Ah...actually, my tracks are full of that sort of stuff too (sponsors etc.) so maybe not the best option.

Charles River Field uses no stock models/textures. The music would need to be silenced, though. Likewise for Sonic City Speedway.

Time to map

Getting there...

And here's why my modeling technique makes things so tedious. It's not a great way of doing it, but it is my own.

This is what I'm aiming for, ultimately...

Yep, checked it out this morning in game, looking good.

Vectorizing all of your HD trucks by hand would be a ton of work! Tried a couple vertorizers online just to test. Here's a couple results from https://vectorizer.ai/

Very cartoony, but infinitely scalable! :lol:

Screenshot 2026-10-05 ...

LeannesLamentCP3.png

Both Leanne's Lament and Anita Go Fast were built using truck (car?) length 256x256 textures using PSP 2018's vector graphics, so they resized easily enough to 512x512 to test out the PNG stuff. Seems to work well and I'm happy with the result. Redoing my full HD pack in this ...

Awesome! I'll have to play around with that when I have more time.

Does this mean you've parsed the CPR car files then? I'd love to play around with them but figuring it out felt above my skill level.

Thank you! I'll give those a shot in the next couple of days. I kind of want to try the normal maps on the new chassis textures to see if I can get any depth to them. As I have time I guess.

Meanwhile, here's what the truck, as it stands, looks like in game. I actually took advantage of what Fila ...

Or I could just make my life easier in general!

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The "metal" behind the frame isn't accurate BUT I like the way is looks and it allows me to keep the "solid model" aesthetic I want. Now to work on the interior...

Rudee, can you send over the wheels you already ...

So, trying to eat the elephant one bite at a time.

Between work and baby (and other things) it's tough to find time to make the changes that I want to the HD trucks. But I do think it's worthwhile, it's just a ton of work. I have some old models for engines and fuel cells that I can repurpose for ...

Can someone give me a 10000 foot explainer on what the normals are doing and how you guys are making the normal maps? I'm curious if I can forego shading the actual truck textures and use the normal maps instead to get a similar effect.

So played around with Comm Patch 3 for a bit, no major issues so far (where'd you get all the extra Army clips?), except that, even though I had movie clips switched off, I was unceremoniously greeted by Hulk Hogan upon running through a drag bracket. Nothing big but annoying nonetheless.

Excellent ...

Incredible! That looks better than a lot of modern games.

I hate to be the non-programmer guy asking the programmers for new features, but I was thinking about what would make my life easier for fixing my trucks up for the recent Comm Patches, and something that jumped to mind was a clickable face list. Basically, the Browse Window in BE currently, but ...

I could write a long diatribe about this, but I'll keep it short. It's great if all these limits are increased and the detail of the trucks and tracks can go to the moon. I won't be building trucks and tracks to meet those standards, though. What I love about MTM2 is that it is a moment in time, how ...

Cale, someone said they needed to delete their monster.ini after getting a crash. Did you try that already?


That fixed it (though I had to start the game in 640x480 to get it to run). DX11 works great! On Vulkan truck textures were low quality for some reason and vSync didn't work.

Also ...

First try running it, crash:

===== MTM2 CRASH 2026-07-29 19:55:35 =====
code=0xC0000005 addr=0x0043D828 (READ at 0x000004C6)
eax=07E001A8 ebx=07E0015C ecx=00000080 edx=00000027 esi=0000047A edi=F820031E
eip=0043D828 esp=001AFB68 ebp=001AFB9C
[ 0] monster.exe+0x3D828
[ 1] monster.exe+0x37877
[ 2 ...

So something that breaks with the new renderers is the translucency hack that many of us have been using for some time. Looks like it defaults to full transparency, maybe because the fidelity to the actual coordinates on the texture are better. This is in Vulkan. Not a gamebreaker by any stretch ...