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Ok, I just checked the attempt at reviving NFS Cars, Must say I'm impressed  . Now we don't have to tediously pick though 163GB to find stuff as they have restored the ordering..I reccomend grabbing everything you wanted from it before it's gone again (damn greedy ISPs and their shit) I'm grabbing long lost stuff now. 

I find it easiest to use FCE Finish 2 for that, Just go to texture edit (Checkerboard thing)  then paint where the part is you want to Chrome or Unchrome.

Welcome back m8!! Make sure to have a look at AJ's awesome tutorial videos on how to convert a car. It covers up almost all important things of how to use Zanoza Modeler 1.07b and how to properly edit them models.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KPpoce6Bti-I1MFahSgeaa95luj-lAm
PS: Paul has mentioned some useful stuff, maybe he was talking about  the tutorial i'm posting now

Hey Pete, Maybe you can go more indepth..I suck at summarizing  .

Good choice, Nils's cars are very easy to mod unlike some other older ones. First off you open that CAR.VIV in NFS Wizard, Extract the CAR00.TGA and CAR.FCE . You might want to grab FCE Centerer and center the CAR.FCE..then open that in FCE Finish 2 and go through every part except :OD and :OH (it screws them up if you mess with those) click the wheel furthest to the right with the gun sight, This further centers stuff. Then center it again in FCE Centerer. Import the CAR.FCE into ZModeler and from there you can use the [ ] thing and Create, Objects, Unite Select (join parts) OR Deselect (to remove parts) Just left click the mouse and drag it over what you're wanting to add/remove) Now as for parts, You open the CAR.FCE (after you center it) in CarCad..From there you can add parts, (to get parts you open other cars in CarCad and use EDIT, VERTEX EDITOR, Remove Vert.. In EDITOR just left click the mouse and move over everything in the part you want to take, Then click FILE, PARTS, EXTRACT PART. That's basically most of it, Edit this that verts wise..To add parts you've removed from something go back to FILE, PARTS, and then INSERT PART.

There is a ZModeler tutorial somewhere, I don't know where it's at now but I've got it printed out..It was long enough to make 2 catalogue sized books.

You also need a photo editor to mess with the CAR00.TGA file (I use a OLD one from 1998). I sometimes edit vehicles to create other versions of them my self. It's a tedious process of reshape,remove,add this-delete that,etc. but in the end if it turns out decent and is usable it's worth it  You can reshape things in BOTH CarCad or ZModeler via Vertices but it's easier to do in CarCad as the red dots are bigger and they don't disappear if you zoom way in. You control zoom via right side + and - on your keyboard.

What do you have against sirens ?  Anyway if you can locate the siren file it might be as easy as opening it in Audacity (if it can) and replacing the file with blank noise (just record but with no sound) I don't have these 2 games on PC and only have Hot Pursuit 2010 on PS3 and don't have NFS Heat at all so I wouldn't know if this could be done for certain but if it can it's a easy fix with Audacity, just record a nothing file and replace the sirens with that new file (might have to rename it).

Here I show you the Jaguar Mk II , converted by Reight from GT-legends game. Not lost but a W.I.P from very long time ago.
I improved to a usable nfs4 car. If you hate red cars and unsharp 512x512 textures, this is not for you.

Interested? just ask and I P.M. you a dropboxlink.

I'd like that 😊 Been hunting for a good low enough poly one to make OLD British Bobbie cars out of, SketchFab has some but God, 30000 polys on most, 20 something thousand at lowest.

I downloaded the 2021 crawl.
All the files are in numbered subfolders inside the "nfscars-assets" folder. The files are not sorted by game, there are also a lot of empty folders. The assets folder contains 15.802 files in 18.480 folders and is 44.5 GB in extracted size.
So yes, the majority of that 160GB archive is actually showroom pictures - they are in the "media" subfolder inside "www.nfscars.net" folder and sum to roundabout 121GB of extracted size.

The good news is, the "www.nfscars.net" folder has index files that are sorted by game. Inside these folders you find the numbers that correspond to the "assets" Folder (at "%game-id%\files\view\%mod-id%" subfolders).

The index files are html text versions of the download page and contain info about the mod - game, category, name etc.
So in Theory it should be possible to sort all files by game, by separating corresponding Folder numbers accordingly.

I attached a listing of that file structure.

