TDUF - Most advanced modding tools for TDU so far!

[civicmanvtec]

Don't worry I get what you mean now.

 

To fix this, you need to assign rims and a color palette. :)

[Driver:TDU]

First select the car and click on blue button

 

In black you will move the camera right to left

 

In red on top you will move the camera down to up, red on bottom will move the dashboard down to up

 

In yellow will move the camera close or far.

 

Then you click on midle button

 

Tip: if the values on top is: 160938 change to 160928 will make the diference, on red bottom you have to change 360938, 460938, depends the car.

 

And close TDUMT AND TDUPE before use it.

 

I found a bug with aston martin db7 ar1 slot, i cant rotate the camera and open the doors.

 

I dont know how to fix it...

 

Absolutely right :) I just add that more number means righter/lower/distant camera

[JPTH]

Don't worry I get what you mean now.

 

To fix this, you need to assign rims and a color palette. :)

 

Ty, works! WTF add new car without colors(xDDD)????

 

Atari and Eden games........

[Tob-Racer]

Djey I found something interesting in that video at 3.40. Don't know if you have seen that vid but it was back in time where Ivory Tower was developping the game in 2006.

 

[video=dailymotion;xrynd]

 

I'm wondering if it's possible to do the same thing today with our "finish game" :D Just be able to move the camera around and changing the color of the interior and exterior while driving.

[Neddo]

How can we add new traffic cars?

[JPTH]

How unlock Brabus, and hennessey viper slots?

 

I set the bitvalue to 111, but no appears on TDUMT

[Hypercycle]

Maybe my translate will help :) But i don't know what is "Binoculars" here... Maybe modding thing

[Tob-Racer]

Hey ! :) Thank you very much for the translation ! That's very clear now :D Cheers man !

[Djey]

Djey I found something interesting in that video at 3.40. Don't know if you have seen that vid but it was back in time where Ivory Tower was developping the game in 2006.

 

 

I'm wondering if it's possible to do the same thing today with our "finish game" :D Just be able to move the camera around and changing the color of the interior and exterior while driving.

The sole feature that makes me think about this :)

Test Drive Unlimited: Project Paradise [v0.03A PUBLIC BETA AVAILABLE!] - Page 4 | turboduck forum

 

How can we add new traffic cars?

Same as adding drivable slots, but AIConfig.xml configuration file must be updated (Installer can do that : SetTraficXXXXX).

Though, I don't recommend doing this unless you're playing offline. Sync issues will appear in online as not everyone will have the same config.

 

How unlock Brabus, and hennessey viper slots?

 

I set the bitvalue to 111, but no appears on TDUMT

Slot information is in tdumt/xml/VehicleSlots.xml, all slots have to be added and unlocked. You may change it by yourself, and I will update it for next bugfix release.

 

Maybe my translate will help :) But i don't know what is "Binoculars" here... Maybe modding thing

Great! Thanks! ;)

[civicmanvtec]

Found out a way how to get the cameras.bin file working

 

[ATTACH]22440[/ATTACH]

 

You just have to change the address to match the folder where its actually located on your computer.

 

Here's some things I found out while messing with it:

 

-It only changes the Cockpit_Front camera

-Going below/above some value numbers will make the camera behave like a motorcycle one

-Going below/above will set it to target/source RHD on TDUMT, it seems to be related.

-It doesn't affect/activate idle camera slots like DB7 AR1 or Cobalt SS

[Djey]

Thanks ! Idea is to use this tool to help with first decoding Cameras.bin file.

 

In a while, we'll have our own 'TDUF way' to modify this file and add contents into it :)

 

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Announcement : TDUF toolset 0.2.0 now available !

 

So, what's new ?

* General: provides file structures in the release package, to be used with FileTool

* Command Line: requests admin access automatically

* DatabaseTool: new limited, check operation, performing integrity check of TDU database (need to be extracted and decrypted with additional tools, first)

* FileTool (new!): exports TDU files to/from JSON format when provided a structure file

* Library/structure: supports new field type : UNKNOWN (values to be discovered, still)

* Library/structure: supports new field type : FPOINT (floating-point, 32 bit)

* Library/structure: supports formulas and references in field size attribute

* Library/parsing: supports endianness

 

See first post to download!

[Dux]

I am sure this is not for us simple mortals , right ? :D

 

PS. I wanted to download it just to see how does it all look but i can't, its just showin bitly homepage, or i am dumb to download from there ? :D

 

EDIT 2 i just copied and pasted that link into new tab and it worked, just clicking on link somehow didnt work, sorry my bad.

