Zmodeler Issues

[Opulence 31]

First off sorry if this in the wrong place.... Anyways

 

When I import my textures into Zmodeler for a CVPI and Whelen Liberty then import my vehicles two things occur:

 

1) The protection guard from the criminals in the car is blue and my light bar is proper colors 

 

or

 

2) The protection guard from criminals is clear and my light bar is fully black. 

[trewq34 235]

It's because the partition in the CVPI by BxBugs123 uses the emerglights texture, so does the lightbar

[Mustu 230]

What I recommend you doing is going into Polygon mode and deleting the partition, but you have to do it very carefully. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I suggest you look at some more tutorials and documentation before you start making an actual car.

[Opulence 31]

It's because the partition in the CVPI by BxBugs123 uses the emerglights texture, so does the lightbar

Can I remove the emrglight textures off the CVPI or is there a way that I can have them both but the guard clear and the light bar not blacked out. 

[manydics 3]

Your best bet would probably be to remap the texture for the protection guard to the emerglight texture set for the lightbar. 

[trewq34 235]

Your best bet would probably be to remap the texture for the protection guard to the emerglight texture set for the lightbar. 

This, 

 

or you could rename the emerglights file for the lightbar and also change the materials in ZModeler, or else it won't work...

[Opulence 31]

Renamed it and it still turns it black.

[trewq34 235]

Renamed it and it still turns it black.

That's because you didn't tell the lightbar in ZModeler to use the rename emerglights texture. It's still using the one for the partition. BxBugs123 did that to stop GADers from overusing his model.

[Opulence 31]

How would I 'tell' the lightbar?

[Iconography 1,384]

MODERATOR NOTICE

Moving to Development Questions. The Vehicle Modifications forum is for WIP/REL showroom threads only.

[Opulence 31]

That's because you didn't tell the lightbar in ZModeler to use the rename emerglights texture. It's still using the one for the partition. BxBugs123 did that to stop GADers from overusing his model.

How would I make it so the lightbar reads those files

[NicolaiB 834]

You need to change the textures in the materials so they use the new emerglights texture, he's how you do it

 

 

I'm using Bug's unlocked Whelen 9000M strobe bar, it works with any lightbar

 

Step 1:

Here's what the lightbar looks like when you have it imported in Zmodelder, I haven't touched it at all:

 

As you can see, there's a file called emerglightse.png, that's the one we want to change, it's probably called emerglights.png in your scene.

 

Step 2:

I'm going to copy emerglightse.png and call the new one emerglighse new, remember to add an underscore between the words:

 

Step 3:

Go back to Zmod and open your texture browser and add the new texture, it should now look like this:

 

 

Step 4:

Open your materials, find the material used by the lightbar, it's usually called emerglights generic, mesh or paint1, toggling the material on and off will help you find it:

 

Step 5:

We want to replace the texture layers that has emerglightse.png with our new texture, we do that by clicking on the texture name, then select the new texture in the texture browser and click add. Do this for all texture layers that has the old emerlights texture on it.

It'll look like this:

 

 

Step 6:

 

The lightbar might use the texture in multiple materials, in my case it also uses emerglightse crome(mesh) and emerglighse vehglass, you'll have to repeat the steps we did with paint1 in order to replace them.

 

 

This should do the job, remember to add the new emerlights texture in openIV.

[Mustu 230]

That's because you didn't tell the lightbar in ZModeler to use the rename emerglights texture. It's still using the one for the partition. BxBugs123 did that to stop GADers from overusing his model.

Ha, but at least I'm a smart GADer! And you stole my term for GADing!

[Opulence 31]

You need to change the textures in the materials so they use the new emerglights texture, he's how you do it

 

 

I'm using Bug's unlocked Whelen 9000M strobe bar, it works with any lightbar

 

Step 1:

Here's what the lightbar looks like when you have it imported in Zmodelder, I haven't touched it at all:

 

As you can see, there's a file called emerglightse.png, that's the one we want to change, it's probably called emerglights.png in your scene.

 

Step 2:

I'm going to copy emerglightse.png and call the new one emerglighse new, remember to add an underscore between the words:

 

Step 3:

Go back to Zmod and open your texture browser and add the new texture, it should now look like this:

 

 

Step 4:

Open your materials, find the material used by the lightbar, it's usually called emerglights generic, mesh or paint1, toggling the material on and off will help you find it:

 

Step 5:

We want to replace the texture layers that has emerglightse.png with our new texture, we do that by clicking on the texture name, then select the new texture in the texture browser and click add. Do this for all texture layers that has the old emerlights texture on it.

It'll look like this:

 

 

Step 6:

 

The lightbar might use the texture in multiple materials, in my case it also uses emerglightse crome(mesh) and emerglighse vehglass, you'll have to repeat the steps we did with paint1 in order to replace them.

 

 

This should do the job, remember to add the new emerlights texture in openIV.

 

I don't see a difference between the two, I put in the new textures with _new at the end and I still get blue glass in the CVPI. 

 

 

Wow I was a noob, finally figured it out. Such a useful tutorial! 

Edited February 24, 2014 by Opulence

[Opulence 31]

Still getting that same issue, a black light bar, anyone else have any videos/fixes to this? 

 

 

 

 

Finally fixed it all thanks to NicolaiB, thank you so much for your tutorial! 

Edited February 24, 2014 by Opulence