The car doesn’t match the one that raced the le mans in 1999. The wheels quality is worst so if you can fix it because it doesn’t match the reality.
It literally uses the Road Car body, it needs a complete rescan.
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Here is the same car as it appears in the first Forza Motorsport. Yes, this is how old this 3D model really is.
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Not just the road car, but it’s indeed the 1998 model version they used.
It didn’t have that one extra headlight bulb that existed on the 1999 version, and each side of the taillight bulbs on the rear are 3 on the '98 version and only 2 in the '99 version. So the race car itself in FM1 is the 1998. Why would they ever call it a 1999? it’s actually given a wrong model year. The '99 version is a facelift, and the '98 version never received a livery change IRL.
Starting in FM2, they changed its livery to the one used in the '99 model. You can notice by looking at the headlights in the photo I sent. Also, the ULTRON wording on the livery is missing. So it’s clearly the '98 model being reused, and it persisted ever since that it’s going to all subsequent Motorsport titles except its absence in FM7. So this means on its return to FM in 2023, it was never remodeled.
Overall, this is the 1998 GT-ONE with the 1999 livery. It’s obviously mix & matched. Only FM1 got the 1998 model correct, but it was mistakenly named as the 1999.
And for the most accurate example, Gran Turismo 7 gets the actual 1999 GT-ONE.
Even the previous GT titles get the correct model year as well, ever since it debuted in PS1’s GT2. And since its PS2 model is recycled in the GT5 & 6 on the PS3, it returned to GT7 with a full remodel.
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Yeah… Gran Turismo got the car model right… while Forza Motorsport (2005) only got the 1998 model right and the paint job only changed to make it look like it’s from 1999…in Forza Motorsport 2…as you mentioned…FM’23 is not good, it’s not impressive, the graphics are crap, the tracks are not detailed and incorrectly modeled and cars that were modeled incorrectly too… until when will they finally scan instead of “build from ground up”
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