Does anyone know how to make gun mods for gta iv?

[DatPirateMan12]

Hello! im attempting to make gta 4 weapon mods but so far most tutorials require me to get ahold of 3ds max 2012 for gims iv, which is already impossible to get ahold of, im kinda stuck and unsure what to do, is  there an alternative way to do this?

[sirebire999]

I have a post on what i've been able to do. I was looking into alternatives to 3dsmax but I haven't found any. One cool trick I know is through openiv you can replace weapon textures or even make parts of the gun transparent if you use a transparent png image to replace a texture piece in a .wdt file. For instance if the weapond texture mod's wtd is broken into pieces like one for the magazine or for a optic rail/the optic itself. If you wanted just iron sights you'd either replace or delete import transparent png image and rename it to the texture its basing off of. You could say get rid of the stock of this gun the smoothest. Just giving what I know.

 

Edited October 2 by sirebire999
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