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Platinum G3 Released - Get It Now!
Blaxman | Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 6:45pm EST | The Mod Squad
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Platinum G3 RELEASED TheModSquad proudly presents the new Platinum G3 mod. The 3rd generation of the most successful mod in Nascar HEAT history. In the few lines below, a brief explanation of this project started back in 2007 when the first "Platinum family" mod was released. What's Platinum G3 Platinum G3 is the result of years of development work by many people from Nascar Heat community. The mod contains a lot of material collected from many successful mods made by many successful mod and track makers of Heat community and other sims. All the content of this mod is used under their original creators permission. The full credits can be seen at the ingame “Options” screen. Platinum G3 is ready to provide the addons for the best stock car series in the world such as “Nascar Cup Series” , “ Nascar Nationwide Series”, Nascar Truck Series, Grand Am Series and possibly many other series in the near future. Platinum G3 is designed to support multiple stock car related mods and series that are called as “submods”. They are called submods only because they run “under” the main Platinum mod and may use any of its assets. Nothing to do with them being worst of anything in the main mod. In fact, a submod can have its own exclusive features the main mod doesn’t have. The submods can have its own models, sounds, textures, tracks, etc… The Main mod will not limit the possibilities of the submods. A Couple of Features As usual in the previous editions (G1, G2), Platinum G3 provides many exclusive features only seen on Platinum mods. A comprehensive illustrated User Guide is automatically installed along with the base files and its icon placed on your desktop. Read the guide with attention to learn how to operate your Platinum G3 and enjoy it at its best. Among its many exclusive and groundbreaking features, Platinum G3 brings, at its first addon (already included in base files) 8 options of Nascar models and 50 drivers/entries/race cars from the 2012 Cup Series. Out of these 8 models, there's 5 regular cockpit configurations with options for SPEK or Auto Meter gauges, 2 hood view (with and without gauges) and 1 chase view with gauges. All of them fully describe in the chapter 10 of G3 User Guide (Models Lineup). The other models are auxiliar vehicles specially made to provide support for online leagues with live action cautions (using human officials to operate pacecar, service trucks, caution signs, etc. The usage of these vehicles are described in the chapter 18 (Admin Carset). Also, mostly for online support, there's the "ID Pack". A pack of up to 100 pre-made mugshots to help the identification of drivers and admin functions during the race sessions. This feature will be extended and updated for the next releases to cover new users and possible mistakes made at this first release. Requests of new mugshost can be requested by recognized league admins by PM in a later date to be announced. Unidentified Driver Detection Still, mostly for online use, everytime Platinum G3 detect an unidentified driver entered a race, it will show up an alert ID indicating the user is required to identify himself. Visual Enhancements As the computer monitors developed into bigger and better resolutions and image quality, any monitor with native resolution bigger than 1280x1024 will require the instalation of the Resolution Pack in order to patch the game to the desired resolution. This action is explained at the chapter 4 (Graphic & Controls Settings) of G3 User Guide. Also, as part of visual enhancements, new shining warning lights were developed to provide a more efficient awareness for the drivers. The same goes to the ingame chat characters. They are now bigger then the original ones in order to be seen more easily by the drivers during the races. Better FPS Rates And.. last, but not least, Platinum G3 causes less stress to the computer than its older version G2.... even with more models used at the same time (6 for G2, 8 for G3). The average gain in performance is 2-3 FPS in favor of G3. G3's high and low detail comparison was tested too. The average gain by unchecking the 'High Deatil Car' box on Graphics screen is 14-15 FPS. ============================================================= Thanks to: -TheModSquad staff and members for all the effort, willingness and support they do for HEAT all these years. You guys are unbelievable! -Speedsims.net for providing the servers for online tests. -Hunter for the track editing, specially the cool additions for Sears Point, Atlanta and other tracks. Very special thanks to: - Bowtie for sending me a small treasure still to be properly explored, but that has already been used on the making of this mod. - Tazmaniac for keeping TMS alive all these years!! - Raybee for the passionate, precise research!!! Track editing, modeling, etc, etc.... - DaveO for the patience, tireless tests, setups, unbelievable skills and many, man ============================================================== DOWNLOAD LINKS For people who are familiar to the Platinum mods: Base files and G3-Track_Pack-1 links: http://www.themodsquad.info/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=50 Dual Pit Lane Tracks (Bristol, Darlington, Sears Point): http://www.themodsquad.info/downloads/G3tracks/G3tracks.html ============================================================== First time Nascar HEAT users will need: Nascar HEAT CD (Patch 1.80) or HEAT Essentials-2: http://www.themodsquad.info/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=187 G3 Base files and G3-Track_Pack-1: http://www.themodsquad.info/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=50 G3 Dual Pits Track Pack (for ONLINE use): http://www.themodsquad.info/downloads/G3tracks/G3tracks.html All 7 SP Track Packs: http://www.themodsquad.info/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=33 Mod Launcher-2 (properly installed): http://www.themodsquad.info/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=65 - Once the game is set, the mod installed... read the G3 User Guide and follow the onscreen instructions to get it working properly. If anything goes wrong, no worries. Come here at TMS and post your problem that you'll be helped as soon as possible. Have fun, good races for all!!!!

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