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Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:55 am
by smoochy1993
this may be a stupid question but where did L0 L1 L2 go in the new update lol ?

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:18 am
by madga182
To be honest I would rename the wheel mesh header to WHEEL_lf then click crest compound button , then lock button , then l0 and drag the whee mesh_lf underneath into the compound area then the same for l1 just click off lock and l0and repeat but with l1

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 2:05 am
by smoochy1993

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:17 am
by 19Legan81
madga182 wrote:To be honest I would rename the wheel mesh header to WHEEL_lf then click crest compound button , then lock button , then l0 and drag the whee mesh_lf underneath into the compound area then the same for l1 just click off lock and l0and repeat but with l1
Well that i know of, i have not come that far yet, the question is how can i set up wheel_rf, wheel_lr, wheel_rr? those were not with the model. i need to fit those dummys centered at the hubs, but there are not any hubs eighter. all i have is just one wheel_lf both at the model and the heriarchy. =/
P.S I know i have not set up compounds yet, because i need my wheels first =)

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Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:56 am
by Oleg
if you have just one wheel geometry, create a copy of it, so you use the same geometry on L0 and L1 later in compound object of [wheel_lf].

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:28 am
by 19Legan81
Just select all on wheel_lf and make a copy then? How do i center them at the "hubs" mabye make new "hubs" as dummyhelper and try to center on front and rear wheelaxel?

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:52 am
by smoochy1993
19Legan81 wrote:Just select all on wheel_lf and make a copy then? How do i center them at the "hubs" mabye make new "hubs" as dummyhelper and try to center on front and rear wheelaxel?


LOL i have this problem as well :/.. only a wheel_lf and no wheel_rf and wheel_rr

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:35 am
by 19Legan81
Well i do think i know how to do it, just select the wheel_lf and copy it 3 times and rename them to those wheel you need, and then place dummy on each hub and then just do the wheel COL as madga182 did in the tutorial. And ofcourse setup compound.

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:53 am
by madga182
Essentially wheels are just dummie nodes , create three extra , and centre them to where the wheels would be and name them accordingly

Wheel_rf
Wheel_rr
Wheel_lr

And then go about creating cols like I did in my step three video

But make sure you compound the wheel_lf first

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:19 pm
by 19Legan81
Thanks. But is it not optional to place brackets [...] Thats what i heard.

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:25 pm
by madga182
You have to place th brackets on the wheel that is compounded and the other wheels then take on this form of what's in the brackets

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:31 pm
by Oleg
technically, an object with braces is saved as a separate geometry, while the rest is all merged into single geometry volume. making a wheel model to be a separate geometry allows the game to replace them easily. A separated object requires a collision associated with it, so availability of "wheel_lf [COL]" under [wheel_lf] is essential. Other wheel dummies should specify a wheel place position only. What the game will do with available wheel mesh and a given wheel locations is solely on behalf of the game. I guess is clones geometry onto each wheel position, but in truck models we might have different front and rear wheels, and game involves a bit different logic.

So, from a point of modding - put in braces the object that has geometry in it. what will happen in game - is a game's choice.

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:23 am
by madga182
Is it required to have COLs on all wheel placements then , if what your saying is correct that the [Wheel_lf] duplicates for the others ?

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:37 am
by smoochy1993
LOL i failed soo bad HAHA

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 4:38 am
by 19Legan81
How can i get the car to fit ontop of the world, as it´s going through the vehicle right now and that makes the car not entereble in game and when i shoot window, a tire explodes =)
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Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 4:56 am
by Oleg
COLs are wrong I guess. start with chassis and wheels COLs only, and check the bodyshell/chassis objects in game to react properly onto shooting. then start adding COLs one by one and test each part you add: both shooting and contact with player / scenery objects. windows COL should be the latest to add and test, as these are usually the main cause of collision problems.

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:00 am
by 19Legan81
well i know now that i did not set up COL´s other than for the wheels, i just left the rest of the cols as they ar and not into compound. mabye if i delete all cols accept wheel col. just to see if i can enter vehicle?

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:11 pm
by 19Legan81
I think that there is a problem with the original COL´s of the vehicle, because i tried to delete just the front driver door and window colission, i can´t enter the vehicle yet but when i shoot at it, it does´nt pop a tire (it popped where window was) it did when the colissions were on. so i found atleast one fault with it. The most prior COL´s
is chassis and wheels, to just test the car in game, am i right?

So i´ll just have to delete colissions until i can enter the vehicle. Or is it jus that simple that i dont have a front driverseat dummy? Is there a way to make my own new colissions for the vehicle, so it match gtaV?

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:56 pm
by Oleg
make sure you replace both model_hi.yft and model.yft as it looks according to your description the game confused by where each part located.

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 10:20 pm
by 19Legan81
I did export as both model.yft and model_hi.yft. And replaced the venilla car with both. Well i just have to check the rest of the COL´s

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 3:04 am
by 19Legan81
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This is how it looks, I only have unticked every COL besides for wheelmesh. It loads well, but i cant get in the car.
I haven't set any id:s on parts only did as madgas182 showed in his last video,(i've don all three previous tutorials on the car) just textured it and in for a test. Do i need a driverseat dummy, so that the game knows where to put player? because i did not see that in the tutorials?

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 4:35 am
by 19Legan81
SOLVED: I did just put a seat_dside_f dummy, and he entered immidiatly =)

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 5:22 am
by SeriousKnowledge
Does anyone have an idea about what's going on here? Somehow the LODs are in different locations, and dragging just messes things up further.

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 5:29 am
by Oleg
dismiss your compound and reset axes on all geometry components. Each geometry component of a compound should have the same axes as the compound itself.
The suggested way is to create a dummy for compound, put it into proper location (in case of chassis it should be in default 0,0,0 point), then move all components into children of this dummy, then use Display\Local Axes\Reset to Parent tool and click on each component, so it resets axes to make the exactly the same as on parent dummy. Once you do this, you can safely convert dummy to compound and drag items into it's L0, L1...

Re: [Guide] GTA4 to GTA5 Conversion Tutorial Videos

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:26 am
by SeriousKnowledge
Thanks for the reply, Oleg. But it would seem that every object already thinks that it's in the right spot. Most of the chassis nodes are at 0, but the outlines are off. And trying to align them manually is a nightmare.

Here's what I'm talking about:

https://i.gyazo.com/d1933070c4e200a8237 ... 3943da.gif