Trim Adjustment in Garage

[bover907]

Hey, all. I also posted this over at the Modsquad.

One problem many heat modders have had to deal with when making their UI, is what to do with that pesky "Trim" label in the garage.

The trim adjustment was added to heat in one of the patches somewhere along the line. If the heat user has "show_trim_adjuster yes" set in their options.cfg file, Then a 7th adjustment slider is added under the Wheel Lock setting on the left.



That just looks ugly if you're making your own garage background, So I was able to find and edit out the text in the patch.bin file. The result....
I am able to use my own "Trim" label without it being slopped up with the plain text.



The problem with that is, that any other Heat mod's garage would then be without the add-on Trim label.



I am wondering if heat users who use multiple mods are familiar enough with the trim adjustment to know where it is without the label.

I know with the dos res_tools and some batch files, a "patch" could be made with the new patch.bin file and drop a new garage image into the original game. Problem here is that one mod maker can't make a patch that patches any and all mods on a users computer. The ability is probably there, but I'd think it's ethically wrong.

The answer would be to offer the edited patch.bin file and then an edited garage screen with the new trim lable (and black box) included. The user could execute the batch file in any mod folder he wants to have his garage screen updated in that particular mod.

(I have trouble explaining things quickly, lol, but you guys get my point)

Is this something people would be interested in?

[DaveO]

Hey Bover,

How's it going? I saw your post out at TMS last night, and answered you in a pm. Good luck with updating your mod, and also your future mods you got planned.

[Cholerix]

There's another way to handle that trim item, and get same results

In Shelby mod UI I simply put an image on top of it, covering the writing. Trim is still there, but you cannot see or set it with that UI.

In SCGTS UI, trim is there, but has customized text as well - again I simply put an image on top of the original item text.

Just a matter of some easy LYT file editing

[bover907]

Thanks for the reply! Guess I'll back up my garage2.lyt and get chopping!

[bover907]

Thank you very much, Karl and Dave!

It took a lot of tries, but I finally got it. Just when I was about to give up or end up coming back asking more questions. Then, I decided to just try cutting out the hundred bytes and moving it around in the lyt file until I found something. when it was at the top of the file, the trim text still covered the image. So I put it as the second item from the bottom and it worked. Everything else in the garage worked too!

So, I'm assuming that higher priority stuff has to go to the back of a lyt file?

[Cholerix]

Mar 11, 2011 4:27:11 GMT 2 bover907 said:

So, I'm assuming that higher priority stuff has to go to the back of a lyt file?

Priority seems to be sorted by order of appearance in the LYT file only, so far as I could find out. What comes first has least priority, so graphics to cover other items should come further down in the file

But its no problem to move items within a LYT file, so adjusting order is no problem either ;D

[bover907]

Well, I did end up at one point where just the background showed up, and there were no buttons! The ESC button or nothing worked! lol. So I had to windows button my way out of heat and close it with the task manager and start over. I think I may have caused that by cutting in the middle of an item which screwed up everything but the background.

Definately a learning expierence, and i think I have more confidence now to go ahead and get cute with the other lyt files.

Thanks!