We've got ZDA archives, TDX textures and LOL lua scripts. You might have noticed that I've been posting on the forums while we start tearing in to the data structures of C:R. m First Third-Party Content Mod Into C:R! We're tactfully ignoring the ridiculous radiation related contribution that TDR made to the red legend. I've replaced Max in about 4 different locations, including: Make sure you check the rushed and vague set of instructions in the download file as this one is a bit more involved, let me know if you have any problems. Once you've downloaded the file, as with the previous mod, you need to use 7Zip to access the ZAD game archive files and swap some files out. It seems strangley fitting considering all the testable parts of the game are currently labelled 'Classic Carma', well red max IS classic Carma. But screw it, we have history with red skinned Max so the choice is here anyone that wants to see him back in their Alpha test. It's technically a product of a limitation of the times rather than a feature. The colour was suppose be to be due to ambient lighting, but the budget and print run restrictions meant the materials for Carmageddon ended up having to black and red on white paper stock, so Max became red. Nobby has previously explained that he should have never been red-skinned. I've edited a batch of files to reinstate Max Damage as the crimson skinned anti-hero we knew from days of old. If you don't care that one of the main men behind the Carmageddon game probably wouldn't approve.

Slightly less useless first ever ped/driver mod m Red Max is Back in Carmageddon: Reincarnation Now let's see what we can achieve with this new level of access Working out how to access the files, how they all work together and how far we can push the engine 'til it breaks is as entertaining as the game itself. Although efficiency is nothing to be sneered at, the sheer verbosity of his technical break downs continues to astound me. I won't spoil the fun on the specifics which can find by checking out his epic write-up at his site Toxic Ragers. It was just a couple of bytes that need changing to standardise them, and the best part is that they don't actually need recompiling to be executable. It was pretty obvious that these were LUA scripts from the outset, especially if you look at the file headers, but the problem was that no off-the-shelf decompiler could handle them, which indicates there's something non-standard about them.Īfter much experimenting by everyone, Errol the Bastard, was the one to crack it. To this end, once we cracked accessing the TDX texture files, the next big targets were the LOL files, which are compiled LUA scripts, controlling many aspects of the actual gameplay.

Modding C:R is still in it's infancy at the moment, and this is actually one of the most exciting times, where we get to strip back the coverings and dig into innards like Jeffrey Dahmer at a offal party.

Carmageddon reincarnation test