TIMMYG StudiosUsage
/tunit for drivers, /tunitedit and the 3D gizmo for admins, tunit_diag for support, and sharing a layout.
| Command | Who | What it does |
|---|---|---|
/tunit | Any driver | Sets the values in Config.userSources |
/tunitedit | tlib.admin | Adds, positions, styles, deletes and shares elements |
tunit_diag | Console or admin | What is loaded, and where each layout came from |
/tunit — the driver menu
One field per entry in Config.userSources, on the Text tab. Fields this car displays come first; a source it has no element for is still offered, marked Not shown on this vehicle.
The sidebar also carries Element Editor — the same thing /tunitedit opens, for an admin — and Feedback, which sends one message to TIMMYG Studios rather than to this server's staff.
| Rule | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Seat | Driver only, re-checked on the server |
| Length | 24 characters, enforced in the field |
| Characters | Uppercased, then filtered to letters, digits and - . _ / # |
| Nothing left after filtering | Rejected with a message |
| Empty value | Clears the text. There is no Clear all button |
| Timing | Immediate |
| Lifetime | Survives a reconnect, not a restart |
/tunitedit — the layout editor
Needs the tlib.admin ACE and a vehicle to be in. You edit that vehicle's model, so it applies to every vehicle of that model, and it saves to data.json. One screen: element list left, settings right, the gizmo live on the car between them.
Clicking a row edits that element and aims the gizmo. Add element places one at Config.newElement, in front of the car; the header counts against MAX_PER_MODEL, and at the ceiling the button becomes a note.
It is a draft until you save
Every change previews on your own car only. Save & exit writes it; Cancel (Esc) discards it, asking first if the Unsaved layout changes pill is showing.
Delete does not confirm — Ctrl Z and Cancel both undo it. Only Reset every character confirms.
⚠️ Leaving the vehicle closes the editor and loses an unsaved draft.
Content and style
| Field | Range |
|---|---|
| Shows | Literal text, or a source name. A source wins, and the literal is kept |
| Literal text | Up to 24 characters |
| Font | Any key in Config.fonts, by its label |
| Colour | #rrggbb from an in-page picker; shorthand and rgb() are rejected |
| Width | 2–200 cm, slider |
| Height | 1–100 cm, slider |
Per-character positioning
Off by default. On, each character is placed separately and costs one plane per letter against the maxPropsOnScreen ceiling (API reference).
| Control | Effect |
|---|---|
| Per-character positioning | Off leaves chars on disk, so turning it back on restores prior nudges |
| The character strip | One chip per character of the literal text field; a dot marks a hand-placed one |
| Nudge X / Nudge Y | ±100 cm, in the element's own plane |
| Rotation | 0–360°, about the character's own centre |
| Reset this character / Reset every character | Zero one nudge, or clear the array |
You cannot grab a single letter on the car: the gizmo drags the element as a whole, so position letters against the strip. A nudge does not follow a character when the resolved text changes length.
The 3D gizmo
Always live, on whatever the list has selected.
| Control | Effect |
|---|---|
| Drag the handle | Moves or rotates. Releasing is one undo step, not a save |
W / R | Move / rotate handle, as in the top bar |
X | Local / world axes |
., the crosshair button | Points the camera at the selection |
| Middle mouse / Shift + middle / Scroll | Orbit / pan / zoom |
| Click the text | Selects that element |
Shortcuts are key positions, so they work on a non-QWERTY layout. Tab walks each row and its Delete button; Enter or Space selects; Del removes.
tunit_diag
Server console, or an admin in chat. It prints the version, demo mode, whether config.lua validated, the registered and driver-set sources, and a console-only per-model layout breakdown — sample output.
Community configs
One server can publish a layout and another can take it, over tLib's community-configs primitive.
- Share this layout, from the Community row, while in the vehicle. Keyed by the model hash, labelled with the spawn name. One publish every 5 s.
- Browse shared layouts lists up to 20 layouts for your model, admin-gated on the server.
An imported layout is checked the same way config.lua is: the count is capped, sizes clamped, unknown fields dropped. A font this server lacks is kept in the record, so the layout renders correctly once you add that typeface.
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