http://www.jeep.com/adventure/home.jsp

Some of the pics and info are there but most of the links are dead, including the one to sign up so you could dl the game.

Edited by - jpjeepcj7 on Sep 09 2005 9:44:50 PM

Got it right here handy to try out on my new laptop.

Most if not all of the tracks are available in e2 but without the mission stuff.

While we're on this subject , they never released the unlock code for Baja Beach . Well check this out folks .

I just got a custom track running in Jeep Evo2 also . It's just free roam (for now) but I may try to get some scripts running .

Got another running too .

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

Rubicon Trail:BUNK OCCUR LION

Jeep Willys MB: BAND OF BROTHERS
Light Bar: A GELABLE THRIPS
Skid Plates: SNAKE SLIDE I'D PET

Moab Trail:COLA NUMB OK

Grand Cherokee: A DOCK REFER GENE HER
Winch: CAVEMEN WHIG I
No Brush Damage: MANA HERB DUG SO
Silverton Pass:NOVICE SUNK TROLL
Wrangler Rubicon: GUM BORIC EVEN
Liberty: A REPTILE BE SLY
Electronic Control Module: ECLECTIC DELL MORTON ON OUR
Bikini: BAIL IKE SPINE

Seeing those codes jogged my memory on this whole fiasco.

Anybody else remember that this demo was also a contest to win a jeep rubi which the whole contest ended up botched? No cheaters and cheaters banned from the contest.

"I could have been a contender" lol

Would have been nice if I could have won the rubi since I have been making jeep adventures since chopshop trails

I think I'm going to rebuild all the stock tracks and add the maps right in the track pod so I can just add the custom maps to the new pod . I may have to make a "fake" map pod if it errors out . Then you need a SILVTN.TIF . This is what you see on the track choosing screen . Take a stock one and paste your new pic to it because it has an alpha with a white circle in the middle and black around it . If you don't do that , you will see the whole square outside the circle .

I then used the SKULL1.SC renamed to SILVTN1.SC (in the "SCRIPTS" folder) and SKULL1.MSN renamed too (in the "MISSION" folder , these also need the 1 in the name) . There is also a .loc in the mission folder Evo2 doesn't have . I tried making a new one but it kept crashing so I used the one that came with the game and it worked .

I think it has to be a mission track , but I know you have no problem with that . I think that's it , just rebuild the pod with podtool and try it . I then just rename the ones I'm not using .

I think I will try Widow's Peak next because it has scripts . Hope this helps !!

Oh yea , track name that you see is in that .loc file .

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

For a brief moment I almost believed that we were witnessing the second coming of Evo2...ROFL Too bad really since it would be nice to take advantage of the improvements Jeep Evo has over Evo2 such as mud, increased truck texture resolutions, improved script engine and a better winch to name a few.

By the way .locs are stored in the ENGTEXT.POD file and those include both mission and series relataed locs.

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Thx for helping us out warrior!

Seeing those codes jogged my memory on this whole fiasco.

Anybody else remember that this demo was also a contest to win a jeep rubi which the whole contest ended up botched? No cheaters and cheaters banned from the contest.

"I could have been a contender" lol

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!~`1You need only two tools. WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape.

If so, maybe there's something there we can play with.

And using the right .msn and .loc files , I got the mission for the pipeline working just like it should (except the timer) .

wonder what my new track will look and play like in that.

Another question, does this support the tree and vegetation modes?

A triggerbox and this command should start the timer. missionTimer(1).

Everything thats supported in evo should work in here Max with the exception of races perhaps.

You can move thinngs with the winch in Jeep but not in Evo but not sure about the online component, I've heard it both ways.

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What's cool is after you have all your models in place in Tracked4 , then get the track running in Jeep Evo2 , you can go back in , lay out the trigger boxes , then just replace the .sit file and rebuild the pod .

Don't know about the online thing , but the winch is very strong .

We could make some killer climbs to get to the trigger boxes .

15% is HUGE. I can't stress how big that is when you compare normal banner ads and the like have a 0.1% click through rate on average while this was a 96MB download that spanned months?! That number is what led them to being a panelist at E3 that year and other invitations to gaming conventions.

I mean, sure it sucked that some losers tried to cheat by not playing the game in a fair way but Jeep knew of the possibility that people would try to wreck things. I sure wasn't happy sitting there in a conference room actually demonstrating to my client how the cheaters did what they did.

In the end, Jeep and TRI really did try to sort out the cheaters from the rest and make it fair even though I'm sure some people here feel like they were mistakenly disqualified. TRI had "run times" of each track by their own staff (ie their best drivers) and made it clear that there was no way those times could be beat.

And I remember there was talk of a Mac version of the game but it wasn't released. Yes it's true there is a Mac version and I played it. I have to say that at the time the demo was ready, it wasn't optimized for the Mac, it was just ported. It would have been an insult to release it and claim it was on the same level as the PC version.

