Car model missing parts

orangewarning · August 27, 2012

I was trying to add a lightbar to the default merit model to make my own police car.

These are the steps i took.

>I downloaded a lightbar from GPM

>i downloaded general_veh_tex.rar and extracted it into a folder

>place the game's merit.wft into the same folder

>using sparkiv, saved all merit.wtd textures into the folder

>open zmodeler 2.2.6, imported the merit.wft

>then i added the three .png files (emerglights, emerglights_emis and emerglights_n) that came with the lightbar

>then i imported the lightbar

>i renamed it from lb_streethawk_els_h.wft to lightbar at the hierachy, and rename its chassis to chassis_light and moved the whole section under the merit.wft

>then i proceeded to exporting the my merit.wft. When i exported, at the bottom part it said that emerglights.png was too big and had to be stored in a .wtd arvhive.

>i then compiled all the necessary textures into a .wtd file using g-texture

>after importing it into my vehicles.img i tested it

>to my horror, the light bar was missing its glass cover and part of the tail lights cover was missing

I cannot figure out how to solve this problem and there dun seem to be a solution wherever i looked.

Could anyone here help me figure out whats wrong and if necessary, direct me the correct steps in adding a lightbar?

Thanks in advance :)

Edit : I solved the problem. It had to do with the exporting of models, the boxes i had to tick. And i had to convert the textures to .dds before adding to g-testure(silly me). Mods please close this threat as i have solved the problem. Thanks.

Edited August 27, 2012 by orangewarning

corleone · August 27, 2012

Good that you solved. Just a couple of tips;

- you don't need the lb_streethawk_els_h.wft (the one you renamed) in the hierachy. Just move the chassis (lightbar) out of it and delete lb_streethawk_els_h.wft name from the list.

- don't store the textures to the wft file.

- use OpenIV to add the textures to the wtd. Much, much easier. No need to convert the files to dds first, just drag the png's in to OpenIV.

Edited August 27, 2012 by corleone