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N3 How can I open the .car files?

4 posts by 4 people · 04 Feb 2000 - 05 Feb 2000

Burke Wells 04 Feb 2000#518026
I want to be able to view the individual driver info photos using PSP (Paintshop Pro), and I assume that the images are within the .car files found in the cars folder, but I can't figure out how to get to them. I see that others are editing these images or replacing them with different ones. How are people doing this? What's the trick to opening those files? Thanks in advance, Burke Wells
Dave Henrie 05 Feb 2000#518224
go into n3 and load the car in the driver info. choose the export button and it will save a file of the graphic in your N3 directory. Then edit it as you like, with psp, make sure you don't mess up the pallette, and save it back to the N3 folder. Then back into the game and once again in driver info choose import.... dave henrie
Quoted text (9 lines)> I want to be able to view the individual driver info photos using PSP > (Paintshop Pro), and I assume that the images are within the .car files > found in the cars folder, but I can't figure out how to get to them. I see > that others are editing these images or replacing them with different ones. > How are people doing this? What's the trick to opening those files? > Thanks in advance, > Burke Wells
Benjamin 05 Feb 2000#518225
I don't think you can actually get to the driver's picture (I think that's what you mean...?) you can only replace it with a new one.... Look in the CARS folder - there's a file called DRIVPICT.TGA this is the one you use to change the picture of the driver that's shown with the info. Keeping the same size, paste a new picture into it and then save it with the same name as the .CAR file. If you have a file called BUBBA69.CAR then your new driver photo would need to be BUBBA69.TGA then while looking at the info, click on the LOAD TGA and save it.... I haven't tried this, but I had a demo version of PSPro that had a real nice area capture feature -- if you have that and can use it while in N3, that would be a good way to edit an existing picture rather than completely replacing it.... On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 21:44:25 -0500, "Burke Wells"
Quoted text (9 lines)>I want to be able to view the individual driver info photos using PSP >(Paintshop Pro), and I assume that the images are within the .car files >found in the cars folder, but I can't figure out how to get to them. I see >that others are editing these images or replacing them with different ones. >How are people doing this? What's the trick to opening those files? >Thanks in advance, >Burke Wells
N. Coker 05 Feb 2000#518226
readme.txt in N3 folder Nafi Coker >I want to be able to view the individual driver info photos using PSP >(Paintshop Pro), and I assume that the images are within the .car files >found in the cars folder, but I can't figure out how to get to them. I see >that others are editing these images or replacing them with different ones. >How are people doing this? What's the trick to opening those files? >Thanks in advance, >Burke Wells

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