Editing cars with animations

[STED3RZ]

Hi

I am looking to convert a vehicle into a police variant so I need to add lights etc.
The car I want to add lights to has suspension bones / animations so I know I have to import with slice to parts off because it will break the animation bones but how do I add lights onto the car if it is all one mesh? Do I do it as I normally would and add to the hierarchy of the car or do I have to dismiss the mesh and do it that way?

Hope this makes sense!

Thanks

[Oleg]

add bone to "chassis" bone. attach lights geometry to .mesh object. assign newly-created bone onto vertices of lights geometry with Rigging\Influence\Paint tool in "Preset" mode.

[STED3RZ]

Hi Oleg, ive never really done anything with slice to parts off or rigging. could you explain in more detail? or is there a guide / video to try and learn it?

[Oleg]

I guess there are some videos, but I personally never made any (in particular, relative to GTA model editing). There were some relevant topics here on forum where I explained the process, but I can't say where exactly it is. may be googling or searching the forum directly can give a hand on the subject.

this one is for ped editing, but basic steps are generally the same:
viewtopic.php?p=72950
and a lot of details on rigged suspension is here:
viewtopic.php?p=72136