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Correct. From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) A mod creator creates a source 3d model which is used for the game/mod. They use that 3d model to create the paint template etc. The mod creator and usually a few other extremely talented artists detail the 3d model with textures to make it look real (engine bays, underbodies, TIRES, etc.) which makes up the complete model you see in max. Once you add some lights, backgrounds, and tweak a lot of things, you have a scene. (and that's a very brief description, it's a lot more work than that...)Hi guys,
sorry if I jump into the discussion, i never made a mod for NR2003 so forgive my ignorance about that.
I had a similar question, so from what I understood it's not possible to open existing cars and modify them without the source scene, am I right?
What do you mean modify them, the model itself or just the paint that is on your car file?Hi guys,
sorry if I jump into the discussion, i never made a mod for NR2003 so forgive my ignorance about that.
I had a similar question, so from what I understood it's not possible to open existing cars and modify them without the source scene, am I right?
My idea, assuming i can reach the author of the mod to ask his permission, was to do a few fixes on the 1997 cup mod.Correct. From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) A mod creator creates a source 3d model which is used for the game/mod. They use that 3d model to create the paint template etc. The mod creator and usually a few other extremely talented artists detail the 3d model with textures to make it look real (engine bays, underbodies, TIRES, etc.) which makes up the complete model you see in max. Once you add some lights, backgrounds, and tweak a lot of things, you have a scene. (and that's a very brief description, it's a lot more work than that...)
Once that 3d model is converted to a .car, there is no way to get a 3d model from a .car. Its compiled at that point, and there's no way to get it back.
Unless if you have the 3d model created by the mod creator, there is no way to make a render scene from a .car.
I've always assumed that maybe if you're really talented in 3d modeling, you could reverse engineer a 3d model based on the template, but that would be painfully hard work that I doubt anyone would do for free, or for fun. (I also have no idea if that's even possible).. Hope that helped, I had a hard time figuring that out myself at first.