Thanks

Has anyone downloaded the entire NFS Cars 2021 archive yet? I'll have it soon as my net reset to it's annual 200GB limit late last night and the archive was 90% done when I burned my limit last time so I started it before I went to bed last night, it'll likely be finished by the time I get off duty..Looking at it it looks to be ALOT of YouTube vids,pics,and forum posts, I have yet to find the actual files, After it's done I'll open it up and try to separate files from the other stuff, As is though it's a jumbled mess  .

Can someone remaster the H.T.P.D. Crown Victoria? (NFS High Stakes)
- Fully working reverse lamps
- Fully working traffic bar
- More polygons
- A Sheriff driver (same driver, same when leaves the car)

It's on me and Lou's bucket list amoung other projects, He has redone one of the OLD Addict CrownVics recently.

https://nfspolicehq.com/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=2023

Also I found I still have THIS, I'd feared it was lost forever but I located it again  .




It's nothing special but was one of if not my first mods. BTW Sheriff's Police is a term used when they split the County S.O. between Sheriff Dept. for Court Duties only and the Sheriff's Police for regular County Highway Patrol and Policing.

Yeah what you need to do is open the texture, and duplicate the red lightbar (if you can find space on the texture) and use any semi-capable image software to make it blue (paint.net is quick and easy). If you can't find space on the texture, halve its size so you will have space for both red and blue bars. Then you'll need to export the .FCE file and load it on FCEFinish or ZModeler, and from there move the UV from these polygons into their new correct places. Lastly, adjust the dummies names to light up in blue I cannot find the model otherwise I would have shown you a few pics.

In a brief, you gotta do texture and model edits. If you never did any modding, you'll need tools and learning a few steps. It's not a hard thing to do so don't be scared.

Oh ok. Thanks!

Yeah what you need to do is open the texture, and duplicate the red lightbar (if you can find space on the texture) and use any semi-capable image software to make it blue (paint.net is quick and easy). If you can't find space on the texture, halve its size so you will have space for both red and blue bars. Then you'll need to export the .FCE file and load it on FCEFinish or ZModeler, and from there move the UV from these polygons into their new correct places. Lastly, adjust the dummies names to light up in blue I cannot find the model otherwise I would have shown you a few pics.

In a brief, you gotta do texture and model edits. If you never did any modding, you'll need tools and learning a few steps. It's not a hard thing to do so don't be scared.

Oh ok. Thanks!

It's super easy, I'll have to look it over but I think it has 2 red parts on the TGA, (I don't remember cause I plan to replace that light bar he did with a more detailed version) If it's got 2 red parts just color one blue..It it don't you could either pick a new area to map it to and make a red/blue part or just split the lightbar segment in half and color half blue.

Interesting...but holy crap 163 gigs of a file? Is there a way to look inside of the zip from the website? Cz there's no way I can download something that big,plus I don't even have the storage for that

Click in "Show all" then click on "View contents"

Yes, That is how to view everything, Cause it's so big though it loads VERY slow showing it all, Would be ideal if someone downloads it then breaks it down game by game and then rezips it that way, Looking at it under Show Contents we see the first half is almost all YouTube vids and site format stuff. It's possible they managed to grab those pics on the forums that disappeared too I'd guess.

Exclusivity is what's killing this hobby, Unless the site owners can guarantee they'll keep their site open forever I believe in share and share alike, the more sites something is on the less likely it is to become lost to time.

There's a 2021 archive of NFSCars in archive.org
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Well do the links work? Alot of times all they do is load up the page but anything you try download links on says not found.

Well guys. We need to talk. We eather shut down the site or keep it running. We need some donation to keep it running. It looks like nfs cars has been hit with a vires and has lost almost everything. Sad day.   Thy my not be coming back. We are paying for Vires protection to keep the site safe. That why we pay so much. If you would like to keep the site running for another year please let me know. If you can spear 5 10 20 Buck to keep it running. Then we will keep a nfs site still running or just shut it down for good. Thanks

It's looking like I'm not going to get a house just yet, So I might be able to pitch in, I got a reassurance from the Police they won't just kick me out before I find a new place.

As for NFS Cars..If Archive.org would get off their ass and fix their glitch with the archive thing not working right people could use that to recover it. 

There is no real reason for this. Hometown and Coutry Woods are areas like Virginia or Hazzard County that would actually realistically be a police car like Rosco's cop car

In the PS1 game of Hot Pursuit they got chocolate color 1990 Chevy Caprices with a SignalStat-Yankee-Dietz gumball lightbars and Atlantica has the Aussie style copcars. There is a cheat code to give the cops different vehicles but I can't remember it. You can also change their voices with cheats: Boston talk, French,Italian,German,and Spanish I think are the options.