Community Garage

•Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

•An internet connection (to reach the community server).

•The FH2 Mod Platform: it's d3dcompiler_47.dll next to azimuth.exe, and the download below already includes it

(version 2.7.2). If you use other FH2 mods you have it already; it's one shared file.

•Works alongside other platform mods (it has been used with Achievements, FnFNitro, ShowFPS, WheresMyBuddy and WreckingBall)

and with Extra Options.

Install

1. Download CommunityGarage-<version>.zip from the latest release.

2. Close the game.

3. Extract the zip into your Azimuth folder, the one that contains azimuth.exe. You end up with:

If Windows asks to replace d3dcompiler_47.dll, say yes unless yours is newer than 2.7.2. Don't delete anything

else that is already in fh2-mods.

4. Start the game. The first time, the mod makes your account key (see below). Nothing else to set up.

To check that it loaded, open fh2-mods\platform.log: lines tagged [CommunityGarage] should include HTTP bridge installed.

Using it

•Share: open one of your designs or tunes and use the game's normal Share option. The game remembers what it has already

uploaded, so to share something again, change it a little or save a copy first.

•Find and download: use the game's Find / Search results and the Suggested / Recommended tabs, open one and download it.

•Everything you share is public to all players on the server.

•Settings: Pause > Settings > MODS > Installed mods > Community Garage has a description, a "Check for updates" switch and

a troubleshooting log switch. The same settings are in communitygarage\server.ini.

Your account

The first start creates a random account key in communitygarage\server.ini. It's your login: **keep that file private

and back it up** (if you lose it you become a new player and lose control of what you uploaded). Your creator name is the

gamertag from azimuth.ini (a number is added if someone already has that name). To start a new account, delete the key= line.

Limits

•New accounts can share a few items a day at first; after that there's a daily and a total cap per account.

•Uploads are checked automatically. Broken files and offensive text are refused.

•Tune previews are only a placeholder picture, AI opponents don't wear community liveries, and the game's **Clubs tab is

switched off** (there are no club services).

Privacy

•To the community server: your account key (stored there only as a hash), your display name, what you choose to share,

and the address you connect from.

•To GitHub: the FH2 Mod Platform looks for a newer release about every six hours and says so on the title screen. Nothing

is installed for you. Turn it off with Check for updates on the MODS page, or check=0 under [updates] in server.ini.

•Nothing is sent to Microsoft or Xbox Live by this mod. The game's requests to Xbox Live are answered on your PC or

refused, never forwarded.

The rules for the server are in docs/TERMS.md.

Uninstall

Close the game and delete:

•fh2-mods\CommunityGarage.dll

•the communitygarage folder (this holds your account key)

To remove the FH2 Mod Platform and every mod built on it, also delete d3dcompiler_47.dll and the fh2-mods folder.

Your game saves aren't touched. Designs you downloaded stay in your garage.