GT5 Help for use SpecDB Data base

[Motorsport-e3]

Hi everyone, I'm writing to ask for your help with Spec DB. I'm having some trouble; whenever I use the program and modify a simple value like the vehicle's mass, the races no longer start. I haven't found anything on the procedure for modifying or saving the changes, but I did see the changes to the mass. Do I need to save again?

I've tried a few times to modify the original mass or power, but that alone freezes the game at launch. I don't know if I'm using this program correctly.

I also wanted to modify the performance of some of my opponent's cars to make them faster, but even when respecting the table/part ID, I have the exact same problem: the races no longer load.

I compress everything like this

 

[Dave A]

Messing with AI cars can be tricky. It's not something I've done much of with GT5, I think where I did tinker, I simply created whole new AI car entries rather than edit existing ones. But I have to be honest, I fudged it a bit, I created AI opponents that used a faster car with the body of the car I wanted to use in the race (not 100% sure how I did it though).

As for editing the database, I used SQLite Studio: https://letos.org/

I had to write changes back into the database before saving, which was a function that program allowed. You probably are doing that, the game probably just doesn't like the changes being made.

When you are editing the database you might need to edit multiple tables where a value needs to be repeated, for example, weight may appear on several tables and need to match on them all.

You might get more specific help in the GT Modding Community on Discord. The group is here if you want to try there: https://discord.com/channels/775896906500538378/954057937679167609

 

[Motorsport-e3]

Messing with AI cars can be tricky. It's not something I've done much of with GT5, I think where I did tinker, I simply created whole new AI car entries rather than edit existing ones. But I have to be honest, I fudged it a bit, I created AI opponents that used a faster car with the body of the car I wanted to use in the race (not 100% sure how I did it though).

As for editing the database, I used SQLite Studio: https://letos.org/

I had to write changes back into the database before saving, which was a function that program allowed. You probably are doing that, the game probably just doesn't like the changes being made.

When you are editing the database you might need to edit multiple tables where a value needs to be repeated, for example, weight may appear on several tables and need to match on them all.

You might get more specific help in the GT Modding Community on Discord. The group is here if you want to try there: https://discord.com/channels/775896906500538378/954057937679167609

I didn't quite understand how you open the database. Do you need to use a different path than the specdb folder?

 

[Dave A]

I didn't quite understand how you open the database. Do you need to use a different path than the specdb folder?

No, it looks like you've opened it fine in your screenshot. Just with a different program to the one I use. Becuse it's different, I can see the option to write to database thst I use before saving. Doesn't mean yours isn't doing that though.

 

[Motorsport-e3]

No, it looks like you've opened it fine in your screenshot. Just with a different program to the one I use. Becuse it's different, I can see the option to write to database thst I use before saving. Doesn't mean yours isn't doing that though.

I tried to check, but I don't understand what the problem could be. I searched in every category related to modifying the vehicle's mass, but I found nothing except in the chassis category. To save the changes, you just need to save to the floppy disk, Do you have any advice on using SQLite because I'm a bit lost?

 

[Dave A]

Apologies, it's actually DB Browser for SQLite I was using: https://sqlitebrowser.org/

When you make any changes there's an option in the File menu "Write Changes" and you select that to confirm changes to the database.

You might get more detailed help at this point on the Discord server rather than here though.

 

[pez2k]

GT5 doesn't use SQLite, that's GT6. The specdb tool might have an option to convert to and from SQLite though, the GT4 equivalent does.