Renaming Trucks

HockeyUltima · Post by **HockeyUltima** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:33 pm

Could someone help me out with this? I have some trucks that I want to set up in a kind of customized tournament season. I downloaded most of the trucks and I want to change the name of the trucks. For example. One of the Equalizers I have is called "Equalizer (ori. ver.)" in the truck name bar in MTM2. I want to know a simple way to change the names of the trucks to something that I want up there. For this example I want to change it to simply "Equalizer" How can I do that? I don't want to have to unpod every single truck that has a name I don't like and change it then repod it all. Is there not a simpler way to do this? Please help me I would appriciate it. Thanks.

Post by **Phineus** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:05 am

> I don't want to have to unpod every single truck

I'm afraid that's exactly what you'll have to do.

legwon · Post by **legwon** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:11 am

Phineus wrote:> I don't want to have to unpod every single truck

I'm afraid that's exactly what you'll have to do.

not exactly but very close to that.
extract the trk files, change the trucks names, DONOT rename the trk, then pod all the trk files together then put them above all your dl'ed trucks in your ini

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:41 pm

Lol...If you are going through all that trouble, then you may as well repod all the trucks anyway (you won' t have to shuffle pod files about in the .INI file either).

If you did repod them, then you could merge all the pods into a single truck pod, with all your modded trucks in one easy-to-install pod.

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Just remember, if you are modifying a custom truck or trucks, do NOT upload it to any websites for others to download, UNLESS you have permission from the truck's author to do so.

You can modify them without permission as long as you keep them for yourself to use on your own PC, and don't give away copies to friends and strangers.

If you are modifying the stock trucks from the game itself, then do so to your heart's content...

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 6:40 am

Yep yep - and the easiest way would probably be to use <a href="http://ch.zrecon.net/c-pod/c-pod.asp">C-POD</a>...

Open the .POD file in C-POD
Extract <i>only</i> the .TRK file
Open the .TRK in a text editor, make your changes and save it
Drag the updated .TRK file back onto C-POD to add it back into the .POD file, and save your updated .POD.

No messing around with .LST files and decompiling/recompiling entire pods, etc. Easy

Mat-Allum · Post by **Mat-Allum** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:17 am

Drive2Survive wrote:Yep yep - and the easiest way would probably be to use <a href="http://ch.zrecon.net/c-pod/c-pod.asp">C-POD</a>...

Open the .POD file in C-POD
Extract <i>only</i> the .TRK file
Open the .TRK in a text editor, make your changes and save it
Drag the updated .TRK file back onto C-POD to add it back into the .POD file, and save your updated .POD.

No messing around with .LST files and decompiling/recompiling entire pods, etc. Easy

Great idea, D2S.

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:48 pm

i was just about to suggest that. when you say 'extract the trk' you can do that by just draging the trk from cpod to like the desktop or wherever. yea it's nice.