kristiannn

we've all been there.

That sounds like a lot of work and fixes! I've actually come across only the third one, but then again, I don't play with automatic transmission and repaint the vehicles with custom one quite often. And hey, if you need help with the weather, I've messed about with that quite a lot.

What are those "mistakes" you keep mentioning? I haven't had any issues with the pack, game doesn't crash or anything.

Well, from the 411 cars listed in the first post, S ends on 378. That would mean it's about 92% done if the unlisted cars have the same letter ratio as the listed ones. Now, if Milli keeps the same pace, there have been 412 days since she's done the first post on 26th of December 2017. If we're 92% done, that would mean that there are about 36 days left until she's done with the cars. A bit over a month then. Thing is, there are probably other things she'll have to do after finishing with the cars as well, and we don't know what are the unlisted cars as well. So, many variables either way. And yes, I'm quite a nerd.

I've been working on a new version of the mod for some time and I am finally finished with it. I hope you guys enjoy it! I HIGHLY advice you try out HDR mode with version 2.0. I promise you, you'll love it! Hawaiian Bliss v2.0: Changes to V2.0: Fixed bug with clouds not appearing on the Sky. Reworked HDR mode, no more constant change of brightness while using HDR! Completely reworked night mode for easier cruising and racing. Made changes to reflections, no more "glowing" cars on sunny days. Every weather has been fine-tuned for better cruising experience. Visibility increased. Pictures: Pink Sunset: Day 1 Sunset: Purple Sunset: Bright Sunset: Night time : Morning: Day 1: Day 2 : Cloudy Morning: Cloudy Day: Cloudy Sunset: All pictures were done with default/standard TDU textures, this time I've applied HD300 draw distance mod as well. Anisotropic Filtering x16 was forced through Nvidia Panel. In-game settings were HDR: ON, Texture Quality: High, Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Anti-Aliasing: x4.

I love it, it's very stylish and clean. Awesome job! :tup:

Well, from my experience, there are about 100 players online at peak times, seems to be a stable number as well. Can get down to 30s at off peak times. Servers work a lot better than the original ones, you get connected to players a lot faster and the connection doesn't drop, again, at least for me. Online races don't work, but you can still cruise around the island with friends. You can use custom mods, like Milli's ultra community pack (or the upcoming tdu platinum) and you won't get banned or anything. I haven't seen the server down, although I'm not the most active player. Hope this helps! :tup:

What you can do is, simply zip the whole game folder and try whatever you want. If you break it, just delete the whole folder and unzip the archived version which works perfectly.

Do you by any chance have an SSD on the computer, but are running the game on your HDD? If so, I think this may be the issue. Try moving the game to the SSD. If not, then it could probably be lack of RAM, although I doubt that may be the case when you're playing such an old game. :D

Sorry for the double post, but I'd rather many people see this. I just played around with no HDR and I noticed that the colors appear significantly different. Examples: First one is no HDR, second one is HDR. You can clearly see to the right, how different the sky is very low, towards sea level and the whole sea has so many more colors into it compared to no HDR version where the sea practically just reflects the sky's color. Now, I played around with the HDR settings and realized it's thanks to the HDR that we get those effects and this representation of it isn't the best, but it makes a SIGNIFICANT visual difference (at least in my opinion). Now, I can easily fix the issue with the brightness, where it goes up and down all the time when using HDR and have just the other effects. My question is: If the brightness doesn't change all the time, would you switch to HDR? Because I'm unsure what to do with the mod now, I thought no HDR looks a lot more similar to HDR, but now I realize it's a completely different mod. Thanks in advance to everyone that decides to take from their time and answer. :)

