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The Ballad of Gay Tony Modding
Get Sublime Text
You can use Notepad in replace of Sublime Text, I'd recommend Sublime.
After Patch
In order to mod after patch you need to change a few files.

Open setup2.xml with Sublime
Rename content.dat to contenx.dat



Now rename content.dat to contenx.dat.

Open contenx.dat with Sublime
Rename any files you will be modding:


Now rename the corresponding files.

American GXT
So you want to change the text ay?
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Open your desired .gxt in in the GXT Editor Depending on your computer, it takes a bit of time to load
For Table Name leave it on MAIN. Most things in multiplayer are located here along with LOADING and a lot more.
Sort by Value. It makes it easier to find what your looking for.
Edit:
Resized to 75% (was 804 x 560) - Click image to enlargePosted Image
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Save, and replace the original.

Blood FX
This file is was used to create the Ghost Rider mod.
Open entityfx.dat with Sublime
You will see:



Open bloodfx.dat with Sublime
Scroll down till you see:




Then at the far right you will see:



Change to:


Repeat this change down the file to have a constant effect.

Car Colors
I will show you how I change my car colors. Download this [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] file.

Save this image to your desktop:
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That image has all the colors available from both regular GTA IV and TBOGT.

Open carc.dat with Sublime
You will find:



There are two types of color blocks. car3 and car4.
How do you tell what is what?
car3
1st Digit = Primary Color
2nd Digit = Usually rims and accents
3rd Digit = Two Tone Color

car4 (Based off the SultanRS)
1st Digit = Primary Color
2nd Digit = Stripe
3rd Digit = Roof
4th Digit = Two Tone

To change the colors look at the image for the corresponding number.
This is an example of 3 car colors for one car:




You can do this individually for every car, but if you want to do one color line for all the cars in that block do this in Sublime:
Go to Find Replace OR Press Ctrl+H
Then do the following:
Find what: 0,0,89,
Replace with: 0,0,89, 21,74,112 29,0,74 (Replace these numbers with your color line)
Then press Replace All.


Car Group
This file is the easiest.

Open carg.dat with Sublime
Find:





To make the Swift spawn at the police stations change to:





The next line down is:




Just whatever vehicles you want like this:




ExplosionFX
Open explofx.dat with ExplosionFX Editor
Use drop down to All Files to see a renamed explosionfx.dat

Everything in the program should be quite obvious on what it does. A few things to pay attention to:


Handling
I really don't mess with handling too much. This is where I use Brady's <3.
This file can be opened either with the Handling Editor or Sublime. If you are cop pasting lines, use Sublime. If you are tweaking you own, I'd use the Handling Editor. The file is pretty easy to understand in the Handling Editor and Sublime.

If anyone wants to make a detailed section for this, please pm me.

Hud
Open hud.dat with Sublime
I took a snippet of hud.dat to show you:



Everything is quite obvious. If you want a different color look inside of hudcolor.dat and replace the current. If you want the color to be more transparent, change 255 to a lower number. If you want the a hud element to be bigger change the size.

Hud Color
Open hudcolox.dat with Sublime
These values are in RGB and can be changed to anything.

Changing this:


To this:


To make health packs white on the map.

To change the health, armor, and damage colors change these values:

Material FX
WIP

Materials
WIP

Ped FX
This file is what we use to make bloody footsteps. You can change this to anything from EntityFX & BloodFX files.
Open entityfx.dat with Sublime
You will see:



Open pedfx.dat with Sublime
At the far right of the file you will see:


Change to:


Repeat this change down the file to have a constant effect.

This is the effect you will get in game:
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Ped Group
Open pedgrx.dat with Sublime

To change the pedestrians that spawn in multiplayer change this:



Vehicle FX
WIP

Vehicles IDE
Open vehiclesx.ide with Sublime

To make a vehicle fly change:


To make a vehicle freeze change:




Want to remove that stupid flag of the patriot? Remove this:





Want SultanRS or Bullet engine sounds & backfire on any car? Change:




Visual Settings
Open visualsettingx.dat with Sublime

Change these values to change the Headlights and Tail Lights:


From what I can remember the higher the number the larger the lights. Intensity has an effect on this too.

To change the color of the rain:


The rain is a bit random though.

You can play around with other values too.

Water
If you don't want water, just delete everything in water.dat and save.

To raise the water, use this line by davilex:

This will still allow you to get into Annihilators and drive in parts of the city.

If you want to make the water level higher change all the parts containing:




to a higher number.
For example:


If you want to make the water level lower, do the same as above only lowering the number instead. Remember 0 is the default water height. Making the number a negative, will put the water level below the default but not get rid of it.
For example:



WeaponFX
WIP
credit goes to advent mist:)
sticky please:d