Confused, Confused, Confused.

I'm not sure if many of you have seen JrMasterModelBuilder's YouTube video showing him racing as Rocket Racer's car in LR2. If you haven't, than watch it before you read anymore.

http://youtu.be/vsLFAGBnI54

Anyway, with that video and Jamesster's recent thread that showed him texture swapping (which was based off the above video), I am thinking that I might be possible to swap not only my car with RR's but also someone else's car too. I am not very far into the game (I've only done half the races in Dino Island, haven't even done the boss or explored), so I'm not very high up in the game. So, I decided to change Workman Fred's digger to RR's car.

I PM'ed JMMB on YouTube asking him if this might be possible. Here's a transcript:

"You have made a video showing how to race as RR and have provided a working tutorial on how to do it. Jamesster made a video that showed him swapping textures. Well, I'm trying to swap cars too, but Adventure Mode cars.

I found that by following your tutorial, I can race in other cars, but only in Arcade mode. I want to swap cars in Adventure mode, to make another milestone in LR2 modding, and because I have a video I want to do.

I want to replace the digger with Rocket Racer's car. I don't need to swap them, just write RR's pointer over the digger's pointer..

I found that RR's car is made of three parts, and each one has two files in the GTC. The digger also has three parts with two files each in the GTC. So, this should work because they have the same number of parts.

I swapped the pointers like I wanted to in HxDen, but every time I tried to load the game, it would crash. The movies would play, but the game itself wouldn't load."

I had to provide more info after this, because I forgot to add this info in the first PM, and because he needed to know this.

"Yes, the Digger is in Adventure Mode, and I am hoping I can swap both my car and my opponent's car.

You see, I have a game save where I drive a Digger, (See attached video), and what I want to do is swap both my digger and Workman's Fred's digger (AKA my opponent) with RR's car.

I am thinking that both he and I use the same digger models, because when I put RR's car on the digger, it did not work in Adventure Mode. I was only able to race as RR in Arcade Mode. And because the files listed in the text document are all of RR's and the Digger's car models.

So if both he and I use the same models, I am thinking that if RR's car pointers were pasted on the digger's files, both of us would drive RR's car in Adventure mode."

His reply:

"Alright, I tried a few different things. I found that changing the digger's .CCD pointer to Rocket Racer's .C[C]D file will replace your opponent's car to RR's (in the race, not in the construction site on Sandy Bay), but not the inverse for any of the cars you would race. Here's my untested (not sure how to) theory as to why:

When you created the car you used in Sandy Bay or just used a default model it saves the part configuration to you save file (and remember if it was default or not to know if it should add it to your car list). Whenever you race on Sandy Bay, it used the model you saved rather than load the original digger. So maybe it would work if the digger were replaced with RR's car before creating a car to use in Sandy Bay (and it would then save RR's part configuration).

That's my guess.

As for those other files you were trying to replace. My guess is that they aren't compatible with each other. As they aren't in the same places on the vehicle there's probably more to it."

JMMB, I have got to tell you that your theory is spot on. I tested it by swapping the pointers then creating a new game save. I now have a game save with which I can race with RR's car in Adventure Mode!

Now that I can race with RR's car, it was time for me to race Workman Fred in his "Digger". But when I want to race him, this happened:

I am racing Fred, but he has his digger. This is the complete opposite of what JMMB said above:

"I found that changing the digger's .CCD pointer to Rocket Racer's .C[C]D file will replace your opponent's car to RR's (in the race, not in the construction site on Sandy Bay)"

He was only able to get Fred drive RR's car (from what I understand), but not able to get himself to drive the same car. But I am only able to race with RR's car, not get Fred to race with the same car!

So I am confused completely.

JMMB, if you read this, will you perhaps explain what I am doing wrong? I want to combine both my test results and yours, but I have no idea how.

EDIT: What a way to start a blog. Well, you have to start somehow. ;)