F1 2015 Modding Questions Thread

Philip Heck · Jul 19, 2015

Maybe that was part of the new licence agreement, same as not giving us the opportunity to use our own names in championship/career mode?

ParkYongLee · Jul 19, 2015

I have to find some other file to play around with. Editing the tyre wear isn't really something I can see a clear difference ingame.

(What how can you see when ... ?) Well, I just renamed the 2014_caterham.tyre_wear file to 2014_caterham.tyre_wear.erp without any reimport tool and the game was loading (the file? at least it was loading, that's why I need to test a different file)

E: Edited a car handling file the same way, game CTD
E2: Also, creating the same file structure again, making it zip like, changing the header - no result.

TREO X · Jul 20, 2015

Yep, this file system is a nightmare.
I'll just wait patiently to see if Petar Tasev can do anything with it when he gets some spare time.

Reimporting the .ERP files just seems impossible at the moment without a specific tool. It's not going to be easy, maybe impossible. As i said before Codemasters have gone above and beyond with this one, the encryption is everywhere.

Pretty sure it will be dead in a few months on PC if it can't be modded. Well done Codemasters. Well done.

ParkYongLee · Jul 20, 2015

damn, I'd really like to know how the game handles .zip files.
I was working on an audio mod, fusing english engineer with german commentator (as I watch F1 in german, but having a german engineer in F1 feels wrong). So unpacking the nfs files and repacking them as a simple .zip the game loads fine, loads even fine all audio tracks but CTD after 2-3 minutes race and I wonder why at this point and not instantly or when speaking a specific dialogue.

Paturata · Jul 20, 2015

ParkYongLee said:
So unpacking the nfs files and repacking them as a simple .zip the game loads fine, loads even fine all audio tracks but CTD after 2-3 minutes race and I wonder why at this point and not instantly or when speaking a specific dialogue.

That's just a normal feature of the game even if you don't mod it, lol.

ParkYongLee · Jul 20, 2015

Hm, no. Had this issue only at first few starts but since then it never crashed again, in no menu (not even when changing resolution or so), no replay, no race.

AyrtonSenna1994 · Jul 21, 2015

ParkYongLee said:
Hm, no. Had this issue only at first few starts but since then it never crashed again, in no menu (not even when changing resolution or so), no replay, no race.

Sounds like some positive modding news at last

(hopefully haha)

Dick Hobbs · Jul 21, 2015

let's assume that one day somebody finds a way to mod this game, would it be possible to manipulate the files controlling championship mode to change the practice/quali options in the 25% and 50% races. Because I don't think we are going to get CM to do it for us in this game.

ParkYongLee · Jul 21, 2015

How should one know? That's an impossible question to ask.

Dick Hobbs · Jul 21, 2015

ParkYongLee said:
How should one know? That's an impossible question to ask.

Not being a Modding Guru, I would not know that. My apologies.

ParkYongLee · Jul 21, 2015

One has not to be a Guru, to guess that if noone's able to check about all the game's content yet, no database tools, nothing - noone could answer if one could change those options.
But speaking out of experience, I'd say these things are hardcoded - my guess

iZ GunDaM · Jul 21, 2015

Wonder if that means the helmet's are hardcoded as well...

Dick Hobbs · Jul 22, 2015

ParkYongLee said:
One has not to be a Guru, to guess that if noone's able to check about all the game's content yet, no database tools, nothing - noone could answer if one could change those options.
But speaking out of experience, I'd say these things are hardcoded - my guess

Once again I apologies, I was under the impression that the modding community were able to read the database etc files, they just don't know how to edit them and re import them into the game.

realitychecked · Jul 22, 2015

Dick Hobbs said:
Once again I apologies, I was under the impression that the modding community were able to read the database etc files, they just don't know how to edit them and re import them into the game.

I sure was able to go inside the texture files but not the textures themselves.

Steven Poirier · Jul 22, 2015

At least for who was able to saw the texture of the car, are they mirrored or not ?

Paturata · Jul 22, 2015

Steven Poirier said:
At least for who was able to saw the texture of the car, are they mirrored or not ?

No one has yet.

Steven Poirier · Jul 22, 2015

Paturata said:
No one has yet.

At this moment i've understood someone was able de decompile the files but not able to compile it

JedenPes · Jul 22, 2015

Its possible to decrypt erp, but you get another encrypted file with exstension .dat.Looking like TGA, but there is some changes.
I really need to change livery, so if someone is working on it, pls contact me, i can provide a donate.

realitychecked · Jul 22, 2015

JedenPes said:
Its possible to decrypt erp, but you get another encrypted file with extension .dat

The .dat file can be extracted using QuickBMS, but we need a new script for it as all of Luigi's scripts are for other games and checksums are incompatible or something.