Yes, of course. I'm not sure how much you know about these stuff, so I'll explain in detail. What TDU uses is ADS lighting, which stands for Ambient, Diffuse and Specular. As you can see on the image above, these are the three separate components and the fourth image is the result of combining them. What you see on the road, that shininess comes from the Specular light. The line that controls that therefore is this one " SUNSPECULARCOLOR = 1.498 1.134 0.567 1.00000 " (numbers are from SUNRISE weather). As you can see, there are 4 values. These 4 values represent RGBA (Red, Green, Blue, Alpha). You don't care about the Alpha value, so just leave that at 1. Now, you can make every single color you want, by using these three particular colors - red, green and blue. You can play around with the sliders on this website to see for yourself. The values in the website are from 255 to 0, however as you can see the values in TDU are 0.5, 0.7, 1.2, etc. The values that are in TDU are simply multipliers of that number. So 1.0 would be 255. It's important to note that the higher the value, the brighter that color is. Anyway, you can easily calculate the colors by dividing the number in the website to 255. So, for instance the color you choose is 255, 200, 215, that color in game would be 1.0, 0.7843, 0.843. These numbers are made up by dividing 255/255, 200/255, 215/255. Now, the color will appear the same as it does in the website, but the brightness will be even lower than the one on the values I've put in. In order to increase the brightness, you need to multiply these exact values. So for instance, you want to increase the brightness by 50%. You do that by multiplying all these values, so 1.0 * 1.5 would be 1.5, 0.7843 * 1.5 would be 1.176, 0.843 * 1.5 would be 1.2645. So the color that has 50% more brightness will be 1.5 1.176 1.2645. Funnily, however, you run into another issue here. The more you increase the brightness, the less contrast that color is going to have. Therefore, the color will appear a bit lighter in shade than its unmodified counterpart. This is why you may have to play a lot with these values until you find the color that you're looking for. That website is very useful for that since you can see how the final color changes by changing the values. For instance, for the color I've given as an example (255,200,205), if when you increase the brightness, the color gets too close to white, you can notice that just by decreasing the "green" value, you get a darker shade of pink. So, you may try decreasing the modified values from 1.5 1.176 1.2645 to maybe 1.5 1.05 1.2645 and see if that helps. It's mostly trial and error until you find what you're looking for with these. TLDR: What you may try to do is just multiply the first 3 values of SUNSPECULARCOLOR by a value. For example, if you want to try increasing it by 20%, you multiply them by 1.2. If, however, you don't like the new color, you'll have to mess with all 3 colors a bit and it gets trickier and you'll have to read carefully everything above. Mind that I typed this in pretty quickly, so I'm sorry if it's not written well. If you don't understand something, just ask and I'll try to clear it out. EDIT: Oh, I forgot. Keep in mind that most weather parts have 2 different parts. There's SUNRISE, but there's also SUNRISE2. And if you change the specular value of SUNRISE, you need to change it for SUNRISE2 as well. Also, MOONLIT has MOONLIT2 as well. All sunsets have a "2" version as well. That's all done for the sun position, so if you change a specular value, reflection value or anything else except the sun position, you have to change it for the "2" version of that same weather part as well. This does not apply for DRYDAY and DRYDAY2, though. These are 2 completely different weather sets.

Hey! I tried to make the reflections in nighttime a lot better, but since there isn't any light I pretty much had to boost them to unreasonable levels. Yes, you can modify it quite easily. Go to Euro=>Bnk=>FX. If you're using HDR, open Weather_HDRI.ini, if you're not using HDR open Weather.ini. If it asks, open it with Notepad++ (If you have it) or just the regular Notepad if you don't. Find the weather that is called "DARKNIGHT" and "MOONLIT". There are many values below these names, you need to find this one "CARREFLECTIONLUM = 2.00". This basically controls how much the light affects the car or otherwise said, if you decrease this value, cars won't shine as much. Unfortunately, traffic cars will shine more than your own one at night, no matter what. The positive of that is that, they'll be easier to spot when you're driving fast. Either way, if you change the value from "2.00" to "1.00", your car will shine a LOT less. You can mess with that value until you find the amount that suits you best. If you have any issues figuring this out, just tell me and I'll correct the values and send you the files. I hope this helps! :)

Thank you, I'm really happy you enjoy it! :)

That 458 sounds great! :eek:

Weird place you live in. :D I'll PM you about it, so we're not spamming the thread. EDIT: Just realized I can't PM you for some reason. Anyway, since it's another person's work, I can't really publish anything without permission. You can do it yourself though, you can just add the fog weather and replace the first part of the sunrise with it. Just make sure to put in my sunrise's sun direction: SUNDIR = -1.00000 -0.002 0.00000 0.00000 You can keep everything just like on the other mod and just put in that. In WeatherDesc, replace SUNRISE (not SUNRISE2) with that fog weather. :) Hope you enjoy it! :)

The problem is that the clouds just don't appear sometimes. Most of the times they do tho, at least for me. It doesn't matter what you do, sometimes they just won't render. Also, TDU has a limit of different weathers and I'm on that limit. In order to add something new, I have to delete one of the currently set weathers. The limit is "48" different weathers. I haven't found a way to go around that, but if we do find a way to go around it, we can make the day cycle a lot shorter in online as well. However, that doesn't seem to be possible. What's your idea of the fog weather after moonlit2 and before sunrise, though? What is it supposed to represent? Do you have a picture of that as well, something off of Google for example?

I see you enjoy the night time a lot :bigsmile:

[quote name='mpusmeong']well nice to see you back again @kristiannn love your work and awesome mod just download it now :)[/QUOTE] Thank you! :) Be sure to leave your opinion after you try it out! I'm really excited to get back some feedback :)

