res/ind car identification

[Lobby]

Hi, in the past you had to override one of the cars "$carres00", ..., "$carind00", ... in order to get your own residential/commercial/industrial cars into the game. Version 437 will change that behavior. The game will then identify such cars not by their id but by the tags they set.

To mark your car as level1 residential car use

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"meta":{
  "tags":{
    "carres0":{}
  }
}

For a level 3 industrial car use

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"meta":{
  "tags":{
    "carind2":{}
  }
}

The complete definition of a level 1 residential car would look like

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 {
  "id":"$carres00",
  "type":"car",
  "frames":[
    {"x":512,"y":512,"w":12,"h":10,"count":8}
  ],
  "v2":true,
  "auto colorize":true,    // Can be used to color white frames
  "flag normal":false,     // This is not a normal car as it's not a truck
  "flag pkw":true,         // And only for person transport
  "meta":{
    "tags":{
      "carres0":{}         // You may use mutliple tags for one car
    }
  }
}

I consider to will add support for plugins that aren't updated to these changes (as by default, a override would remove any tag information, therefore outdated plugins wouldn't work anymore). These changes are needed in order to add more rci cars without tampering with the existing ones.

Plugin creators who might find this information useful: @CommanderABab @Josh @JustAnyone @KoalaGuy @A dutch Guy @22Alpha @Borbor

[Borbor]

@lobby^[Posts][PM] only extensions that use the override feature will not work?

[Lobby]

Yes, cars that override $carres00 etc. might not work as expected anymore. I suggest to use your own id for your cars then and add the appropriate tags as shown above.

[A dutch Guy]

This is indeed very useful for me

[Lobby]

Service cars can now be tagged the same way. So you can just add new medic cars for example.

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"meta":{"tags":{"fire brigade":{}}}

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"meta":{"tags":{"medic":{}}}

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"meta":{"tags":{"police":{}}}

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"meta":{"tags":{"swat":{}}}

@Borbor

[A dutch Guy]

Service cars can now be tagged the same way. So you can just add new medic cars for example.

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"meta":{"tags":{"fire brigade":{}}}

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"meta":{"tags":{"medic":{}}}

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"meta":{"tags":{"police":{}}}

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"meta":{"tags":{"swat":{}}}

is there a tag for military vehicles as well?

[Lobby]

I will add

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"meta":{"tags":{"military tank":{}}}

and

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"meta":{"tags":{"military truck":{}}}

The difference between the two is the building they spawn from.

[ElephantEthan]

Is there a tag for farm tractors? Can also trailers/tails be added using this method?

[CommanderABab]

Probably:

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"meta":{
  "tags":{
    "carind0":{}
  }
}

.or similar.

#tail let's see.

Car Chains

[ElephantEthan]

Right, I thought tails were in the car spawner for some reason. Thank you very much for the info @CommanderABab !

[A dutch Guy]

@Lobby

Is there also a tag for the airport cars?

[Lobby]

@A dutch Guy Great idea!
I'll add the tag "airport taxi" for it. Usage:

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"meta":{"tags":{"airport taxi":{}}}

[Lakan Haraya]

Is there a tag for bus?

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"meta":{"tags":{"bus":{}}}

[Lobby]

The tag is:

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"meta":{"tags":{"idle bus":{}}}

[Uncle Koala]

I understand this was made to prevent incompatiblity, but is there any way to override those IDs anyway? I wanted to edit semi-trucks because they are not realistic in their current state and they usually block traffic with their weird trailer chains (this is why shops in real life use smaller trucks too.). The traffic system works way better with the older trucks. I guess the semis could be used for long distance transport to the end of the map? (neighbour connections)

[Yakka]

How to make custom one

[CERRERA]

Hi, in the past you had to override one of the cars "$carres00", ..., "$carind00", ... in order to get your own residential/commercial/industrial cars into the game. Version 437 will change that behavior. The game will then identify such cars not by their id but by the tags they set.

To mark your car as level1 residential car use

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"meta":{
  "tags":{
    "carres0":{}
  }
}

For a level 3 industrial car use

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"meta":{
  "tags":{
    "carind2":{}
  }
}

The complete definition of a level 1 residential car would look like

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 {
  "id":"$carres00",
  "type":"car",
  "frames":[
    {"x":512,"y":512,"w":12,"h":10,"count":8}
  ],
  "v2":true,
  "auto colorize":true,    // Can be used to color white frames
  "flag normal":false,     // This is not a normal car as it's not a truck
  "flag pkw":true,         // And only for person transport
  "meta":{
    "tags":{
      "carres0":{}         // You may use mutliple tags for one car
    }
  }
}

I consider to will add support for plugins that aren't updated to these changes (as by default, a override would remove any tag information, therefore outdated plugins wouldn't work anymore). These changes are needed in order to add more rci cars without tampering with the existing ones.

Plugin creators who might find this information useful: @CommanderABab @Josh @JustAnyone @KoalaGuy @A dutch Guy @22Alpha @Borbor @former member

May I see all the tag list