Manually Changing File Colours: (Best way of painting unpaintable cars)
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Make sure you back up everything, unless you want to have to reinstall TDU when you decide the paint doesn't look good.
Please note that you will have to look at the in-game names for the paint, so you know which ones to change around :)
You will need to make sure you have the .bnk un/repacker installed. you can find it here - [Download v.1]
For example, if you want to get a Orange colour for your any of your Ferrari:
Step 1
Open the Bnk File Editor
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Step 2
Click Open and navigate to C:/Program Files/Atari/Test Drive Unlimited/Euro/BNK/Database Then Open the file relevant to your play. so for me, I will open DB_US, as I play the English/american Version of TDU. If you're playing the French version/language, open the DB_FR etc.
Step 3
This is exactly what you should see (regardless of your version of TDU):Now, Click on 'TDU_CarColours' and then once that is selected, then on 'Extract File'
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Step 5
Navigate to C:/Program Files/Atari/Test Drive Unlimited/Euro/BNK/Database and open the folder which has just been created. for me, it was DB_US. Inside this folder, there should be a file called 'TDU_CarColours.us'. Open this in NotePad or WordPad.
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Step 6
To make the Ferraris (painted in Nero Black paint), into Orange, I will change the line '{N_F01} 54066127' to '{N_F01} 56066127' and the line '{O_01} 56066127' to '{O_01} 54066127'. In otherwords I am swapping the numbers of the and the Black Paint code over.
Note that the 'N_F' relates to the colour Nero Black and the car manufacture Ferrari, and O stands for Orange :p
[use this Colour Chart for Colour Code References!!]
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IMPORTANT, you MUST actually swap the colours over, not just copy and replace one of them. Otherwise TDU will not start.
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Step 7
Save this file.
Step 8
Back in the Bnk File Editor, select 'TDU_CarColours' and click on 'Replace File'. Navigate to C:/Program Files/Atari/Test Drive Unlimited/Euro/BNK/Database and open the folder where the 'TDU_CarColours.us' has been saved.
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Step 9
Click 'OK' on the following warning message.
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Step 10
Click 'Save Bnk' and now, the changes should apply when you next start TDU up.
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Thanks to Carcol German pdf D'load for the method and for the Ferrari in-game picture and Cornsn for the DTM in-game picture.