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Tails' NFS modding thread

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on: Dec 09, 2017, 7:26 AM
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Hello NFSAddons.

Some of you might know me from other forums, I was registered on NFSCars as Tails_16v and then on GTRCars which became Driving Passion as Tails. I've been modding newer NFS games since 2010 and had a few attempts at modding classic NFS titles. I came here on NFSAddons because Driving Passion is down and it will probably never be revived, while NFSCars became flooded with low-quality mods. I know that this place focuses mostly on older NFS titles and mods for those games, while I do mostly mods for newer NFS games, but it still seems like the best place to store my mods.

I won't upload all of my mods at once, instead I'll try to improve them and fix all the little errors and bugs that I might have overlooked. Here's a list of my mods:

NFS:MW Hatchback - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
BMW M3 E36 - Need For Speed: High Stakes - Car
Pursuit Chevrolet Camaro (Multitexture) - Need For Speed: High Stakes - Car
Audi S4 Undercover Police - Need For Speed: Most Wanted - Car
Audi S4 Polizei - Need For Speed: Most Wanted - Car
Audi S4 Police - Need For Speed: Most Wanted - Car
Audi S4 Polizei (cutscenes) - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Audi S4 Police (cutscenes) - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Audi S4 Undercover Police - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
NFS:MW traffic pack - Need For Speed: Underground - Car pack
NFS:MW traffic pack - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car pack
Porsche 911 GT3 991 - Need For Speed: Most Wanted - Car
Shelby Series 1 - Need For Speed: Most Wanted - Car
Shelby Series 1 - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Pagani Zonda F (RPD) - Need For Speed: Most Wanted - Car
Nissan 370Z - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VI - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Acura RSX - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 Lnr Edition - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Lamborghini Diablo SV (Undercover Pursuit Car) - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Lamborghini Diablo SV (Seacrest County Police Department) - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Porsche Cayenne Turbo S (Seacrest County Police Department) - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 Lnr Edition - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
Chevrolet Camaro SS 35th Anniversary Edition - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
Audi S4 Police - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Acura RSX - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Ram Air - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
Audi S4 Polizei - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
BMW Z4 M - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Traffic Pursuit Plymouth Fury - Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit - Car
Nissan Silvia S14 Zenki - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
HSV Pursuit SV99 Multitexture - Need For Speed: High Stakes - Car
BMW M3 E92 - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Redrock Ridge - Mitsubishi Eclipse vinyl mod - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Tool
Porsche Cayman S - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Mercedes Benz CLK500 - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
Porsche 911 Carrera S 997 - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Porsche 911 Turbo 997 - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Porsche 911 GT3 997 - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Porsche OEM rims - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Tool
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Porsche 911 GT2 997 - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Audi S3 - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
Lamborghini Gallardo - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Lancia Delta HF Integrale - Need For Speed: Carbon - Car
Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Seat Leon Cupra - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Ford Escort RS Cosworth - Need For Speed: Underground - Car
Seat Leon Cupra - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car
Ford Escort RS Cosworth - Need For Speed: Underground 2 - Car

I have left out my mods that are still uploaded at NFSCars but that I have no interest in bringing back to life. As I upload my mods, the entries in that list will turn from just text to hyperlinks to those mods. But before I upload all of those mods, I must inspect and if needed, improve them. Hopefully, that won't take too much time. Anyway, any comments are welcome and I hope you enjoy my mods.
« Last Edit: Mar 03, 2019, 1:57 PM by Tails »

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on: Dec 09, 2017, 8:56 AM
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Welcome
Mike, AJ is the chaps you know well, and there also other beautiful members. You choose a rediculous place to enjoy and posting anything related to NFS.

That might be the place for just being with someone who is helping and wider the people, the emotions.

Im thinking that all the dudes here is driving my High Stakes cars at the moment, arent they Im not quite sure.

Hail.
« Last Edit: Dec 09, 2017, 9:11 AM by Geminiyo »

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on: Dec 09, 2017, 10:38 AM
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Tails_16v, I remember you did work with Reight and released an old Skyline GTR.But I never saw the BMW M3 E36.

Anyway, welcome here and happy modding.

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on: Dec 09, 2017, 2:49 PM
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Hey there, I remember your name obviously from the communities at both sites you mentioned. Always wondered what had happened with GTR/Drivingpassion - although I stopped going there myself, it's a pity it ended because it was a pretty active place imo.

Thanks for wanting to share your work here, it's a pretty impressive list to be honest.

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on: Dec 12, 2017, 4:20 PM
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Welcome, Tails!

I look forward to seeing your cars up on the site!

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on: Dec 13, 2017, 5:01 AM
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Welcome to NFSAddons, Tails! :D

I'm looking forward for your NFS stuffs. Have a nice day! :D

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on: Dec 17, 2017, 7:19 AM
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Thanks for the positive comments guys!

Tails_16v, I remember you did work with Reight and released an old Skyline GTR.But I never saw the BMW M3 E36.

Anyway, welcome here and happy modding.

Yup, I remember the Hakosuka Skyline GT-R which I did with Reight a few years ago. Basically Reight did most of the job, I only did the damage and vidwall IIRC. The E36 M3 was uploaded only on Driving Passion some 5 months before the site went down, so I'm not surprised by the fact you never saw it. Unfortunately, as AJ_Lethal told me, it needs some bugfixes, and it's not exactly high on my priority list to fix, so you're probably going to have to wait a bit until it gets released here.

Anyway, my latest project is a v2 of my Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Ram Air WS6 for NFS:U2, but I ran into some problems with it, it crashes the game if you select some of the custom spoilers I've included, which I'll further investigate why are they exactly crashing the game and then quench the problem. Meanwhile, I uploaded some of the files which didn't need updating. Now I'm waiting for approval.

