Bah, actually its not. It's due to a recent change in the Liveries tool that leaves the custom livery config in there. I'll have to revise that. Seemed strange to me that it was the Grid Tool - haven't heard any problems in that thread for some time.Quote:
Originally Posted by crowtrobot
Makes sense with the missing ai-liveryies, totaly forgot about them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reiche
The missing livery from the R8 LMS had condition 133. I'm using the latest version (full not patched) of the livery tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reiche
Full install. No Ä, Ö, Ü letters in names or directories. You'll see it when you try to add on single livery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reiche
The problem with the R8 LMS not showing up in the car selection after adding a livery to the R18 was solved after deleting and reinstalling the "Custom_Livery_Tool" files from the MOD folder.They might have been corrupt after several tries.
UPDATE regarding the R18
The liveries I tried to add were all named ASANO_Livery insted of R18_Livery :rolleyes:
Renaming all files solved the issue.
Same here(0.94).
Tried it with 3 LMP P30 and 1 AM DBR 1-2 livery with 2 PC in MP in different combos. Just white Cars on the opponent.
First installaion of a mod tool, no custom grid.
I finally got a bit of time to download this last night & give it a little test. First of all thanks a million Crow, it is fantastic. Switching to Dropbox worked a treat for me, it fully downloaded first time & in a fraction of the time it was taking on Mediafire. First time using it I was a little confused about where to store my folder of custom liveries. At first I was thinking I had to store them in the customLiveriesData folder in the Pcars directory, then I thought I needed to store them in the MODS folder. Eventually I copped on that I could keep my folder containing all my cars custom liveries in my documents folder & load the liveries using the tool from there. I'm a dumbass lol. Once I re-read the thread I was able to export liveries for different GT3 cars then make a master "GT3 Series folder" and add the contents of those exported files to that master folder. I activated the tool & the GT3 Series files with JGSME & it all worked like a treat first time. I'm new to PC gaming and a total noob when it comes to using mods (this & custom grid tool are the first mods I've ever used) so was pretty amazed at what can be done, these mods have breathed new life back into a game that I already loved.
Is there a patch from the last version instead of having to re-download the whole thing? My shitty Internet doesn't like big files like that
@All
Found the bug creating the white liveries in the routine that checks for the <VEHICLE>_LIVERY_AI.dds - this is now fixed. The testing here showed that there was indeed a bug in the Grid Tool as well that would show up if liveries are added in a particular order - that has now been fixed too. In the meantime, as Reiche has pointed out, copying the <VEHICLE>_LIVERY_PLAYER.dds and renaming it to LIVERY_AI.dds will patch up the white cars at the expense of a little performance.
I'll get the new version to testers sometime this weekend, hopefully be out early next week. JDougNY has also found a new trick that will cut down on the overall package size of the mod, likely by 300-400 MB, which I will test out as well.
Love it..Thank you :)
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Im a little stupid: Where are these liveries where I need to change the name?Quote:
Originally Posted by crowtrobot
With the new version you mentioned, is it still necessary to ad the Livery-AI files?Quote:
Originally Posted by crowtrobot
The liveries should be in the same folder that you have them in now. So the folder will contain <VEHICLE>_LIVERY_PLAYER.dds and a copy of that livery in the same folder called <VEHICLE>_LIVERY_AI.ddsQuote:
Originally Posted by Shadowoff
in cowtrobots V0.94 "demo_fa_liveries" are no AI files. Is that the causing problem?
Hey crow, is there any reason why we can't add liveries for the karts? I can't see it in the list...
Thanks!
2 things I have noticed not sure if its by design or a bug though..
When running a livery MOD I seem to have the liveries placed into 2 locations as the images show the second being what I called the livery pack
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The other thing is where has the custom livery folder gone as I cant find it anymore under :\Steam\SteamApps\common\pCars\Vehicles\Textures\CustomLiveries when the Custom livery tool is being used
Also I have noticed that I cannot simply overwrite a saved livery file and have the changes apper in game without making a new pack each time
And 1 more thing can you edit the drivers names?
