A little heads up, the attachments you linked to don't exist. This might have happend due to reloading the page, as the auto save doesn't save attachments.
The corona settings need to be different indeed when VisualV is not installed. The visualsettings.dat that can be found above uses the following values, tested for vanilla:
# coronas
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Interesting, I've seen pictures of similar but different dashboards. No idea if there're actually different versions or if the pictures just have been labeled incorrectly and actually show other cars.
I apologize for working so slowly, but unfortunately editing the interior is a very tedious process and I rarely find any motivation to work on it. I have made some progress, for example the steering wheel has been edited and mapped. The mapping of the dashboard and the steering wheel isn't final, I'll work on normal and spec maps later when I can test it in-game. Prior to that however I still need to finish all other dashboard parts and the door panels and make a few other edits.
I was looking at some pictures of the real car and I noticed it had a different dashboard. Is there some seperate police version with a different dashboard?
There're also a few other minor things that could be improved, especially the quality and resolution of some of the textures, such as the door panels, the LEDs or the headlights. There also seem to be some compression issues, a few interior parts are slightly red.
I think with extra part he means for DEV cars. So that you have a templated plate beneath the normal plate, so you just need to delete the normal one in zmod so you can use the templated plate.
To be honest, I'd expect modders to be able to map their plates to the style they prefer if the model doesn't provide it by default.
Personally, I prefer default plates. If required, it's possible to customize those a lot (font color, outline, text position, background including a normal map). It's even easier to change it for multiple vehicles, you don't need to replace the texture for every single livery on every single car. You can decide what plate you want to replace, you can add new sets of plates and you can enable them only on specific cars, it's a simple setting in the carvariations.
The script @GreenAid mentioned above to change the text on plates can be found here, by the way: https://www.gta5-mods.com/scripts/license-plate-changer
Maybe an idea could be that you use (an) extra(s) for the plates, so if someone wants to use templated plates or default GTA plates, the model would be able to offer both.
I've thought about that as well, but it has two disadvantages:
1. AI cars will spawn using both, half of the time it won't have the right plate.
2. You lose extras you could use for ELS or other parts. If you do it properly, you need one extra for each plate, as they're often connected to moving parts like the the trunk or bumpers that could fall off.
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This actually looks similar to a problem I had once, when the hi.yft and the normal .yft file came from two different models. Have you exported both of those files in ZModeler (the hi.yft needs to have the L0 only, the normal .yft L1-L4) and added both to the game?
Evening CJ, I have a little(ahem OCD) glitch in the front driver/passenger door handles that no one has found until my OCD eye saw it.
Looks like those are Lundy's new door handles, I'm currently still using the low quality default ones. I'll probably create my own, that's a low priority right now, though.
A few updates: I'm making progress on the steering wheel, thanks to @Ridgerunner, who edited the model. @Kane104 also mapped the taillights to a new texture and the reverse light texture has been replaced.
I've also finished the reflectors of the lights that are visible when they're broken. Some parts of the taillights are originally from Forza, but were edited and optimized.
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As I've recently started using VisualV, I've edited the visualsettings.dat to get brighter emergency lights (both ELS and non-ELS) and thought I'd share it. I've also edited the brightness of the other car lights, there's now a noticable difference between the brightness of taillights, brakelights and turn signals, which is useful for cars with only one part for all three (such as the Crown Victoria or the Caprice).
If anybody wants to try the settings for VisualV or NaturalVision, edit update/update.rpf/common/data/visualsettings.dat and replace the following lines:
I'm finally able to show some progress on the interior. I've finished editing the gauges of the DSF Towncar, they were fitted into the CVPI dashboard and got new custom made textures.
It seems like less people are interested in the DSF model, as many people are awaiting conversions of the Forza model. I also got asked whether I am still going to work on this conversion even though the DSF model might become obsolete. I'm definitely going to continue to work on it and hope to finish it soon. The Forza model has more than 300,000 polygons, which will likely cause performance issues on weaker PCs or when a lot of cars are spawned.
This DSF version currently has 35,000 polygons, I feel quite certain that the finished L0 will be below 40k, giving modders enough room to add high quality equipment while still retaining a reasonable poly count.
I actually did not think of the Forza model at that time, so you did actually help. Unfortunately, the poly count of the whole car is so incredibly huge, there's no point in converting parts of it. However, those panels are probably going to help as some kind of template to model my own.
