So I usually have trouble with this sort of thing, last time I edited PedVariation.dat I had issues and had to revert back, I'd like some help from someone who knows what they're doing.

I currently use modified peds for police, seen here. It gives a couple new heads for the police, and keeps the original ones as well. I'd like to remove some of the original ones (The hispanic, black and white heads. I might keep the hispanic one). Only reason being is CryENB likes to mess up the original heads lighting, so two of the heads look darkened out and really bad in certain lighting conditions, unlike the modified ones I downloaded. I assume (see screenshot) that I'd delete them here and elsewhere, then have to edit the pedvariations.dat, and other files.

I recently installed a different State Trooper ped as well, and manually editing the PedVariations didn't really work out for me, I either crashed with SMPA30 or state trooper voices were being attached to normal police peds in broker.

 

What would I have to edit exactly to remove some of these parts? Any help would be appreciated, I can deal with them for now but I'd like to rid of them eventually. I just don't want a voice mismatch like before where normal cops were spawning with the wrong voices. A white cop shouldn't have the black ones voice.

 

These were taken from a video, for example of my problem.

Or is it just impossible for these to be removed? I'd like to "replace" them with other heads but the only ones I know of are the ones I have, it's a couple from EFLC and a couple from a modder or two.

Edited May 21, 201510 yr by Sonny236

So I usually have trouble with this sort of thing, last time I edited PedVariation.dat I had issues and had to revert back, I'd like some help from someone who knows what they're doing.

I currently use modified peds for police, seen here. It gives a couple new heads for the police, and keeps the original ones as well. I'd like to remove some of the original ones (The hispanic, black and white heads. I might keep the hispanic one). Only reason being is CryENB likes to mess up the original heads lighting, so two of the heads look darkened out and really bad in certain lighting conditions, unlike the modified ones I downloaded. I assume (see screenshot) that I'd delete them here and elsewhere, then have to edit the pedvariations.dat, and other files.

I recently installed a different State Trooper ped as well, and manually editing the PedVariations didn't really work out for me, I either crashed with SMPA30 or state trooper voices were being attached to normal police peds in broker.

 

What would I have to edit exactly to remove some of these parts? Any help would be appreciated, I can deal with them for now but I'd like to rid of them eventually. I just don't want a voice mismatch like before where normal cops were spawning with the wrong voices. A white cop shouldn't have the black ones voice.

 

These were taken from a video, for example of my problem.

Or is it just impossible for these to be removed? I'd like to "replace" them with other heads but the only ones I know of are the ones I have, it's a couple from EFLC and a couple from a modder or two.

​read this tutorial

​read this tutorial

​Will take a look. Thanks.

edit: looks complicated. but I think I should be able to figure it out if I'm just removing two heads.

Edited May 21, 201510 yr by Sonny236

​Will take a look. Thanks.

edit: looks complicated. but I think I should be able to figure it out if I'm just removing two heads.

​once u understand how it works its very easy to do.

but remember the ped models may be locked in which case you wont be able to reimport them

​once u understand how it works its very easy to do.

but remember the ped models may be locked in which case you wont be able to reimport them

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Edited May 21, 201510 yr by Sonny236

​Just removed the two heads I wanted gone in the .odd and reimported them to the .wdd in OpenIV. Already backed up the originals, and in OpenIV's viewer it seems to have worked. Gonna hop in game and see if I get any problems.

EDIT: seems theres more to it than that. I've read over the guide but Im gonna have to go back and see what I missed, cause now the heads and arms are just invisible, far from what I wanted to achieve lol.

​which ones did u delete? ie head_001_r

​which ones did u delete? ie head_001_r

​head_000_r and head_002_r within the .odd. They show up invisible with no arms or head in game. I've messaged cp702 regarding his guide, his guide is flawless but it's me having a hard time understanding.

Anyways, what else did I miss?

Edited May 21, 201510 yr by Sonny236

​head_000_r and head_002_r within the .odd. They show up invisible with no arms or head in game. I've messaged cp702 regarding his guide, his guide is flawless but it's me having a hard time understanding.

Anyways, what else did I miss?

​ok so when u are in openiv model viewer is there a ​head_000_r ?

​ok so when u are in openiv model viewer is there a ​head_000_r ?

​Nope. the two heads I removed in the .odd are nonexistant in the model viewer (m_y_cop.wdd) after reimporting. 

​Nope. the two heads I removed in the .odd are nonexistant in the model viewer (m_y_cop.wdd) after reimporting. 

​ok so thats you problem

id suggest renaming 7 and 8 to 0 and 2 using notpad++ (u can do a full replace)

after that go into the folder called m_y_cop and rename the files with 7 and 8 to 0 and 2

(btw it doesn't necessarily have to be 7 and 8 just whatever you replace 0 and 2 with)

after that go into the folder called m_y_cop and rename the files with 7 and 8 to 0 and 2

(btw it doesn't necessarily have to be 7 and 8 just whatever you replace 0 and 2 with)

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​ok so thats you problem

id suggest renaming 7 and 8 to 0 and 2 using notpad++ (u can do a full replace)

​So far I've renamed 008 to 000, I assumed you meant the .skel and everything else as well, whats circled used to be head_008_r. I'll rename the files in a second and check this out.

EDIT: Seems all good. Appreciated.

Thanks.

Edited May 21, 201510 yr by Sonny236

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​So far I've renamed 008 to 000, I assumed you meant the .skel and everything else as well, whats circled used to be head_008_r. I'll rename the files in a second and check this out.

EDIT: Seems all good. Appreciated.

Thanks.

​np!