The Recreate .YTD options allows to create Enhanced version of .ytd files when you don't have it (e.g. exporting custom model). Where are "missing" textures located in both scenarios? Any of these is embedded (and doesn't work)? Any of these are repacked to .ytd file and fails to work in g...

The texture is not something you can put on a model with a couple of clicks. If the model is not identical, the model have to be "mapped" onto texture. Literally, every surface fragment of the model must be laid on a some piece of 2D texture area so it uses this texture fragment on a geome...

Once the model is imported and its textures are loaded, you can save individual textures as .dds files on a hard drive. But I'm not quite sure this is what you were asking for. The term "would that work?" doesn't give a sense on what are you trying to get as a result.

by the way, I have used your model recently to test the update of the exporter code in context of vertices/polygons count. A well-known 16Mb file limit was in a scope of my interest. After some time and tests I was able to run a 1.2mil vertices (1 mil triangles) model in game. (cloned detailed conta...

same here. it took me about 4-5 times to export various fragments of the model before I found what exactly is wrong.

unless model in actually skinned, you can't just "add new texture". Skins are configured in vehicle's metadata file. However, the changing livery (like on util trucks or ADs on van models) are always made as surface objects (extra_1, extra_2, etc.) and game spawns a vehicle with just one o...

there was a very similar topic posted in past moths, may be you can search and check it.

open materials browser (and minimize it) so it tracks selection. Once you select something, "Scene Selection" branch will show a list of materials used in current selection.

do you replace some model in game or add a new model? In most of cases, the issue is caused by wrong/missing parts in hierarchy - the game tries to configure a model with some parts and required parts are missing. Another reason is bad collision objects. It is preferable to start with modding vanill...

assign associated material onto selection. Material can be painted to secondary color in game if material has [PAINT:2] in material's name. You can assign material in material's browser by drag&dropping material onto "Scene selection" on the left side of Material's browser. If you don'...

These options are not used on most of GTA shaders. Only emissive shaders can use these settings, but it should be set to "Affected by: DETAIL + Alpha". Mind, material settings in ZModeler are very flexible to have various effects and masking options on texture slots, but these settings are...

Well, this is a technical limitation actually. Geometry fragments in yft file are chopped to ~4K vertices bursts for parallel render in game engine. Your geometry object has a bad triangles ordering when triangles 1,2,3,4 are not a neighbors (sharing some common vertices), but are spread all around ...

can you delete everything and leave just one "round thing" in scene. then test the export with just this small object. Does it suffer the same issue? if it does, send me your .z3d file, I'll take a look and tell what exactly is wrong. I assume the lowest screenshot is "before export&q...

If I'm not mistaken, this is affected by per-vertex color or per-vertex alpha value.

Hello. Most likely the importer has failed to read the file properly. I advise to use other intermediate format if possible. In particular, you can convert individual objects via "Wavefront .OBJ" format, as this one can cause less issues. However, .OBJ format can not retain per-vertex colo...

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I can't remind any tutorial on this specific subject. There were some rigging guides on suspension, these can apply to roof rigging too. In general, any rigging tutorial will apply. However, all vehicle's shaders are constrained to just one bone per vertex, so you can't make soft rigging when multip...

I afraid this can't be changed.

Hello. Your platform ID is on web account "Olaffidk". You can log in to this account and make a purchase on "Buy License" page. Then you can activate paid license for your platform ID. ZModeler on your computer is configured and should be able to download and install new license ...

vehicle_badges shader requires bump/normal texture. You can assign standard "blank_normal" texture (can find it in vehshare.ytd package). Apply Surface\Normals\Calculate tool too.

check where the local axes of your collisions volumes are. If I'm not mistaken, they are used as "center of mass".

Also, an entire model's location on Y axis relative to 0 point might be important too.

if there is a vanilla car that does this, you can take a look on that car.
I guess this is an overlapping polygons - one with per-polygon ID for taillights and another with ID for brakelights.

check the per-vertex color and per-vertex alpha on your model and on vanilla model. vehglass shader has some code related to per-vertex color, so you should respect these settings. If I'm not mistaken, per-vertex alpha is used for tint color upgrade (so game determines whether this is a tinted winds...

you do not need "env.dds" texture at all. Any material that has an environment mapping can be used with no environment texture assigned. There is no "env.dds" texture in game too, as the game will automatically assign light-probe textures as reflection onto the model; these light...

You should assign user-defined property on collision object: Mass and specify mass in kilo. Every polygon of geometry collision object should have a "surface type" assigned. You can use "GTA5 Options" window in properties page to do this. Also, an object should have some options ...