Research: Adding brand new vehicle slots in TDU.

[civicmanvtec]

Hi

 

This is a topic dedicated to adding new vehicle slots and its components.

 

I managed to add a new vehicle slot in TDU, unlike Megapack 2 project this doesn't use an idle slot but is in fact a new entry in the TDU database. :)

This effectively means that replacing cars for mods is a thing of the past.

 

Here's a few initial notes:

 

• Its possible
  
• Doesn't crash the game when playing online, other players will see the default vehicle
  
• If you change the database(clean re-installation for example) and open a save file that has a brand new car not written in the database, it'll also show up as default car, when the database does have an entry that matches it the car will show up.
  

 

Here's a testing photo: a Plymouth Barracuda, its a brand new slot made by copying over the Challenger entry and editing a few values so its recognised as a new vehicle.

 

New slot is the last one

Car in-game, as you can see everything works fine.

 

Will write up a bit more on this later. :)

[Milli]

TDU 1500 cars edition! Let's beat GT6! :lol:

[CLR-GTR]

TDU 1500 cars edition! Let's beat GT6! :lol:

 

No problem, just add 75 Skylines.

 

 

This is really cool though, nice job on getting this to work. :thumbsup:

[Milli]

No problem, just add 75 Skylines.

 

 

This is really cool though, nice job on getting this to work. :thumbsup:

 

I don't mind, to be honest. :lol:

 

Edit: What's 75 near 1300? If you add 300 cars that are just copies, still 1000 different vehicles to play.

[civicmanvtec]

There might be a limit as to much the Database can hold. 2CV Super GT said that the game crashed after he added so many number of brands when making patch 1.68.

 

It's something that needs further inspection.

[Milli]

:lol:

[Rassva]

Well, I'm starting to run out of slots lol.

[Tob-Racer]

Brilliant news ! :) :clap: OMG I'm so excited ! Huge thank you for what you doing for TDU !

[JPTH]

The only problem is limited car dealers

[CLR-GTR]

Which does not háve to be a problem if we can edit the world and possibly prepare flat landmasses for new dealerships :D

[Rassva]

@CLK-GTR how about a single giant car park with like 100 slots? That should be enough.

[MagicV8]

@CLK-GTR how about a single giant car park with like 100 slots? That should be enough.

 

Well, I don't believe that.

Just took a look ... got on my local server about 2200+ TDU1 car and 13 bike mods :D

[Speeder]

Just by curiosity: did you get any issue with the ability of buying added vehicle at a car dealer?

[civicmanvtec]

The only main problems as of now is that the process of adding a new car is somewhat slow and the limited amount of camera slots; even if we're able to increase the amount from 135 vehicles to around 300-400 we'd still only have 135 cameras between these cars. However it is possible to add new sets but the cameras.bin editor doesn't work for me so I can't experiment more on it.

 

Just by curiosity: did you get any issue with the ability of buying added vehicle at a car dealer?

 

Not at all, it works just like any other car.

[Djey]

So should I guess that handling Cameras.bin file is a feature we need even quicker than stated before ? :D

 

When properly handled, TDUF will generate a JSON file to be easily edited with any application / text editor / or utility web site.

 

Of course, a modified JSON file can be converted to original file format back ;)

 

Here is what the new FileTool thread will deal about.

[Milli]

So should I guess that handling Cameras.bin file is a feature we need even quicker than stated before ? :D

 

When properly handled, TDUF will generate a JSON file to be easily edited with any application / text editor / or utility web site.

 

Of course, a modified JSON file can be converted to original file format back ;)

 

Here is what the new FileTool thread will deal about.

 

And i have no idea what that means. :lol:

[CLR-GTR]

JSON, JUNO, JANUS, whatever! You guys just do your magic :thumbsup:

[Djey]

okay, I'll stop confusing this thread now :D

[civicmanvtec]

Will the JSON file allow to add custom values like the bin editor? or to add new slots using the 4 assigned cameras with TDUMT? Either way it'd be pretty good.

 

Also is there any chance for a translated camera.bin editor program? It doesn't seem to work due to russian values involved.

[jacek383]

The only problem is limited car dealers

 

Maybe slots can be added directly to the garage?

[Neddo]

Maybe slots can be added directly to the garage?

 

Now that would be a mess. It's great that TDU2 has used car dealerships. Maybe something could be done for this TDU?

[jacek383]

It would be good to rebuild the garage menu to the list of vehicles ..

[Djey]

Both, ideally. I think that's possible. A new cam set can be set much like we can add a vehicle slot in database.

Customizing cam values is a bit trickier, I hope camera.bin editor works, to help with finding interesting fields in the file.

Will the JSON file allow to add custom values like the bin editor? or to add new slots using the 4 assigned cameras with TDUMT? Either way it'd be pretty good.

 

Also is there any chance for a translated camera.bin editor program? It doesn't seem to work due to russian values involved.

[rebelinho]

I can't even imagine how and which programs Atari used to make this game, looking at all the time and effort it takes to decode just a few things!

[civicmanvtec]

Both, ideally. I think that's possible. A new cam set can be set much like we can add a vehicle slot in database.

Customizing cam values is a bit trickier, I hope camera.bin editor works, to help with finding interesting fields in the file.

 

I think upon creating a new vehicle slot a camera is also made for it; however it just uses the default values much like a camera set of some idle slots (ie DB7 AR1 or Cobalt SS)

 

 

maybe these can be activated in the future? then we can give more cars unique camera sets like the Saleen S281 from the Mustang.