Not having any luck overriding a vanilla vehicle's settings using the same format as a vehicles.meta entry replacement.

 

<FileEntryReplacement type="VEHICLE_VARIATION_FILE">replace/carvariations.meta</FileEntryReplacement>

Is this the wrong method, or is that not supported yet?

 

On a related note, would it be possible to get a list of supported file types and the correct ways to load them as addon and replacements in the wiki?

 

Also, is it possible to reload file changes while the game is running?

 

That would be the correct way if file loading in V was consistent.. You are doing everything correctly, but unfortunately a few game file types have different behavior. While most (such as handling or vehicles.meta) will discard a new entry for the same name (and hence you need the single replacement) a few will overwrite an already existing entry if loaded in again. This seems to be the case of carvariations, so you will have to load it as an addon. Like this:

 

<Addons>
    <Addon name="Override Carvariation for POLICE">
        <DataFile>replace/carvariations.meta</DataFile>
    </Addon>
</Addons>

 

This is unfortunately something we have no control over and just have to learn as we go so we can document these oddities. That is also why I cannot give you a list of what works and what does not, as in theory everything works but as you have seen for yourself that is not always the case. I am working on a list to document these findings though. If you find more stuff like this, please let me know.

 

File changes can usually not be reloaded while the game is running as most data file parsers reject new entries with the same name. In this particular case it would most likely work fine though since it just overwrites what it had before. I have a small dev tool to quickly load in different versions of vehicles and compare them in-game which I hope to release soon.

At least it's simple: whether you have new, replacement, or a mix of carvariations, just use an add-on file.

 

No sweat on in-depth documentation, it's barely past the first release, after all.

 

I think that covers vehicles for me, next up is testing new and replacement ped data and model files.

New issue found: when adding a new handling entry, attempting to change a replacement car to use it crashes on load.

1 hour ago, The Loot said:

New issue found: when adding a new handling entry, attempting to change a replacement car to use it crashes on load.

 

This worked for me to replace the handling on "polmav" with "as350" handling: 

 

    <Replacements>
		<Replacement name="AS350 polmav replacement">
			<FileEntryReplacement type="VEHICLE_METADATA_FILE">data/vehicles.meta</FileEntryReplacement>
			<FileEntryReplacement type="HANDLING_FILE">data/handling.meta</FileEntryReplacement>
			<FileReplacements>stream</FileReplacements>
		</Replacement>
	</Replacements>

 

That doesn't need to overwrite the original entry, does it? I'd like to avoid that, so I'll try loading the custom handling like that.

 

I also assume the crash is caused by LML loading replacements first, thus it works fine with the added vehicles in the pack, but not the replacements.

 

Edit: Yep, that works.

Edited December 29, 20196 yr by The Loot

So another thing I've found out: modified vehicle interior texture settings (txdRelationships) also do not load correctly from a replacement vehicles.meta file, but do load from an addon file.