Carcols Editor Tutorial

Add new color    

 


One of the best parts of the carcol editor is that it lets you add your own colors.


In this example we'll use the carcols editor to make a bright green and gray infernus.

 

 


Fire up the carcols editor, load the carcols.dat file, and select the infernus. (for details on that, look at the add new color combination tutorial).
 



 


Now we need to make bright green and grey. (i know, that combination won't look too good, but it's to demonstrate).

If you would go through all colors like we did in the first tutorial, you would notice that there isn't any really bright green. No problem: we'll make it!

In the Pure Color Control, you see 3 little editboxes. Those represent rgb values. (Red, Green, Blue). Fill in some numbers between 0 and 255 to see the resulting color. After some experimenting, we see a nice bright green if we use values
10 240 10

 


 


Now we click "Add Color" and the color gets added to the database. The program says "It's number will be 95". That means we now have a new color to work with


 


Now you can use the color 95 in the editboxes in the "Car Color Combination Control". Toghether with another color, for the example i chose 81, a nice gray.


 


The ingame car looks like this:

Not bad eh?

   

Now for deleting colors.

 

 


A few notes first:

Actually there's no need at all to delete any colors themselves. If you don't like a color you added, just don't use it. The color itself takes no resources as it doesn't get loaded into the memory. I included the option in the program anyway, for peopole who like to keep their stuff organised, but i still suggest not using it.

First of all: you can't delete vice city colors, because they get used in a lot more then just the cars. You can only delete colors you made yourself, using the process above.

When you choose to delete a color, the program will check if any cars are using it. If so you cannot delete it because that would crash your game. Please delete all combinations using a certain color before deleting the color itself.

Next thing: suppose you make a few colors with IDs 95 96 97 98 99 100 and 101. If you now say you want to get rid of color 98. If you delete 98 using the process below, color 99 will change names, and will be the new color 98. 100 will change into 99, and 101 into 100. (and so on for any more colors you would have made). As this is pretty confusing (your pretty color you know as 100 will suddenly be called 99) this is again a good reason not to delete colors. The carcols editor will not change the cars IDs, so you will have to change your pretty selfmade car with colors 100 and 101 into 99 and 100. Making this system automatic is planned for the next version.

 


To delete a color you simply type it's ID in the box next to the "Delete Color" button, and press that button. Easy as that.