The exact details are still emerging, but it appears that the 4 model limitation is no longer. The US Pits have posted a screenshot of their upcoming TPTCC mod that show 5 different models, as well as the pace car. This breakthrough has also been confirmed in a post by PWF at the Sierra forums. The only limitation now seems to be that the Opponent Manager and Paint Shop can support the easy and quick importation of textures for only 4 models. For any extra models beyond four, a .car file assembler application would have to be used, kinda like as done for NASCAR Heat. I think WinMip2 has this capability, and I'm sure it can revamped to support new models.
So apparently we will be seeing mods for NR2003 in the future that have more than one model. I'm cracking open GMAX to learn how to 3D model, I myself would like to run in a 1993 mod! |