Posted Yesterday, 03:46 PM by Cathering on se7ensins

This was meant for release in 6.0, i.e. private material turned public. As some people have discovered it we figured that we should release it now, before the truth becomes twisted, the first person to discover this was at GTA IV Modding Russia: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (English translation) therefore the person deserving of credit is Solom of GTA Modding RU (person who added the information about car colours into the page).

The little gem in that page is this (which documents the names of each column for the stream section/parked car section for the XPL):
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4b - FLOAT - X
4b - FLOAT - Y
4b - FLOAT - Z
4b - FLOAT - Unknown
4b - FLOAT - Rotation
4b - FLOAT - Rotation
4b - UINT32 - Model name hash
4b - INT32 - Car color 1
4b - INT32 - Car color 2
4b - INT32 - Car color 3
4b - INT32 - Specular color
4b - INT32 - Flags
4b - INT32 - Alarm
4b - INT32 - Unknown
Take note of the "Car color 1", "Car color 2", "Car color 3" and "Specular color" column names.

What does this translate to?
It means while using the Dageron placement editor, the following columns in the stream section are of great interest:

They follow in order: Car color 1, Car color 2, Car color 3, Specular color.

They are usually set to -1 but changing them should make the specified vehicle always spawn with a specific colour.

How do they work?
A -1 value means a random selection of colour.
Any other values mean a specific colour index as defined in carcols.dat.
All values 1, 2, 3 and the specular must either all be random or have proper colour indexes, you can not have one random and one as a proper index at the same time.

Credits
Solom of GTA Modding RU.

Additions
ROBATOREMODZ, on 04 September 2011 - 03:54 PM, said:
So we do this while map modding and we only get 3 colors?
You have misunderstood, in the stream section there is four columns, unknown 8, 9, 10, 11, they all represent a specific colour, as named: colour 1, colour 2, colour 3, specular. You can assign each car these values.

DannyDarthtk, on 04 September 2011 - 04:00 PM, said:
means the car you spawn can have 1 color, if I'm right on this.

say you want your chopper to be white, you just put a white color in the slots cathering has said like...

this is to get white.
color1:255 color2:255 color3:255

Hope that is right.
Incorrect, it would be: 133, 133, 133 (I believe you may skip the third colour if the vehicle does not have a third colour), 133 to get full white.

xXShAdOvVXx, on 04 September 2011 - 04:10 PM, said:
If you want a white annihilator then put 133,133,133,0. Always keep the 4th 0 even if it's not use, just to be safe. Look at the carcols.dat colors for colors you want to use, that everyone can see.



Colour index reference from carcols.dat
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Textual:
col
#BLACK's
10,10,10,-,black # 0 black
37,37,39,-,black # 1 black poly
#GREYS/SILVERS
101,106,121,-,grey # 2 concord blue poly
88,89,90,dark,grey # 3 pewter gray poly
156,161,163,-,silver # 4 silver stone poly
150,145,140,-,silver # 5 winning silver poly
81,84,89,dark,grey # 6 steel gray poly
63,62,69,dark,grey # 7 shadow silver poly
165,169,167,-,silver # 8 silver stone poly
151,149,146,-,silver # 9 porcelain silver poly
118,123,124,-,grey # 10 gray poly
90,87,82,dark,graphite # 11 anthracite gray poly
173,176,176,-,silver # 12 astra silver poly
132,137,136,light,grey # 13 ascot gray
148,157,159,-,grey # 14 clear crystal blue frost poly
164,167,165,-,silver # 15 silver poly
88,88,83,dark,graphite # 16 dk.titanium poly
164,160,150,light,graphite # 17 titanium frost poly
175,177,177,-,white # 18 police white
109,108,110,-,grey # 19 medium gray poly
100,104,106,-,grey # 20 med.gray poly
82,86,97,dark,grey # 21 steel gray poly
140,146,154,-,grey # 22 slate gray
91,93,94,-,graphite # 23 gun metal poly
189,190,198,light,grey # 24 light blue grey
182,182,182,-,white # 25 securicor light gray
100,100,100,-,grey # 26 arctic white

#RED
226,6,6,bright,red # 27 very red
150,8,0,-,red # 28 torino red pearl
107,0,0,-,red # 29 formula red
97,16,9,-,red # 30 blaze red
74,10,10,-,red # 31 graceful red mica
115,11,11,-,red # 32 garnet red poly
87,7,7,-,red # 33 desert red
38,3,6,dark,red # 34 cabernet red poly
158,0,0,-,GrottiRed # 35 turismo red
20,0,2,dark,red # 36 desert red
15,4,4,dark,red # 37 currant red solid
15,8,10,dark,red # 38 brt.currant red poly
57,25,29,-,red # 39 elec.currant red poly
85,39,37,-,red # 40 med.cabernet solid
76,41,41,-,red # 41 wild strawberry poly
116,29,40,-,red # 42 med.red solid
109,40,55,bright,red # 43 bright red
115,10,39,bright,pink # 44 bright red
100,13,27,-,red # 45 med.garnet red poly
98,11,28,bright,red # 46 brilliant red poly
115,24,39,bright,red # 47 brilliant red poly2
171,152,143,light,pink # 48 alabaster solid
32,32,44,dark,blue # 49 twilight blue poly

