How is vehicle data per vehicle saved

[Androwski]

EDIT: Forget about this thread. I came to a wrong conclusion.

How and where is vehicle data saved?
I try to find a solution for a bug which removed a modified vehicle.
I found out that “remembered” vehicles are listed in the file save\your map name here\o.0.0
in this format:
,“tracked_vehicles”:[{“id”:1,“name”:“Mobile Meth Lab”,“x”:68,“y”:48},

The missing vehicle is not in that list any more. It was kicked out of it´s ID position by a vehicle which also has the name “Humvee.” The kicking vehicle was marked for tracking much later but has a position in the middle of the tracking list. I noticed that by comparing the coordinates from the tracking list with the ingame map.

To retrieve my “custom Humve RV” I have the hope to find it´s configuration tilewise stored somewhere in the save files.

EDIT: Nevermind. I came to a wrong conclusion. I could solve the issue.

[latogato]

I uploaded a fixed save for you in your original topic.

I searched for the string “Humvee” in the *.map files and in the results i searched for curtains, because i saw in your history you built curtains into your vehicle. That way i found your humvee in the 55.110.0.map file.

With debug option “Check game state” i got your overmap location 67,71,0

I cut out the humvee data from the 55.110.0.map file and inserted into the 67.71.0 file. I had no idea where will be the exact location of the car, but it was just few steps away from your character.

[Androwski]

The vehicle “warped” away from the position of the save. I guess because vehicle position is related to map position.

This happened because I killed the game on character death via CRTL+ALT+DEL.
The vehicle was more south where it was parked, when I killed the game. It was not at the position of the last save. It was so to say in the future of the save.

EDIT: I tried alot for 3 days to retrieve the vehicle somehow. I made alternative characters on the same map. I made new characters on a new map to have only few results when searching for cars with Notepad++ in the files. To have it easier to understand the code and how vehicles are tracked. Tried teleporting before the bug message occures and used Notepad ++ to search all files in the savegame folder for “Humvee”. That way i found save\mapname\o.0.0. Where marked vehicle data is stored. With that list I looked every vehicle up and found that bugger finally.

Damn, I´m happy now.

*I´m really thankful on the other hand for your help.

[Androwski]

Can you tell in which files you found “Humvee” and “curtains”? As this is what I want to look into.

[latogato]

Can you tell in which files you found “Humvee” and “curtains”? As this is what I want to look into.

In the save there are map files (here was under the \save\Carter Lake\maps), every map file contains everything about the corresponding overmap tile.

I found “Humvee” in this files:
<cdda dir>\save\Carter Lake\maps\0.0.0\21.23.0.map
<cdda dir>\save\Carter Lake\maps\0.0.0\46.24.0.map
<cdda dir>\save\Carter Lake\maps\0.0.0\55.110.0.map
<cdda dir>\save\Carter Lake\maps\0.0.0\75.36.0.map

In your .sav file (<cdda dir>\save\Carter Lake\maps\0.0.0#Sm9obiBIYXJkd29vZA==.sav) i found the “You open the Humvee’s curtain.” message. So i searched for the “curtains” in that files first but found nothing, so i searched simply for “curtain”. There was only one hit (the vehicle curtains game id is v_curtain):
<cdda dir>\save\Carter Lake\maps\0.0.0\55.110.0.map

[nerosshadow]

If I may please, thank you.
Been trying to figure this out for 3 hours. Was about to give up until i found this.