Remove Dents?

[Charitzo]

Anyway to remove dents without selling your soul to the mechanic?

[Myztkl©-Kev]

by cheating and deleting your meshsave.txt but it's your game, play how you want. many of us rationalize it because it's so damn easy to put thousands worth of damage on the body just by walking around the car and working on it.

[Crewman Six]

use the sledghammer

[DrNic]

Originally posted by Crewman Six:

use the sledghammer

Definitely don't do this. Just delete the meshsave like m-kev said. When a car can be dented with a grocery bag it becomes pretty easy to rationalize a bit of "cheating".

[Crewman Six]

Originally posted by Crewman Six:

use the sledghammer

This is clearly more fun.

[thescaryone]

And you can still delete your meshsave.txt afterwards. Make sure not to break your windshield though.

[DrNic]

I remember way back when I started this game I dented the car just by walking into it. I figured, the only reason there would be a sledge hammer would be for this reason. An hour of trying to figure out the "sledge hammer dent repair" later I just decided that the dev has a cruel sense of humor and deleted the meshsave.

[Crewman Six]

Originally posted by DrNic:

I remember way back when I started this game I dented the car just by walking into it. I figured, the only reason there would be a sledge hammer would be for this reason. An hour of trying to figure out the "sledge hammer dent repair" later I just decided that the dev has a cruel sense of humor and deleted the meshsave.

oh he does. and it is wonderful

[DrNic]

Originally posted by Crewman Six:

Originally posted by DrNic:

I remember way back when I started this game I dented the car just by walking into it. I figured, the only reason there would be a sledge hammer would be for this reason. An hour of trying to figure out the "sledge hammer dent repair" later I just decided that the dev has a cruel sense of humor and deleted the meshsave.

oh he does. and it is wonderful

Agreed. GG

[Syd Khaos]

We REALLY need a set of hammers and dollys to do body work ourselfs.

Would be kinda easy to balance too....

Hammer+dolly would work much in the same way paint cans do, you would have cursor over a certain part, then hold button for X seconds and then that body part would be restored to its dent free state.

However unlike paint the part would determine how long the button hold is.
Something easy to work on (like the hood) could be 3-5 seconds.
Something more complex (like the car body itself) would take much longer, 10-15+ seconds.

Once that is in place then you subtract X amount of fatigue for every second of body work done.
This way doing ALL of the body work at once is a whole day/ whole fatigue bar project.


@Toplessgun:
If you would consider adding this I would be more than happy to model/texture the dollly/hammer set and give it to you. I have a real nice Westbrook set in my garage right now, I could just scan those lol.

[Fred]

Where do I find meshsave.txt?

[Myztkl©-Kev]

C:\Users\yourname\AppData\LocalLow\Amistech just type %appdata%\..\locallow\Amistech in windows search.

[Fred]

Thx! Even tho it feels a bit like cheating, just loading a shopping bag shouldnt mess up the car in the first place

[EjectedCasings]

Originally posted by Fred:

Thx! Even tho it feels a bit like cheating, just loading a shopping bag shouldnt mess up the car in the first place

Yeah. One vigorous shove later, my fenders are smushed

[Lord of Boredom]

Originally posted by JohnnyChimpo:

Hammer+dolly would work much in the same way paint cans do, you would have cursor over a certain part, then hold button for X seconds and then that body part would be restored to its dent free state.

Sounds too arcadeish. It would be great if we could manually deform the mesh with a very little force and on very little square, so we could try to restore the original shape of damaged part. But I'm not sure if it's possible to implement.

[Crewman Six]

i would impliment a "plunger" that spawns in the bathroom. Go grab it, and it'll make big dents look "better" but not perfect,