When it comes to (nfs)-modding, the modding of tracks was always more of my favourite as creating cars, because tracks are the world that gives you more creativity as you can race, drive and roam, beside a car is more or less a static object. The mod tools – talking about back in the days … Read more
You wake with your hands wrapped around cold metal. There is no ground beneath you. No ceiling above. No walls, no light — only twenty metres of ladder above you, twenty metres below, and the dark swallowing everything past that. You do not remember climbing here. The Ladder by dr_vannacut So you climb. Up or … Read more
1. Summary of the achieved state Version 0.2.8 of the NFS5 PSX Asset Explorer can be regarded as the first fully usable milestone for extracting the fundamental car and track assets from the original PlayStation release of Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed. For cars, geometry, local vehicle textures, paint and livery palettes, detail textures, and … Read more
TLDR? – just click here to get the tool instead V-Rally 2 PAK and Asset Format Reference This document consolidates the reverse-engineering results used by VR2 AssetExplorer 0.6.11. It covers the PAK container, Eden LZ77, checksums, offsets,platform detection, ZAP archives, car and track resources, textures, geometry,sound, naming, failed interpretations, corrected solutions, validation, andremaining unknowns. No … Read more
As I just found out that the currently viral trend-game Meccha Chameleon does feature Mod-Maps I recently released my very first attempt for a Mod for MC. It is a MC-revised take on “Nacht der Untoten” from CoD-WaW. It is drastically reduced in terms of graphics and complexity to fit better the overall MC theming. … Read more
The concept of this track is as old as nfs3, at least for me. Since I discovered the possibility to mod tracks I always wanted to have a pretty short eight-shaped track. But as the tools when I stopped modding nfs years ago where not able to achieve this, I recently gave my old idea … Read more
ever since nfs3 hot pursuit was out it was uncanny that all tracks in this game have a counterpart. Hometown <-> Country Woods, Redrock Ridge <-> Lost Canyons, Atlantica <-> Aquatica, Rocky Pass <-> The Summit and Empire City <-> Tr02b. Fair enough, TR02B was canned and ist just a remain in the psx release, … Read more
Regarding my long term deep hearted project “High Stakes Racing” I simply cannot decide which road I gonna take. On the one hand I “just” want a – more or less – classic racing game combining all cars and tracks from NFS1 to NFS6 in more modern graphics with additional features, on the other hand … Read more
In case you run into a scenario where you have multiple faces flipped and do not issue the lowering of the performance, as in my case just for reworking imported assets, you might find this UE5 python script helpful:
When my home’s gas heater throws a fault, a tiny red LED lights up — and nothing else happens until I press the reset button. Since this can happen while I’m away, I wanted a small system that notices that red light, notifies me, and (eventually) presses the button automatically. Enter RedWatch — a simple, … Read more