Grand Theft Auto V

This guide explains the purpose of diffuse, specular and normal maps and how to create your own.

GTA V uses a so-called dirt map to generate dirt effects on vehicles' exterior. This guide explains how a dirt map is set up.

The game provides a variety of material shaders that can be used for vehicle mods. This guide explains what purposes the most usual shaders have and how to set them up.

This guide aims to provide an understanding of the basics of modifying vehicles for GTA V in ZModeler 3.

This guide explains the process of replacing textures to modify cars or other models.

Detailed information regarding the installation of vehicle mods using OpenIV.

Before installing modifications in GTA V, a mods folder should be set up to prevent replacing any original files.

A list of all the required tools to create and edit models.

This guide summarizes the most important points that may come in handy when troubleshooting faulty glass collisions.

This guide provides information to help choose the right texture compression.

This guide is explaining the purpose of mipmaps and the recommended settings.

This guide explains how to calculate normals using an optimized model and its high poly version as an example.

This guide is explaining the purpose of LOD models and provides information about setting them up.