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[Fireboyd78]

Nice!

[someone972]

I found the wheels for the cops, so I can raise the cops up (where they fall over more often), move the wheels in and out sideways, or move them forwards and backwards.

[PostalDude]

Well Driv3rownz, we'd need to edit the .COS files in order to do that properly, so far it is very compressed and would probably take awhile to de-code. So like someone, can you see if you can decipher the .COS files? (Cosmetics Data)

btw if im on at this time its because im at school.

I myself,can't do sh*t when it comes to driver modding,only can do simple GTA stuff(but this isn't the place for that,is it???) such as default.ide and carcols.dat crap.

[Fireboyd78]

Can you show us where the cop wheels are? Like, post a pic of the area? I'm really interested

Maybe even give us your .COS file coding for a really ****ed up San Francisco!

[someone972]

Ok, first you will need a hex editor. I prefer to use the downloadable hex editor for Notepad++. Open the Frisco_01.cos file and display it in hex. At position 24C you should see 'b7'. This is the start of the data for the first wheel. The data is contained in short integers, each one takes up 2 bytes. By only changing the first byte you will get a smaller degree of movement, I only suggest this since even one change of the second is 256 of the first. Here is a diagram of what each short does.

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           __
          |  |
S1   <--> |  |          (Top Down)
          |__|


S2          ___
      ^    /   \
      |   |     |      (Side (Right side up))
      V    \___/

         __
        |  |    ^
S3      |  |    |         (Top Down)
        |__|    V

Here is where each short is:

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|Short 1 | Short 2 | Short 3 |
  b7 00     57 ff     60 01

So an example where the wheels are raised a bit is:

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b7 00 20 ff 60 01 00 00 b7 00 20 ff fc fe 00 00 49 ff 20 ff 60 01 00 00 49 ff 20 ff fc fe 00 00

I didn't explain this very thoroughly so if you have problems don't hesitate to post.

EDIT: Oh, I just noticed your message, I'll see what I can do. Might take a while.

[Fireboyd78]

Can we see your .C program, even though it's not finished? I want to try it out.

[PostalDude]

Ok ive found it, the name of this utility is PSicture to load up the Driver level textures in it just click File, Open as Raw then browse for the lev file, before you click OK you have to set a few more varibles, you can only view a few textures at a time so to bigger the number set in the Address the deeper you search into the *.Lev files so if you set the number to lets say 800000 in the iview.lev file it displays as far as the wheel textures make sure you set the image width to 512 and height to 512 because this is how the textures seem to look best. Try setting the address to 3000000 in the IVIEW.Lev file LOOK YOU CAN SEE THE COP CAR TEXTURES AND THE DAMAGED COP CAR TEXTURES, let me know what you think

P.S I hope this has all been of help to you all lol because all this has literally taken 2 years of constant playing around and trying different things i figure all this out lol

I tried driver 2 vegas tex's and got this:


what the f**k?????

[someone972]

The problem is probably that Driver2 uses a different level format than the original driver. Either that or you went too far into the file. I don't own that one, so I can't say for sure.

@CarLuver69: I'll get that ready and to you tomorrow, right now it is changed for other purposes than tex-editing and I need some sleep.

[PostalDude]

The problem is probably that Driver2 uses a different level format than the original driver. Either that or you went too far into the file. I don't own that one, so I can't say for sure.

@CarLuver69: I'll get that ready and to you tomorrow, right now it is changed for other purposes than tex-editing and I need some sleep.

I open the iview.lev file and get random crap,one time I got a brown buick GSX with the damaged/undamaged textures,one time I got this:


Blue Camaro and Brown Fleetwood???WTF!

[Fireboyd78]

You're seeing that because the colors are 15-bit, not 16 or 8 bit. It sucks, really.

[PostalDude]

Blue Camaros and Brown Fleetwoods in Driver wouldn't suck......

[Fireboyd78]

From the picture above me and myself, I was able to get some of the true color out. It's not perfect, though....


I used Hue for this one, set the master to -120, and the blues to -120


Same again^^^, except I added Auto Colors


I forgot how I did this one...But It's not as good as the others...hmm...

[PostalDude]

Sweet,is it possible to change the color of the car without it having the whole body become that color???Like a black Caddy Fleetwood with just the body painted(not windows becoming black,etc).Plus is it possible to make tailing missions???like in driver 2 where the car would drive normally and you would have to stay behind it and not get spotted??

[Fireboyd78]

There was no tailing missions in Driver, so no, you cannot make tailing missions. There was chase missions, but those are hidden away in the .LEV file.

Also, i'm working on a little project that might or might not take off, depending on how much time I want to waste.

[bb_42001]

one you guys are awesome

[PostalDude]

There was no tailing missions in Driver, so no, you cannot make trailing missions. There was chase missions, but those are hidden away in the .LEV file.

Damm. Had some good ideas for car routes.

[Fireboyd78]

I know, like starting from a Bal Harbor house in Miami, leaving from the garage and going to the bar would be awesome!

[PostalDude]

I know, like starting from a Bal Harbor house in Miami, leaving from the garage and going to the bar would be awesome!

I would like to tail(I know its not possible) a black van in NY,start off near the WTC,follow it through some sidestreets,than it will pull into a alley,park near a building,than a ingame cutscene with the van parked and just have 4 guys pop out near the doors of the van and walk through the building.

[someone972]

Sorry that I haven't gotten it to you yet. Yesterday I spent the whole day working on my project, it's due pretty soon. As soon as I get a chance I'll get it to you. Keep up the work on the new car, hopefully I can get the 3D files decoded by the time it is done so it can be put in the game if you want.

[Fireboyd78]

Speaking of walking into a building, I can do that. I did it in Miami, I studied how the team made the ingame cutscenes and it goes something like

MCS_SetCameraCoord -xxxxx,xxxxx
MCS_SetCameraEndCoord -xxxxx,xxxxx
MCS_SetDoorCoord -xxxxx,xxxxx
MCS_SetDoorAxis 0
MCS_SetWalk


I will give an example when I get back home, right now I'm in my animation class and Youtube is blocked so yea...I have an example on my Youtube account, Bittboy. Just go to http://youtube.com/user/bittboy and look for "DRIVER 1 PC SECRET FOUND". I made that myself.

[Slick]

Hi someone, just wondering hows ur texture modding project coming on?

[someone972]

It's coming along OK. Mostly what's holding it back is lack of time at the moment. Right now I'm trying to figure out how everything is ordered and how to tell how many images there are. Once I can do this it will be able to load any level.

[Slick]

Thats really gd!!! how long do you think it will take you to complete?

cheers

[Fireboyd78]

Wheres an update? I've been thinking about this too much...

[someone972]

Hello again . I haven't been working on this for the past 2 days, but just now I found where it tells how many palette entries there are. I don't know how to find this spot yet though, since I need to find out how to read the names at the beginning of the file.

[Fireboyd78]

Can you give us a guesstimate on when we might see a functioning editor?

[someone972]

I can't really give an accurate guess right now, it's the reverse engineering levels that takes forever. As soon as that is done I can give a much more accurate guess as to when I can get coding for the editor done. I wouldn't expect it for a while though (unless I get the files done fast).

[Slick]

Thats wicked somone!! oh yeh just wondering are you adding other features to mod other areas in the lev files like the 3D Car Modelling and Levels?? lol

[bb_42001]

is someone getting paid?

[Fireboyd78]

woops, hit enter too early.