Custom Plates

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INSTALLATION

  1. Open the downloaded ZIP product file and drop the folder in it somewhere in your resources folder.
  2. Add your product key (get it here) to the settings.ini file
  3. Add start BigDaddy-CustomPlates to your server.cfg.

DO NOT RENAME THE FOLDER.

If you change the name of the folder it will not function correctly so leave the name as it is.

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IMPORTANT QUIRKS:

There are some things that interfere with this script and make it not work properly

  • You must be on game build 3095+ to use the extra plate slots. The new plates were not introduced until then.
  • vMenu does NOT have the new plate slots built into it. So you can use CTRL+PAGEDOWN and CTRL+PAGEUP to switch between them. Or the Big Daddy Vehicle Menu script will also work with it.
  • Most train scripts will override the plate textures. You must make sure this plates scripts starts BEFORE the train script to ensure your plates load properly.
  • If you ever had NVE or QuantV from before February of this year, you must remove ALL files manually EVEN IF YOU HAVE A NEWER VERSION NOW. The old versions leave remnants that interfere.
  • The best test is see if EVERYONE is not seeing the plates or if it is just you. If everyone then it's a script on the server interfering. If just you, it's something on your client like a graphics mod.

CONFIGURATION

There is a plates.json file. You can change out all of the fileName fields with whatever images you want (must be png). In the plates folder is where you put your plate images. You can use an image more than once if you want by using it on different plate overrides.

DO NOT change the "name" field in that JSON file or you will break the script.

You can change the filename and pattern but the rest should be left alone.

Do not add or take away plates from the JSON file.

The only thing we can change in the game are the plate backgrounds and the pattern of the digits on the plates. We cannot even change the text color so it is what it is.

HOW TO PLAY

if you have an older version of vMenu without the new content updates you can use CTRL+PageUp and CTRL+PageDown to swap plate textures while in a vehicle so you can get to and set the plate to the new textures. Alternatively you can update vMenu which now has the new plates or you can use BigDaddy-VehicleMenu which also has the new plates.