Thread Updates

April 29th, 2018: Reorganized and updated some information. Also added renders of the new Family Sedan and the WiFi on Wheels Van.
March 29th, 2018: Added a link to the Tales of Springfield thread.

Also as a bonus, MultiFan managed to uncover an archived YouTube thumbnail which contains an image of the mod's main menu scene.

The main menu featured comic book guy in our rendition of his apartment as he was the planned player character for Level 1. It was never quite finished as you can tell from the race track still being there and other problems with the scene.


As stated in the thread above, we do not have this or anything else for the project archived.

I think it would be helpful if you added more information and screenshots of your mod.

I hope that if this new icon gains popularity, it may become the new icon that is used by DounutTeam/Lucas.

While you are free to use this icon however you like on your own personal copy of our tool, I would like to explain why we are not going to adopt it.

The Mod Launcher's icon has been the same since it initially released but that doesn't mean it's outdated. The icon is simply a cannon firing SHAR's icon which is meant to be a comedic take on the programs primary function: launching SHAR.

Your new icon unfortunately doesn't represent what the program does in any way. It also features an old logo and slogan of ours that we haven't used since 2013-2014 if I remember correctly. Furthermore, this text would be unreadable at the size this icon would be displayed at in various places such as the window caption and the taskbar.

This thread is just meant to be Jake's goodbye to the community. As such, I have removed the discourse that has transpired here and I am locking the thread.

That is all.

Edit:

Actually, I should add that I don't really fully follow everything that has happened but I would greatly appreciate if this drama could just stop.

In regards to the community at large and the future of the website, the remaining members of the team will have to have internal discussions regarding what we do about that. I don't know how long it will take before we have anything concrete.

I don't care that you all flooded me with Downvotes...

You got downvoted because most of what you said was wrong and potentially harmful advice.

Okay, it can't be a virus unless its an executable file like exe, bat or cmd

Not all malware comes in the form of an executable file. These things can also be maliciously crafted files that are not executables but instead take advantage of an exploit in an executable to trick it into doing malicious things including but not limited to running arbitrary code and/or downloading and running other executable files.

Also, just to clarify, Hacks are DLL files that have a different file extension and DLLs are just another type of executable.

it happens with files that were created on other computers

The file doesn't have to be created on another computer to be considered malicious. For example, here's Lucas building a program that uses the Spectre exploit followed by it being deleted immediately by Microsoft Security Essentials (Windows Defender).

anti-virus programs may try to disable things that connect with sites, like in your case it's probably the fact that you can link your donutteam account to the launcher which communicates to the site to go in your Play History

Donut Team Account Integration is handled by the Launcher itself and not any of its hacks. Furthermore, the hack that was detected as a virus doesn't connect to the internet at all.

I've tried drafting a response to this several times over the past couple weeks or so since Danny's original inquiry though I've scrapped it all of those times.

Basically, I'm not sure how to give you a percentage of how done the mod is at the moment so instead I've decided to just elaborate to the best of my ability where each part of the project is currently at.

Level 1-3 Story Missions

Aside from Levels 2 and 3 needing various HUD icons to be made, the story missions for these levels are near-final.

Level 4 Story Missions

Level 4 Mission 1 was shown off in the trailer and for that we tried to make that mission as complete as possible but it is still going to see various changes before release. Besides needing more complete Hellfish mode support, the route used in the trailer was actually specially created just to utilize more complete areas of the map for the showcase. The original route traverses other zones of the map that were not very fleshed out at the time and will likely be restored for the release version.

As for Mission 2 onwards, development has begun and we've been talking through the ideas we have for the rest of the level to work out what is going to work and what needs to be refined or replaced for the actual implementation of the missions.

The Industrial Zone

At this point, I would estimate the map to be around 75-80% done. I might be being a bit conservative with that estimate though as things are moving along pretty quickly and it's really shaping up to be a great fleshed out level.

The first area of interest is the hideout Agent S mentions at the end of the trailer which at the time did not exist at all but is now nearly done. This is another new interior area which acts as Agent S' base of operations. It also includes the map's first fully original gag! On that note, I'm hoping we can match or exceed Radical's lowest gag count (6) with this level though the number of gags isn't final yet.

Next up, I've been working on filling out the last couple zones that are still kind of barebones with a variety of generic structures and notable landmarks. I've also been trying to incorporate more shortcuts into the map as well.

Lastly, Cola Boxes and Cola Machines have also started to pop up as it wouldn't really be a proper level without them.

Bonus Missions

Level 1's bonus mission is done and ready to go while Levels 2-4 have plans that are not yet implemented.

Challenge Missions

In Donut Mod 3, we replaced the "Street Race" moniker with the more generic title "Challenge Mission". This was done to reflect that this set of missions is more than simply various kinds of races. Instead each level had a destruction derby, a checkpoint race and 1 unique challenge.

Since then, we've discussed a lot of concepts for what these should be in Donut Mod 4. One idea we've been discussing in depth is giving each level its own "theme" of sorts, wherein all the missions in that level are hosted by a new set of characters and are themed around their association with the player character. We actually showcased one idea we had before with the Mob Heist mission in Level 1. That concept is still alive though it's likely going to be re-located to Level 2 in favor of something we feel is more suited to Homer.

Wager Race Replacement

George and I have been discussing and developing a new, more dynamic replacement for the Wager Races. I don't want to say much about it yet as I'm still not 100% confident that what we're doing is okay on a technical level (given the hardcoded checks associated with Wager Races) but assuming it continues to work out, we think it'll be a lot more enticing and interesting to play than the Wager Races ever were.

Cars

You will be able to commandeer at least 11 new cars (including the DM4 Family Sedan and the new bonus cars) in this version. Some cars from the base game may have their models tweaked slightly to add a bit of extra flair as well as having their stats adjusted to suit being in a different level than they originally were.

Outfits

Homer and Bart's outfits are done while Lisa and Marge's outfits are only half done.

Several NPC characters also sport additional outfits such as Barney's Plow King outfit that was shown quite some time ago.

Collector Cards

Tyler and I have discussed card ideas a whole lot. At this point the art and text for the Level 1 and Level 4 cards are done and implemented and we're discussing what the other sets should be. The actual locations of the cards has not been fully decided upon yet.

Wasp Cameras

George and I have been discussing the appearance of the cameras and how they should behave but for the most part, these are not implemented yet.

System Overhauls

Over the past couple weeks, I've been putting a lot of time into gutting old code from Donut Mod 3 and to a lesser extent Road Rage Returns and replacing it with newer and better systems. These include things like the rewards handler, sound resource management, script command registration, various utility functions and more.

As it stands, I'm now much happier with how the mod's internal systems work and I think we're now at a much better place in that regard.

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We're really hard at work on the Mod and we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now. We're really excited to finally have this mod out to you in the coming months and all we ask for is your patience. Thank you.

- Loren

I'm excited to see what cool things that you all make for this contest!

Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to edit the map and add extra bits on to it.

You're limited to tedious cosmetic changes and tedious collision shape modifications done manually with the Pure3D editor for now.

If this is possible then I have an idea to join all 3 levels together to create one big map.

Not possible for a wide variety of reasons right now.

In the coming months we plan on releasing a proper model building tool that supports building custom maps among other things.

We don't currently have any plans to fully open source the project. To clarify, the only component we intend to release separately is the Industrial Zone map.

EDIT: I should also mention that with said separate release I'd like to do various times of day and other configurations so mod creators can use a version that suits their mod best. This is why this release will not be simultaneous with DM4's initial release.