#How to install car mods in gta 4 how to#
#How to install car mods in gta 4 mod#
#How to install car mods in gta 4 archive#
#How to install car mods in gta 4 pro#

Pro tip- to check out mods and new textures w/o running the game, get GGMM and use that. Use paint to edit it, import it to replace the original, save the txd and put it in txd.img! If you want to edit some design on or off the car, open the txd with TXDworkshop and export that part as a BMP. Remember to edit the handling and the wheel size.Д¤.

#How to install car mods in gta 4 mod#

col with either the one from the mod or the one the mod intended to replace- this helps if you get 2 mods to replace the same car but want both in the game. If you put a semi in place of a motorcycle, you get weird results. Extract the original as a backup, delete it fro the list, and add the modded file, renaming it to whatever you were trying to replace. Don't try to replace dffs ot txds using IMGtool's replace feature, most mods are too big. txd in the txd.img file or whatever vc has, and the dff in the gta3.img! Otherwise, you get white interiors and textures, etc.Дў. Make sure (this mostly applies to gta3, but vice city is very similar) that you put the. 5 bucks says that people find this topic all the time and have questions. Yeah, I know this is a bump, but these whining noobs are is getting annoying.

If you still have any problems, THEN start a new topic.ДЄlso, I'd like to thank Victim of a Down for providing me with the files I needed, as I was away from my computer when I wrote this.

Now, start Vice, and your installed vehicle should work perfectly. If the readme only mentions wheel size, find the line for your vehicle, and look at the very last number. Highlight the entire line, and paste the line from the readme over it, making sure no other lines are disturbed. You'll find a line with the word 'banshee' at the start, and a whole heap of numbers after it. So, highlight and copy the first one, browse to 'Data' and open up 'handling.cfg' with Notepad (or any other PLAIN-TEXT editor, MSWord not recommended). The first one is the handling information, the second is the main definition for the vehicle.

Make sure you have that installed, though thats beyond the scope of this article. Most cars use D-Magic's Wheel Mod (Click for download location). Now, the mod will work at this point, however, the wheels probably aren't going to look very good, and the handling will stay unchanged. Don't worry, the game will rebuild it on the next start up. IF your game has a file called TXD.IMG, delete it, and its sister file 'TXD.DIR'.

#How to install car mods in gta 4 archive#

Once they are inserted, rebuild the archive (Commands - Rebuild Archive). Then Add (Commands - Add) the DFF and TXDs that you downloaded. Rename (Commands - Rename) them both to 'banshee-old'. Type in the name of the vehicle it would replace, eg 'banshee'. So, in the IMG Tool, go to 'Edit', 'Search'. This means they would replace the Banshee. For this example, lets say they are called 'banshee.dff', and 'banshee.txd'. Take note of the filenames of the DFF and TXD files that the mod contains. Open it with the IMG TOOL (Click for download location). Now, browse to wherever you installed GTA3/Vice City. If another box comes up, make sure to select 'Apply to all subfolders and files', then click OK. Right click on your Vice folder, click on Properties, UNcheck 'read-only' in the box that comes up, then click OK. It's strongly recommended you read the readme, as they usually contain important information about the vehicle, like known bugs, extra steps for installing, etc.ДЇirst, the number one problem people have when installing mods is that the files are read-only, meaning they can't be modified. In MOST cases, you'll have a DFF, a TXD, and a readme file. So, you've downloaded, unzipped/rared/whatevered a mod.

#How to install car mods in gta 4 how to#

So I'm here with a walkthrough on how to manually install mods. It seems that many mod managers/installers have been screwing up installs of vehicles.