Hawaiian Bliss v4.0 This mod contains my old weather mod, Hawaii Beauty Enhancer, revamped and improved. If you liked my old mod, you'll absolutely love this one! The mod contains: ~100 new textures imported and edited from TDU 2 & Hawaii Beauty Enhancement - these include road, rocks, trees, grass, bushes and many more! 5 separate in game days (and nights). Nights have a moon (texture from TDU 2) Vastly improved reflections! Greatly improved water V4.0 Pictures: Link to album of pictures (v4.0) Pink Sunset: Day 1 Sunset: Purple Sunset: Bright Sunset: Day 1 & 2 (compared) : Morning: Night time : Cloudy Morning: Cloudy Day: Cloudy Sunset: All pictures were done with HD300 draw distance mod. Anisotropic Filtering x16 was forced through Nvidia Panel. In-game settings were HDR: ON, Texture Quality: High, Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Anti-Aliasing: x4. Hawaiian Bliss v1.0 (OLD): Link to album of pictures (v1.0) The pictures were made using HDR Mode, standard/stock TDU textures and were not edited. Anisotropic x16 was forced through Nvidia Panel. Download link for the v1.0 version mod. The mod is made for and on HDR, but I've included a non-HDR version as well. It does work, but results may differ slightly from the HDR version. Especially during night time. The mod is also made for and on standard/stock TDU textures, using a texture pack may give you significantly different results. To get the same amount of clarity/detail in the game, you MUST force Anisotropic Filtering to x16 in your Nvidia Control Panel! Same goes for AMD alternative! Hawaiian Bliss v2.0 (OLD): Link to album of pictures. (v2.0) Changes to V2.0: Fixed bug with clouds not appearing on the Sky. Reworked HDR mode, no more constant change of brightness while using HDR! Completely reworked night mode for easier cruising and racing. Made changes to reflections, no more "glowing" cars on sunny days. Every weather has been fine-tuned for better cruising experience. Visibility increased. DOWNLOAD LINK V2.0 (OLD!) Hawaiian Bliss v3.0 (OLD): Link to album of pictures. (v3.0) Changes to V3.0: ~100 new textures imported and edited from TDU 2 & Hawaii Beauty Enhancement - these include road, rocks, trees, grass, bushes and many more! Fine-tuned darker weathers for better visibility Nights have a moon (TDU 2 texture) This mod includes HD100 patch DOWNLOAD LINK V3.0 (OLD!) Hawaiian Bliss v4.0: Tweaks to most weathers - vastly improved visibility Better fit with the new textures from v3.0 Small fixes on saturation in some weathers A bit lighter effects, more emphasis on subtlety DOWNLOAD LINK V4.0 How to Install: Download the mod (v4.0) Choose draw distance settings Extract it into your main TDU folder Enjoy! If you don't like the Textures OR Weather mod, you can download the original/stock TDU ones with the links below: Stock TDU Textures | Stock TDU Weather FAQ Q: Will I be able to play online with this mod? A: Yes. The mod does work online, however since online time scale is static, in game days will pass very slowly. Q: How long does it take to get through a whole day playing online? A: A whole day (sunrise to next day's sunrise) should take about 4.5 hours according to my calculations. Q: Can we make the days shorter? A: Offline, yes. An offline day should take about 30 minutes. Online time, however, is static for everybody. We can only make the days longer, unfortunately.. Q: But, kristiannn, I see you've added two sunrises, three mid days and two sunsets each day, what if we delete them? A: I've made it that way, so the proportions between morning, day, sunset and night are normal. Also, if we remove any weather sets and do not add more days into the rotation, this will only result in days being longer, not shorter. Q: Will my game run slower with the new v3.0 textures? A: Yes, there is an FPS drop between v2.0 and v3.0. If you are experiencing it, I would suggest using the stock TDU textures. Q: Which version to choose? (OFF/HD100/HD300/HDU) A: Pick the highest draw distance that can give you playable FPS. If game starts to lag, decrease the draw distance. Q: Does this mod work with TDU Platinum / UCP / any car pack? A: Yes! Install TDU Platinum (or any other car pack) and apply this mod after that. Known Bugs as of v3.0: - NONE I think that's all, if you have ANY suggestions, I'd gladly consider them. And please, leave a comment with feedback, I'm really curious to see if you like it as much as I do!

Nah, he wasn't chasing me particularly. I was playing with a friend and we were joined into the same session and he was crashing into both of us. I actually stopped moving for some time and he lost interest and stopped, definitely wasn't about me particularly. Just wanted to know if there's an option to make the game not connect me to someone. Thanks! :)

Is there a way I can ban someone so I can't connect with him? Someone with the nick NikitON33 is crashing into me all the time using insane speed hacks and I can't play normally.

As I was interested in the mod as well, I found his YouTube channel and I believe this is the video he tried to post:

Okay, thanks! :)

Hey, I wanna ask before I break my game. To add a car on one of these new slots.. Let's say I have a car (Nissan GT-R for example) that I want to add and I want to add it on slot 3000. I have gauges,exterior,interior,rims and sound for it. So I change all of these to TDUCP_3000 name, then I open TDUPE and put everything in there and then I use TDUMT to add it to a car dealership. Is that how I add a car? Or there's some other way or I'm forgetting something? Thanks!

I actually have the same problem. It tells me "The given path's format is not supported". The thing is, the error appears before the program manages to launch at all, so I haven't even set the directory of TDU. The same TDUMT and TDU on my other PC work perfectly, but on my laptop - I get this error. The thing is, it has to work on my laptop as I don't have access to the PC for most of the time. Any ideas? I haven't put in any TDU directory in the settings as the program never launches and I can't access the settings.