Custom Vehicles have no Preview Pictures (SOLVED, CHECK REPLIES)

Hey everyone,

Ever since the update, all of my custom vehicles have no preview pictures anymore. The vanilla configurations are there, but my custom ones are all messed up. Here's the Bluebuck for example:



I have three configs. One is a base, another is a 1957 version, and another is a racecar. But they don't have pictures. Their files are still in the vehicles folders:



Anyone else having this issue?

 

Yes.
Both my own configs for various vehicles and modded vehicles have no preview for me.

 

Okay, thanks for your response! Hopefully the devs can get this sorted in the next few hotfixes.

 

I think it's because you have it as .jpg. convert it to png and try

 

Thank you for your idea.
I have just tested it on a certain modded vehicle.
I replaced the JPG Image for my config that the game has automatically created in 0.24/vehicles/vehiclename with a PNG one of the same name.
It did not work

 

I have this problem too, so its not just you
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Hey AgentY, so for example I have a covet config called Trackday (M), and if I rename the file name to Trackday_m, would the thumbnail show up? thanks

 

Nope, it didn't. Hmm...

 

Without spaces it's gonna be much harder to use in game search tool to look for a vehicle though.
One'd have to call a car "Toyota_Drag_Stage_3_Nitro_RWD" and then the search would only work if this exact phrase was written.
Most people would just search "Drag" and pick something from the list.

 

If you are a modder - then sure, you might be able to make those different.
If you are a casual player (99.9% ppl) than what you type in Ctrl+W menu while saving a config is exactly what the name of the file is:



It's was not a problem before 0.24 so the devs might have just broken something.

 

i have the same issue, tried converting, tried redoing all my custom configs, tried using the thumbnail generator nothing works

 

I replaced the space with a dash and it worked

 

I finally worked it out.

As of 0.24, you can no longer have spaces or parenthesis in your configuration files (*.pc), vehicle images (*.jpg), and info json files (*.json). The names written inside of the .json files can still have the special characters. Here's how my Bluebuck folder looks now, and it works again:



With every update we stray further from God. The bugs and undocumented changes are getting out of hand.

Fun fact, I have over a hundred configs in this game. Can't wait to spend the next few hours sorting this mess out, ugh.

Update: I just looked up some stuff, and you can use PowerShell to rename the files in bulk, directory by directory one car at a time.

Use this command:
Dir | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace " ","_" };

It replaces spaces with underscores on all files in the current folder. You can also do this for parenthesis with these commands:

Dir | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace " ","\(" };
Dir | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace " ","\)" };

BE VERY CAREFUL! There is no undo on these actions. Make a mistake and you could mess up things on your computer. Ensure you are renaming files in the right directories!