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Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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I've made my first car and i want to it test it in c2.

How do i install it and make it run in c2??

(i have compiled so i just need some directions on how to make it work in c2) :suicide:
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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For this, I have assumed that your car is called 'your_car_name'.

I have also assumed that your root carmageddon directory is called 'carmageddon' - I think the default is 'Carmageddon II Carpocalypse Now' or something equally crap:

1) Copy the your_car_name folder to the carmageddon/data/cars

2) Go to your carmageddon folder

3) If you have a c2c file, copy/paste it and rename it to 'your_car_name.c2c'

4) Open the c2c file in notepad, and you should see something similar to below:

(If you don't have a c2c file, copy the indented text below into notepad, and save it as a c2c file)

I have put the comments in italics.

the bold parts are the sections you should/can edit

<blockquote>Davey Jones // Driver Name

Dave // Short Driver Name

Crusher // Car Name

4 // Strength rating (1-5)

100000 // Cost to buy it

all // Network availability ('eagle', or 'all')

your_car_name.txt // vehicle filename

//vehicle description

Crusher - a little demonstration for TANk, to demonstrate how c2c's work.</blockquote>

Above, the 'vehicle filename' bit is the most important - if you don't get this right, the car won't work...

Also, 'network availability' basically means if the computer can select the car (Or something like that). 'all' is used by default, so I figured you don't need to change this.

Anyway, back on track:

5) Load 'Carstockalypse' (Available from [url=http://thesprayshop.net">TSS[/url]) - and your car should be in the menu on the left... just click out over to the right, and you should be in business

6) Test it



Don't expect your car to work first time though. Things aaaalways go wrong :wink: - but we're all here to help :P (Well, most of us)
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Oh, the line at the bottom of the indented text

("Crusher - a little demonstration for TANk, to demonstrate how c2c's work.") should be in bold too... That's the car's description, what you see in the 'car select' menu
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Thanks errh.. Monkey :lol:.

I'll try it
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Nope does'nt work.

It appears in the game, but when i'm trying to race, the game just walks out on me(Quits and goes to desktop with the music still playing).

HEEELP!! :supermad: :supermad:
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Run the game in software mode

(Go to your root carma directory, and dbl click the carma2_SW.exe)

This time, when it crashes, it /should/ give an error.
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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It Says "Cant find animation frame pixelmap referenced in funktronic file"

WTF does that mean :help:
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Open your carname.txt file in the carma/data/cars/carname folder and erase everything between this:

START OF FUNK

END OF FUNK

Let it look like that, save and try again...
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Just as a side note, too

your carmageddon/data/cars/your_car_name folder should have a folder called 'tiffrgb' in it... Just making sure incase you forgot to copy it across or something
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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It worked, thanks

What is this funk anyway? some kind of animations??
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Yup... to put it bluntly

The most common use for anims is to make the brake/reverse lights work. Though you can use them for making images scroll across a surface, and different images appear one after the other one a surface...



Can we get a screenshot of your vehicle? :smile:
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Yeah, its to make braking lights, but if you altered the textures after the 1st compile, and compiled after redoing the textures the txt file remains, among some more, forgot wich tho..

But forget the funk (or what it said) for now, its just to help you, thats why CarEd made it, it uses the first texture you make most of the times, it can take any texture so watch the next time...wheels with enlarged textures :crazy:
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Well ok, it sucks horseshoe.

Its to damn big and unstable.

The textures are poor, but it's my first. :tongue:
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Haha! What're you talking about? - that's awesome lookin'!

Far better than my first car, atleast :lol:
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*says nothing*
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Now, another question.

My wheels won't turn or spin around when driving, how do i do that?
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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lol! good idea for a car, i can see where you are getting at :wink: btw, same timezone? where you at?
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Norway, cold Norway.

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Damn, you had it in your profile lol... :supercrazy:

So, if a car comes driving straight at you the car needs to drive up the ramp of your car and needs to flip right?
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Well that would also be cool, but what i was asking about was how i can the wheels on MY car spin and turn when driving.

(the wheels just stand still and face one way like an overgrown garbage can)

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Yeah yeah, i missed the question :tongue: lol

Ok, so if the wheels are just one component, and there are four wheels then do this:

Rename the front right wheel: FRWHEEL

Front left: FLWHEEL

rear right: RRWHEEL

rear left: RLWHEEL

And do not group the wheels at all!! CarEd will do the rest :smile:

If the wheels are made out of more components (pieces) te do this:

the components can renamed to whatever thou will, but keep it so you can see whats front left etc.

Group the front right wheel parts into a group called FRWHEEL

do the same with the others, the names are all the same as i described above :smile:

and dont make one of those wheels as a master group too :crazy:
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Yeah it works, but it seams like there are some wheels indside the turning wheels.

It looks a little weird
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Probably because you didn't replace the carnameshell.dat
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Thanks very much.

Thats all i needed to for now! :wink:
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Damn another error message, "Can't load car resolution-independant" image

(Started on a new car) :suicide:
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What happend to the first car? :crazy:

Anyway, i think it was if you named the txt file different, it must be all the same (also IN the text file)
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Nope doesnt work still the same " :supercrazy:FATAL ERROR"
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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There gotta be something thats not right, maybe the name in the opponents.txt, is that the same?
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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Just forget its not working.

I deleted it.

It was a sort of a tricycle, but when i saved it to a .obj file Java bugged.

Maybe that's why it wouldnt work

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C2 doesnt needs a obj file..
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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DAMNIT!!! :supermad: :mad:
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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:confused: damnit because it doesnt needs a obj file? :crazy:
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Re: Help with installing (my)CarEd Car

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No i've deleted the whole thing.

Anyways, i'm working on a new car now called bonesnap.

So you dont need to answer on the whole fatal error thingy.

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Yeah ok, i scrap it too :wink:

Dont go working on too much, finish them one by one or some, i did that too in the beginning and then i suddenly starting do dislike making things...just finish one, then you also got more knowlegde in how all things work..
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Good advice. But anyhow, C2 will make you curse very often :supermad:
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