Multiplayer Setups Tutorial

Here is a tutorial, how to make your own Crashday multiplayer setups and how to add skins into the multiplayer, cause i know some people who don't know how it goes. I don't call names 

So, you just have to change the carinfo.cc and if you want to add some new skins, the shop.lst too.

So let's start. For this example we use the Incubator, cause the engine setups are always the same, so you can't do anything wrong.
Open the carinfo.cc in ../crashday/trkdata/cars/incubator. Than scroll down to the area called "AI".

The there you find the number 6 (don't change!) and some names=.... setups.
The first 6 are the setups, which you have in the multiplayer, in fact the order. If you change the number 6 higher, you active more setups (which comes after the 6 setups in multiplayer).

Now we want to change something, what is what?:

Befor we start, is it important to know: At all cars (exept Incubator) you should not change the engine power, because you will get than in a server the "cheat-protaction", and at the other way the people will get the "cheat-protaction" in your server.

And now let's take a setup:

name=race-1   class=A      setup=susp1|fb1|sid2|wng2|pnt1

That looks confusing, but it isn't! After setup=... you choose the skin and the other settings.

I choosed setup 2 (in the multiplayer setup 2).
Here the list of the meaning from the shortcuts:

susp = the suspension
fb = front bumper
rb = rear bumper
sid = side kit
wng = rear wing
hd = engine hood
pnt = skin (most people looking for that^^)

You have to look in the shop, how many setups from a upgrade are contained there, and than insert the number of the setup you want.

In our example we want:

Sportsuspension
Front bumper "Nemesis"
Rear bumper "Nemesis"
Side kit "Nemesis"
Rear wing "Iron Dei"
Engine hood "Standard"
And the skin "GamerZone" (but it doesn't matter, which skin you take)
And we want wheels Offroad Typ 3 Nummber 3.

GamerZone skin is called: decal4a.tga, decal4a_2.tga, decal4b.tga und decal4b_2.tga.

So, with that code, setup 2 will look like this:

name=race-1   class=A      setup=susp1|fb2|rb2|sid2|wng4|pnt4           wheel=offroad_s3_13.whl      #A


You just have to look in the career at the shoplist, what where is.

susp1 = first suspension = sportsuspension, therefore "1"
fb2 = seccond front bumper = Nemesis, therefore "2"
rb2 = seccond rear bumper = Nemesis, therefore "2"
sid2 = seccond side kit = Nemesis, therefore "2"
hd0 = no enginge hood = Standard, therefore "0"
wng4 = third rear wing (the Incubator has 4 rear wings (in fact 3). In Singleplayer the Incubator has the wng1, that is the small rear wing, which you can't delete, but in multiplayer, the normal incubator has no rear wing, so wng1 = normal rear wing in singleplayer, 2,3 and 4 are the ones, which you can buy.
wheel=offroad_s3_13.whl = wheels from typ Offroad Typ 3 number 3.

2 important facts:
a) If you change the numbers, you have to take "true" numbers of the setups (as example: there are only 2 front bumpers, if you take as number "3" you will get an error!)
b) If you add some more skins, and you got so more than before (decal4, decal5), don't forget for each new skin to change under "---Tuning---" the number 18 higher. As example: decal 4 = 19, and now a new skin, decal5, than the number has to be 20, etc.! Otherwise you will get an error.

When you changed something, you can always look in the multiplayer, how the setups looks, if you don't made any errors, and so you can experiment a bit with the numbers

If you got now some more skins, you have to add them into the shop.lst, or alternatively rename.

For that you have to open the shop.lst. Scroll down until you find entry's like that (it's fairly at the end)

Next:  #---------------------------------------------
pnt0         # identifier name
skin         # group (car, fbumper, rbumper, sidekit, hood, rwing, wheels, performance, weapon, skin, cassis, armour, crashpower)
*currentcar*      # parent object (e.g. car folder) or NONE
$ID trkdata/cars/incubator/shop.lst pnt0.Name                     # Article name (English)
DEPRECATED         # article description (English)
aftercarbought      # availability condition (see doc for more info) (+ val [+ val2])
0         # show media _before_ available
NONE              # Media showed when available (can be NONE)
0         # cost to buy in shop
NONE              # shop picture
1         # Is this a stock car part?

At the last one, "Is this a stock car part?" you should always take the number 0, only "pnt0" to 1, because this is the used skin, which you get, when you take standard.

Under

$ID trkdata/cars/incubator/shop.lst pnt0.Name                     # Article name (English)
you can delete the line from "$ID" until "pnt.0.Name" and enter a name that you want.

0         # cost to buy in shop

Here you can insert a cost, that you want.
The best thing is, to take from a downloaded skin the entry from the shop.lst and insert it in your shop.lst at the right place.


I think that's all, if i have forgotten something, i will edit it, if you got problems post it here please, or write me a PM.

IMPORTANT: Do a backup, before you start!

Ps: This is a translating from my German tutorial! I have forgotten to make one in English