Brammo311

Ok, but HOW do you edit the .dat and .ide files?

And how exactly do you edit your .dat and .ide files? Please be descriptive.

No, all I'm doing is replacing a line of text in a .dat file, and then THAT crashes the game. The file worked fine before. Is there a good program out there for editing .ide and .dat files?

Basically, this is how I do it. Say I have a ped mod, like the female cop mod, and it has its own pedvariations.dat, but I also already have "New Cops & State Troopers Version 1.2" by Custo, which also has its own pedvariations.dat and whatnot. So using SparkIV, I will backup everything thats getting replaced, copy and paste the existing data into a blank notepad, then replace it with the femalecop .dat files, highlight and file copy the particular line of data to be replaced, in this instance, M_M_Fatcop01 or whatever its called, then I will paste that into the original .dat files that I originally copied and pasted into notepad, THEN I will finally save the new edited pedVariations file as exactly "pedVariations.dat" as it is in the game folder, then I will place it in said folder, since SparkIV will let me import the new file, but not save the archive, which is my first clue that something is wrong. I know this sounds incredibly confusing, but this is the only way I figured out how to edit .dat or .ide files. Now, upon starting the game, it crashes midway through the loading screens, giving me a fatal error or some crap. So WTF am I doing wrong here? This isn't just limited to pedVariations.dat, I also used the same process to edit peds.ide and pedpersonality.dat. I also had a problem making the NOOSE guys walk normaly. Using this same process, I gave them normal walking data in whaterver file its in, I forget, and in game they wouldnt appear. Simpletrainer would timeout loading the model, and lcpdfr would skip the noose guy in character selection. So my conclusion is thst using Notepad to edit .dat or .ide files somehow corrupts the files, because I was SURE I didn't mispell anything or mess up the text in anyway. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

it was on hardcore. i cant beleive i survived that lol

Just watch. This was crazy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPLbM-mrSw8&list=UUepj5RlDi7ymB9-NH0k0Jzw&index=1&feature=plcp

Yes, I always back stuff up. I backed up the entire GTA IV game folder actually haha. What is SNT?

I did exactly that, and in LCPDFR you cannot choose the character, it goes to the alderney trooper, then skips noose, and goes to the next one. And in my in game trainer you cannot load the model, it says loading timed out. Havent seen what happens yet when they spawn at 4 stars. Probably crash the game. Why didn't editing the .ide work?

Where at in SparkIV can I change the appearence of the sniper rilfe scope? I've tried the "target" thing for psg1 in weapons.img (the other rifle is replaced by a Mauser Kar98, and I made it have no scope) but it just reverts back to that old PSO-1 style scope from an SVD.

How would I change the NOOSE/SWAT guys walking animation so they aren't always hunched over?

Yeah. It spawned a random ped in the police station with an RPG. On the map he is marked with a purple waypoint. Other than that, boring as usual. I dont get it.

Oh, lol. Well I have IVneedle, is there some way to make all the peds go bat shit crazy with guns using pedpersonality editor or something?

Can I have the link for that? And I dont want that confangled "Ambient Wars" thing. It sucks.

A mod that makes all, or at least most, of the peds to be hostile and armed. Im looking for more suprise shootouts in LCPDFR lol. Also, is there a way to make the chopper side door gunners spawn with the sniper rifle instead of the M4?

Well anywho, I got it fixed guys. Thanks.

I got it to work. Iconography was right. I needed the c++ thing. Anyway, these online groups sound interesting. But I remember dsound.dll crashing my game when I first used lcpdfr. So I switched to xlive.

I dunno what those are. I listed all the things I have in the first post. ScriptHookDotNet? Is that what you mean? Like I said, its been a long time since I tinkered with GTA files. I dont remember anything lol

They are. But besides that, the script diolog box wont even open. Also, I installed PPM, and certain functions worked whereas others didnt. For example, you could spawn new police cars and a partner, but you couldnt change officer skins or anything. Something is wrong

I dunno wtf is going on. I had this working along time ago, then some PC issues kept me from playing. Now I dont remember all the stuff I need for gta modding

Without xlive.dll GTA IV will not launch, since it has the 1.0.7.0 patch..........

I seem to remember a diolog box appearing that showed what scripts were running, and allowed you to reload them. You hit the ~ key to open it from what I remember. I have the simple native triner mod, which oddly enough works with no problems. I also have mods I installed using Spark IV. But none of my script mods are working. I have: AdvancedHook.dll ScriptHook.dll ScriptHook text document ScriptHookDotNet.asi xlive.dll And I also have the "scripts" folder in the GTA directory. Im tryina git the traffic flow, indicator lights, and a zombie scrip to run. None of them will. What am I doing wrong?

GTAIV iDE Editor is basically telling me to go f**k myself whenever I use it. Upon starting the program, it tells me an unhandled excepion occured. It says Access to the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\idemapbak' is denied. veries Then when I try to edit the files themselves, say, something simple like the flags, you know? Adding the multiple liveries to a car, right? And I try to save it, it says access to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV\common\data\default.ide' is denied Ok, so the only solution to this that I could think of was to make all the GTA files NOT read-only, which I've already done. And this sumbitch is still giving me these errors. I had this a long time ago and it worked with no problem. Any suggestions?

Can hardly find any out there. I'd really like a non-ELS version of that Lenco Bearcat. Anyone know of some good options?

Alright, I got her working. Much appreciated man. BTW, what is the other crap I'll need to start modding? I forget. Some kinda windows framework thing and something else right? And of course SparkIV and OpenIV.

No , I dont give a crap about online lol. So I hafta download Xlive then? Is it Xlive or Xliveless?