i was wondering where the original carvariations meta is located. i found the vehicles one ok but when installing different car mods ive come across several carvariations meta file locations however i want to add on some vehicles but in order for me to do that i would need to have the original carvariations file on hand to help me with the whole adding of vehicles.

4 hours ago, mikehuber said:

i was wondering where the original carvariations meta is located. i found the vehicles one ok but when installing different car mods ive come across several carvariations meta file locations however i want to add on some vehicles but in order for me to do that i would need to have the original carvariations file on hand to help me with the whole adding of vehicles.

 

mods-->update-->update-->x64-->data for the carvariations.  Also, I have a pinned topic in this section which I provide for you a carvariations you can use.

umm that is the ymt file not the meta. I will look at yours but i was looking for the original carvariations.meta file not the ymt one. sorry i should have clarified that better. i have the firetruck line saved. I cant seem to find the ambulance one though from the vehicles meta. I am trying to do what you and some others are saying when trying to addon vehicles using the lines from the meta files and editing them into a new meta file to add or replace so there are extra vehicles available. problem is I am not sure where to retrieve the ambulance line so i can add some ambulances as well. i am trying to add maybe 2-3 firetrucks and 2-3 ambulances so it adds some different vehicles for them and i will do the same with the police and such just i want to get those out of the way first as a way to test if everything will work in game.

Edited February 4, 20188 yr by mikehuber

2 hours ago, mikehuber said:

umm that is the ymt file not the meta. I will look at yours but i was looking for the original carvariations.meta file not the ymt one. sorry i should have clarified that better. i have the firetruck line saved. I cant seem to find the ambulance one though from the vehicles meta. I am trying to do what you and some others are saying when trying to addon vehicles using the lines from the meta files and editing them into a new meta file to add or replace so there are extra vehicles available. problem is I am not sure where to retrieve the ambulance line so i can add some ambulances as well. i am trying to add maybe 2-3 firetrucks and 2-3 ambulances so it adds some different vehicles for them and i will do the same with the police and such just i want to get those out of the way first as a way to test if everything will work in game.

 

The ambulance line should be in mods-->update-->update-->common-->data-->levels-->gta 5 and that vehicles.meta.

thanks for the help not sure what happened there. quick question on the carvariations? does it matter which one you use from the different dlc pack areas? I mean i get what your supposed to do with the vehicles meta and inside the carvariations one but does it really matter which carvariations meta file you edit or is it just in general cause i edited the mpluxe2 one with the coroner van and it works like a charm spawning wise.

Edited February 5, 20188 yr by mikehuber

5 hours ago, mikehuber said:

thanks for the help not sure what happened there. quick question on the carvariations? does it matter which one you use from the different dlc pack areas? I mean i get what your supposed to do with the vehicles meta and inside the carvariations one but does it really matter which carvariations meta file you edit or is it just in general cause i edited the mpluxe2 one with the coroner van and it works like a charm spawning wise.

 

Nah, it doesn't matter too much.  The only thing to keep note of is lightsetting and sirensetting.  If it's an emergency vehicle, sirensetting needs to be on 1.

ok i have just one more question on this topic. where can i find the carvariations with the firetruck police and ambulance so i can copy and paste them to edit for the different vehicles i plan on adding? I might try the mpchristmas but i am not sure that that carvariations is the one i want to find these particular info so i can do a rename and such for each additional vehicles as far as carvariations are concerned.

1 hour ago, mikehuber said:

ok i have just one more question on this topic. where can i find the carvariations with the firetruck police and ambulance so i can copy and paste them to edit for the different vehicles i plan on adding? I might try the mpchristmas but i am not sure that that carvariations is the one i want to find these particular info so i can do a rename and such for each additional vehicles as far as carvariations are concerned.

 

The vanilla carvariations are hard-coded into the game.  You'd need to add new lines yourself.  If you add an "ambulance" line to the carvariations inmpchristmas2, it'll work just fine.  That's what I do.

 

Yes, for each vehicle you're wanting, add a new carvar.

OK but how do i create a new line in the carvariations from scratch?

5 hours ago, mikehuber said:

OK but how do i create a new line in the carvariations from scratch?

 

You don't need to do it from scratch.  At the end of this post, in the spoiler tag, I have a carvariations line you can use -

Take that line, paste it in the mpchristmas2 carvariations ABOVE the other entries, and change the name to match your add-on vehicle.

 

hey thanks for all the help. look im sorry if i did something wrong . i kind of forgot the way this site is set up. i thought pms were supposed to be used but i guess its better to do the forum way first huh?

40 minutes ago, mikehuber said:

hey thanks for all the help. look im sorry if i did something wrong . i kind of forgot the way this site is set up. i thought pms were supposed to be used but i guess its better to do the forum way first huh?

 

Hi Mike,

 

You're most welcome, and it's fine.  The private message system is used either between friends needing to discuss something, or to staff regarding a member issue, site issue, etc.  We prefer support stay here, on the forums and not in our PMs.  It's quite alright, though. :)

thanks. listen i have a question do you have a tutorial section on modeling lightbars by chance? and what programs to use? also I did create a topic on issues i am having with lightbar colors and coronas. I am not sure what i can do to address that issue.

3 hours ago, mikehuber said:

thanks. listen i have a question do you have a tutorial section on modeling lightbars by chance? and what programs to use? also I did create a topic on issues i am having with lightbar colors and coronas. I am not sure what i can do to address that issue.

 

We don't have a specific section for that, but you can create a topic here and ask - https://www.lcpdfr.com/forums/forum/892-tutorials-questions/

hey man it works like a charm though i have contacted the author of the vehicle to get the settings for carvariations to get the lights working and siren right. i mean they work just not how he has them in a video. I will be doing this for all vehicles i add. one quick question is there a way in game to get the added vehicles to spawn like in traffic or something? i was just curious on that little issue.

21 hours ago, mikehuber said:

hey man it works like a charm though i have contacted the author of the vehicle to get the settings for carvariations to get the lights working and siren right. i mean they work just not how he has them in a video. I will be doing this for all vehicles i add. one quick question is there a way in game to get the added vehicles to spawn like in traffic or something? i was just curious on that little issue.

 

Unfortunately not to my knowledge.  The best thing you can do is, if police cars, you can add them to the backup.xml and they will spawn when calling backup.

oh ok so like using police radio you can actually call in fire ambulance and such. i wonder if there will be an addition to lspdfr so you can have different stations respond with units either fire ambulance or police. that would add some realism to lspdfr as some units would be out a ways to certain calls.