22/01/2001                                                                                Version 1.0
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Title		: Eagle Wheel Textures for Pedro's 3d Eagle wheels
Filenames	: eagwheels.ZIP
Author		: Gary Tall
Email Address	: gtcs@enterprise.net
Homepage	: None
Description	: Eagle Wheel Textures - hi res 256x256mips
Other Works	: None - so far!
Thanks to	: Pedro Johansson for the original GPL wheel textures, 3do and the picture of the 		  real Eagle wheel which I worked from. Finally for hosting this file.

		  Bruce Johnson for looking at the early versions and making helpful suggestions and 		  also for the use of the chrome rim section of his Honda wheels.

		  GPLEA for the Goodyear textures, borrowed from the GPLEA Brabham.

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* Introduction *

I wanted to know how to use an editing tool like Paint Shop Pro and decided the easiest way was to make some updates for GPL. I found the picture of the Eagle wheel at Pedro's site and decided to make some updated textures from it. These textures are as close as I can get to the real eagle wheels with my current level of knowledge! I can thoroughly recommend it, if only to increase your admiration for the GPLEA guys, Bruce and the many others out there for the amount of time needed to turn out the end product.

* Installation *

First backup your existing files so you can restore them if you don't like these.

If you already have Pedro's wheel 3do's then you can simply copy the 12 mip files in this zip to your gpl\cars\cars67\eagle directory. If you do not yet have Pedro's 3do's then you will need to download them from this location.

* Deinstallation *

Restore your backup files

* Notes *

These wheels will work with fine with Bruce Johnson's Goodyear tread files and 3do's available from the tyre barn, in fact I would recommend them. However if you are already using these but not Pedro's 3do's you will need to reinstall the Goodyear tread files after installation of these wheels.

* Construction *

I started with Pedro's mip and changed the colour of the line from yellow to blue. I then added Goodyear logos from the GPLEA Brabham, I like the tires to look the same across all makes that use them in GPL.

The spoke section is made from cutting out a section from the centre of one spoke to the centre of the adjacent spoke in Pedro's Eagle photograph. This was necessary because of the angle of the photograph. I then cut and pasted six of these together to form the spoked section of the wheel. I had to build the very centre of the wheel by hand. Then the chrome effect was used in Paint Shop Pro to chrome the spokes. The spokes initially looked two thick in GPL so I reduced the width of them.

The rim section gave me a problem as I could not get it right, I finally used the chrome rim section only from Bruce's Honda wheel and pasted this into the mip.

A few more tweaks and I think it looks reasonably close to the Eagle wheel when viewed in GPL. I have used some artistic license on the "see through" section, I don't think you could see it in real life but it does give a nice effect.