The MINIVAN:

October(2003)	

-The Minivan will work only in MIDTOWN MADNESS 1.0 (Chicago Edition). 

-This car has been made has a first proyect by nissan300zx84 and you may not use this car to 
 build, modify or create new cars in any way without my permission.

-Anyone can distribute this car with my permission only, free of charge and without any changes.

-If someone wants anything from this simple model for a template to make a first car, anyone
 can do it only with my permission.

-Im not responsible for any damage this file may cause to your computer.

-Please, post your comments at Box Designs Message Board.

 
INSTALLATION:  Extract the vpminivan.ar file into your main Midtown Madness directory.


FILE INFORMATION:  

Software used:  Vehicle Creation Kit 
                3D Studio-Max 2.5
		ARextract
                deAR
		Corel Draw 11
		Corel Photo-Paint 11
		Macromedia Fireworks MX
		Sonic Foundry Vegas Video
		WINZIP 8.1
		WORDPAD	
		NOTEPAD

Car detail:  New model:        Yes
	     New textures:     Yes
	     Damage textures:  Yes
	     Colors:           Blue only
             New dasboard:     Yes
	     New sounds:       No
	     New tuning:       Yes
	     Selection sound:  Yes(music)
	     Rendering mode:   Hardware only

Car tuning: Because of the fact that "The Minivan" is a simple car created by me, I decided to 
	    make its tuning based from a real minivan, wich is a Mercury Villager/Nissan Quest
	    from a ROAD&TRACK magazines test drive. So, the tuning is as real as in real life.

-Acceleration: The Mercury Villager/Nissan Quest goes from 0 to 60m.p.h in 13.4 seconds, but I
	       decided to make The Minivan acceleration a bit faster because the default cars
	       inside the game are about 1/1.5 seconds fasters in the 0-60m.p.h time than in  
	       real life, also to obtain a balance between reality and fun. So, it will reach
	       60m.p.h in 12/12.4 seconds.

-Gearbox: The Minivans gearbox is a full automatic transmission, that means that even when you 
	  use the manual mode, you will be using an automatic transmission in manual/steptronic/
          triptronic mode or whatever you want to name it. The manual gearbox ratios are the same 
	  as in automatic mode, the only diference is that you will have only the first 3 gears 
          and if you want to engage the fourth gear you will have to change to automatic mode(D), 
          like normally everybody does in a real life automatic gearbox. You will use the manual
	  mode only to get better performance from the automatic mode.

-Suspension: I made the suspension as real as posible, if you lose your control at a very high 
	     speed you will get a rollover.

-Top speed: The Mercury Villager/Nissan Quest top speed is electronically limited to 115m.p.h at
            3950 rpm in fourth gear, I made the exact gear ratio for the minivan, but with a gear
	    ratio that long you will almost hit 200m.p.h with pedal to the metal, so, I had to 
	    create a tuning mode to obtain only 115m.ph with the same ratio even if you are with
	    full throttle. Probably it still needs some work because after a while it starts 
	    overpeeding, but I think it works fine.

Comments: This is my first proyect and it has a very simple body that looks like crap, please 
          anlize the tuning and dash, because I made that body to learn the process only!

	  The minivan hits curbs, but thats because of its boxy shape.

Special Thanks: I want to thank Xacto and Qwerty86, thanks to them this proyect has become real.

 If someone wants to contact me, e-mail me to: nissan300zx84@yahoo.com   

	     









		