GTAIV car spawning frequency

[ajrunke]

Is there a mod to change how the game spawns cars? I don't like driving and seeing 5 of the same vehicles in a row. Also, when I import some custom cars, the handling is messed up. I do not adjust handling at all. I simply import the car and everything works fine until I turn. The car just flips when turning.....Anyone know why this is?

 

Also, the custom imported cars, some of the aiming reticules are too low and obscured by the car itself. Any fix for this?

Edited July 30, 2010 by ajrunke

[Signor Vercetti]

Is there a mod to change how the game spawns cars? I don't like driving and seeing 5 of the same vehicles in a row. Also, when I import some custom cars, the handling is messed up. I do not adjust handling at all. I simply import the car and everything works fine until I turn. The car just flips when turning.....Anyone know why this is?

 

Also, the custom imported cars, some of the aiming reticules are too low and obscured by the car itself. Any fix for this?

Are you using a car pack mod? I have found that when using them, all the cars spawned will be the same for a given area - for example only BMWs in one area, only Mercs in another. If you're not using any carpacks, you should get a decent variety of cars in each area.

[[Delta ²k5]]

This has nothing to do with any car packs. You can have this problem even with only one car installed. Nobody knows what exactly causes this to happen. E.g. If you install an other police car than the default one It'll happen quickly. This has been discused many times here...

[Aleksander304]

Open vehicles.ide with notepad and look for MaxNum (of your replaced vehicle or the vehicle that rarely spawns). If it is low like under 10 you can rise it up a little bit (just watch it setting it over a certain # can cause your game to crash if your processor doesn't have the ''guts'' to run the game with so many cars spawned). Now look for your car in the same file. example COMET... I converted it and at the end of the line it says (example) sports+ext_rare you want to delete ext_rare. That'll up the spawn rate :]

 

Now for the handling - usually almost every modded vehicle comes with a handling.dat line AND vehicle.ide line. And it should also come with a carcols.dat line. The most important thing is to open up (most commonly with notepad) at least handling.dat and overwrite the line for the target car. Even if you don't replace the other lines the car should look and handle fine. Now after all it is recommended that you replace all the lines that are included. Anyways if this is too much for you there are already done car packs like these:

 

 

100 Cars Car Pack Vol. 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROMlGLjH29M

 

 

1980's Car Pack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VYWWu0SYAI

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxoB5gTNvzQ

 

 

100 Cars Car Pack Vol. 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCJ80ANmfpE

 

 

100 Cars with Clothes and Weapons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzALfdFys0

 

 

Cardommer 2.0 (Beta) Car Pack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiWgyJ6Rhb0

 

 

MEGA Car Pack:

 

 

 

100 Cars Car Pack Vol. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEiVeT63lTA

 

 

100 Cars Pack (Fixed ver.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40j-LCG715I

 

I haven't made any of these mods/packs whatever... These are just links to YT previews of them. In the description boxes you'll find links leading to download sites.

Edited August 9, 2010 by Aleksander304

[Dominico]

 

open vehicles.ide with notepad and look for MaxNum. If it is low like under 10 you can rise it up a little bit. now look for your car in the same file. example COMET... I converted it and at the end of the line it says (example) sports++ext_rare you want to delete ext_rare. That'll up the spawn rate :]

 

Now for the handling - usually almost every modded vehicle comes with a handling.dat line AND vehicle.ide line. And it should also come with a carcols.dat line. The most important thing is to open up at least handling.dat and overwrite the line for the target car. Even if you don't replace the other lines the car should look and handle fine. Now after all it is recommended taht you replace all the lines that are included. Anyways if this is too much for you there are already done car packs like these:

 

I haven't made any of these mods/packs whatever... These are just links to YT previews of them. In the description boxes you'll find links leading to download sites. 

 

Dude, when I open the file it says:

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[Aleksander304]

Open it with Notepad... It WILL open correctly!! For sure!! But only use Notepad. If that doesn't fix the problem try Notepad++ >>>>> http://notepad-plus-plus.org/release/5.7 - you can DL it as an execution file or compressed as .rar or .zip etc. (I preffer npp.*.*.Installer.exe).