Vehicle.info

The aim of this article is to breakdown the *.info (vehicle information) filetype, as to understand it better. *.info files are essentially text or *.txt files with no formatting. They can be opened using bundled software that comes with Microsoft Windows such as Wordpad or Notepad, or alternatives such as Notepad++, see image.

This file would typically located in vehicle.ar/tune/basename.info.

Example "vehicle.info" file
Text from file;

BaseName=mshaz02 Description=[WRC] Ford Fiesta Colors=Classic|Rallye Concept|BP|Kresta|Martini Flags=0 Order=1 ScoringBias=5.0 UnlockScore=0 UnlockFlags=0 Horsepower=800 Top Speed=220 Durability=10000000 Mass=3020 ForceFeedbackModifier=0.7 RoadForceModifier=1.5 UIDist=11.3

BaseName
The best way to describe the "BaseName" value is that it represents the internal name of your vehicle, as you can see, this is from a Ford Fiesta, see "description" value. The basename "mshaz02" is very good, because it must be unique, if the basename had been "fiesta", and you had another downloaded vehicle in your MM2 folder with the same basename, they'd clash, and only one would show up in the game. Could possibly cause a crash.

The basename also dictates a large majority of filenames in the vehicle. As you can see in the image, the basename value is mshaz02 and therefore the filename must be mshaz02.info.

Description
The "Description" value is the vehicle name in game. You shouldn't make it too long, and try to use basic characters.

Colors
The values in this field set the colour names in the vehicle selection menu, provided the *.PKG model has correctly exported paintjobs, these will change the vehicle colour or paintjob.

This field will be truncated at 100 characters, for example, if the final colour "Martini", was started at 97 characters, it'd be cut to "Mar".

In this file, there are 5 colours, seperated using the pipe "|" character. Classic|Rallye Concept|BP|Kresta|Martini

Flags
This value sets some non-factual information about the vehicle, such as is it a cop car? Is it a bus and does the camer a need to lower in tunnels? etc.

UnlockScore
Left over from Midtown Madness 1

Horsepower
This is purely for the vehicle selection screen, and should be an accurate figure of the vehicle's power in BHP. It does not affect vehicle performance at all.

Top Speed
Another purely statistical figure of the vehicle's top speed, represented in MPH. Does not affect vehicle performance.

Durability
Purely statistical and will change menu values. Does not affect performance

Mass
This should be a factual figure, which represents the weight of the vehicle in KG. Does not affect vehicle's actual performance.

UIDist
Example line from vpbus.info/City Bus UIDist=11.3

This line is optional and controls the distance of the vehicle on the vehicle selection screen. Bigger values correspond to a further distance.