Djey

First community patch (1.67) was born 5 years ago. And from version to version, it provided more and more features on our beloved game.
Now again, things have changed. Exciting things have been discovered lately and are always in progress. So I thought it could be cool a new patch exists to set up a clean TDU - setting a new base for the future. Remember, Community Patch is the first thing to install after good old 1.66 Megapack :nuts:, isn't it ?
 
So 2.00A is the first revision of this new patch. It aims at fixing and completing some aspects of 1.68b, while bringing new modding standards. Patch distribution will provide both:
support and documentation: WIKI a way to upgrade freshly installed game to 2.00A -> all files will be included (FULL) a way to upgrade already modified game (to keep some of existing modifications or previous patch) (UPDATE) For advanced users, modders or developers, I've just open-sourced project on Github platform: djey47/tdu-cp · GitHub
That will provide wiki, project status, bug tracking, ability to express feature requests etc. 🆒
 
Changes in latest release:
Releases · djey47/tdu-cp · GitHub
 
Feature wishes:
On-demand feature selector Provides new camera sets, totalizing 300+ cameras for mods requiring view adjusting Fix missing World zones (aka 'car falling into the void') Populate fixed World zones with new roads / tracks 🙂 Provide telemetry via shared memory file (might be implemented in Project Paradise) Fanaled API support Sound enhancements (brakes, turbo, air friction ....) GFX enhancements (road textures, car light flares, grass, sand, water ...) Unlock new traffic cars (if harmless) Replaced traffic cars with real and more accurate models Remove limitations on getting reward cars (player may buy only one W12 cab / coupe , etc.) ... ?  
General requirements
TDU 1.66 + Megapack, Gold, or 1.67 and newer TDUCP will NOT work on par Milli's Patch or similar projects: consider having 2 separate TDU installs if you wanna get TDUCP whatsoever Archive extractor (WinRAR, 7-Zip ...) TDUF/TDUMT/TDUPE must be working. Requirements for TDUMT
TDUCP requires your TDUMT installation to be upgraded :
use latest TDUMT version (current is 1.16.3) Vehicle slots XML file matching patch contents (included) See Djey : TDU Modding Tools [1.16.2+] | turboduck forum for details.
 
 
Final releases
Choose either FULL or UPDATE version to apply to your game (FULL will clear your changes and make your game cleaner, UPDATE will keep your changes) I advise you to make backups of entire game directory! Download links (TDUCP): UPDATE: Download TDUCP 2.00A R3 FULL: Download TDUCP 2.00A R3 Alpha/Beta releases
None atm
 
How to install TDUCP
Open archive, readme-tducp-update.html or readme-tducp-full.html files. Follow instructions.
 
How to change Patch HD settings
After TDUCP full or update install, open readme-patch-hd.html. Follow instructions.
 
 
Support
Post in this thread (I will not fix problems via PM), or: Create an issue at Github project page  
Archive
TDU Community PATCH 1.68B | turboduck forum
 
Media
See screenshots in attachments below.
 
Let's rock!

For sure one of the the biggest modding project for a driving game. Thanks for this Milli.
 
At the beggining of car modding in 2008, I could not imagine the game would bear and receive such improvements. That's a tribute to this fantastic game, for its 11th birthday.
 
The effort in reverse enginneering the game had a price, now time is for a reward for everyone involved and enthusiasts. Such an epic adventure!

Nope, not to my knowledge at least. Tduf does only modify database files and a few bin files.
Only project paradise uses a dll injection, allowing to override variables in memory.
That's why projects such as tdu platinum are so huge and take time, author has to make changes on each car and test results in game...

To test these binocular values, use tduf tool and change camera settings for "car physics data" topic.
Attached file was just for explanation.
This page might help as well: https://github.com/djey47/tdu-cp/wiki/TDUF-Database-Editor-Cameras
 
Thanks!

Here is current state of cameras bin structure, see attachment.
Interesting part below:
{ "name": "binoculars", "type": "INTEGER", "size": 2 }, Currently, binoculars information is read after 2 bytes data. It seems that only 1 byte is sufficient. That would explain why setting is cyclic.
To validate this assumption, may someone test these values?
- 16640 => should be maximum FOV (min zoom)
- 16768 => should be medium FOV
- 16895 => should be narrowest FOV (max zoom).
 
