CMR2 Car Select Screen - change car names

[Will L]

Does anyone know how to edit the names of the cars in the car select menu?

I have downloaded the Citroen Xsara and other cars not featured that replace cars in the game and to avoid confusion I'd like to change the names.

Please help!

Thanks!

[Ramore]

I don't think this is possible. May be if you can edit system files or something like that.

[Exhausted]

It is possible, and fairly easy too!

You'll need the program "BFL Works" - Google for it.


Go to this folder:

Colin McRae Rally 2 > CountrySpecific > Europe

Use BFL Works to extract thís file "englishtext.bfl"

Once that's done you will get these 3 .txt documents:

fenglish.txt
genglish.txt
senglish.txt

These 3 files contains pretty much all text seen in the game, including the car names!

Edit the files, re-pack, and there you go!

Have fun editing!

[Will L]

Excellent, thanks very much Jokum. ;)

I'll get right on it. Thanks again pal. ;)

[Exhausted]

No problem! let me know if it works! :D

[Will L]

How do I re-pack it?

[Exhausted]

BFL Works is a Drag-and-drop program, meaning that you drag the file you want to extract onto the program.

once that's done you'll get the extracted contents plus a file with the extention . bwd

To repack, you drag-and-drop the .bwd file onto the BFL Works program, then the extracted files will get packed back into the original file, in this case, the englishtext.bfl file..

[Will L]

Found out how, used BFL Editor or something, used BFL Works to unpack and another to re-pack basically and now I have my *bfl file again so I'll see how it works.

Thanks again for the help.

[Will L]

W00!

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g161/willlloyd/w000t.jpg

Now, is there any way I can get rid of the Seat graphics?

[Exhausted]

W00!

Now, is there any way I can get rid of the Seat graphics?


Yes there is, the graphics files are in there somewhere, I found 'em a while ago but can't remember where, unpack all the .bfl files you can find, then you'll find it sooner or later ;)

[Will L]

Ok, I'll go have a rout around.

I gotta find a Xsara graphic though first... :(

[Will L]

Any idea why the regular car textures are put back in Super specials in the single rally/stage?

Eg.

Citroen replaces Seat

SS1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 I'm in Citroen
SSS i'm back in a Seat.

This is only on Single Stage/Rally and Championship but I'm puzzled why it does it and I don't want it to :(

[Exhausted]

When configuring your game, you can choose high quality graphics or low quality graphics.

Low quality skins are used for the SSS, and the new skins you add to the game will often only be the high quality version, all you have to do is to find the low quality .bfl file extract it and edit your Citroen skins into the files inside (these files are different than the ones in the high quality .bfl files so you'll need a program to extract and pack DDS files as well) re-pack, and you'll have the Citroen in the SSS too

[Will L]

I extracted all the files that I downloaded into the cars folder...

[Exhausted]

But you have to edit those files to do what I described above.

Here's a guide for you:
http://cmr2.sportplanet.gamespy.com/index.shtm

[Will L]

thanks exhausted. ;)