Popular Post Oboe Shoes Posted June 5, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 5, 2013 As you may already know, It's possible to edit the .LEB files in the PIECEDB folder to change what bricks are available in what color in any given category. (Or, by editing a small bit of binary, add additional bricks.) So for those of you who don't wish to mess with these files yourself, or if you just want a nice base for editing with some of the more common ones already there, I've compiled this little mod which will add the following bricks to your game without overriding anything: 11 new basic bricks in beige to the Johnny Thunder menu 14 new green bricks to the Veronica Voltage menu (The 12 basic brick types, plus the flag and spoiler) 1 new green brick to the Castle menu (the Castle theme flag) As for why I didn't split the green bricks up between the Standard and Racing menus, there's an unfortunate hard limit of 30 bricks per menu, forcing me to add to menus with smaller amounts of bricks. Download This is fairly basic for now, but I plan on adding additional pieces that could benefit from additional colors that I can find space for, and it's a good place to start if you want to edit these menus yourself. Remember, you can always edit these files to get any brick you want in any color temporarily, and then switch it back when you're done. I'll also look into any possibilities of getting around the limit of 30 bricks per menu, but for now, enjoy. Alcom Isst, lol username, Jack Bluebeard and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUModder Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Nice! I acctually did a random color swap and got the "Twitch Spring Green" color for tan bricks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrem Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Very good sir. I will use these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 For all the extra spaces unused, make bricks with brand new colors! (in LPIECEHI.MDB and LPIECELOW.MDB change the 53 entiries # to 55 and add two new entries at the bottom or wherever, one titled 'color' an the other 'coloraa'.. just look at the other colors for example, also don't forget to then add the color entry to L_COLORS.LEB, and a new color is good to go. I just did this and it works.)... although this would get rather messy with the limit, so perhaps not. Jack Bluebeard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbob Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Thank you for this mod, particularly for its use in recreating one of my favourite Racers characters as you showed in the screenshots. As to the 30-brick limit, the same applies to adding character parts, and I couldn't find any obvious way of increasing that limit. An error message would always appear, so I wonder if it's hardcoded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainGolem Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Thanks alot for this mod! I was tired editing the colors all the time then changing them back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plakrast Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 This is incredible, just because it doesn't cancel out anything before. I'll definitely use this. I hope research continues on breaking the 30 part limit, but maybe a better way could be adding a whole new part set? I have no idea if that's more reasonable or not, but there aren't thirty of those yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bluebeard Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Can you add, Oboe Shoes, to the King kahuka's car set the larger feathers of the NPC model too? Is it possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aokpisz Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Awesome. Great job guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oboe Shoes Posted June 5, 2013 Author Share Posted June 5, 2013 Can you add, Oboe Shoes, to the King kahuka's car set the larger feathers of the NPC model too? Is it possible? I believe that's just part of the NPC King Kahuka's car, which is all one model, so probably not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bluebeard Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 In the sense that the plumage of Kahuka player and that of Kahuka NPC is different: the first is small, similar to the one of Achu, and the second is larger. Is possible to take only the plumage and not all the NPC model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bluebeard Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Is it possible to add car chassis too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifi La Fume Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Honestly hope the 30 limit gets broken so we can add more opaque colors, and even trans. colors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 As far as I know there is no way to make the parts semi-transparent because they do not have any MDB file. All parts are squeezed into one file (actually, two files: LPIECEHI.LEB and LPIECELO.LEB) and it is not possible to make them transparent in any way there... I have also not found any value yet that would edit the 30-bricks-limit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lair Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Oh, wow. So we've gotten to this point, now. Excellent. Carry on, adding new colors (alas poor green) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oboe Shoes Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 Also, if anybody has any suggestions on parts that should be available and/or work well in different colors, please post them here, and I'll see if I can update this with even more bricks. Many lists still have free space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Hmm.... the bricks use RGB values for the colors, right? Let's do something that is kinda rare in LEGO bricks.... Hey, how about that blueish color on that very rare window frame that was used in LEGO Island (@jamesster could give more info on that color/brick). