DIRT 4 - CUSTOM LIVERIES, MODS & TOOLS, DISCUSSION ETC.

[HRMStealth]

Just tried that a couple of minutes ago, it repacks it but does come up with an error at the end of the packing process saying the file was bigger (mine was by 4 whole bytes!).
I managed to load the game up, select the car and livery, but crashes on loading the stage with an error report etc... No luck at the minute for me.

[versedi]

StealthSCG said:

Just tried that a couple of minutes ago, it repacks it but does come up with an error at the end of the packing process saying the file was bigger (mine was by 4 whole bytes!).
I managed to load the game up, select the car and livery, but crashes on loading the stage with an error report etc... No luck at the minute for me.

I guess we can only hope for the dev of tool to have time and desire ;) 

When I will have time and desire I will update the script 

[HRMStealth]

Absolutely, fingers crossed somebody manages to figure it out soon  :)

[UDegani]

so i unpacked the files of 24 out of 55 cars in the game, it went from 3.43GB to 9GB, nice compression there

[UDegani]

For future reference
131 - Fiat 131 Abarth
205 - Peugeot 205 GTI
306 - Peugeot 306 Maxi
555 - SUBARU Impreza 1995
037 - Lancia 037 Evo 2
20b - Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2
20r - Peugeot 208 R5 T16
20x - Peugeot 208 WRX
2bx - Peugeot 205 T16 Rallycross
6r4 - MG Metro 6R4 Rallycross
6rb - MG Metro 6R4
ada - Opel Adam R2
alp - Renault Alpine A110
aqe - Audi Sport quattro S1 E2
asc - Opel Ascona 400
clx - Renault Clio S1600
cme - Ford Escort MK II
crk - Speedcar Xtrem
dsx - DS 3
ers - Ford Escort RS Cosworth
ev6 - Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
for - Ford Focus RS Rally 2007
fow - Ford Focus RS Rally 2001
fox - Ford Focus RS RX
fr2 - Ford Fiesta R2
fr5 - Ford Fiesta R5
frx - Ford Fiesta Rallycross
fsb - Larock 2XR Buggy
ful - Lancia Fulvia HF
i25 - Hyundai R5
imp - SUBARU Impreza 2001
kad - Opel Kadett C GT/E
ldi - Lancia Delta HF Integrale
lds - Lancia Delta S4
ldx - Lancia Delta S4 Rallycross
m3r - BMW E30 M3 Evo Rally
mcs - Mini Cooper S

[chukonu]

Are the camera xml files in the .nefs? How do I get to the camera files?
Looking into converting http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/rocket-v2-immersive-head-cam-for-dirt-rally.6566/ to DiRT 4.

[OeildeLynx]

atonium83 said:

If anyone is able to do this livery, it will be awesome ! 

I began it by basing me on DR's 208 RX  but I have the impression that the car's sizes are different, which does not produce much.
But I have all the stickers ready :)

[UDegani]

im still going to do this livery as requested for a while already. but im not going to start before we find a way to repack the files, yes there are xml files in the nefs but i dont know if they are for the in car games probably they are but we still cant repackage them on the nefs so it doesn't matter much, IMO making mods with the unpacked files without being able to repackage them is a waste of time

[OeildeLynx]

YorAlcoholicDad said:

im still going to do this livery as requested for a while already. but im not going to start before we find a way to repack the files, yes there are xml files in the nefs but i dont know if they are for the in car games probably they are but we still cant repackage them on the nefs so it doesn't matter much, IMO making mods with the unpacked files without being able to repackage them is a waste of time

Yes, I saw it after by going on the equivalent subject for Dirt Rally.

I began this livery from Sebastien Loeb Racing's announcement on Twitter but the measures between 208 RX and 208 T16 must be different by assuming that it would be the same files between DR and D4 (it's what I had made for Renault 5 Turbo and the Alpine between D3 and DR).

