AndreONEz Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 (edited) Well,I decided to do a quick tutorial for carcols.dat editing... Part 1 Carcols.dat (Program files/Rockstar Games/GTA San Andreas/data/) manages vehicles' colors.It can be edited by text editors like Notepad.Once you open it,you'll see something like this: 0,0,0 # 0 black black that mean 0=Red,0=Green,0=Blue # 0 black=color id name black=hue I think So,it uses RGB scale.Here you can find a list of most used colors (see the RGB Value column). Example:I want to change this color to this one Now,I search for 4th color (ID 3,because they start from 0) and I change its value from this 132,4,16 to this 255,0,0 Close and save it. Part 2 If you scroll down you'll see something like this: admiral, 34,34, 35,35, 37,37, 39,39, 41,41, 43,43, 45,45, 47,47 Well,it means it's an Admiral,and it has 1/8 of chances to being the 34th colour,another 1/8 to being the 35th etc...So it could be something like: carmodelname, color1,color1, color2,color2, color3,color3 etc... For two-colours cars (like Cops,Ambulance,etc) it's a bit different.Infact,they have only one chance to be two colours.Let's see LS Cop Car (copcarla): copcarla, 0,1 It means it has one chance to being black and white (0=black color ID,1=white color ID).Don't add more chances to these ones,they may crash! This little tutorial finished for the moment,but there are some things you gotta know: colours are 126.They're used with street's cars,but only 64 are used for garages. may you can edit it while game is running,without crash. you can change colors' name as you want. That's all!I wanna thank Automan for 2nd part helping! PS:Sorry for my really bad english Edited November 1, 2007 by AndreONEz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meraj07 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 tnx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtamodguy Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 can you upload the carcols.dat file? gta sa ultimate editor deleted it and I need it to install mods? I don't want to install it again but if thats what it takes then ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzilla Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Hey, I've been editing carcols for quite some time now, but one thing I can't get clear is how to reload it while running the game. I've heard to "press start on your controller" but I'm using a keyboard. Obviously in that case you'd think that Esc would reload it... but it doesn't. Could someone tip me off? Thanks, Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcis_speed6 Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 gtamodguy- you just bumped a 3 years old topic, please check last post date before reply, and always remember to backup. Benzilla- you can't, simply exit game and enter it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpm1 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Hi does it work the same in GTA IV ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastman92 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 (edited) Hey, I've been editing carcols for quite some time now, but one thing I can't get clear is how to reload it while running the game. I've heard to "press start on your controller" but I'm using a keyboard. Obviously in that case you'd think that Esc would reload it... but it doesn't. Could someone tip me off? Thanks, Ben http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtop...st&p=1060885386 It reloads many files. Edited February 18, 2012 by fastman92 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VercettiKiller Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 (edited) great.... is like Vice City-GTA III carcol modification, i already did in my San Andreas game, i put this carcol... 0,120,250 141#Light Blue 1 Blue (from 128 to 139 are from Jvt Special Colors) When set it in a car, the color change from Blue to Green. I know that Red=0 Green=120 Blue=250 but it change it to Green. What should i do? i have repeated this process many times and nothing... what im doing wrong? In the file says about Press the START Controller to reload the file during the game. What is that means? I have a Keyboard if is the ESC Button, when im going to press it or is another one? Edited August 6, 2012 by VercettiKiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakib3886 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 yea.great tutorial! But some cars have option with two colors... Like,if i tune my car,there should be color option>Color 1 Color 2 How to do that?? I have modified carcold.dat but i cant modify how to make my cars color 1 and color 2 Plz help me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little_idiot Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Open you car in ZModeler and specify 2nd color to a target car part. Save file. You're done. If you don't know how to do this, read ZModeler manual and google tutorials about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete9516 Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 On 10/31/2007 at 5:27 PM, AndreONEz said: Don't add more chances to these ones,they may crash! Why would they cause the game to crash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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