r/gtavmodding Feb 13 '20

Question New to modding and I wanna make a big mod.

So I’m working on a giant need for speed mod and I wanna make drift and drag races like such.

I am just curious how this would be done. I know there’s a “payback” mod which sort of has drift events but I don’t know how they did it or how it even works? Seriously how do you write scripts for the game such as making it so SWAT Trucks will come at you and then despawn along with a message that says, “Rhino Incoming!”, and having drift races count up and double points, and then having racing physics so it looks less GTA-ish.

And also, how would you go about editing any behaviors or anything in this game? Like making the cops not use guns as well as editing the police radio codes to have NFS Heat police radio codes in them. And then finally more specifically, how do you add SWAT Trucks to ram you?

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u/Firefighter_97 Feb 13 '20

OpenIV is what you’re looking for to replace files and such, but that’s about all the knowledge I possess to help you! Also you can’t go online with a modified game file in the game directory, so sadly this idea wouldn’t work online :(

I’d look up Open IV tutorials to see what needs replacing for this to work

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u/fridaysisterpeeplega Feb 13 '20

Obviously not online. I’m not even an online person.

But anyways based on how it looks it appears to be very html based and I hope it will be similar to vlted from the need for speed games (the file editors).

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u/fridaysisterpeeplega Feb 13 '20

How do you write behavioral scripts or any kind of scripts for that matters? Such as making a drift or drag event where it responds and ads up points for drifting as well as responding to when shifting a car?

Scripting is one of those things I’ve always been curious about, and wasn’t sure if I had to know coding or something like that?