Anyways, Warrior, I'm really geeked about what you're working on. I wonder how the higher texture resolution is gonna affect whatever Max is working on. I would love to see what the mud ruts are going to be like in the revised RTMAC.

HHC ROCKFACE

By the way, this is our 500th post!

http://www.yousendit.com/

Edit: File is uploading as I type BB and Fordlord , watch for your email , you wil get a download link .

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

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I think I recall people saying that the jeep demo could be played online with active winches. Is this or was this true?

If so, maybe there's something there we can play with.

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!~`1You need only two tools. WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape.

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It's pretty funny how you guys thought that was a train wreck of a contest while Jeep thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. I can say this from being on the inside. The reason why you see TRI still cranking out mini games for Jeep/Dodge/Chrysler is because of how successful the whole Jeep Evo2 game competition was for Jeep. When the Rubicon was released at dealerships, Jeep discovered that 15% of all buyers were people who had registered and submitted scores for the competition.

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Though this jeep expansion is very cool, it creates a dilema with my track design.

It creates a problem where I have to decide to build the challenges for either the regular game or the jeep demo. If I create challenges for the evo2 game, the jeep demo will have an overpowered winch that'll basically take out all the challenge.

I've been checking out the scripts and will probably be doing a custom track for it . Right now I am about 80% done with a new TRUCK.POD . It wieghs in at a hefty 60.5 MB but will rar down to about 5.5 MB . here are some pics . No need to reply to the DL thread . We can just use this one for comments or questions .

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

It seems to me that the difference between making the same track for both engines would be neglegable other than a few minor technical differences Max. Perhap it would be an intersesting test for a truck maker to preload a vehicle with a much smaller winch and see if its supported by the demo, my guess is that it should work.

What I intersested in is if we can find away around the missing pod.ini and be able to mount multiple tracks. With the exception of mission pods Evo does not seem to support multiple sits in a single pod(think PodMate). I wonder if it could be possible to fool the demo into accepting muliple unigue world.sits into a single mission based pod and have them all show up in the track list at the same time as separate tracks rather than a linear type mission set...even though they would have to be mission based tracks like what Warrior is doing.

If it works then this could be our workaround to a pod list. Albeit not the most convenient it is something which would be better than nothing.

HHC ROCKFACE

Now , back to new business .

Chach , your the "Mission Man" . If you can't make that happen , no way I'll be able to . I always assumed that a script command would switch to the next .sit once you have completed one . Although that would be way cool !! Maybe if there is like an "unlock flag" , they could all be set to unlock . The only way I know how to even get 1 track in is to lie to it by using a stock track name . I could (and will) try the weaker winch if it can be done . The winch in the game will not give up at all . That's how I got it on top of the building .

Woody and Rockface , of course your comments are still welcome here if it concerns the new business at hand . I surely don't want to turn away any help . And don't call me Surely ...lol .

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

If that does not work I am at a loss and don't know what to tell you .

The only problem I see is no mud fx for 4wl drive. Only rear wheel.

I also like that camp area where you zoom into the cabin. That'd be cool if I can modify that to serve rtmac purposes.

Looks like tri doesn't have a jeep demo server running

EDITI replaced the first picture with a mud fx vs shot. Using the jeep demo, I should be able to use both these fx in my track. I can probably have the jeep fx as a think mud and my rcgfx1 as a watery based mud.

!~`1What's crackin coconut?

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does this have a pod file? can you gues why i want one?

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!~`1What's crackin coconut?

jeep 102
moab
silverton pass in game
rubicon trail

And yes , you can get tracks in the demo . It's not a task for the faint of heart tho (yet) . I just got it working myself (and have some beta testers checking them and helping me) and I think that I am the first to get it to work (check me if I'm wrong) . Details at this point are sketchy at best so I won't go into them .

Give me some more test and experiment time and I plan an easy to use tut to get tracks made with Tracked4 into it .

Since I can't keep my fingers out of anything , I had custom trucks in the demo within days of it's release (others did too however) .

And yes Tracked4 is Evo2's track editor .

B Bros , curious is cool , that's how ya learn , but ya can't tell me you have a handle on everything I tried to show you today so your ready for more . Tommorow will be a quiz !! lol . Pass that and then we will move on .

http://vales.com/Evo2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15327

All you need is Podview to extract the files , and Podtool to put it back together .

Tearing this pod apart and studying the contents (along with a good readme (included)) , should put you well on your way to converting other tracks . I have a few more I could do patches for if this works out .

You can downoad it here .

Let me know if it works and what you think . File is just under 1 MB .

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

You can download the demo here . It's the only thing there for now .

The Jeep Evo2 files are there now . Contains a readme file . You only need this file if you can't find Jeep Evo2 . If you already have it , you have all of these because that's where they came from . Just from 1 free game to another .