[Djey]

No, that's me :)

There was a mess in bbcode ! Link now fixed, enjoy!

[Djey]

Announcement : TDUF toolset 0.2.1 (hotfix) now available !

 

 

* General: provides updated file structures

* General: add limited support to PMI files (TDU World Map)

* Library/structure: supports FPOINT fields, 16-bit (2 bytes)

* Library/structure: supports field sizes read in repeater fields.

 

 

 

See first post to download!

[slylecoco]

Hi,

 

Honestly i don't really understand all you wrote.

 

It's a bit chinese for me!

 

No seriously, hat's off guys for all work you do for us.

 

All progress in Tdu modding since many years is by your time you spent working for the communauty.

 

I'm so happy and enthousiast because now i'm sure TDU will never die. So thx you, really. We support you.

 

Respect ! :)

[Neddo]

Will there ever be movable convertible roofs?

[Dux]

There are some, but no proper animation for it, so it kidna looks ugly,

[CLR-GTR]

Modders already know how to import animations right? (windows, doors) Somebody just has to take a longer sit, use videos to analyze the roofs and recreate it. If I was that far into car modding I could import my recreation of the entire SL convertible system (including trunklid, rear deck with flaps and the roof panels).

 

I think it's gonna be harder to code a new slot for it in terms of key-assignment though. But correct me if I'm wrong. Or you'd have to assign it to the window animation (if it supports multiple objects doing multiple translations AND rotations) and include the windows with it, with the compromise that windows down means roof down, windows up means roof up.

[Driver:TDU]

Modders already know how to import animations right? (windows, doors)

Because this features available in TDU. For movable roofs we need new animation slot anyway because windows can give you only two move axis

[CLR-GTR]

Ye already thought so.... strictly made to only accomodate the minimum :p

[Neddo]

But targa type roofs could also be considered as windows

[Driver:TDU]

Yeah targa roofs could be considered as windows just look at the Combat's Supra ;)

[Djey]

Announcement : TDUF toolset 0.3.0 now available !

 

So, what's new ?

* Bug fixes: all from 0.2.1 hotfix (see previous release)

 

* Research: BTRQ file structure now uses cryptoMode setting to use auto-encryption feature

* Research: added new beta file structures to be enhanced (Cameras.BIN, SHK, PMI) - SHK remains default, still

 

* FileTool: new 'encrypt'/'decrypt' operations

* FileTool: ability to process encrypted files

* DatabaseTool: new 'gen' operation to produce TDU database from JSON files

* DatabaseTool: enhanced 'check' operation, performing wider integrity check of TDU database

* DatabaseTool: ability to process encrypted files

 

* Library/support: handles both encryption modes for TDU files (savegames and database)

* Library/database: ensures contents have size multiple of 8 when written for more compatibility

* Library/structure: supports very short NUMERIC type (8 bit)

* Library/structure: respects data length when writing

 

* Core: upgrade misc. utility libraries.

 

See first post to download!

[mcv100]

It's nice having the decrypt/JSONIFY features all in one package! But I do seem to have a problem with the encrypting of files. As you know, I've been doing some work on the BTRQ stuff, so I checked one of them and it decrypted just fine. But when I tried to encrypt the decrypted file back, the output was totally different from the original file. I checked with a hex editor. The absolutely weird thing is, when I try to decrypt the seemingly wrong outputted encrypted file yet again, I DO get the correct decrypted file back, same as decrypting the original file... Kinda strange :D

Maybe you can look into that?

 

Also, slightly offtopic, I finished the BTRQ curve editor I talked about, should be up sometime this weekend.

 

Edit: Oh wait, the output seems to be random. Every time I encrypt a decrypted version, it gives another output. Same story with TDUDEC. Is that because the encryption is randomized? How does it work exactly?

[Djey]

Your eyes didn't not miss that, did they? :p

 

Indeed, that's a curiosity with encryption mode 1 (btrq, database files).

To make opening of these files harder, Eden devs have decided to insert 8 bytes at the beginning of each file to encrypt.

 

That's what Luigi Auriemma discovered and it's a great thing source code of his tool is publicly available.

So, like tdudec, tduf inserts current date in seconds (=timestamp: number of seconds since EPOCH, that is 01-01-1970) followed by its complement value. 4 bytes each. Then encrypts the whole.

 

That explains why encrypted file size in mode 1 is 8 bytes larger than same file in mode 0.

Note that those timestamp values are not used after unencrypting.