If you want, I can cross you my docs (I have already realized the rally's sticker with the number and got back all the logos)

For those that it interest, I have all the elements for Mkinen & Loix's Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 :)

[UDegani]

OeildeLynx said:

YorAlcoholicDad said:

im still going to do this livery as requested for a while already. but im not going to start before we find a way to repack the files, yes there are xml files in the nefs but i dont know if they are for the in car games probably they are but we still cant repackage them on the nefs so it doesn't matter much, IMO making mods with the unpacked files without being able to repackage them is a waste of time

Yes, I saw it after by going on the equivalent subject for Dirt Rally.

I began this livery from Sebastien Loeb Racing's announcement on Twitter but the measures between 208 RX and 208 T16 must be different by assuming that it would be the same files between DR and D4 (it's what I had made for Renault 5 Turbo and the Alpine between D3 and DR).

If you want, I can cross you my docs (I have already realized the rally's sticker with the number and got back all the logos)

For those that it interest, I have all the elements for Mkinen & Loix's Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 :)

if you dont mind pm me what you have on it the i guess ill start making stuff, if we never manage to repackage the files ill just ask @Jepsertti to render some wallpapers with it

[Jepsertti]

YorAlcoholicDad said:

OeildeLynx said:

YorAlcoholicDad said:

im still going to do this livery as requested for a while already. but im not going to start before we find a way to repack the files, yes there are xml files in the nefs but i dont know if they are for the in car games probably they are but we still cant repackage them on the nefs so it doesn't matter much, IMO making mods with the unpacked files without being able to repackage them is a waste of time

Yes, I saw it after by going on the equivalent subject for Dirt Rally.

I began this livery from Sebastien Loeb Racing's announcement on Twitter but the measures between 208 RX and 208 T16 must be different by assuming that it would be the same files between DR and D4 (it's what I had made for Renault 5 Turbo and the Alpine between D3 and DR).

If you want, I can cross you my docs (I have already realized the rally's sticker with the number and got back all the logos)

For those that it interest, I have all the elements for Mkinen & Loix's Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 :)

if you dont mind pm me what you have on it the i guess ill start making stuff, if we never manage to repackage the files ill just ask @Jepsertti to render some wallpapers with it

Sounds good, I can definitely do renders of the skins you're doing before they can be used in the game. :)

[Amne Miqo]

Hello modders, i'm also interested in creation/porting livrees in dirt4. For first mine 131 abarth( Paolo Diana). Now I have to learn how to use cmq.exe :-) 

[OeildeLynx]

After I spent quite for extract and find the good files, a small overview of Makinen's Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI :)


As @YorAlcoholicDad, I mainly bought the game for liveries mods. That would be it's a pity that it is finally impossible
 
Thanks for your research !

[shadow118]

OeildeLynx said:

atonium83 said:

If anyone is able to do this livery, it will be awesome ! 

I began it by basing me on DR's 208 RX  but I have the impression that the car's sizes are different, which does not produce much.
But I have all the stickers ready :)

I guess this is awkward, but I'm also planning on making this one :D Anyway, @OeildeLynx maybe you can help me with a few stickers? What's the name of the one after the number on the door (the blue on white, Can't make it out) and also the PCi one, is there another name for it or something, because searching for PCI logo didn't yield any results  

[AntonVit]

Codemasters developers watch on this post and smiling, i think ))
Yea, game now not like early....

[OeildeLynx]

Didzis said:

I guess this is awkward, but I'm also planning on making this one :D Anyway, @OeildeLynx maybe you can help me with a few stickers? What's the name of the one after the number on the door (the blue on white, Can't make it out) and also the PCi one, is there another name for it or something, because searching for PCI logo didn't yield any results  

After the car number, it's the rally's logo: " Rallye du Chablais ", in Switzerland.
For PCi, I finally found on Facebook.^^ PCi for "Pneus Centre International" in french. This is tyres specialist in Switzerland again.

[PaloSamo]

AntonVit said:

Codemasters developers watch on this post and smiling, i think ))
Yea, game now not like early....

