The GTR2 Preservation Project

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What is The GTR2 Preservation Project?

The goal of this project is to preserve GTR2 for the future with a special focus on modding, particularly archiving modding knowledge, expertise, and experience in the form of tutorials, guides, and How Tos, and filling in the gaps where needed.

Scope

  • The game itself
  • Mods
  • Modder tools
  • User tools
  • Tutorials, Guides, How Tos
  • Videos
  • Articles

Passing on GTR2 Modding Knowledge to Future Modders

  • One of the most important goals of the preservation project is passing on modder knowledge
  • Currently, our modder knowledge is in many different places, personal websites, blogs, private and closed-registration forums, YouTube, and elsewhere
  • Experienced modders are encouraged to begin writing down how they do common modding tasks, in whatever form they're comfortable with
  • Videos, blog posts, forum posts, wiki pages... Whatever you're comfortable with, please start writing tutorials for new modders to use to onboard more quickly

Filling The Gaps

We need GTR2-Specific Tutorials, in Written and Video formats, for Modding Techniques and Tools

An image is worth a thousand words and video is worth ten thousand, that's why we need video tutorials on the tools already being used by modders, so that new modders can on-ramp as easily and quickly as possible.

But written tutorials are welcome, too. Preferably, keep to a single task eg. "Fix a rearview mirror", "Change a texture", etc. Try to structure them as simply and as concisely as possible, using easy, point form steps and images to illustrate when possible. Then, those who are comfortable making videos can turn these written guides into video tutorials.

Tools needing GTR2-specific Tutorials