1979 Pontiac Firebird Esprit

Jason G Trusty
Site Designer | Webmaster | Car & Track Developer

- click the banner to visit my site -

Need For Speed 4 - New Car
copyright © 1999 J. Trusty

Title: "1979 Pontiac Firebird Esprit"
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Type: New Car
Editor(s) used: CarCad 1.41 - copyright © Chris Barnard
                       NFS FCE converter - copyright © Addict
                       EA Cartool - copyright © Electronic Arts
                       Viv/NFS Wizard - copyright © Jesper Juul-Mortensen
                       Photoshop 5.0 - copyright © Adobe Systems
Filename: 79fb_nfs4_v2.zip
Serial #: 45
Included files: car.viv - entire car file (mesh, texture etc...)
                       readme.html - this readme document
Author: Jason G Trusty - co-owner World Track Studio
Email Address: jtrusty@indiana.edu
Home Page: NFS Pontiac
Description: This is my first complete NFS 4 car.The 1979 Pontiac Firebird Esprit. Every effort was made to make this car look and perform as closely to the orginal as possible. The ground effects were removed, the shaker scoop flattened, the logos replaced with the Esprit package and the rims and tires replaced with factory parts. It features complete interior, fully animated driver (my first), shattering glass, broken removed glass, new performance and vidwall. Known bugs: the normals on the hood have yet to be smoothed... traces of the old scoop can sometimes still be seen and body damage has yet to be implemented.

Installation: Simply unzip this file to a temp directory such as c:/unzipped. Now, go to your c:/programfiles/need for speed high stakes/savedata/car directory and create a new folder called 79fb. Now copy all the files to the savedata/car/79fb folder you made a minute ago. Load up NFS 4 and enjoy. Note: for this car to work it MUST be installed in the SAVEDATA/CARS directory NOT the DATA/CARS directory.

Credits to: Eletronic Arts - without which none of this would be possible, Agamemnon for all the tips on adding an animated driver and his great tutorials, and to all the developers who make the fine utilities necessary to create all the addons.

Revision info:

Version v2.0: In this revision I have completely overhauled the performance of the vehicle using mathematical formulas to simulate the most accurate performance that NFS 3 is capable of delivering. I have based all calculations on actual documented staticstics provided from several Pontiac sources. I hope you enjoy the added realism.

Version v1.0: Completed first draft of entire car including new performance, mesh, texture, animated driver, breaking glass, transparent windows, interior, and vidwall.

Future versions: I plan on developing a showcase for the car in future releases.

Disclaimer:

This design cannot be distributed at any site, or on any media without contacting me first.
Jason G Trusty

Quesitons, comments, general praise or critisism of any kind:
e-mail: jtrusty@indiana.edu or jtrusty@mcni.net

This file comes as-is and by using this file you will not hold me responsible for any damage that may occur to you computer, software and or hardware as a result of using this file. This file has been virus scanned and verified as clean but as always you should scan everything you download from the internet.

This file MUST accompany the file included in this zip file.

These files cannot be altered in any way. If you are planning to alter them you must first contact me, detailing the manner in which you plan to alter the enclosed files.

Need for Speed 4 is copyright © 1998 Electronic Arts.

Enjoy!