Changing languages

Some players have their game in english but they just known the basics or nothing of english at all.

Since TRUCK select the language based on that, some players complain that they can not read english and want the messages in another language.

Now the players have the freedom of choose the language their prefer (from the languages available).

As always, is very easy to change this. Type /lang on chat, or use the menu / your language and a window will appear, with the available languages. Just click on your language of choice and you are done.

You can download the latest version of TRUCK from HERE.

Also, in this version Dedimania and Local records generate messages about new best times.

Color codes

Probably one of the most common questions of the new players are about how to add color do their nick names.

To help them out, I created a new window, where the players can play with the colors and get the correct code of the desired color.

Is very easy, the player can just move the color bars, or click over one of the colors, and continue to adjust it with the color bars.

As usual, you can download the latest version from my syte.

And now the menu items can also be translated.

Thanks Maau for the latest spanish translation files!

Dedimania for laps mode

Finally, the dedimania module is working in Laps mode. Since in this mode Dedimania only accepts the best lap time registered as time attack, and there was a need to handle the laps mode for best lap, and last lap events, a new module was created to handle laps mode and also multilap tracks in other modes (except time attack)

Now, TRUCK will send chat messages about your lap time and best time of the race. Also it will show when you or another player started the final lap.

Fixed some bugs when changing the server game mode.

You can download the latest version HERE

Server Tips

Now TRUCK has a new module to send chat messages at regular intervals. It comes with some pre configureted messages, but the admins can add new ones with:

• /tip message

Admins can also change the order or remove any of them.
The players can see all the messages if they want, using the Menu, or typing:

• /tips

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Window Skins!

Dedicated server owners always want to make their servers unique. Now they can customize any window in Truck.

Each window have their own set of visual parameters, so you can for example have the main window with a background image, and the medals window with another one, or just to define a custom color for the background.

The same applies for the each window caption background.

The best of all, that is very easy to do that. Right click on the module that manage the window you want to change and choose configure.

The changes are imediate when you click OK and will update all open windows. So if you have the window open in game, you will see the changes.

When dealing with images, the client will need to download it first and the game will not imediate show the changes, so you will need to make a respawn to update.

As usual, you can download the latest version from my syte.

Happy customizing!

Renaming Track files

Anyone who has a trackmania server, and add tracks on a regular basis, known the problem that come with that. Many tracks have a really odd file name and sometimes is impossible to have any clue what is that track.

To solve this problem, there is a new command, called:

• /rename tracks

It will scan all gbx files on the server tracks folder and rename the file in the format:

• Environment[author] - Track name.Challenge.Gbx

This will make a lot of server admins, really happy! :)

Since it will open all the track files to extract that information, depending on how many tracks are on the server tracks folder, this can take a couple of minutes. Another warning, this command will make TRUCK to become unresponsible during the operation. So, use it with caution.

It will also change the match settings to reflect the new filenames, so using the /save command it's recommended.

BTW, now the zip file comes with a manual in PDF format, to explain much more than the old readme.txt file.

Dedimania configuration

Some players asked me about how to configure the dedimania. Here is a screen to show how easy is to configure it. :)

Public announced on TM-Forum

I think that the program is very stable and good enough to be announced on TM-Forum.

But just to make sure that people can use and configure it properly, I have implemented a way to edit each module parameters from the TRUCK main window. Now it's very easy to change any parameters of the modules, just right click over the module name and choose config.

A new window will open with the parameters of that specific module. No more need to search and edit the configuration files.