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RedCarDriver Moderators Posts: 1211 Location: United States Arizona Occupation: it's complicated... more complicated than my relationships Age: 30 V$: 86310	#90443 2016-02-03 20:06
	He hasn't really done anything yet except get the car imported into 3DS Max Okay, so, here's a set of material settings that I use. Do you need help ripping the textures for the Solstice with Forza Studio? If so, I can talk you through that, but it's really simple. (Go to Textures tab -> click the texture you want -> right click -> export as PNG; repeat for all textures you need.) Okay, so: Open the MAX scene included in this file, and go to "Merge" and merge in your whole car you imported in another Max scene. You should see a button with four circles on it (it's in the top right corner of the window). Click on that. You should get a dialog with all of the material settings in it. You may notice that some of them say "_YOURCAR" at the end of them. Change "_YOURCAR" to "Solstice" or whatever (this isn't actually that important, but it helps you keep track if you're working with multiple Forza sources at once, like I tend to end up doing). Then, copy in the Solstice's LOD0 textures (nodamage_lod0, interior_lod0, lights_lod0, wheel_lod0) and rename them to "Solstice_nodamage_lod0" etc. Go into the "LightsInner_YOURCAR" (now "LightsInner_Solstice") material and click on the boxes for the "GTR_lights_lod0.png" texture. You should get a window that looks like this. Change these to "Solstice_lights_lod0" (one of your files) by clicking on the file name and path button. Also make sure that the green settings are marked the way that they are shown in the picture - this will be important for things like glass. Repeat this with all the bitmaps that have "GTR_" file names. Now - you can click on a material and select a part, and click on the third button on the long row of buttons in that dialog (the arrow pointing from a sphere to a box) to assign materials to your car. This may be a little slow. If you can figure out how, you can speed it up by using the Selection Floater (Tools -> "Selection Floater...") and selecting all "Body" parts to put the "Paint" material on, all the "interior" parts to put the "Interior_Basic" material on, etc. Let me know if you get stuck! EDIT: Oh, whoops. He posted that whole update in the time it took for me to type this up. xD But, yes, do smoothing. (I wouldn't recommend auto smoothing. Just put one smoothing group - like group 1 - on everything. Only use auto smooth if it screws up the door seams or something.)
	My Roleplay Thread Roleplay set roughly in a fictionalized version of Phoenix, Arizona. The time varies, with a lot of flashbacks / stories told through old photos as well as flash forwards to later times, but is intended to be one continuous story. My character is about 5 years older than myself, and considerably richer. lol. I have a couple of other made-up characters for the RP too. Current cars: - Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec (BCNR33 1996 S2) - Toyota Supra (JZA80 1993) - auto N/A; work in progress Shop drift car: Nissan Skyline GTS25t 2JZ Swap (ECR33 1994) Previous cars: - Nissan 240SX RHD Conversion / RB Swap - parted out - Pontiac G8 V6, LS7 Swap - sold - Toyota Supra Turbo (JZA80 1997) - stolen Others' featured cars: - Jake's Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec (BCNR33) "Wine Red" with Nismo RB28 Will the R33 ever be released? When? : The R33 is a long running work in progress that will be released when it's done, and not a moment sooner. I'm definitely being a perfectionist about this, but I want this to be the mod the community deserves and expects, not merely the latest in a set of stop-gap mods. Will you be making a Mustang 2015 / S550? : Not after the large bunch of other stuff I'm planning to make is all done. Is that your mod in those screenshots? : Is it the Skyline R33, the Audi A5, the Crossfire, the Supra JZA80 (with Bigg Boss93) or one of the ones I've released (like the Mustangs)? If so, yes. If not, probably not; search the GOM and VStanced downloads sections for it. Mustang mod updates? : A new SN95 1995 Mustang mod is planned (the original wasn't mine); a Foxbody remake with LOD0 meshes is in the works, and will include more parts than the original version; and I am preparing updates to the SN95 2000, many of which are finished but not there yet.