Sooooo, I've enjoyed AC as "user" for about 7 years now. I downloaded hundreds, probably thousands of mods. But I also deleted about 80% of them after testing. Sometimes feeling very frustrated because it was a very desirable model, but with one or more major flaws and no alternatives. I slowly learned to fix some small things on car mods. Like wipers, windscreen, very small stuff, mostly through ext_config. But more often than not it wouldn't work and I didn't understand why. Leaving me angry about them lazy and bad modders.
Now here's the thing. Two weeks ago I had absolutely zero knowledge about car modding, textures and meshes, nulls and cutting or welding polygons. I had never touched 3ds Max or Blender, RyzomUV or even Paint.net and ksEditor. So to try and understand how a car mod is put together, why my small fixes sometimes worked and sometimes didn't, to hopefully be able to fix more and bigger flaws, I started watching MNBA's conversion tutorial video's. I picked a car model that I wanted badly, but was not available in HQ yet.
The car I picked is a 2013 Donkervoort D8 GTO. The only version we had in AC was the one from Legion, and it wasn't exactly HQ. So I searched out for a new model and started from scratch with the conversion while following the tutorial. Here's a comparison video between the Donkervoort we "had" and my first ever try at modding.
Remember, just two weeks ago I didn't know **** about modding. Today I feel confident about fixing almost everything about a "bad mod". I'M NOT SPECIAL!! You can do this too if you want. If like me, you only ever downloaded mods, felt frustrated about bad mods, fully dependent on other people to fix things, I highly recommend following the MNBA (or any other) tutorial video's.
p.s. These two weeks drastically changed my perspective on AC modding. The amount of work that goes into 1 single good mod is simply astounding. The good modders are actually HEROES. And for the past 7 years, I haven't nearly appreciated them enough. Hell even the bad modders deserve credit for their effort.
p.p.s. Those 2 weeks I keep metioning were 12 hour days. So more reasonable to say 150 hours, if you start from 0 knowledge like me.
p.p.p.s. I just have 3 small things do to on my list and will "release" (feels weird to say that) my mod to the public, free, unecrypted.
One last little thing. If you've never contributed to the AC mods library, with either mods or fixes or enhancements, and keep asking for more mods, especially as a comment under a newly released mod, I just want to say "**** you". You should be saying "thank you very very much Sir" and keep your mouth shut and if you want more, you should learn it yourself. I know I'm a hypocrit for saying this, but thats just how much my perspective has changed in the past two weeks.
sharemods.com