Hmm, board seems to have ate my replies last night:
No practical reason, just logistics. I didn't include the karts or the road cars to keep the file size down, and probably won't until the game stops being updated. Once the game has reached its official End of Life, JDougNY has mentioned he will likely be releasing a "Complete Unlocker", and I can re-factor the app to use that, rather than drawing from the 'customLiveryData' folder that comes with the Custom Livery Tool download. It will be much easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by OBigO
By design, you'll have liveries in two, potentially three places:Quote:
Originally Posted by NWRAP
1) The original folder where you store liveries. This is the folder you point the program to to load them, and can be any location.
2) Within the app in /MODS/Custom_Livery_Tool/vehicles/textures/CustomLiveries/<vehicle>/<livery>. This is so the app itself can be activated and the liveries can be used in game.
3) If the Export function is used, you'll have the liveries again in /MODS/<exportfolder>/vehicles/textures/CustomLiveries/<vehicle>/<livery>
w.r.t. AI - There is a master list of AI names, nationalities, and driver personalities that is pulled from by the game, but I haven't yet determined the mechanism for how it does that; I think it is random from session to session. I believe that career mode seasons are considered by the game as one series of sessions after the next, so that's how the drivers are kept constant, but you'll notice if you restart a career several times, the driver list will be different each time. Still to come.
As long, you're not able to add bananas too, it's not really necessary. ;)
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Haha, we are planning on doing a fun kart league...there is actually a fair amount you can do with the kart. Oh well. :(
New version should be coming tomorrow - want to test some last minute edits tonight.
In other news, a little preview of the next mod - adding DLC Contracts for Endurance Racing:
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A genius !
This is awesome!! I can see custom championship coming from you at some point! Or at least some career mod that allows track/car/weather customization. The sky is the limit man...well done!Quote:
Originally Posted by crowtrobot
Is it normal that it needs 10 to get activated/to overwrite the grid tool files?
No, there is a bug in the Grid Tool that I found when people noted the white AI liveries here. It doesn't really have anything to do with the number of activated cars/liveries, though it is possible to mask the problem by writing a certain number of cars depending on how many default liveries the car has.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowoff
Provided the testers don't find anything wrong, updates to both tools should be available tonight.
New version 0.95b out! First post updated.
Fixes white liveries showing up when no LIVERY_AI.dds is present. Fixes Mclaren GT3 windscreen being dark with custom liveries. Significant reduction in package file size thanks to JDougNY.
No patch this time - please delete the previous version before installing; remove the following:
- <pCARS>/customLiveryData
- <pCARS>/pCARS_Custom_Liveries.lnk
- <pCARS>/MODS/Custom_Livery_Tool
Thanks for the fix..It's even smaller again if you use 7zipQuote:
Originally Posted by crowtrobot
Crashing when I want to confirm to open my folder (see screenshot, crashing after I click button) for the Z4 GT3. Anyone else having this issue?
JDoug's Unlocker 9, Audi R8 LMS 2015, AI Lights (poor weather), Better sounds, Effects-mod by maxx2504 activated.
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edit: Obviously some faulty files were causing this, feeling stupid now :D
Reiche,
Check to make sure you don't have any non-livery files amongst all those folders (reference material, .pdns, .jpgs, etc.), that can crash the tool. Also, can't say I've tested loading so many liveries, were you able to successfully load that many with previous versions?
Checked that. Thought you were right after I found one .rar and one additional .dds, but it kept crashing.Quote:
Originally Posted by crowtrobot
Splitted the folder into two (both containing 25 now), but the tool keeps crashing, no matter which one I select. Pretty sure it worked before, had them already assigned once.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think before it crashed first, I was able to select the directory and it crashed when I hit assign. (added the custom liveries and removed the fictional in-game-liveries).
edit: Obviously some faulty files were causing this, feeling stupid now :D
Does the included demo_fa_liveries folder work? You probably tried this already, but if the demo Formula A liveries work, try resetting the Z4.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reiche
Well, at least some success.. After resetting the Z4, deleting and pasting the Custom Livery Tool, verifying game files etc. the problem was still persistent, but I could trace it to one single custom livery. No idea why this is causing anything, but I'll investigate further =D
Shouldn't be an issue with the tool though, my bad, sorry =)
You have no idea how much I love you for this tool
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How history should have been
Hey crowtrobot, awesome app, i downloaded it last night - works a treat.... but....... 1 problem. When i watch a replay when using custom skins, whether it's using 2 or 50 skins, my player car will be missing parts, bonnet, bumper, rear spoiler sometimes, like they've just broken off. Sometimes they'll appear as the car gets closer to the camera, sometimes they'll disappear as it approaches but seems a definite correlation between the issue and distance from the replay camera. I haven't tinkered with anything else yet - will get to it soon. I'n not running any other mods or tools. I had same issue with different cars using different skins on different tracks. It's only ever the player car, never the AI car.
