[ManDog]

Made this tutorial for a friend, i do not know if there is a tutorial for this somewhere, so i made it myself.

Getting Started
This is the guide on how to player model for gta3! so you can play as a player you want.

Tools:
TXD Workshop
3ds Max

To start:

Open up your TXD Workshop which you can download here.
Open it up and it should be like this:

then click Open IMG which can be seen here

Now, go to your GTA3 Directory which should be in either "My Documents" or "C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA3".
Go to the models folder and open up GTA3.img.
Extract Player.dff, and import it in 3ds max.

BUT! Make sure that before you import the model, make sure the toolbar is like this:

Now you probably have a ped you want to rig, so we'll carry on to the next step.

Now that you have extracted and imported Player.dff into 3dsmax, move it to the right/left away from the position that it was imported in.
Now import your model you want to rig to GTA3, for me, it's bmydj from SA.
Rotate the model + skeleton 90 degrees to the right, like this:

So now it should be facing the same way as claude's player model, after done, it should look like this.

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Now, select all of your peds skeleton, use ALT to de-select the model, and Delete the skeleton by pressing "DEL"
So it will be like this:

Go to the toolbar; should be in the near top right corner. Click Editable Mesh and Element, select the whole model except the head, like this:

Now delete it so it will be just the head, as we are just rigging the head A-T-M.
like this

Move the head to where claudes head is, aline it up, so it will be like this:

But now, the neck area below the head will have gaps, go the the toolbar and click Vertices from Element.
Move the bottom area of the head where the neck should be to fit claudes neck without any gaps.
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[ManDog]

WARNING!
Make sure you have UVMapped the player's head first, the one you wanna rig, not claudes, make sure you've uvmapped the head to claude's player.bmp!
If you do not know how, i will make a tutorial about it later on.

Rigging the Model
Now that the bottom area of the head where the neck should be is fitted, click onto Claude's head, select all his vertices, and click "Attach".
Then click on the peds head u wanna rig, and a bar should pop up and it will be like this:

Click ok, now both claude's head and the ped's head should be one, only claude's head vertices will be red because they are the ones what are selected, i guess it will be like this:

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Click DEL so it should just be the peds head you're rigging:

Now the ped should be rigged, but first. Add the textures to the model both ped and claudes body, should be like this

Before you extract, make sure the toolbar is like this:

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Select everything, plus Root like this..

Now press Extract DFF. Then you are done, BUT, not entirely, you want to rig your ped to work in cutscenes don't ya?
On to the next step!

[ManDog]

Rigging the model for Cutscenes
Go to your gta3.img by TXD Workshop, and extract "Playerh.dff"
Should be like this:

Now, do the same as before. Line the ped u want to rig's head up with claude's head like this:

Click claude's head and select all his vertices, click on Attach, click on the peds head, click Ok.
Then it should be rigged, and it should be like:

Now, extract in VC's extraction method, and click Bones/Skin Export. Should be:


Now you have rigged it for cutscenes, now go to TXD Workshop, open up playerh.txd, replace the texture with the uvmapped one with claudes body texture, click save TXD, click it off, go ingame, and enjoy your rigged model!

This post has been edited by ManDog on Saturday, Aug 20 2011, 16:16

[lpgunit]

Sounds nice enough, and I guess it's about time that we have a player rigging tutorial for III. The only problem is that models with skirts and similar stuff might not be suitable enough for the game due to the way III animates peds.

[Swoorup]

great tut!!!looking for some more

[Junior123456789]

How do I skin my character?

QUOTE

Add the textures to the model both ped and claudes body, should be like this

EDIT: Just found out. Nice tut. Now I'll see how it looks ingame.
EDIT²: Look what I done XD:

Download

Next I'll do some GTA IV Characters like Roman XD
I also added some Tommy skin textures so it's like Tommy from VC

This post has been edited by Junior123456789 on Friday, Jan 6 2012, 14:02

[Junior123456789]

Hoping you'll do a tut of cutting body into parts

This post has been edited by Junior123456789 on Sunday, Jan 8 2012, 20:34

[Junior123456789]

Pls ManDog read the PM I sent you

[CONEX]

Hey man i got a problem

It's not with the DFF its with the Texture....

I can't uvmap the texture because the TXD im trying to use has more than one texture in it...

It has 4 Textures, the face texture and the Hair texture and both eyes, what shall i do now?

Its all ok but you should do the UVMapping Tutorial: (
I have no idea how to do it, and my Ped has 4 different textures so yeah : (!

This post has been edited by CONEX on Saturday, Jan 21 2012, 07:09

[Libertyking]

Why does 3ds max cost 4000$ ? I really wanted to do something like this.

[goin-god]

QUOTE (Libertyking @ Saturday, May 19 2012, 21:13)

Why does 3ds max cost 4000$ ? I really wanted to do something like this.

Because it's a professional modeling software. The same software used to make each GTA.

[fireguy109]

QUOTE (Libertyking @ Saturday, May 19 2012, 19:13)

Why does 3ds max cost 4000$ ? I really wanted to do something like this.

Download the student version. I got a full year free by telling them I was a homeschooled kid from Paperweight, Nebraska.