Problems with adding new vehicles (to Freeplay)

[terickson30]

I've been looking through the Forums on this site for awhile, and finally decided to create an account, as I have a problem that I've been struggling with. I have been "cloning" and modifying a few personnel and vehicles from the Los Angeles Mod (for personal use only), and I wish to add them into the game, mostly for Freeplay.

There are a few problems I've been unable to solve:

1. I wanted to add a new skin to a vehicle, and I followed the steps in a tutorial I found (http://forum.emergen...nning-vehicles/). I cloned the vehicles I wanted, including one in particular, which I made a new skin for. After following the steps in that tutorial and creating the new vehicle skin, I opened the Editor to edit the prototype for it. I loaded the L.A. Mod, then opened the editing window for it. I wanted to change the skin of this cloned vehicle, but all I can see are the .V3O files, which I can't seem to open in any program (such as Paint.net). I want to keep the existing vehicle and have a clone of it with the new skin in the game at the same time, but I have yet to find a tutorial that tells me how to do this.

2. I want to add new vehicles and personnel to Freeplay, and I want them to be buyable and usable just like the default L.A. Mod units are. Like the vehicle above, I cloned a few vehicles and personnel, then made minor changes for personal use in Freeplay. When I worked with them in the Editor, things seemed fine when finished, as well as when I changed the game files. When I opened Freeplay, they did not appear, and more recently even crashed the game in the same way as the Editor crashed in Problem #1 above, with an instant crash to the Desktop, and no error messages or anything else. The crash happened when I scrolled to the bottom of the Police Vehicles menu, and happened at least twice. When I reinstalled L.A. Mod, the problem went away. I don't want to change existing units, as I want my new units in Freeplay with all of the existing units.

I haven't changed anything such as models or anything that seems to be extremely complicated. I know that Hoppah, the creator of the L.A. Mod, has a tutorial on adding new vehicles, but the main site where it is seems to be down, making the tutorial apparently unavailable. Other tutorials, such as the one I gave the link to above, have been helpful until the very end, but I can't seem to make these work. I have very little experience with this, and I haven't found out how to make this work in Freeplay based on other posts. Thanks in advance.

Edited June 10, 2012 by terickson30

[terickson30]

For the first issue the file you reskin is the .dds

Here's a video tutorial

Thank you for your reply, but I already know how to do what that video is explaining. I think the problem is more towards the end of the process, where I need to add the new skin, then get the unit into Freeplay, however that is to be done.

[terickson30]

Do you rename the. v3o to dds?

Where do you save the file?

Is it a different name from the original?

These are the steps that I followed:

1. Copied existing .dds file (In this case blackhawk.dds) and renamed it

2. Renamed file from ________.dds to __________.V3O

3. Opened file in the Editor and unpacked it

4. Renamed file from _______.V3O to ________.dds

5. Opened file in Paint.net and made changes

6. Renamed file from ________.dds to ___________.V3O

7. Opened file in the Editor and repacked it

8. Renamed file from ________.V3O to __________.dds

9. Moved file into C:\Program Files (x86)\WizardWorks\911 - First Responders\Mods\Los Angeles Mod v2.1\Models\Vehicles\05 US Army

I copied and renamed blackhawk.dds because I want both the original Blackhawk helicopter and my new version of it in Freeplay together. I hope this answers your questions.

[terickson30]

I got the reskinned vehicle into the Editor, but I still don't know how to turn it into a functioning unit.

By the way, here is a link to a post with images of the reskinned helicopter, if anyone is interested:

http://forum.emergency-planet.com/index.php?/topic/16463-marine-one-helicopter/

Edited June 12, 2012 by terickson30

[Alan Churms]

I'm new to this have tried to download various mods and the error message I keep getting is " mod package courrpt" I open it using winrar then try to install it to no success can anyone help me out please