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  • Lucas' Simpsons Hit & Run Mod Launcher
  • Version History

Version 1.18

This version was released on July 2, 2018.

Launcher

General

  • Added an unhandled exception handler so the Launcher will provide helpful information instead of crashing.
  • Changed the order that pressing the tab key cycles through the controls on various windows to be more appropriate.
  • Changed the progress bar when loading mods to no longer ease instead of waiting half a second for it to catch up.
  • Improved some error messages to be more specific.
  • Made mods compiled with no properties in their Miscellaneous section of their Meta.ini able to load.
  • Made scanning mod files only include stuff that would be included when compiling (including custom rules in a mod's Compile section).
  • Made the entire launcher properly support different DPIs.
  • Made the loading window have the Mod Launcher icon in its caption.
  • Made the mod launcher support reading command line arguments out of the CommandLine.txt placed next to it (if one exists).
    • Command line arguments specified in this file should be separated by new lines.

Main Window

  • Added Game Install Virtual Store to the Open... menu.
    • This only shows up if the game is on your system drive and a folder for the game exists in your system's VirtualStore.
  • Fixed the main window not being focused sometimes after loading mods.
  • Made Saved Games in the Open... menu show Mod Launcher in brackets if Always Keep Saved Games Seperate is enabled.
  • Made Saved Games and Screenshots options in the Open... menu show the current Main mod's name in brackets (if one is enabled).

Mods List

This part of the launcher sees a significant change in this update.

Introducing Pages! This divides mods and hacks into the General, Setting and Developer tabs.

mod launcher pages

There's also an Unreleased tab which only shows up if there are mods marked as such loaded.

If you're not a fan of this change, you can disable it by right-clicking the mods list and unticking Pages to use the old mods list.

Other changes in this version:

  • Added an Enabled Non-favourites category.
  • Added a setting to show enabled mods first in the right-click menu of the Mods list.
  • Added the ability to reload individual mod(s) by right clicking them.
    • Not supported on Frameworks at this time.
  • Fixed a crash on Wine when selecting mods.
  • Made changing the selected mod(s) smoother.
  • Made it so the Output Path Only and Decompilable Only right-click options are not remembered when restarting the Mod Launcher.
  • Made the mods list update before the mod load error message is shown.
  • Made the watermark work on Windows XP.
  • Made ticking and unticking multiple mods smoother.
  • When compiling one or more mods, there will now be a window with a cancel button instead of freezing the main window.

Mods Info

  • Made file sizes of mods show 2 decimal places instead of 3 significant figures with the potential of exponents.
  • Made mod information not show a Miscellaneous category if no categories are defined.
  • Made mod information show No information provided. if the mod provides none.

Launcher Settings

Launcher settings got a complete redesign in this version.

There were also the following additions and changes:

  • Added Show Message on Crash to the Game tab.
  • Added Donut Team Account Integration Support to the Launcher tab.
    • If you're opted in, this setting can be used to temporarily opt out without removing your credentials.
    • This fully disables this functionality including the button on the main window.
  • Added Close to Tray to the Launcher tab.
  • Added DPI Aware to the Launcher tab. This makes the Launcher DPI Aware on Windows 7 or newer.
  • Added a -launchersettings command line argument that will launch the launcher directly into Launcher Settings.
  • Fixed an issue where adding an individual LMLM file in Launcher Settings caused its Title (if there's no Title) and InternalName (if there's no InternalName) to include the LMLM file extension.
    • If you have mods affected by this issue, you will need to remove and re-add them.
  • Made Terminate on Crash not work if a debugger is attached to the game.
  • Made clicking OK on the Launcher Settings window only reload mods if any settings that affect mods were changed.
  • Made it so licenses are listed in alphabetical order.

Account Integration

  • Changed how the account window is displayed when launching the Mod Launcher for the first time.
  • Fixed a random crash when communicating with the Donut Team website.

Mod Features

  • Added General, Setting, Developer and Unreleased properties to the [Miscellaneous] section to control which page a mod is listed on in the Mods List.
  • Added the [LegacyResource] section which allows mods to supersede other mods.
  • Added support for multiple InternalName properties.
  • Added support for Colour type settings.
  • Made the Default property on Text type settings optional instead of causing a crash when it's omitted.

Updated Mods

No HUD

Moved this mod to the new Settings page.

No Traffic

Moved this mod to the new Settings page.

Repair Car On Reset

Moved this mod to the new Settings page.

Speedometer

Moved this mod to the new Settings page.

Text Names

Moved this mod to the new Settings page.

Unlock All Rewards

Moved this mod to the new Settings page.

New Hacks

3D Phone Booth Preview Support

Added this new hack. This hack adds support for 3D Car Previews in the Phone Booth (similar to those found in Car Shops).

Additional Script Functionality

Added this new hack. This hack adds several new mission objectives, mission conditions, script commands and other new script functionality.

Custom Audio Format Support

Added this new advanced hack that allows other hacks to add support for custom audio formats.

Custom Audio Support

Added this new hack. This allows you to control some audio related features of the game such as starting ambiance for story missions.

Custom Shop Support

Added this new hack. This hack allows you to specify custom NPCs for car shops and allows you to blacklist or whitelist sars and skins at specific phone booths and skin shops respectively.

