Gims EVO not detecting GTAV open formats

[kittykat223]

Hi everyone, to start I am using GIMS Evo along with 2023 3ds max. I followed the youtube tutorials very closely and while gioms evo does show up, upon trying to import a ydd file from my desktop, no ydd files show through the import button on gims evo. When i search for the file in the menu it comes up but when i try to open to file nothing imports into 3ds max. Does anyone know how I could fix this? Thank you so much. Willing to try anything.

[LeeC22]

1 hour ago, kittykat223 said:

Hi everyone, to start I am using GIMS Evo along with 2023 3ds max. I followed the youtube tutorials very closely and while gioms evo does show up, upon trying to import a ydd file from my desktop, no ydd files show through the import button on gims evo. When i search for the file in the menu it comes up but when i try to open to file nothing imports into 3ds max. Does anyone know how I could fix this? Thank you so much. Willing to try anything.

 

YDD isn't Open Formats, ODD is. You have to select the YDD file in OpenIV, right-click and choose "Export to Open Formats". Once you have made any changes, you have to import the new ODD back into the game with the "Import from Open Formats" option.

 

Disclaimer: Haven't used those options in a long time so the wording might no be exactly correct.

[kittykat223]

8 hours ago, LeeC22 said:

 

YDD isn't Open Formats, ODD is. You have to select the YDD file in OpenIV, right-click and choose "Export to Open Formats". Once you have made any changes, you have to import the new ODD back into the game with the "Import from Open Formats" option.

 

Disclaimer: Haven't used those options in a long time so the wording might no be exactly correct.

Thank you so much! So I did manage to get it to work although upon importing the odd back into openiv it's saying it cant detect the skel file and not letting it import although the skel file is in the same folder. Any idea on how to fix this? 

[LeeC22]

3 hours ago, kittykat223 said:

Thank you so much! So I did manage to get it to work although upon importing the odd back into openiv it's saying it cant detect the skel file and not letting it import although the skel file is in the same folder. Any idea on how to fix this? 

 

No idea, sorry. I haven't done anything that involved .skel files.

 

There are a couple of GIMS threads on these forums but I can't remember which section they're in... although given how this site is for GTA V modding, you might not get any help in them anyway. Your best bet is to try and find a modder who is doing something similar to what you are doing and then see if they have a Discord server.