Truck making question

EJD · Post by **EJD** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:59 am

I want to make a truck from the stock Bigfoot chassis, but I only want a different body. Can someone give me a tutorial on how to replace a body?
Many thanks!

Post by **Phineus** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:43 pm

Here you go

http://cownap.com/~mtmg/repaint/trk.shtml

EJD · Post by **EJD** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:05 am

Thanks! Meanwhile, I tried to pod a new truck I made but it doesn't show up in the game. What's happening?

Post by **Phineus** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:11 am

If you do that tutorial from beginning to end you will see how these files all work together. Then if you're still having a problem you call tell us exactly where the problem happens, what you were doing when it happened, and what you did to try to solve it. But I'm afraid just saying a truck doesn't show up in the game doesn't give much to go on. It could be any of dozens of reasons.

EJD · Post by **EJD** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:04 am

What I mean by "It doesn't show up in the game" is it doesn't show up in the truck menu. The name of my truck isn't even in the menu!

Rep Fan · Post by **Rep Fan** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:57 pm

Does your truck pod, TRK file have less than 8 letters in its name?

That's what causes that, and leave out the goofy symbols, just use straight letters or numbers, but the name can't be more than 8 characters long.

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:47 am

good:
kevtrk1.trk
sissy.trk
o2n3o24.trk

bad:
this nice truck.trk [dont use spaces]
bigfoot.trk [don't use common names, make sure all files you create have unique names]
longtruckname.trk [dont use more than 8 char before the . (called 8.3 format)]

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:28 am

Phineus wrote:If you do that tutorial from beginning to end you will see how these files all work together. Then if you're still having a problem you call tell us exactly where the problem happens, what you were doing when it happened, and what you did to try to solve it. But I'm afraid just saying a truck doesn't show up in the game doesn't give much to go on. It could be any of dozens of reasons.

You still didn't tell us what you were doing when you made the truck.

And...

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EJD · Post by **EJD** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:07 am

What I was doing... all I really did was edit the .TRK file, and put the necessary .bin, .act, and .raw files into the pod.

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:28 am

> and put the necessary .bin, .act, and .raw files into the pod.

How? If anything is missing, it won't work.

EJD · Post by **EJD** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:39 am

Using C-POD, which does'nt help at all. Is there anyone who can sort it out? Like if I send them all the files?

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:50 am

> Using C-POD, which does'nt help at all.

I've used cpod probably hundreds of times and it's never made a bad truck yet.

http://mtm2.com/~mtmg/repaint/podding.shtml

You should really follow that tutorial from beginning to end. It's not hard and since you already have the files the way you want them, it shouldn't take very long at all.

EJD · Post by **EJD** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:14 am

It works! There was nothing wrong with the way I podded it... let me bore you for a while. My computers kind of strange, you see, and something works on one person's desktop and on someone else's it doesn't. On my desktop, C-Pod came up with these strange errors (error source: C-Pod. Operation aborted, etc.) on my desktop, but I tried it on my Mom's desktop and it worked!

[dance] [dance]

Thanks for helping me through this, Phineus! [cheers]

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:29 am

Congrats. Now hopefully we'll see some new trucks from you [;)]

EJD · Post by **EJD** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:40 am

Yeah... so far, I have trucks planned. They are:
Firestone Wilderness
Wildfoot
Madusa 2
And any other F-150 based trucks!

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:50 pm

[tu] [tu]