Thanks.
BIN-cameras-map.json

Can't remember what happens when adding more traffic slots... @Milli might have tested it ?!

That's unfortunately not possible with our current game knowledge, and I'm even afraid it's impossible at all. The only frequency which can be set for now is per Island area (e.g huge traffic in urban areas, less in the lands...)

Just restore database from a clean TDU install or Platinum if youre using it. And .. dont you have any database backup already ? 
Database file: euro/bnk/database/db.bnk

Hi,
TDUF currently shows and enables writing every piece of .db file, including language resources (whereas TDUPE and TDUMT can't).
See it as 'user friendly' version of tduut 😄

This mod needs Project Paradise with -bigbnk option enabled. Be sure you're using this.
 
Test Drive Unlimited: Project Paradise [v0.03A PUBLIC BETA AVAILABLE!] | turboduck forum

Hi,
something might prevent you from connecting to community server (hosted in France by OVH provider). Check any antivirus/firewall/endpoint protection you may have in active state.

Game install directory is not set up properly. Do not use Magic Map as it would invalidate some added files in the worst case.
You can check/fix install directory in the file located at c:/user/xxxx/.tduf/tduf.properties

According to logs the issue appears after unpacking database, e.g if you check file at location: C:\Users\LANETB~1\AppData\Local\Temp\libUnlimited-databaseBank5836824573108046309
It should exist with other files related to database.
So something in your game edition makes the tool unable to read the unpacked files. Don't you have a TDU gold by any chance?

That's an unknown issue, never happened before I guess. If there were errors, the DatabaseEditor logs would contain them... 
To see more logs, that may help: https://github.com/djey47/tduf/wiki/Settings#debugging
Something makes your database uncompatible with TDUF and it's hard to tell without any information. 
Otherwise with using TDUF in command line mode and try extracting database manually: https://github.com/djey47/tduf/wiki/Banks-CLI
TDUF FULL package is required to run as command line (from cmd.exe).

That is not related to windows 10 for sure, and my database is the exact copy of the one provided by TDU platinum. So you can get it from the latest update.
Best thing is definitely to enable debug logs in TDUF to know what's going on.
Ps: d3d9.dll file is not meant to be in this folder 

Sorry I've no clue. My last guess was you're using TDU Gold which is different from original dvd and was likely to cause issues. 
You may otherwise try with the command line tools to unpack database manually.

yop guys,
as tools are almost ready, time to get back to this.
 
To speed up, I will concentrate on making a full patch to override freshly installed game. An update version would come up later eventually.
 
I think it's good that beta versions to be released frequently to get community's feedback and keep you informed ;)
 
 
So... let's go!

Thanks, sure I will need help on almost everything ... that's probably one of my most important projects down here :)
 
Now TDUF-0.5 is out, I'll start on this.

There's no such a setting in TDU. Your best luck is to trick with vehicle 3d models in zmodeler2. Maybe when rotating wheel dummys you could achieve camber. But even with this, that would be only visual modification with no effet on physics at all. Plus potential visual glitches.
Personally, I would not touch this, modified cambers are hideous. But if some do like it...

I really doubt about it.
A solution using notepad to modify files.... As tool said, that only affects on-screen details, not car physics.
 
If someone wants to edit them, he will need to unlock encryption of files into DB.BNK first (I've already told that).

Hi,
yes it seems so
 
WineHQ - Test Drive Unlimited 1.x
 
Never tried btw

I think you could not register your actual savegame to the server. I remember entering wrong password or savegame type or such would make it fail.
 
At least you should try with new online account to confirm you don't have networking issue.
 
As noone here administers the server you may have to start progress from the beginning.

We all miss him for sure ;) I'd like to hear news from World Editor as well :p Message in a bottle to @Speeder

G27 fix is also available in 2.00a patch (unofficial). If you don't want to mod your game you just may take the dinput.dll from it. ;)

Shifting is somewhat weird as well with a fanatec gt3rs wheel. Paddles don't respond all the time. I should try without patch eventually to see whether related or not.
 
I just know the server is run by mod's author on a dedicated plan. He promised to release server program if the hosting can't be maintained. Afaik, a single machine is required to act as a registry. PCs running tdu connect directly via p2p, then.