BTW, if my NFS:MW Audi S4 police car mods turn out to be uploaded twice, it's because my PC crashed while I was uploading it. Twice. It's really weird that it happened, because it usually never crashes, and now it did twice, both times while the files were uploading.

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on: Dec 21, 2017, 10:56 PM
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ahaha tails <3
what a nice surprise.glad to see you here.yeah..i'm kinda burnt out.but seeing you caring about modding for this game makes me happy.welcome bro.

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on: Mar 10, 2018, 4:59 AM
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Okay, I haven't updated this thread for almost three months, so here's an update.

Lately, I've decided to update my Underground 2 mods. First in the row was the Escort Cosworth, which didn't need any major updating. Now I'm doing the Seat Leon Cupra and I have one doubt. I can't decide whether I should remap it for vinyls or not. The thing is, the mapping is slightly broken and it'd be a PITA to remap it, besides, it's not like U2 vinyls are anything special. But if you guys want it to be mapped for U2 vinyls, I can do it.

Next on the list is the Audi S3, then I'm going to do all the other U2 mods on the list, starting from the bottom and finishing at the top. So If you have any bugs to report, any features you'd like to see added, or any ideas, just write them in this thread.

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on: Aug 15, 2018, 3:13 AM
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Sorry for a double-post, but I encountered a problem while uploading a car (Porsche 911 GT2 997 for NFS: Underground) - my PC crashed - the screen showed some funny colours for some two seconds, then it restarted. I'm mainly concerned whether the car is now uploaded or not, because I don't want to upload it twice.

Also, sorry for going off-topic, but this is not the first thing this happened. It happened a few times before, when I clicked the 'Upload Car' command while uploading a car. Did anyone else encounter such a problem?

And since I'm posting anyway, I'd like to mention that I'm working on uploading my older NFS:U mods. I've already uploaded the ones that didn't need any work, now I'm working on those that still need polishing and updating.

Oh, one more thing. If you want to see some of the cars from the list from my first post uploaded here, just tell me. Most of them still need updating, so I don't want to upload them immediately, but if you're curious about any of them, just tell me.

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on: Aug 15, 2018, 2:14 PM
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Hey,
your computer does not crash and restart because of uploading something here, thats a coincidence.
It's weird though, you only experienced this random restarts during uploading files to nfsaddons or also at other occasions?
A crash as you have described, most likely indicates a problem with your hardware. Unfortunately random shutdowns can happen for various reasons. Could be RAM issues, overheating, damaged mainboard, graphics adapter or a faulty power supply... to narrow it down you should use a tool like Blue Screen View (freeware for all NT systems from WinXP-Win10).
Just make sure your OS is configured to save blue screen dumps at a crash: Link
You not need to be an IT engineer to evaluate these reports. Just throw error codes or file names into your favorite search engine, so you get an idea what could be going on.

If the file actually made it through can only answered by staff here. Just make sure the file size is not too big and uploading process is completed (Upload completed page). If you not sure, it should be no problem if you try it a 2nd or 3rd time. I think they see duplicates and can sort them out.

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on: Aug 15, 2018, 4:36 PM
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hi Tails, I just checked the submission list, & there is nothing there, so I'm afraid the upload failed.
Like MADMAN says, a double upload is no problem, since we can always easily spot it's a duplicate and simply delete it (happens with SOTDs too, occasionally). Although, since you usually include a lot of preview screenshots with your mods, I can imagine that you don't want to have to upload a whole bunch of files twice everytime, just to be sure.

(Feel free to contact me via Private Message too, if you're having a problem or are wondering about the state of one of your uploads. It may take some hours before I can respond though, since I don't have internet access at work)

I've no concrete idea about the cause of your crashes, if it's your whole system that crashes and restarts, maybe a tool like Speccy may help you monitor if one of your components is running too hot, or running out of memory, for example.
If these crashes only happen when you're uploading here, then I'm afraid I can't think of a connection. If it was just your browser crashing, I could imagine it having to do with a file being too big or uploading too many items at once, although I don't have the tech insight to back this up, it's just a hunch. Hope you'll be able to figure it out and don't hesitate to ask for help.  ;)

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on: Aug 18, 2018, 5:16 AM
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Fist of all, a big thanks to both of you, MADMAN_nfs and Remko!

It's weird though, you only experienced this random restarts during uploading files to nfsaddons or also at other occasions?

It did happen a few times before, but that was on very rare occasions, and mostly when the PC was under heavy use for a long period of time. In recent times, it only happened while I was uploading my mods here. And I find that very odd.

Like MADMAN says, a double upload is no problem, since we can always easily spot it's a duplicate and simply delete it (happens with SOTDs too, occasionally). Although, since you usually include a lot of preview screenshots with your mods, I can imagine that you don't want to have to upload a whole bunch of files twice everytime, just to be sure.

Okay, great to know that double upload is no problem for any future inconveniences that might happen. It's not that much of a problem to upload something twice for me, but I hope I'll find the cause of the crashes anyway.

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on: Aug 28, 2018, 11:34 AM
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Hey Tails,

Which browser/OS are you using? I can investigate the upload script and see if something funny is going on, but can't imagine right now what it would be

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on: Aug 28, 2018, 1:39 PM
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    I keep trying so far... Hmm 😶‍🌫️ ☮️ 😎
Hi there Tails yup well, I've been trying to Mod more textures in UG'2.
Just to have,some better changes to Race drive, at night in there so. )
It's been not so easy, but I need to keep at it.
UsingcTexEd, an the the other, I agree with things Right said...
An nice comments above. 8)
I know the Dxt one textures, won't allow to have transparency big Hassel at times, nice car list buddy! )
Let's have a better day...?

 


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