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OH! I see.

I guess that when you just replace characters it goes fine, while when you try to change the length of the text string by adding or removing characters it doesn't.

You're right, and I could see what was going wrong, but I had absolutely no idea how the offset list related to the rest of it. I just tried after referring to Dstien's post, and it works perfectly now.
I've read through that thread a couple of times and it's been very enlightening, but I can't again until the 14th as our isp is punishing us for exceeding the download limit (Australia and its capped internets, WTF).

BTW, do you know if the OPP?.RES from 1.0 work correctly when replacing the OPP?.PRE from 1.1?

I just tried copying it over but it didn't appear to work, which makes me all the more undecided on which version to stick with. Because it's not possible to take cars from 1.1 to 1.0, is it?

Well, at least I now have a nice bit to busy myself with while I'm roughing it without the internet for the next week. 

Right, while I am able to use the OPP?.RES files now, I don't.. exactly.. know how to correctly edit a hex file. Time to do some reading, I suppose!

Hi Duplode, thanks for the welcome and for your helpful reply. Well, I've added the car now, I don't know what I was doing wrong before because I did try putting in those files as copies of existing cars and it didn't work. I dunno, late, sleepy, etc. I figured there must have been a reference to them elsewhere, so I probably would have still been searching for that now, lol. The fact that additional car files can just be added like that makes me wonder if the game was built to allow for car expansion packs.

I'll have another go at editing the opponent files with a hex editor. I did try that already but even if I saved the file without making any modifications it didn't work (annoyingly enough I just tried it again while writing this and it appears to work now. As does editing the text in the car .RES file. How bloody tired was I?!).

I'm using both 1.0 and 1.1 at the moment- switching from one to the other depending on what I want to try. I've already done the opponent image files (plus the animated ones) and a landscape, which were straightforward enough. As for what else I intend to learn, I don't really know. I tend to just throw myself at things that look challenging and go on for as long as I can. The super secret project will be a themed version of Stunts, and I'll make whatever modifications I can to fit the theme. This is why I want to change the number of opponents, because they will be a particular set of characters.
Anyway, whenever I get stuck, I'll just busy myself with building cars. The kid-me from the early nineties would be so proud! 

Hello all! I found this board a few days ago and having dreamed (literally even) of Stunts modding since I was a kid, I just had to have a go. I'm so impressed by the work that's been done on figuring out the inner workings of Stunts... I don't even. Stressed is amazing and I've obviously started work on a car- a Mercedes 300E, now I'm already trying to bite off more than I can chew with a new mega project. It's top secret right now, but all shall be revealed when completed.

However, I've done about as much of this project as I can at the moment as I have to accept that I'm out of my depth. So I was hoping perhaps somebody could help me. Apologies if my questions are daft or posted in the wrong place, but I would be infinitely grateful if somebody could steer me in the right direction so I don't keep hitting a wall. Erm sorry, that was quite poor.

The first bit I can't manage is, I believe, within the SD?SEL files. I want to both add more cars, and remove some opponents. The latter sounds odd, but I have my reasons. Top secret. I've seen in Zakstunts that it is possible to extend the selection of cars, but I have no idea how.
The other thing is editing the opponent profile text and dialogues- I assume Stressed doesn't interpret all the data in the .RES files, or maybe I'm just doing it wrong, as when I save the modified file, the game crashes when I try to race the opponent.

Anyway, since this is my first post, a little intro. I started playing Stunts in about 1992 and never really stopped. It's been on every computer I've had. In the old days I competed against my brother, these days against my husband, who is as into the game as I am. I also live in Australia and have cats.