I am in need for some tips for making any type of car and any tips would really help me on my journey
Start with just a part for an existing car instead of a whole car. It's important to do this in order to develop the knowledge and skills required for a whole car. For example, try making a new front bumper for a car that has a different shape, and adjust the jbeam so that it works right. Also, I suggest looking into other mods that have been made and picking them apart to see how they work. While not everyone can really learn from doing that, it can still be useful if you want to learn what certain stuff does since the official documentation is a bit lacking.
Agreed. I would plan to make my first land mod starting in a month with the body based on the ETK, like RUF making cars based on Porsches or Brabus making cars based on Mercedes-Benz.
This is the way. I would suggest picking any car and start hacking on it. I've been making hacky mods for a long time, fixing things that I found annoying or missing in specific cars, only recently figured out how to package them properly so they show as new parts for cars. The trick is all in the filesystem structure. content\vehicles\common.zip contains a lot of things that are used across multiple vehicles whereas content\vehicles\covet.zip contains all the things used in the covet when you make a new part, it goes under the mods\ folder if you want to unpack a car into it's own mod folder, you would create a folder under mods\unpacked. this folder can be named anything, we'll name it covet_modded in this example mods\unpacked\covet_modded\vehicles\covet\ This folder now contains my modified parts (jbeam, dae, etc) for a covet. I am currently working on transplanting the flat-4 engine from the autobello into the MR covet... so I have the autobello.dae (model file) on-hand for referencing the names of flexbodies (parts of the pretty mesh/model). . Your jbeam file can be named whatever you want. It's typically recommended that entirely custom stuff like this starts or ends with your username to prevent conflicts with other mods. The key is what the parts inside the jbeam file are named. In this case, I've taken the autobello engine and renamed it as a new type of covet engine. On line 2, "covet_engine_flat4" is a unique part identifier. this should not match any other existing part name On line 5, "1.5L F4 Engine" is the string that will be used in the in-game menu. On line 9, "slotType":"covet_engine_midengine" this defines what type of part it is, in this case a covet engine for the MR unibody.