But someone has already managed to do ACAT, didn't they ;)

[shadow118]

OeildeLynx said:

Didzis said:

I guess this is awkward, but I'm also planning on making this one :D Anyway, @OeildeLynx maybe you can help me with a few stickers? What's the name of the one after the number on the door (the blue on white, Can't make it out) and also the PCi one, is there another name for it or something, because searching for PCI logo didn't yield any results  

After the car number, it's the rally's logo: " Rallye du Chablais ", in Switzerland.
For PCi, I finally found on Facebook.^^ PCi for "Pneus Centre International" in french. This is tyres specialist in Switzerland again.

thanks :) 

[shadow118]

EDIT: Wrong topic, sorry                                                          

[UDegani]

Didzis said:

I is done :) I even found an image of the actual watch. Didn't quite manage to fit the watch as it was on the R5 car, but I think this is close enough 

http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/peugeot-208-sebastien-loeb-r5-richard-mille.15808/

don't want to nitpick but this a dirt rally mod, it should probably be on the dirt rally mods thread, also if you don't mind sharing the watch pic

[shadow118]

YorAlcoholicDad said:
don't want to nitpick but this a dirt rally mod, it should probably be on the dirt rally mods thread, also if you don't mind sharing the watch pic 

Sorry, got a bit mixed up
Here's the watch, it does appear to be the same model

[UDegani]

i was looking at the cars files again, looking on the landrush trucks, looks like there are only 2 slots that we could make custom liveries the rest apparently use the branding suite, so i dont know if we could for an example have a full field of realistic liveries, modding its looking more and more difficult the more i look in to the files

[ShouldBeThere]

@KickUp

"No way to fix it." http://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4304 This doesn't look promising. Any chance for some help on this? I know it was a grey area for Dirt Rally in terms of modding, that you didn't want to promote it I presume for licensing reasons, but also didn't want to discourage people who spend their time creating the artwork. Is it a case of actively helping the community breaches your licence agreements, whereas just turning a blind eye if we're successful isn't?

[pigloaf]

FINALLY back from work trip. It's Dirt 4 time!!
Cranked some racing last night, and this morning having a play around with offzip and getting The Sun off of this otherwise great livery.

[thecraicbear]

edgenz said:

FINALLY back from work trip. It's Dirt 4 time!!
Cranked some racing last night, and this morning having a play around with offzip and getting The Sun off of this otherwise great livery.

OH MY WORD :D 

Lovely touch replacing the rag's name with the Echo! Nice work!  

[SamRWD]

Awesome, hope we will get liveries mods eventually! (Kubica livery, pretty please  :* )

[chukonu]

Is it possible to add files to .nefs archives without repackaging? Like maybe you can overwrite files within the archive.

[UDegani]

chukonu said:

Is it possible to add files to .nefs archives without repackaging? Like maybe you can overwrite files within the archive.

nope

[thecraicbear]

@edgenz Will you be making your livery available for public download by any chance? 

[pigloaf]

thecraicbear said:

@edgenz Will you be making your livery available for public download by any chance? 

yea definitely @thecraicbear - as soon as it's possible

[UDegani]

doesn't really matter until we can use it in game, i haven't made any liveries until now because of that, i fell like its a waste of time and effort to make liveries that we cant use in game

[neburas886]

Anyone keep researching to unpacking? Or there's no way to modding DiRT4 until Codies considering something to modders?
The latter is unlikely to be realized.

[pigloaf]

YorAlcoholicDad said:

doesn't really matter until we can use it in game, i haven't made any liveries until now because of that, i fell like its a waste of time and effort to make liveries that we cant use in game

Wasn't a waste of effort at all - i couldn't wait to get the rag off that livery :D
5 minutes well spent.

[shadow118]

neburas886 said:

Anyone keep researching to unpacking? Or there's no way to modding DiRT4 until Codies considering something to modders?
The latter is unlikely to be realized.

