it depends on what in your opinion "it should exactly". In most of cases, vehicle body is dimmed down to the ground, and brighter to the top as it is open to the skylight. You can use a AO baking technique, but I am not sure what you actually need to achieve. On your screenshot the shading...

It is evaluated for primitives (like boxes, spheres, cylinders) automatically. I don't have a clue how to evaluate it for geometry primitives, so it have to be specified in user-defined properties for geometry COL objects only.

it could be painted on main texture, or (more likely) it is painted on per-vertex red channel.

add several directional lights in scene and try prelit again.

Make sure to run ZModeler as Administrator. The export folder should not be on "My documents" or "Desktop" folder; perfectly it should not be on a system drive - prefer another drive is possible.

If you can get the model with prelit colors in ZModeler, then it should get exported fine in game too. I see a black model in ZModeler on your screenshot, this is a wrong setup for export.

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This texture is 24 bits per pixel RGB. DirectX 11 does not longer support 24-bpp textures natively, this texture requires to be converted to 32-bpp to be loaded and used by DX11. I assume game's resource loading code performs such a conversion while ZModeler does not do anything of a kind. I advise ...

may you .zip and attach this file here? I don't have it in my current extracted base version.

I don't remember how this works in gta:sa. Probably, main color is a daylight prelit and the secondary (specular) color is a night version. So, use prelit tool to calculate colors for both primary and secondary colors (secondary color: prelit, swap). In general, when you use swap tool in ZModeler, y...

nnano wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:06 am Is this a new update about codewalker alternated files being blocked? As i remember it worked before (even few days ago)

no, this was several years ago.

may be the files you've been dealing with were not considered as modified for some reason.

It was a big wave of hate to modders that used codewalker to unlock .yft files (vehicles), a lot of guides was posted and some talented modders left the modding scene because of their work being stolen and spreading with custom alternations with no any credit. Since the day codewalker became open so...

yes. you need to import .yft file first, so a loaded .ydd file will get proper bones assignment. In most of cases, an imported .yft file will create a branch "filename" with ".skel" inside. Rename "filename" branch to ".global" and import .ydd file. An importe...

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in short 1. add bones to the skeleton with rigging\bone tool. put them in hierarchy where needded. 2. export "skeleton only" .yft file 3. rename .global branch to "old" or something like that, hide it (no old skeleton visible) 4. rename your model's branch to temporary name like ...

in any case, ZModeler will not load models created by codewalker.

you can add bones to the skeleton in ZModeler if needed. Depending on bones location in hierarchy, a wight reassignment might be needed, but this is a straightforward task actually.

Hello. Animation playback requires the following conditions to be met: 1. disabled "Free mode" on animation controls panel 2. enabled animation playback in viewport's options (drop-down options selection on top of viewport) 3. [if animation controls bones] skeleton should have "Setup ...

Give it a try again, it should work fine now.

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you might have rescaled the axes of an object (check in properties), while you were supposed to rescale geometry only. I don't remember the exact names, but it should be an option of "Scale" tool like "Scale geometry" or something like that.

<t>ZModeler considers the file as externally alternated and will not allow to import it. An alternation of file via codewalker is (by default) considered as locking removal procedure. If ZModeler detects the file to be created by codewalker (.ydd, .yft, .ydr) it will abandon import. the "Corrupted f...

Hello. If you have assigned a shader that uses "BUMP", then you need a texture on BUMPMAP slot and, more important, a geometry object must have tangents. Objects imported from .obj file don't have them. Enable "Tangents" option on Mesh->Vertices->Format branch of properties windo...

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add emissiveMultiplier user-defined option on material's properties page. Set there a multiplier value to adjust strength of emissive effect. By default, game uses range from 0.000 to 1.000, but you can use any value there to get different effect strength. This applies to vehicle_lightsemissive and ...