Any ideas?
Otherworld ,hello or you found it skins? please
when I select the folder or there are the custom skins application cuts
The tool closes itself whenever I try to load my folder containing Mustang GT4 liveries... anyone else having this issue or is it coming from my end?
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Originally Posted by licorne06
Make sure you don't have any special characters or spaces in any of the livery names. Also make sure you don't have any extra files in your folder with the Mustang liveries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otherworld
Indeed, one of my file had " - copy" at the end of its name. My bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by crowtrobot
Other strange thing I noticed though, despite putting new Fresnel and Spec files with my R18 TDI liveries, the "official" fresnel file still appears on the cars in-game, adding up with the fresnel file associated to the new liveries. Any idea what might be causing this? (I have my own idea ; which is that the fresnel file for the R18 is somehow not called "AUDI_R18_LIVERY_FRESNEL.dds")
And another observation : in career mode, it seems like for some cars the liveries belonging to a same team are not chosen by normal order (i.e. you have two Bilstein Audi R8, "Bilstein #4" and "Bilstein #5" (thus in the menu they appear one right after the other), yet in career Bilstein #4 will be paired with, say, "Martini Racing #21")
Your idea is probably correct. You'll notice one livery is 'baked' onto the model as well and swapped directly, it's not a generic paint that is swapped out like most other cars. If you figure out what the actual fresnel is I'd be happy to include it in future versions, but noodling around with the cars, that by default, are non-customizable was on the fringe of the scope of the project.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otherworld
Also, w.r.t. the tool crashing with extra files or characters - I'll figure out what's going on there and include a fix once Patch 10 comes out in a few weeks.
http://www.racedepartment.com/thread...105969/page-14
Check JDougNY's reply to my question on Feb 15.
@Otherworld
In career, the liveries and teams are specifically assigned by the career binary files. Not sure if there is any rhyme or reason to it, but there are only certain liveries accessible for each car on the career grid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otherworld
Hey crowtrobot, sorry to bother you again. I've narrowed down my problem a bit - maybe you can help. If i use 1 or 50 custom liveries with your tool, in the second session, so either qualifying after practice, or race after practice or qualifying, certain parts of my player car won't load or render. Its always the bonnet, front bumper, rear bumper or boot. Never wheels, windows, lights or doors and it's only in the second session. First session, the car loads fine and looks fine, whether it's a 5 min session or 30 min, it's only when the next session starts that the problem appears. The skin renders over the car but the whole section of car is missing. Still there, but invisible. you can even see the rear spoiler-mounted taillight still floating where the spoiler should be. Only the player car, never the AI cars. Any car, any track, any mode, any skin - vanilla liveries do it too, if i use your tool and leave 1 in the livery list. As i said before, the missing parts will flicker and appear according to how close to a replay camera they are and also, all parts are visible from cockpit or bonnet view (all parts that can be seen, anyway), so when the bonnet hasn't loaded in an external view, i can see it in cockpit view...?
No other mods.
No non-livery files.
Liveries named and organised correctly.
New install of the custom liveries tool - never used it before
Export a package and activate it - same problem with player car.
I'm stuck
Is it a particular car or all cars?Quote:
Originally Posted by Doktor_Drift
The test group saw something similar when we initially tried the Formula A, but the problem seemed to go away on its own, seemed like a corrupted upload/download.
Seems to be all cars. I've tried Formula A with downloaded skins and your test skins. Main car i'm wanting to change is the Ford Falcon FG. Have tried Stock Car and Ford Escort too. All have same issue. Whenever i use the tool with a custom skin (or even a vanilla skin and nothing else), it happens. If i disable everything the problem goes away. If i use the single custom livery method built into the game with vanilla AI cars, it works fine. Got me all confused. This is my first post ever in the forums - i can usually figure this stuff out myself but nah, not this time :( Download was quick and seemed fine. I extract with 7-Zip and run everything as admin. Everything seems to be fine and plays fine except these missing/invisible visuals...