FLAC Support

Added this new hack. This hack adds support for using FLAC files in place of RSD files.

NVIDIA Highlights

Added this new hack. This hack adds support for NVIDIA Highlights.

Ogg Vorbis Support

Added this new hack. This hack adds support for using Ogg files in place of RSD files.

Updated Hacks

Aspect Ratio Support

  • Moved this hack to the new Settings page.
  • Added a new FOV > Mode called Average.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the aspect ratio to start off corrupt if the Resizable Window hack's Start Maximised setting was enabled.

Borderless

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Bug Fixes

  • Moved this hack to the new Settings page.
  • Added a fix for a crash related to the options menu and the Unlock All Cameras cheat.
  • Added a fix for the crash that happens if the game is not focused fast enough on the license screen.
  • Moved the Main Menu Cheat Code Enter crash fix to the new Crashes group.

Console

Moved this hack to the new Developer page.

Custom Car Support

Added the PreviewScale property. This allows you to set a custom scale for the car when it's in a car shop.

Custom Files

Lua Scripting

Added a third argument that specifies whether or not to return the list of files and folders in reverse order.

Debug Checks

  • Moved this hack to the new Developer page.
  • Made the hack use Radical's official chunk names.
    • You can revert to the old names by using the new Use Legacy Names setting in the hack's settings.
  • Made Experimental Missing Locator Detection work outside the Release English version of the game.

Debug Hashes

Moved this hack to the new Developer page.

Debug Test

General

Moved to the new "Developer" page.

Menus Page

  • Removed Force Mission Select Level Reload.
  • Removed No Cursor Until Mouse Move.

Graphics Page

Added Default Resolution. This allows you to configure the default resolution of the game window before the game loads your settings.

Debug Page

  • Removed Ignore Suppressed Drivers.
  • Removed Starting Coins.

Vehicles Page

Added No Destroyed Car Jump Out.

Audio Page

  • Added Force Level RMS. This setting allows you to force a specific level's RMS file to always be loaded/used.
  • Added No Pause Audio Fade.

Miscellaneous Page

  • Added Disable Window Ghosting.
  • Added No Handle File Not Found.
  • Added Use Camera Position.
  • Added No Animated Camera Letterbox.
  • Added Use Tracking Heaps.
  • Removed No Suppressed Drivers (yes, there were two of these settings).

Other

  • Made the K Key reload the music RMS file and trigger an event named Test if it exists.
  • Made Shift+F10 fail the first condition of the active stage (if the stage has any conditions).

Debug Text

General

  • Moved to the new Developer page.
  • Added settings that allow you to configure the look and feel of the hack and which pages are visible.
  • Fixed lag on the "dyna phys" and "static phys" pages while loading.
  • Made the hack work during movies.
  • Made the hack use Radical's official chunk names.
    • You can revert to the old names by using the new Use Legacy Names setting on the Advanced tab of the hack's settings.
  • Made the "car joints" and "character joints" pages show the joints in the world instead of listing them.
  • Made the hack check for a font called DebugText and use that if it exists.

"car matrix" Page

Added this page.

"memory" Page

Added this page with information on a few different heaps.

"music" Page

Added this page with various information about the currently loaded RMS files.

"regions" Page

Made this page also show the current and loaded interior.

"road segments" Page

Added this page that draws road segments in the world with names.

"root tree node and animated icons" Page

  • Fixed a crash when going to this page when not ingame or while loading.
  • Made Animated icons work outside the Release English version of the game.

"traffic" Page

Made Contact car traffic locomotion AI segment now include the road segment name in brackets.

"triggers" Page

Made this page list triggers the player is in and show triggers as boxes with names in the world.

Discord Rich Presence

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Flippable Cars

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Frame Limiter

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

HUD Map Ignore Player Height

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Increased Reward Limits

  • Made it so the game won't get corrupt when trying to add more than 60 car health values to the save file. It now shows an assert message when trying to add more than 60 (except for when the mod is being used in Multiplayer).
  • Removed the assert when trying to add more than 60 reward cars.
  • Removed the limit of 64 reward cars.
    • There is still a limit of 64 cars in one phonebooth but you can use CustomShopSupport to spread the cars across multiple phonebooths.

Increased Video Resolution Support

This hack now removes memory restrictions when playing RMV files.

Interior Jumping

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Interior Kicking

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Interior Sprinting

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Modern Computer Support

Made non-english versions of the game use 200,000hz as the maximum sample rate like the Release English version instead of 100,000hz.

Multiple Instance Support

Moved this hack to the new Settings page and made it so it's no longer hidden by default.

No Automatic Saved Game Load

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

No Cheats

  • Moved this hack to the new Settings page.
  • Made this hack no longer hidden by default.

No Fast Car Reset

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

No Inactive Dynamic Object Collisions

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

No Introduction Movies

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

No Jump Limit

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

No Mission Start Cameras

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

No Time Limits

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Replayable Bonus Missions

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Resizable Window

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Screenshots

  • Moved this hack to the new Settings page.
  • Fixed an issue where the default screenshot sound did not work on Windows XP.
  • Fixed this hack failing to take screenshots on Wine or Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions.

Unlock All Missions

Moved this hack to the new Settings page.

Removed Hacks

Custom Car Shop Support

Removed this hack. It is now a LegacyResource of the new Custom Shop Support hack.