Unpacking is not the problem, it's putting it all back together where we're stuck at the moment

[neburas886]

Didzis said:

Unpacking is not the problem, it's putting it all back together where we're stuck at the moment

Sorry, I mistook "Unpacking" and "Repacking".
Also I looked around other forums such as RaceDepartment, Xentax and Zenhax but nobody seems to interesting or researching DiRT4's .nefs files. I wish if Ryder25 came back and working on it.

[Kenny1962]

Please Codemasters can somebody please help these guys they add so much to the game. These guys
made Dirt Rally awesome with there work.

[LutzM]

Can't wait to do my own liveries, especially when the new league system is launched...
Would be too bad if all the cars have the same pattern (with varying colours) on their cars in the vids & screenshots from league races.

Come on Codies, give us a hint o:)

[knifeindface]

Have asked a friend that's a programmer(and dirt head) to have a look at this thread and see has he any ideas...really want to get mods on the go and now with the r5s all the Irish championship cars are possible!!

[knifeindface]

Also has anyone looked at modding "yourstage" ?kickup said in interviews there's allot more perameter changes possible for the devs but they linked them all to the two sliders for players

[ShouldBeThere]

knifeindface said:

Also has anyone looked at modding "yourstage" ?kickup said in interviews there's allot more perameter changes possible for the devs but they linked them all to the two sliders for players

Pretty sure all the files are .nefs 

[knifeindface]

ShouldBeThere said:

knifeindface said:

Also has anyone looked at modding "yourstage" ?kickup said in interviews there's allot more perameter changes possible for the devs but they linked them all to the two sliders for players

Pretty sure all the files are .nefs 

Ah crap,be nice to be fit to narrow Spain/add allot more jumps,dips,bumps to get closer to Irish type tar

[versedi]

Not really a mod but an addon.

I've got bored at work so I've started writing yet another dashboard app. Planning to release on GNU licensing for PC and Android.


Inspired by commercial product (http://z1simwheel.com/dashboard/road.cfm) and WRC+ telemetry window.
First iteration with the simplest template.
I'm having hard time thinking how to do the templating system on CSS and HTML or XML so it would be easy for anyone to make his own style.

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[UDegani]

i saw that, things looking worst everyday for modding on this game

[gfRally]

I think this may be the only game you can make at least skins for, right?   Its just a basic feature anymore.   

[pigloaf]

oh noes..... :( that would be a major buzz kill.
Yea I wonder if we can crowd fund this shiz. I'd happily give a bit of cash to get this working. 

[KingOfCoins]

If we're lucky maybe the F1 game gets compressed the same way. Then we'll have a lot more people looking to solve this issue. 

[AntonVit]

1 Database.bin hidden + crypted = bye bye ACAT
2 Car.ctf crypted  = bye bye car tunning
2 Livery.pssg crypted  = bye bye Skinomania
3 Cameras.xml hidden + crypted  =  bye  bye  zissakos1 with you tool
4 Location folders and files crypted = bye bye (File Replacing for ACAT("Noobs" (sorry) version making))
5 Vac included = bye bye  all cheaters, hackers, modder ....


You still waiting help from Codemasters developers for your wishing with livery modding?

Who want see his project moded, like game, or song, or film, or other work....
In future i think games will be have  only 1 file, and crypted  :)

So, good luck :)

[ShouldBeThere]

AntonVit said:

1 Database.bin hidden + crypted = bye bye ACAT
2 Car.ctf crypted  = bye bye car tunning
2 Livery.pssg crypted  = bye bye Skinomania
3 Cameras.xml hidden + crypted  =  bye  bye  zissakos1 with you tool
4 Location folders and files crypted = bye bye (File Replacing for ACAT("Noobs" (sorry) version making))
5 Vac included = bye bye  all cheaters, hackers, modder ....

You still waiting help from Codemasters developers for your wishing with livery modding?

Who want see his project moded, like game, or song, or film, or other work....
In future i think games will be have  only 1 file, and crypted  :)

So, good luck :)

Uhh, okay then. Pretty sure the Dirt Rally ACAT used a cheat engine, and didn't modify the database.bin, so there is an example. Where there's a will, there's a way.