#GREEN
68,98,79,-,green # 50 torch red
46,91,32,-,green # 51 green
30,46,50,dark,green # 52 deep jewel green
48,79,69,dark,green # 53 agate green
77,98,104,light,blue # 54 petrol blue green poly
94,112,114,-,green # 55 hoods
25,56,38,dark,green # 56 green
45,58,53,dark,green # 57 dark green poly
51,95,63,-,green # 58 rio red
71,120,60,bright,green # 59 securicor dark green
147,163,150,light,green # 60 seafoam poly
154,167,144,light,beige # 61 pastel alabaster solid

#BLUE
38,55,57,dark,blue # 62 midnight blue
76,117,183,bright,blue # 63 striking blue
70,89,122,-,blue # 64 saxony blue poly
93,126,141,light,blue # 65 jasper green poly
59,78,120,-,blue # 66 mariner blue
61,74,104,-,blue # 67 harbor blue poly
109,122,136,light,blue # 68 diamond blue poly
22,34,72,dark,blue # 69 surf blue
39,47,75,dark,blue # 70 nautical blue poly
78,104,129,-,blue # 71 lt.crystal blue poly
106,122,140,light,blue # 72 med regatta blue poly
111,130,151,light,blue # 73 spinnaker blue solid
14,49,109,-,blue # 74 ultra blue poly
57,90,131,light,blue # 75 bright blue poly
32,75,107,-,blue # 76 nassau blue poly
43,62,87,-,blue # 77 med.sapphire blue poly
54,65,85,-,blue # 78 steel blue poly
108,132,149,-,blue # 79 lt.sapphire blue poly
77,93,96,-,blue # 80 malachite poly
64,108,143,-,blue # 81 med.maui blue poly
19,69,115,bright,blue # 82 bright blue poly
16,80,130,bright,blue # 83 bright blue poly
56,86,148,-,blue # 84 blue
0,28,50,dark,blue # 85 dk.sapphire blue poly
89,110,135,light,blue # 86 lt.sapphire blue poly
34,52,87,-,blue # 87 med.sapphire blue firemist
32,32,44,dark,blue # 88 twilight blue poly

#YELLOW
245,137,15,-,yellow # 89 taxi yellow
145,115,71,-,yellow # 90 race yellow solid
142,140,70,-,yellow # 91 pastel alabaster
170,173,142,light,yellow # 92 oxford white solid
174,155,127,-,yellow # 93 flax
150,129,108,-,yellow # 94 med.flax
122,117,96,-,beige # 95 pueblo beige
157,152,114,light,yellow # 96 light ivory
152,149,134,light,beige # 97 smoke silver poly
156,141,113,-,yellow # 98 bisque frost poly

#ORANGE

#PURPLE
105,30,59,-,pink # 99 classic red
114,42,63,dark,pink # 100 vermilion solid
124,27,68,bright,pink # 101 vermillion solid

#BROWN
34,25,24,-,brown # 102 biston brown poly
127,105,86,light,brown # 103 lt.beechwood poly
71,53,50,dark,brown # 104 dk.beechwood poly
105,88,83,light,brown # 105 dk.sable poly
98,68,40,-,brown # 106 med.beechwood poly
125,98,86,light,brown # 107woodrose poly
170,157,132,light,beige # 108 sandalwood frost poly
123,113,94,-,brown # 109 med.sandalwood poly
171,146,118,-,beige # 110 copper beige
99,92,90,-,brown # 111 warm grey mica

#WHITE
201,201,201,-,white # 112 white
214,218,214,-,white # 113 frost white
159,157,148,-,beige # 114 honey beige poly
147,163,150,-,white # 115 seafoam poly
156,156,152,-,white # 116 lt.titanium poly
167,162,143,-,white # 117 lt.champagne poly
15,106,137,light,blue # 118 arctic pearl

161,153,131,-,white # 119 lt.driftwood poly
163,173,198,-,white # 120 white diamond pearl
155,139,128,-,beige # 121 antelope beige
132,148,171,light,blue # 122 currant blue poly
158,164,171,-,white # 123 crystal blue poly
#PURPLE

#SPEC FLIP COLOURS
134,68,110,-,pink # 124 temple curtain purple
226,6,6,-,red # 125 cherry red
71,120,60,light,green # 126 securicor dark green
215,142,16,-,yellow # 127 taxi yellow
42,119,161,-,blue # 128 police car blue

#MSC
66,31,33,dark,brown # 129 mellow burgundy
111,103,95,-,brown # 130 desert taupe poly
252,38,0,bright,orange # 131 lammy orange
252,109,0,-,yellow # 132 lammy yellow
255,255,255,-,white # 133 very white

#NEW COLOURS's
245,180,0,-,yellow # 134 SuperD yellow
5,5,5,-,black # 135 black
189,149,75,-,gold # 136 Gold
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