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Hey, how about that blueish color on that very rare window frame that was used in LEGO Island (@jamesster could give more info on that color/brick).Uh what? Those are standard blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTF Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I apologize if this is considered a thread bump, but... First of all, I have already replaced my LEB files with your modified versions. I'm trying to add a black upside-down slope (not replacing the white upside-down slope) to Veronica Voltage's part set. I've tried Notepad and Notepad++. I copy "s00011 white", which is the white triangle, and I paste it near the end of the file (before the last NUL ACK). The game crashes on start-up whenever I try to add the black triangle part. This is my error message: I have a feeling it's because I can't copy and paste the odd "NUL" character that appears in Notepad++? I got the syntax wrong? I'm not supposed to use Notepad(++)? I hope I described it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JrMasterModelBuilder Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I apologize if this is considered a thread bump, but... First of all, I have already replaced my LEB files with your modified versions. I'm trying to add a black upside-down slope (not replacing the white upside-down slope) to Veronica Voltage's part set. I've tried Notepad and Notepad++. I copy "s00011 white", which is the white triangle, and I paste it near the end of the file (before the last NUL ACK). The game crashes on start-up whenever I try to add the black triangle part. This is my error message: I have a feeling it's because I can't copy and paste the odd "NUL" character that appears in Notepad++? I got the syntax wrong? I'm not supposed to use Notepad(++)? I hope I described it well. I don't know the specifics of modding the parts, but I wouldn't recommend Notepad++ for binary file editing. A hex editor like HxD would probably work better. UTF 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I have a feeling it's because I can't copy and paste the odd "NUL" character that appears in Notepad++? I got the syntax wrong? I'm not supposed to use Notepad(++)? I hope I described it well. I recommended something totally different than Notepad++ or HxD: The LR1 Binary Editor, created for the purpose of modding LR. '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> Have fun. UTF 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTF Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Thanks to both of you (and the guy who made the program)! Not sure how I missed the Binary editor thing, but I got my black triangle in-game now. I just built "Dark Goddess". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oboe Shoes Posted December 11, 2013 Author Share Posted December 11, 2013 Nice, sorry I couldn't get back to you on this myself until now, been rather busy as of late. But yeah, I just used a hex editor add-on for notepad++ to copy the binary bits personally, seeing as these files are about half binary, half plaintext, but as you know, the method you used works just as well. UTF 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UTF Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 I hope it's alright with you Oboe Shoes, but I went ahead and added a lot more colors using your modified .LEB files as a base. Here's an updated list of parts that are now included: Default Bricks: None Default Race: None Default Space: 5 "1x2 tile with Handle" bricks (Black/Light gray/Green/Beige/Brown) Default Castle: 4 castle flags (Beige/Brown/Light gray/Dark gray) Captain Redbeard: Racing brown flag King Kahuka: 2 Light gray corner bricks. Basil the Batlord: 15 brown bricks (Basic bricks, corner bricks, spoiler).. Johhny Thunder: 11 beige bricks. Beige corners, spoiler and flag in the next set. Baron von Barron: Beige corners, spoiler, and flag + 8 "3 x 6 without corner" bricks (Red/Yellow/White/Light gray/Dark gray/Green/Beige/Brown) Gypsy Moth: 7 inverted slopes (Blue/Red/Yellow/Black/Green/Black/Beige). Rocket Racer: 17 dark gray bricks (Basic bricks, corner bricks, inverted triangle, spoile, racing flag). Veronica Voltage: 16 green bricks (Basic bricks, corner bricks, spoiler, racing flag). Most notable are the inclusions of brown and dark gray colors! Download Car CrazeXVI, legorr2020, dy_enforcer and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone_c Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Hi all, Denmark calling! Absolutely new on this forum, but as my son is crazy with Lego Racers 1 and 2, and wants to create more than what the game holds, I foound my way to you guys. Two questions.... 1. The mod here, do I simply unpack it to a specific folder in the game or....? 2. Do any of you know if it is possible to drive as Rocket Racers in Racers 2? Is there a mod for this or is it simply a "no show" Hope to hear from you J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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