Hi everyone, so I just very recently got into modding as I wanted a new hobby. I wanted to make the Ford Falcon police interceptor from Mad Max (the yellow one from the first film), so I just started by building a lightbar, downloading this awesome gumball siren, and found a model for the car online. I've got the lightbar sorted now and the car in-game and it looks pretty great! Not even close to how it looks in the movie but it's a start and I'm pretty proud of myself after lots of long, frustrating hours.

 

Anyway, I figured I was enjoying my time with zmodeler and I wanted to become more familiar with it so I bought a month's subscription and have been trying to mod a few more sirens onto cars to have in my game. My trouble is, every time I try to import a car into zmodeler the "import" button is greyed out so I can't actually edit it or do anything. I just wondered if anyone knew of a way to fix this? It worked fine with the Ford Falcon but I want to try doing some different things using different lightbars and cars. If anyone could help, that'd be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Gav

This has nothing to do with the license. If the 'Import' button is greyed out when importing is means that the file you are trying to import is locked. This means edits can not be done to it. Alot of modders do this do people don't steal the hard and hours and hours into the model.

19 hours ago, 0taku said:

This has nothing to do with the license. If the 'Import' button is greyed out when importing is means that the file you are trying to import is locked. This means edits can not be done to it. Alot of modders do this do people don't steal the hard and hours and hours into the model.

 

Ah right I didn't realise all these models are made from scratch, I thought they're mostly just taken from other games. That's incredible that people can make such accurate representations of these cars! It's a shame though, I only really want to use them for my own purposes. I wouldn't ever claim someone else's hard work as my own, it's a shame that certain people can't be trusted to do the same. Do you know anywhere that I can download more models to play around with in zmodeler? I'd really like to get to grips with it more

4 hours ago, GavinR said:

 

Ah right I didn't realise all these models are made from scratch, I thought they're mostly just taken from other games. That's incredible that people can make such accurate representations of these cars! It's a shame though, I only really want to use them for my own purposes. I wouldn't ever claim someone else's hard work as my own, it's a shame that certain people can't be trusted to do the same. Do you know anywhere that I can download more models to play around with in zmodeler? I'd really like to get to grips with it more

First not every person scratch's makes a car for GTA. They are either bought from a 3dmodel site and converted or converted from other games, but this still take awhile. I'm working on converting the Crown Vic from Forza to GTA and I've put over 120 hours so far into it.

Aside from that, you could try messaging to person and seeing if they would be willing to let you use it for a personal use. Alot of modders are good people.
As for model sites, http://gamemodels.ru/ is a very good one. You'll still need to convert and set up the models for GTA us but it gives you stuff to mess around with. If you want something more GTA ready there are always the vanilla models.

 

Spoiler

As if you didn't know 'vanilla' when in terms of game files mean the stock files or what the developers made.