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Holy Shit Man Moderators Posts: 2554 Location: Poland Occupation: Faking skills like a pro Age: V$: No	#1 2014-08-01 21:19
	What are basic things a modder need to know when he want to make a car? How do the physics and glows work?

RedCarDriver Moderators Posts: 1211 Location: United States Arizona Occupation: it's complicated... more complicated than my relationships Age: 30 V$: 86310	#2 2014-08-01 22:34
	What exactly do you want help with? If you'd like help through the whole process, I can contact you on Skype to help you through it. You're going to need 3DS Max, for starters, so grab it if you don't have it. I'm pretty sure you submitted a mod already, though, so that's not a problem. The basics, in my opinion: Materials: Read a materials tutorial on here or on GOM. Paintable materials are not too hard to set up in 3DS Max, but then getting the loading order correct in the RPK is super important. Scale: It's really important not to make the car too big or too small. Generally, for your first car, it pays off to import the car to the game in one piece to see if it's too big or not. Physics: Export everything centered on the grid, and everything should work nicely enough. The real problems start happening when the car you're replacing is way bigger or smaller than the source car (Baiern, Nonus, etc.), or when the parts aren't exported centered. I haven't made custom physics yet, so I can't help you too much with that. This post was edited by Harrison15 (2014-08-01 22:40, ago)
	My Roleplay Thread Roleplay set roughly in a fictionalized version of Phoenix, Arizona. The time varies, with a lot of flashbacks / stories told through old photos as well as flash forwards to later times, but is intended to be one continuous story. My character is about 5 years older than myself, and considerably richer. lol. I have a couple of other made-up characters for the RP too. Current cars: - Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec (BCNR33 1996 S2) - Toyota Supra (JZA80 1993) - auto N/A; work in progress Shop drift car: Nissan Skyline GTS25t 2JZ Swap (ECR33 1994) Previous cars: - Nissan 240SX RHD Conversion / RB Swap - parted out - Pontiac G8 V6, LS7 Swap - sold - Toyota Supra Turbo (JZA80 1997) - stolen Others' featured cars: - Jake's Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec (BCNR33) "Wine Red" with Nismo RB28 Will the R33 ever be released? When? : The R33 is a long running work in progress that will be released when it's done, and not a moment sooner. I'm definitely being a perfectionist about this, but I want this to be the mod the community deserves and expects, not merely the latest in a set of stop-gap mods. Will you be making a Mustang 2015 / S550? : Not after the large bunch of other stuff I'm planning to make is all done. Is that your mod in those screenshots? : Is it the Skyline R33, the Audi A5, the Crossfire, the Supra JZA80 (with Bigg Boss93) or one of the ones I've released (like the Mustangs)? If so, yes. If not, probably not; search the GOM and VStanced downloads sections for it. Mustang mod updates? : A new SN95 1995 Mustang mod is planned (the original wasn't mine); a Foxbody remake with LOD0 meshes is in the works, and will include more parts than the original version; and I am preparing updates to the SN95 2000, many of which are finished but not there yet.
BluExplosions Members Posts: 357 Location: Canada Occupation: Student Age: 22 V$:	#3 2014-08-02 02:20
	# KeeJay : What are basic things a modder need to know when he want to make a car? How do the physics and glows work? I can do the scripting but not for the RPK and such only for the javas and cfg.

Holy Shit Man Moderators Posts: 2554 Location: Poland Occupation: Faking skills like a pro Age: V$: No	#4 2014-08-02 09:13
	@Harrisson15 - If that's not problem, contact me: keejay98 @BluExplosions - If I will need help, I'll ask you

Jesus Christ The Godfathers Posts: 2977 Location: United Kingdom Occupation: Turning water into protein Age: 33 V$: LOAD£D	#5 2014-08-02 12:13
	RPK -; loading orders adding new parts(scx/id's etc) removing unused parts CFG -; glows possitions(linking meshes etc) arm placements shock placement physics editing(can be avoided but might as well get it done) wheel placement nos bottle etc placement trunk/doors/hoods flaps drivers possition speedo needle setup interior glows Javas -; making it addon naming build from catalog(can be tricky sometimes) 3d -; glows(takes a while to get them right) basic 3d modeling exporting possitions linking parts UVW mapping materials scaling etc interior glows Photoshop -; glow textures often need to be modified interior glow textures need to modified etc.. list can get longer but that's of the top of my head..
	Why be a KING when you can be a GOD?!
zgredek Members Posts: 78 Location: Poland Occupation: Age: V$:	#6 2014-08-02 19:38
	im really interested in making mods myself...already have 3ds max 5.1 scx exporter and franco rim resizer 2.1 if its important...ofcourse i also got zmodeler (and nice collection of forza 3 ripped models) but what to do next? not many tuts to watch/read...if anybody would like to help me a bit please pm me