Looking for the SimuTrans Modding Tool

[BauerME]

I finally discovered SimuTrans for myself during the July 4th weekend, and now that I have some play time under my belt, I wanted to explore the modding possibilities... but unfortunately the Wiki site has gone down since then and I can find no other sites that link to someplace where I can download the latest version of the modding tool. In fact, I can't even find any place that mentions what it is even called.

Could somebody reading this please tell me the name of the tool, and if/where a downloadable copy can be found? I would even be happy if somebody would be willing to email me the latest copy. Thank you in advance for your consideration and any help would be greatly appreciated!

[BauerME]

Apparently the tool is named MakeObj and after some more searching, I I did find this link: http://www.simugraph.com/makeobj/makeobj-0_1_4.zip

I think it is the latest version.

[BauerME]

Either this version is not the latest version or I am missing something. I have been trying to use the tool through the command line using the parameters that come up when you try running just 'makeobj' without any parameters.

Unfortunately, all I get is a copyright notice and then nothing.

At the moment I am simply trying to get a listing of a PAK file (using: makeobj LIST <PAK filename>. Getting that to work would be a start. My eventual goal is to take apart a valid PAK file to see how it is structured and what goes where. I would also like to use this method to see what the differences are between most of the stations and other structures I can build in game (Documentation is kind of spotty in general and with the WIKI site down it is practically non-existent).

I am beginning to wonder if it is possible to use the tool to extract the pieces of a PAK file, make modifications and then re-pack them. Any ideas or insight?

[GoneWacko]

Firstly, asking around on the more-official forums might help because these forums aren't used very much.

Secondly, silly question, but you never know: Did you write the < and > tags when using the actual command or not? Because you don't need them

[BauerME]

No, I did not use the <> symbols. I just used them to demonstrate in the syntax where the variable (the file name) goes in the line.

[_VS]

Go to http://www.simugraph.com/forum/viewtopi ... =12&t_id=2 and you'll see first post has last 0.1.4 - BUT, scroll down for 0.2.2!

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makeobj ./ ./

Using ... under windows is this the only 100% tested way. Compiles all stuff in same folder. List and Merge commands work too but you must play a bit with manual conversion of windowds path to linux-like.

You can't turn PAK into source. Or, you can but it is very hard, geeky and it gives only about 95% of data.

Documentation is really bad, this is true. I'm afraid only few people really know how it works and they are mostly away during summer holiday.

Station building DAT:

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obj=building
name=vs_bulk_stor_StationBlg
BackImage[0][0][0][0][0]=vs_bulk_stor.0.0
icon=vs_bulk_stor.0.1
cursor=vs_bulk_stor.0.2

This I got to work. "name" must end with "StationBlg" to make it station extension. If you want to create city building, I vaguely remember some "type = res|com|ind" and "level = number" values. Maybe it works.

[BauerME]

Vs,

Thank you! That helps clear quite a few things up. Do you have any suggestions about who I should contact (directly or through the boards) to find out all the details?

[_VS]

Try joining the simu_gfx group at Yahoo!. Approving membership might take a few days but then feel free to ask, those gfx people are all there. As I said, getting information is hard but I am sure you'll get answers.

[BauerME]

Try joining the simu_gfx group at Yahoo!. Approving membership might take a few days but then feel free to ask, those gfx people are all there. As I said, getting information is hard but I am sure you'll get answers.

Thank you again! I will check it out.