custom ball bearing texture

[607]

Hello, in many old tracks the ball bearing has got a custom texture. This is the only general sprite that is custom in these old tracks, as before Phoenix R3 it wasn't possible to have custom textures without replacing stock assets.
However, I couldn't figure out how this was done, and nobody was able to tell me on Discord. So I'll ask it here: how was this done?

[URV]

It's the envstill.bmp file, located in the GFX folder by default. Here's the default image:



And here's the edited version used in Sakura:



Unfortunately, yes, this does mean that you can't change the envstill file without also altering the reflection on cars. If that's an issue, you're better off just using a new model altogether for the ball bearing, perhaps with vertex shading instead.

Actually, the car reflections might be affected solely by envroll.bmp instead. Experiment a little first, I might be wrong there.

[607]

I've put a custom envstill in the track's folder and even in the track's custom folder, but still the default texture shows. :/

[URV]

Ah, right, I only realized after posting earlier. You also need to edit the .inf file to include the correct paths, like with music. For instance:

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ENVSTILL                    'levels\sakura\custom\envstill.bmp' 
ENVROLL                     'levels\sakura\custom\envroll.bmp' 

They don't necessarily have to be in the custom folder, so you can throw them wherever as long as the path is correct. This actually made me realize that the file path is incorrect in Sakura's .inf file (in the I/O pack at least), so we should finally see a fix for that next update.

[SebR]

Is ENVROLL still working on last RVGL ?

[URV]

I tested it earlier today on Sakura and it seemed to work just fine, yeah.

[SebR]

Sakura only have ENVSTILLwho is working

I'm tolking about ENVROLL who stop working (i think) since RVGL can use more than 10 track textures...

Have a look on A world without paint cars shoold have custom ENVROLL but it looks differnt from rv1.2 (or i'm complettely blind...)

[URV]

Yes, I did mean I tested ENVROLL as well. I took the one from SS Route Re-Volt, which was easy to spot the difference with, and it worked just fine.

[SebR]

So I tested again and again and finaly found what's wrong on A World With No Paint:
On his *inf we can find

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ENVROLL                     'levels\WWPaint\Custom\Envroll.bmp

But on windows it shoold be

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ENVROLL                     'levels\WWPaint\Custom\Envroll.bmp'

And on linux

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ENVROLL                     'levels\wwpaint\custom\envroll.bmp'
or ENVROLL                     'levels\WWPaint\Custom\Envroll.bmp'

Perhaps Huki can update his "fix-cases" script to do it ?

[URV]

Good catch. I tested it out earlier on Windows, so it worked fine on my end. Might be good to open up a topic on this in Suggestions later.

Any idea if this also happens with the MP3 or MUSIC lines? I know that capitalization never really mattered in car parameters, just in the actual filenames themselves, so I'm surprised if this is the case with .INF files altogether.

In any case, I'll look through the I/O tracks for anything like this and deliver fixes next update.

[607]

That works! It makes sense also. Thanks.

[SebR]

just tested on linux for MP3 :

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MP3		'levels\WWPaint\Rebuild the walls - Aaron Bartlett.mp3'

with a file renamed as :
"rebuild the walls - aaron bartlett.mp3"
work just fine so i tested again for ENVROLL and ENVSTILL and

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ENVROLL                     'levels\WWPaint\Custom\Envroll.bmp'
ENVSTILL                     'levels\WWPaint\Custom\Envstill.bmp'

work fine on linux too i was probably too tired last night

So you don't need to check i/o packs ...

[Huki]

Any idea if this also happens with the MP3 or MUSIC lines? I know that capitalization never really mattered in car parameters, just in the actual filenames themselves, so I'm surprised if this is the case with .INF files altogether.

Capitalization doesn't matter inside the parameters.txt or <level>.inf entries. It's only the filenames themselves that need to be lowercase.