one livery added to the final full season pack for the Williams team. They were promoting the new King's Man film and those logos have been added to the various places on the car, including the halo. 

2021 Aston Martin AMR21

Two liveries have been added to this pack, in Saudi Arabia they could not run alcoholic advertisements. In Abu Dhabi, they added Juniper Networks logo to the halo which is also included in this pack. 

Thanks for the support throughout the year, 2021 has seen some great breakthroughs and lots of great content released that has in part revitalised the GP4 community and I'm glad to have played a small part to that. We all do this for the love of the sport and the game and to enjoy ourselves and have a good time, so I hope my contributions bring some joy to this ancient game. 

GP4: Russian GP Updates - Mazepin, Williams, Aston Martin & Mercedes

Helmets: Nikita Mazepin

Just the one helmet to update from the Russian GP (Vettel used his Styrian GP lid again), and it's the first home race for Nikita Mazepin.

Nikita Mazepin 2021 Russian GP Helmet

His helmet is now turned from dayglo red to the colours of the Russian flag, with gold trim. It features names of all the medalists who competed under ROC from the Olympics and the Paralympics. There's also a gold Haas medal at the front. Mazepin uses a Bell helmet, and  I'm ever grateful for Jvinu's Bell helmet and template which is a pleasure to paint on.

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GP4: 2021 Aston Martin AMR21 Download

I present to you the full 2021 Aston Martin AMR21. Thanks to Hega for the great screenshots. 

The previous release was the livery on the 2020 car, but I have been able to create a new 2021 shape based on the Bahrain GP. The team have brought a number of updates to the car throughout the year which I have not created the shape yet, but the car comes with a full pack of textures from the opener in Bahrain to the Hungarian GP. 

I've tried to include a minor metallic effect through the alpha channel, but it's subtle like on the real car. Thankfully as I've painted the car previously, creating the textures on this car was not so difficult, and I've retained the same green tone from the previous version. 

The biggest change in livery for the year was at the British GP where the team ran a large Union Flag on the side of the car and this is included in the pack. The team endured a difficult time from being at the top end of the midfield last year, to struggling with balance and grip with the amended rules. However, Vettel has crossed the line on the podium twice, although one of them did not count, but shows the progress the team have made, the potential in the car, and what a top class driver Vettel can still be. 

I hope you enjoy the car, here's the links:

GP4: 2021 Aston Martin Livery (on RP20 shape) lower lods added

I wasn't intending to put much effort into this car, yet I'm on the third update! Glad for the feedback, but I really must concentrate on new work like the actual 2021 shape😄. 

Anyway, I've added lower lods to the package. I personally only run the main lods, so I've not tested these, but they should be OK. 

V1.3 is available on the same links as before: 

GP4: 2021 Aston Martin Livery (on RP20 shape) updated again!

Apologies for the need for another update, but there was an issue with the mirrors, which is now fixed. I've also taken the opportunity to update the logos on the mirrors and a slight tweak to the top of the cockpit. 

V1.2 is available on the same links as before: 

GP4: 2021 Aston Martin Livery (on RP20 shape) updated

Just a quick update on the previously release 2021 Aston Martin livery on the 2020 RP20 car. It's just some changes to the rear wing: replaced Cognizant on the rear of the upper rear wing to Aston Martin, removed the pink and added the lime green accent. I've also touched up the front with carbon tipped leading edges. 

I've also included my full 2021 Lance Stroll helmet released last week too. 

Also a quick note on the package itself, even though I've been using 4096x4096 textures, I wasn't happy with the loss in conversion to the GP4 tex format (with this and the 1994 cars), so recently I've been using a different texture mode which reduces the loss. However, this makes the file size very large. So I've included the usual format (std DXT5) and the lossless format (Hi) - choose to install one or the other. 

V1.1 is available on the same links as before: 

GP4: 2021 Aston Martin Livery (on RP20 shape) download by Fongu

This is the 2020 Racing Point RP20 car with the 2021 Aston Martin livery from the launch and shakedown. This is a light version of the 2020 Racing Point car shape. There is much to do on the shape to bring it to the AMR21 shape, so you can enjoy this livery update until I have time to complete those changes.

The package includes a very quick change of colours to Lance Strolls and Sebastian Vettel’s helmets. There’s not enough pictures of the real thing to do any meaningful work on them, but at least they look OK from a distance.