[How-to] Installing car modification

[Latetzki]

I decided to make this tutorial since installing a car is very simple thing once you do it by yourself. People have asked many times from me how to do it. Remember, modding your game might affect to multiplayer functionality.

 

 

1. Download SparkIV » This works with v1.0.0.4

2. Use WinRAR software to extract package » Homepage

3. Extract SparkIV directory anywhere you want

4. Open SparkIV

5. Press Browse

6. Scroll down the list and then choose Models » cdimages » Vehicles.img

7. Choose the car you want

 

Sites:

» www.gta4mods.com

» www.gtainside.com

» www.gta-expert.com

» www.gta-modding.it

» gta-worldmods.t-n-network.de

 

8. Download it and extract package same way like you did with SparkIV package

9. This might be the best moment to make backup files from the car that you are about to replace. You can do it in SparkIV, simply choose both files (.wtd and .wft), then we’ll choose “Export” function. After that save files to anywhere you want.

10. After backup files, let’s replace them with new ones. Choose “Import” and open

both new files.

11. After that press “Save”

12. Close SparkIV. After that you can replace new handling, vehicle and carcols (Car colors) “values” that possibly came with the new car, there always isn't a custom values made for the new car. This isn’t required to do but might give you better experince in the game.

13. Replacing those values is simple and it happens by using notepad. You can find those text files from the game folder » \common\data. However, before opening them, choose all those three text files I mentioned earlier (step 13) and open their properties by right mouse button, then remove read-only check and apply changes. This needs to be done only once.

14. After that you can keep editing those text files. For example, let's edit handling value which is ofcourse located at handling.dat file.

15. Open it and search for the car name that you have replaced with some new car

16. Copy and paste new line from the car readme file. After that save it. Repeat this method with vehicle.ide and carcols.dat DO NOT REMOVE ANY SPACE BETWEEN NUMBERS OR CHARACTERS! DON'T MAKE ANY NEW SPACES EITHER.

 

-- OLD IMAGE REMOVED (imageshack) --

 

Other useful things:

 

ASI Loader, loads .asi scripts - http://alexander.sannybuilder.com/Files/IVAsiLoader.rar

Filecheckfix, this sort of makes game think that you have original files - http://alexander.sannybuilder.com/Files/IV.FileCheckFix.rar

 

^ Place dsound.dll and filecheckfix.asi to game directory.

 

Hopefully that was helpful guide and you understood my english :lol:

Ask if you need any help.