Gta Iv modding

[Skeetermcg]

How to change the car names. I've changed the cars but it still says the in game names how can I change them to match the cars.

[Vellari]

You can't manually as the <language>.gxt files are not plain text (that is, not modifiable with notepad).

But you can import your car mods using Vehicle Mod Installer http://www.gta4-mods.com/tools/gta-iv-vehicle-mod-installer-v13-f14302

It has an option where you can specify the car name during import. Also modifies vehicles.ide and handling.dat automatically if it finds the import data (eg. in a txt file).

[Skeetermcg]

How to change the names with vehicle mod installer

[Vellari]

Once you get to the stage where you select which car to replace, type in the new desired car name in to the field on top of the car list which says (duh) "Your vehicle name".

[Skeetermcg]

Or is it easier to get a mod to change them

[Vellari]

The car names are all stored in a single file (american.gxt for english, and different gxt files for various other languages), which also holds every other bit a of text and dialog in the game.

So, in order to change car names in game, that file needs to be modified. And the only way (that I'm aware of) to do that is use Vehicle Mod Installer.

[Skeetermcg]

How do I use it

[Vellari]

1) Start the program, configure it to find your GTAIV install folder. Select the car mod (folder) that you want to use (.wft and .wtd files at minimum, configuration data in a txt file)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16229638/vmi_1.jpg

2) Check that all sections show up as green (if any are red, something is wrong with the mod)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16229638/vmi_2.jpg

3) Select the car you want to replace from the list. At the top, type in the car name you want to use.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16229638/vmi_3.jpg

[Skeetermcg]

It's saying vehicles.ide is invalid how do I fix this

[Vellari]

That line of data is incorrect in some way. If you don't know how to fix it, you can just deselect it (click on red cross icon) and that line will be skipped.

[Skeetermcg]

There's more then one saying that

[Vellari]

One of two possibilities:

1) the data lines are incorrect
2) they are not correctly detected by the program (sometimes happens)

The data should look like this. Single lines inside a txt file, the three lines can be and usually are in the same txt file. Just make sure they are all single lines and have a few empty lines inbetween so they don't mix up.

handling.dat like this:

ADMIRAL 1400.0 2.8 85 0.0 0.0 -0.45 0.0 6 0.21 1.0 222.0 0.55 0.50 1.0 42.0 1.25 1.33 12.0 0.14 0.47 3.5 2.5 1.8 0.10 -0.10 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.0 0.8 1.5 0.0 1000000 40440010 1 1

vehicles.ide like this:

admiral, admiral, car, ADMIRAL, ADMIRAL, VEH@STD, VEH@STD_LO4_LO4, 100, 999, 0.2840, 0.2840, 0, 1, 1.0 ,0, ext_gang+ext_requi+ext_strong

carcols.dat like this:

admiral, 0,0,22, 7,7,79, 16,16,93, 34,34,32, 52,52,50, 54,54,53, 62,62,65, 70,70,63, 72,72,64, 102,102,105, 104,104,105, 116,116,122, 16,16,76, 9,9,91, 15,15,93, 19,19,93, 13,13,80

If the lines do not look like this, they are incorrect and need to be skipped. The carcols one might have fewer numbers sets though, the other two lines need to have these exact number/text sequence.

[Skeetermcg]

Okay how do I fix this

[Vellari]

Well, if the lines show up as red, skip them. If you have to ask "how to fix them" you won't be able to (you'd have to know what all these numbers and words mean, in order to know what's wrong with them).

[HopFist]

tried skipping vehicles.ide but the program closes
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