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Asg16_4

06 Jan : 05:42

Here is a rough preview. It's not even a months worth of progress. [Clickety Click]

I have a rough understanding of 3D concepts due to school and OG help from Nobby on teaching me basic concepts back in the day. I'm learning something new every time I work on the mod

Asg16_4

06 Jan : 05:29

I'm a beta tester as well. In addition to beta testing I'm making my first car mod. An Acura Integra Type R with a JDM front end conversion (what I drive in irl haha)

fo0k

14 Dec : 23:29

Would love to hear some news on it. I saw that it had moved to turbo duck but couldn't really find info.. Its alive?
Any info would be interesting, Audrey thanks!

Audrey8

11 Dec : 18:31

Anybody on this site involved with the TDU2 World Beta? I will be testing so let me know if you guys have questions about features returning!

chance420

08 Jul : 06:26

Yooo it’s been a phat minute. Hope y’all are doin good. Saw that test drive is makin a comeback which is so dope. Cant wait to see what they come up with

Nobby76

06 Jul : 17:41

Cool

fo0k

06 Jul : 17:16

Audrey8

05 Jul : 20:54

New game being announced on July 7th! Exciting times. Finally a return to the series!

fo0k

11 May : 14:46

back

DESARD12

02 Apr : 06:08

i must admit that when i entered this site i thought it was dead, but a few brave souls like you are still here, it is amazing!

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Nobby76

Tue Sep 25 2012, 02:16PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

aaAAaahhh such a simple thing causes such a big problem..

I must admit, ive not seen anyone do that one before

so congrats to being the first to go wrong that way( you get 5 points for that lol )

But i am glad you got it working.. Cool. now get modding the hell out of your game

Hang loose!

p51

Tue Sep 25 2012, 08:37PM

Registered Member #8
Joined: Sun Jun 26 2011, 12:46AM

how would one, say, REpack their game?

Nobby76

Tue Sep 25 2012, 09:44PM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

you dont. It is currently impossible to repack the game.
But you can restore the game back to before you unpacked it.
Simply delete everything in your Euro/BNK folder Apart from the Videos folder. Then move all your .big/.map files back to the main game folder and then run Uplauncher once. It will do a file check and fix any issues with altered or missing files.
Or re-install the game.

p51

Wed Sep 26 2012, 12:23AM

Registered Member #8
Joined: Sun Jun 26 2011, 12:46AM

just gonna keep it unpacked then

Nobby76

Wed Sep 26 2012, 01:22AM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

OK i have to ask.. WHY did you want to repack your game anyway?

p51

Thu Sep 27 2012, 02:35AM

Registered Member #8
Joined: Sun Jun 26 2011, 12:46AM

Mostly because I wanted to

and still do, because I dont really use the mods.

Nobby76

Thu Sep 27 2012, 04:59AM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

Then do what i suggested.

When i said it resets the game back to how it was before you unpacked, you probably thought i meant it resets your entire game progress, thats not what i meant. it doesnt effect your save game or anything . it just means your game isnt unpacked anymore.

Just delete your BNK folder. and copy all the .big/.map files back to the games main folder. you will still have any dlc cars you paid for, your money will be the same, and all that jazz . Your savegame and progress is in a completely different location to where the game is installed. so oyu can do whatever you like to the installed game it wont effect your game progress one bit.

Its the same thing you do if you screw up when unpacking the game, its how you undo the unpack. ( like when your mate screwed up his unpack) thats all he needed to do rather than a full install to fix his game.

p51

Thu Sep 27 2012, 11:42AM

Registered Member #8
Joined: Sun Jun 26 2011, 12:46AM

Oh no... it appears that something along the lines of my Common_car.bnk is gone has happened.

This'll be fun...

DonnieBrasco

Thu Sep 27 2012, 01:11PM

Joined: Tue Dec 20 2011, 08:03PM

If you don't wanna play with mods, why don't you do it the easiest possible way? Save your savegame, delete the game and reinstall. And after that copy back your savegame.

And if you decide to play unpacked again in the future, do it like the most of the players does. Copy the game to a seperate folder, unpack it there and play from there. (So the original packed version stays untouched.)

p51

Thu Sep 27 2012, 09:01PM

Registered Member #8
Joined: Sun Jun 26 2011, 12:46AM

@Donnie probably going to do that

I'm just gonna stick with unpacked for now, because at least I can access my common_car.bnk that way so that it works and isn't the pile of screwed up poop that it was

ExigeDriver

Sat Sep 29 2012, 10:03PM

Registered Member #453
Joined: Tue Jun 05 2012, 10:37AM

Video over how to unpack your game and install car mods etc enjoy! [Clickety Click]

DonnieBrasco

Sun Sep 30 2012, 12:09AM

Joined: Tue Dec 20 2011, 08:03PM

Added it to the first post. Thank you!

putipuerko69

Wed Oct 24 2012, 01:36AM

Registered Member #745
Joined: Wed Oct 24 2012, 01:24AM

hey guys im having troubles unpacking the game. at first everyhing seems to run perfect. there is a black box unpacking bin files but at the end i just realized that says "file could not be located" or something like that and the box dissapear, i thought it was normal but then i go to euro/bnk/ and there is only on folder which is video, also when the black box is unpacking the bin files i dont see any changes in the main folder....please help and btw im running build 16

ModEdit: Combined your two posts into one, no real need to have separate posts..

Nobby76

Wed Oct 24 2012, 03:38AM

Joined: Mon Oct 24 2011, 01:06PM

The tutorial wrote ...
++This tutorial has now got SUPER EASY to follow, even a monkey could follow how to extract the game now.. In fact a monkey could train his pet goat how to unpack TDU, its that easy..++ If you have any issues make sure UAC is turned off and that you run the unpacker in admin mode.

I guess you didn't read the start of the tutorial..

Try running the unpacker in Admin mode, if that doesnt work then turn OFF "User account control" (UAC) in the windows control panel...

This usually happens if you installed the game ( or any game or program ) on the same hard drive as windows. "UAC" tries to protect the drive to stop you from breaking windows. so it doesnt let you make radical changes to that drive... (thats why you should always have one drive JUST for windows and a second drive for all your games/programs) if you have that you NEVER run into problems like this.... i haven't had issues with UAC since the launch of Vista

But yeah Try admin mode first, failing that Turn off UAC, that 99-100 times fixes the problem.

Have fun.. Nobby

putipuerko69

Thu Oct 25 2012, 02:02AM

Registered Member #745
Joined: Wed Oct 24 2012, 01:24AM

hey Nobby thanks for everything, everything is running perfeclty i just turned off (UAC) and it worked.... i really appreciate ur help, u r a wonderful person and few of those around who never reply !! once again thanks very muchh!!!

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