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

Through a little bit of playing , I have found that the trick we used to get the Jeep Evo2 tracks into the editor years ago (deleting the "path" information) also works to get the CAMP.POD in the editor . To make a custom camp you need to make a copy of that info (paths) , delete it , edit the track , and paste it back into the .sit .

To do this , open the .sit with Wordpad , scroll down to "paths" , and make the line look like this .

#*** Paths ***
pathCount
0
*** Stadium ***

The number will be 20 when stock . Paste all of the stock info back between the "paths" and the "stadium" lines after editing and build a new pod with Podtool . With this , you can pretty much build any camp you want , from junkyard to forest . If you
move the trucks , Don't go into the Photoshow , it might not find it's way back out . The "fire" will be gone , too if you use the Tomb Raider camp to start .

http://mobwarrior.adakist.com/

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

The truck pod replaces 6 out of 8 trucks . The Rubicon and the Grand Cherokee were left in . It's maybe 85% finished and will be available when done (before you ask ) .

The model came from the 15,000 model web site and I made the texture and mapped it . The Chevelle in the background is just a track prop . All the other trucks are scratch built or TRI's .

Regarding the new camp, does the camera still move and shift from the trucklot to the shack and back to the post like it does with the stock camp? Is it path or course related or something else?

Jeez this could make for a pretty nifty track\author specific platform for someone wanting to create their own mission set. Would be heck of a nice way to showcase something new....

There are 8 trigger boxes where the trucks go (named "truck1 - 8") and 7 trigger boxes for the camera (named "cam1 - 7") . Since I moved box 8 (the Willys , the Love Bug in the custom pod) , the camera gets lost on the way back from the "Picture Show" . It starts to head to where it was , gets caught in a loop , and then goes back in . I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL to get out of it . Only happens when you leave from the Willys (or Love Bug) . It still goes to the "signpost" just fine .

BTW , the new website has more sections open now . There is no content for the MTM section or the Flatout section yet so I killed the links . Each section opens in a new window , so just close that when done , and you will be back at the main menu where you left from .

Here is the link again .

http://mobwarrior.adakist.com/

!~`1http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/mob_warrior/

By simply removing the red colored items from the sit for each path set and leaving the rest of the path info in place it is possible to work with the paths in the editor. I even moved one of the vehicles to the side of the cabin and adjusted its corresponding camera path to suit and now the camera works properly when goin in and out of the cabin. There is no need to put the extra lines back into the sit when your done, Jeep Evo works just fine without them. So now creating your own camp pod should be quit easy.

Here are the differences in the path system.

--------Jeep Evo Paths--------
Path 1 of 20 ---------------------------
pointCount
26
type
1
direction
0
loopStart
0
loopEnd
0
stopLoopFlag
0
cycles
0
time
0
pauseTimeElapsed
0
t
0
tension
0
stopFlag
0
collisionType
0
object
33

Here are a few screenshots, sorry for the horrible jpeg compression, I'm trying to keep the files sizes manageable for dialup users.

Here is a shot of the entire camp from the editor.

A closeup of the camera paths

A closeup of my altered vehicle location and path.

And a shot of the the new location in game.

I thought this was kind of interesting. Its the model of the cabin and its various parts that are need to make the screenshot billboards work.

Strangly enough I noticed that what ever direction I pointed my truck box the vehicle always pointed in the same direction as the rest of the vehicles. I looked into the vehicle locations in the sit but couldnt come up with anything so keep that in mind if you plan to build your own camp.

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i want jeep evo send me jsukato@hotmail.com THanks

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!~`1thought he was wrong once, turns out he was mistaken.

Chach , nice find bro . I tried it today and it worked great . You can even rebuild the pod right from the editor . BTW , Stuck Throttle came up with the paths that crashed it . We just deleted them and it worked . We never compared them .

K C , Thanx bro , I must have sent that thing out 4 or 5 times . I'm going to put a page up for the track conversions . Is it OK to link to this page ?

I looked through some of my old stuff . The readmes were pretty good . It of course assumes working knowledge of the file system , Tracked 4 (so you also can do nothing without the retail version of Evo2) and it's scripts .

!~`1Native Customs

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never mind, i fixed it

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!~`1thought he was wrong once, turns out he was mistaken.

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In which case you could have simply deleted your post or at least edited it.

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K C , Thanx bro , I must have sent that thing out 4 or 5 times . I'm going to put a page up for the track conversions . Is it OK to link to this page ?

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The Jeep Evo2 mod pages are up . Click the link in my sig and go to the "Evo2" section .

email: stevo86@nbnet.nb.ca

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The Jeep Evo2 mod pages are up . Click the link in my sig and go to the "Evo2" section .

Native Customs

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Thx MOB