Hacking Ray's Mario Kart 8 Course Modding Tutorials

[ktroy]

Thank you. Yes I meant BYAML injection through Cafiine not editing through Cafiine. Sorry for the confusion. How large are the BYAML files for each track? I ask because wondering if they could be exchanged if dumping was not possible for all users. I read a little about it and it was running me through Homebru and all kinds of things, which I wasn't able to do; like dumping and injecting whole games from and into the Wii U which isn't my purpose.

Thanks again Ray Koopa.

Edit: Just read that your Cafiine can:
"Dump mode to dump any queried file automatically, into a separate directory dedicated for dumps."

nice! I might be able to do this

 

[Ray Koopa]

Byaml files are just a few KB, but you need each one for each track and each mode, see the file location tut.

 

[ktroy]

ok so each file is located at vol\content\course\*level*\course_muunt.byaml
and I can edit them by converting them with yamlconv.

But I don't know how to use your cafiine in order to search and dump the files. Sorry I may have missed a tut, just not sure how to dump though.

Edit: -request in the data folder, but unsure how to do this.

 

[Ray Koopa]

I think you can find that by searching the forum, it's the same method as the original Cafiine server by rean, just that the dump is stored in the dump folder, not besides the request file

 

[ktroy]

No idea what I am doing wrong, it won't dump these simple files. Tried many versions of cafiine. Man, just trying to get 5 laps. Oh well
Thanks for all your help!

 

[Ray Koopa]

You're using Rean's Cafiine anyway. Files are put in the same folder then. You must request them of course, if you don't see them in the log, they won't get dumped.
If dumping doesn't work, I can only help you with my server, but it never failed there.

 

[ktroy]

I thought the file names was the request. I tried your Cafiine, made Cafiine_root folder with the above directory, is that right? It didn't work

Not sure how else to request or what folder to place the -request files in using your Cafiine. Do I use Cafiine_root with yours?

 

[Ray Koopa]

No, my server uses "data" by default and also creates it if it doesn't exist. It shows the paths at startup. You can use another folder with the DATA parameter. Please read the documentation on the project page first, it answers that kind of stuff.

 

[myuuji]

Would probably require a new course model which isn't possible yet. I could try changing Baby Park or Excite Bike into a battle course tho.

I would love to see them as battle arenas!! They have a good size

 

[ktroy]

[05.08.2016 22:21:02.593] Querying 'data\00050000-1010EC00\vol\content\course\Gu_FirstCircuit\course_muunt.byaml' (mode=R)
[05.08.2016 22:21:03.422] Querying 'data\00050000-1010EC00\vol\content\course\Gu_FirstCircuit\course_muunt.byaml' (mode=R)

What else am I missing?

Also getting this message intermittently.

[05.08.2016 22:20:06.470] Communication issue (Unable to read beyond the end of the stream.)
[05.08.2016 22:20:06.486] Connection dismissed.

Thanks

 

[Ray Koopa]

It's always a good idea to display file extensions. Yours don't end on -request, they end on -request.txt

 

[ktroy]

A good idea to do, yes. Very silly of me to not catch this. Thank you for pointing this out! You've been a great help.

 

[GoldYoshi]

Is there away to select all KCL faces at once instead of having to select each one individually and editing them all at once

 

[Ray Koopa]

Shift+G > Collision Flag

 

[Ray Koopa]

I moved documentations to the corresponding add-on wiki's on GitHub and linked them in the post where done, check them out!

 

[lordelan]

I moved documentations to the corresponding add-on wiki's on GitHub and linked them in the post where done, check them out!

Would you mind sharing your "Roy's Nightmare" course? Because it has big model editings and would help us much more to get an insight on how to do things.

 

[Ray Koopa]

It's basically just a lot of Shift+A > Mario Kart 8 > Obj
I think I have it at home somewhere. I upload it in a few.

EDIT: Well I can't find it (some Japanese still has it). I don't really know what questions it would answer you. Maybe you can make text questions outta it

 

[myuuji]

Any news about modified ExciteBike / BabyPark levels for battle mode?

 

[Harmonia]

Any news about modified ExciteBike / BabyPark levels for battle mode?

DLC courses seem to crash when trying to load them in battle mode even with the (as far as we know) correct modifications to the byaml.

Very late response, sorry.

 

[Videogamerev]

Wait to Change the setting (Make it day time and light time etc) then...

I replace the BGENV

and what do I edit in the Byaml (sorry I'm still confused)