SOLVED: Adding Additional Vehicle Causes Game to Update?

[mtloya 11]

Hi all,

 

First and foremost, if this is a dupe topic, I apologize, I wasn't able to find anything similar to the situation I have with both the site's search nor google.

 

Now that that is out of the way, here's my dilemma/question:

 

I am currently trying to add an additional vehicle to my game, specifically cp702's "Emergency Utility Truck". I have everything up to date: RPH, SHV, the game (retail version), OpenIV, etc. I followed cp702's readme directions to a T, until the section where I needed to edit the "update/x64/dlcpacks/mpheists/dlc.rpf/common/data/carvariations.meta" file. Instead of doing this, I updated the carvariations.meta file in the mpgunrunning directory thinking that the most recent the file, the better.. After doing this and attempting to start the game via RPH normally, I was greeted with the launcher window trying to install an update, 3.something gigs worth of data.

 

Is the game trying to update because I altered one of the most recent files? I did not proceed with the 'update' since I just now have everything working how I want (apart from this vehicle addition)... Should I revert my changes to the carvar file in the gunrunning directory and attempt to do it in the heists as directed?

 

I'm just curious as to why the game suddenly decided it needed to update after I messed with these files. I imagine my theory is correct, but if anyone knows, please indulge me.

 

Edit:

Upon searching through the directly with OpenIV, the mpgunrunning directly is empty. This being said, I assume the game wasn't happy that I edited the carvar file and decided it needed to download that entire directly again.

 

So that brings up a new question: Will I be able to install this vehicle at all, as long as I do it the "correct" way as per the instructions? Any idea as to why it must be a specific update dlcpack to make changes to?

 

Edit 2:

I allowed the game to "update" so I could get access to the directory again. I tried to install the vehicle again following the instructions correctly, and once again, the launcher came up redownloading the directory that I changed.

 

How do I properly add additional vehicles without the game redownloading the directory? This is honestly annoying because every change that I make, the game just redownloads and overwrites. It's also eating up my bandwidth constantly redownloading all of the game content. Any help to permanently install an additional vehicle would be appreciated.

 

Edit 3:

I am going to attempt to install Albo's Modding DLC Pack to see if it will make a difference, or if the game will consider that to be altering it's files and it'll just redownload some files to clear out my changes. I will post the results following the experiment.

 

Edit 4:

 

Albo's Modding DLC Pack did the trick. Since then I've added and successfully spawned in quite a few vehicles. I highly recommend using this method to install your vehicle mods.

 

Thanks,

 

mtloya

Edited July 11, 2017 by racer123246
Problem Solved.