Confused :/

[Dylannnn]

Ok, I'm new to the game and I really want to get mod cars on the game. I've watched videos on YouTube and tried looking around to figure out how to get mod cars on the game but I guess I don't understand it. Some videos have shown it as only a few steps to get the car and others seem longer. I can usually figure stuff like this out but this is just confusing me. Sorry if there's already topics about this. Thanks.

[XTREME0235]

Okay,

Warning: Long Post Ahead!

 

To get you started you need a tool named 'Spark IV', you can find that here: http://www.gtainside.com/en/download.php?d...at=326&id=28310

 

You should see a 'Download' link below the video, download that and run Spark IV.

From there you need to click on the 'Open' button and go to your GTA IV directory.

 

You need to locate you vehicles.img file, so for example.

 

You would click 'Open' then you would go to this path: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\pc\models\cdimages and double click on 'vehicles.img'

 

Once you have done that, a list of all the vehicles will show in Spark and they will all have .wft (model) and .wtd (texture) next to the names. What you want to do is locate a car model you wish to have in your game, for example a Dodge Viper SRT 10.

 

Download it from somewhere, once you download a car model you should receive a few files in the download.

For instance: because the Banshee in GTA IV is a resemblance of a Dodge Viper the .wft and .wtd files should have banshee at the start so it looks like banshee.wft and banshee.wtd.

 

Most vehicles that you download will also come with a Readme.txt which stores the handling, car colors and vehicle id lines which are important for if you want the vehicle to cooperate properly in game. (I'll get back to that later)

 

Get the banshee.wft and banshee.wtd files and put them somewhere, in Spark IV click on banshee.wft and banshee.wtd and export them both somewhere you will remember (backup files, they are really important in case your game crashes for some reason) once you have put them somewhere, click on 'Import', you will now locate the Viper files you downloaded (banshee.wft & banshee.wtd) and replace the banshee files in Spark.

 

 

Then click on 'Rebuild' then 'Save' your done for the replacing models part. Now let's move on to the data files.

As i said earlier, most vehicles that you download come with a txt file that the author chooses to name. That file usually holds the handling, car colors and vehicle id lines. Go to GTA IV/common/data and open these files if needed: handling, vehicles and carcols.

 

In the readme txt file find the handling line for that vehicle, copy the whole line and then go to your handling file and replace the banshee handling line with the modded one. Do the same process with the other files if needed, make sure your files are NOT read only other wise you will not be able to save them.

 

After a long post, i hope this helps you and best of luck but i highly advise you back up all of your files you want to replace as we can not provide original game files on this network if something goes wrong, also go on multiplayer at your own risk as you may make other players crash with modded vehicles with an error called 'SMPA60' so be careful.

 

Enjoy and good luck,

XTREME0235.

Edited December 29, 2010 by XTREME0235

[Dylannnn]

When I download sparkIV for some reason I can only get to it by going to my documents on my computer and it just lists a bunch of things like RageLib.FileSystem, RageLib.HyperText, etc. Am I maybe saving it wrong? Sorry again lol.

[XTREME0235]

When you download it, make a folder on your desktop named Spark IV and put all the files from the download in that newly created folder.

 

All the files are necessary and mandatory to run Spark.

Just double click on SparkIV.exe and your ready to go

 

Here is an image showing everything that should be in the folder when you download Spark IV:

http://img251.imageshack.us/i/sparkivdirectory.jpg/

 

XTREME0235.

Edited December 29, 2010 by XTREME0235

[Dylannnn]

When i open the folder it just shows the name of the things that I put in the folder. Did I do something wrong?

[XTREME0235]

Refer to the post i made where i showed the picture of what your folder should look like

 

In case you missed it, here it is again: http://img251.imageshack.us/i/sparkivdirectory.jpg/

 

XTREME0235.

[Dylannnn]

Ok so I finally understand that part lol. Now I downloaded a ZR1 corvette and after I downloaded it I don't know what to do lol sorry I don't understand this.

[XTREME0235]

Follow the instructions on my first post.

I only used banshee and Viper as an example, if you have a corvette use it to replace the Coquette or what ever car you desire.

 

XTREME0235.

[Dylannnn]

Well when I downloaded the corvette I guess I didn't have anything to show the files on it so I downloaded winrar. I done the switching the names and all that, clicked rebuild and save, then tried playing the game after that and for some reason there were no cars at all in the game lol

[XTREME0235]

Okay.

 

First of all i hope you backed up your files, because if you didn't then you will have to reinstall the game if you want the original files back (as stated in my first post)

 

I will give you a in depth picture tutorial with text so you can understand it.

Make sure you read carefully so you don't rush into things.

 

 

 

Step 1:

When you download your model, you need to make sure you have WinRAR installed (i know you already do, but this is just for reference) when you download the corvette you should see these files (might not be the exact one, but it's an example. You should at least have the .wft and .wtd files)

 

http://img819.imageshack.us/f/sparkivtut.png/

 

Step 2:

Re name them to coquette (no capital letters) and then hold 'Ctrl' on your keyboard while you hold 'Ctrl' click on the .wft, .wtd and the 'read me' files, then let go of 'Ctrl' and click on 'Extract To' up the top and choose a destination to put them in, for this tutorial put them on the Desktop.

 

http://img547.imageshack.us/f/sparkivtut2.png/

 

Step 3: Once you have done that, open up 'Spark IV' click on 'Open' and go to the 'vehicles.img' directory like before. Once you have opened the vehicles.img, you should see the list of vehicles with .wft and .wtd at the end of there names.

 

http://img692.imageshack.us/f/sparkivtut3.png/

 

Step 4: Once you see the list, scroll down to find 'coquette.wft' and 'coquette.wtd' (minus the ' ) Hold 'Ctrl' and click on coquette.wft and then coquette.wtd, let go of 'Ctrl' and then click on 'Import' up the top.

 

http://img810.imageshack.us/f/sparkivtut4.png

 

Step 5: After you click 'Import' you will then locate where you put the .wft and .wtd files for the Corvette (remember when you extracted them to the Desktop in WinRAR) so find them, hold 'Ctrl' once you see them and click on them then let go of 'Ctrl' and click 'Open'

 

Step 6: You have successfully imported the Corvette ZR1 into your vehicles.img file. Now you click on 'Rebuild' and then click on 'Save'

 

Step 7: Complete the mod by changing the Handling, Car colors and Vehicles files as required.

 

I really hope this helps.

If your still stuck then contact me by PM so we can sort it out

 

Good luck,

Edited January 1, 2011 by XTREME0235

[Dylannnn]

Thanks for taking the time to help . Today before I got your last reply I started playing the game and the cars were all back and I actually got the corvette . Now i should be able to get another car on there lol. Thanks again