Modding

[campincarl37 0]

I would like to start off by letting the supporter know that you don't have to bother with this if you don't want to (I know there are videos and other things), but thank you so much if you do anyway. I just want to know how to download mods, like vehicle skins for STEAM. I've watched videos, but I find them hard to follow, and I get confused along the way. I know that it has something to do with winrar and sparkiv, but I cannot figure out how to unzip files, or any of that. I'm pretty bad with downloads and installations if you can't tell. Does anyone have a detailed list of steps for installing mods on STEAM (including what I need to download and where to place that download file)? An example to go with it would be great. Once again thank you so much for anyone who devotes their time to me. I am sorry if this is considered a re-post.

[JAM 852]

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[campincarl37 0]

Thanks.

[Ekalb 262]

Installing cars and other mods is exactly the same with any copy of gta.

The directory is slightly different for steam users, something like steamsteamappscommongrand theft auto ivgtaiv for your root folder.

You'll need sparkIV or openIV to install vehicles and custom weapons and player models (no such thing as a steam specific verison)

Find custom mods on gta4-mods.com, gtainside.com, gtapolicemods.com, gtagarage etc. or the dowloads section here or really anywhere you can find them, just google 'GTA 4 mods' and they should come with instructions or you can find tutorials on youtube for installing most types of mods.

Car/Weapon/Player model modifications generally include replacing model and texture files in vehicles.img/componentspeds.img/weapons.img in gtaivpcmodelscd images using sparkIV

Other modifications like script modifications are placed into gtaivscripts or just the gtaiv root folder.

It's just really important that you use your web searching skills as much as you can, as cliche as it sounds, google is your friend.

Remember to backup original files before modding but the advantage of the steam version is you can just repair your game through steam without having to reinstall it entirely.

Also unzipping files you just need winrar or 7zip or anything like that. Pretty sure windows xp and any later verisons of windows operating systems can extract .zip files by themselves anyway without the need for a third party tool.

Edited March 3, 2012 by Ekalb

[campincarl37 0]

... Thanks but I still get confused with this. Where specifically do I place a vehicle skin? C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonGrand Theft Auto IV is where GTA IV is locates, but I hear a lot about having to place the mod in vehicles.img or something but I can't find it in any of the GTA IV folders. Where from here do I need to place files? Thanks again.

[Ekalb 262]

Man..;

How to use sparkiv to add(replace) custom vehicles

http://youtu.be/-t0spZkab5A

How to add custom skins to modded vehicles

Use sparkIV to open vehicles.img, find the vehicle that you are editing the skin of, press the edit button with the texture file of that car selected, on the left pane find the texture you are replacing (if it's a main body for the car, it's probably called police_sign_1/2/3/4) and then press the import button, find the image you have downloaded and select it and it should replace what was there. Then save and close.

Don't be afraid to use the search function to look for other times these questions have been asked.

Edited March 3, 2012 by Ekalb

[campincarl37 0]

Perfect, thank you.

[campincarl37 0]

Both of these guys already have .wtf and .wtd files. Where do I get these from? And I have searched this on google and youtube. All videos already have them, but when I download a mod all I get is a picture or two.

[Ekalb 262]

Find custom mods on gta4-mods.com, gtainside.com, gtapolicemods.com, gtagarage etc. or the dowloads section here or really anywhere you can find them, just google 'GTA 4 mods' and they should come with instructions or you can find tutorials on youtube for installing most types of mods.

Car/Weapon/Player model modifications generally include replacing model(wtd) and texture files (wft) in vehicles.img/componentspeds.img/weapons.img in gtaivpcmodelscd images using sparkIV