CRA Sword

Edit: I am so sorry to anyone who's been here for downloads - somehow I had not saved the layout properly (twice) and the L4D2 downloads page never existed. It is now linked as of August 16, 2016. Also apparently I even broke the GTAIV downloads page in the process.

Slacking on getting BH's sword into GTAIV. I think I'll mod it in as the bat since there aren't any other suitable weapons.

In the meantime, according to a suggestion from user on GameMaps, I ended up making CrA's sword. Much much easier to do the mesh - it actually ended up in one piece, it took about 4-5 hours to make the model and another 4-5 to get the textures as it is now.

Adding normals to this sword, the final tri-count with all the bevels is nearly over 15k. The low poly version (which will still have the orbs and all important details with actual geometry) is 5-6k.

I'm thinking about trying to add some scratches to BH's blade and CRA's. The textures look a bit dull at the moment, especially upclose.

Text Modding in GTAIV (Also applies to GTASA)

This is mainly focused on modding names and nicknames. Unfortunately pronouns are too difficult to change, unless all the characters you're modding in are of one gender or something.









What you need:
X GXT Editor - This one needs administrator privileges and will also automatically update from the web. Sort of annoying but it does the import/export job well so I recommend it.
Notepad++

Pick whatever language .gxt file that you want to edit from main folder>common>text>*.gxt
Remember to make backups
Open it up with X GXT Editor.
Ctrl + A to select all.
Right click > Export to a folder
In that folder that you have all your exported files, Ctrl+A to select all
Right click > Open with Notepad++
It'll take a short while to open all the files
Ctrl+F to to open the find and replace dialogue.
You'll notice Find in all files and Replace in all Files.
Make sure to check Match case and word exactly.
Start with full names. So for example, you want to change Nico Bellic to Johnny Klebitz. Search for Nico Bellic and replace with Johnny Klebitz. Then replace any Mr. Bellic > Mr. Klebitz (this really only matters if you intend to modify the Mr. to Ms. or something similar.

Then you can start replacing the individual names like Nico to Johnny or Bellic to Klebitz. Look on GTA Wiki for a list of nicknames that each individual character has. Niko has NB, Nicky, while Johnny has John boy, Johnny boy, JK.