The Driver Syndicate/Vehicles/Creating Vehicle Models

Preparing a Car Model for Import

The following information is about preparing a Vette model that already exists for the Eqiulibrium [sic] Engine

An armature with all available bone names, along with a random "Bone" bone, headlight bones can be omitted for cars without popup headlights.

An Armature must be added for a vehicle to have cosmetic damage.
Vehicles also need to have an Armature modifier that points to the armature.

Modifier to make a car work with the armature.

Almost acceptable rigging behaviour.

A car must have vertex weight groups that correspond with the names of the bones from the armature.
Areas of the vehicle can be assigned to vertex groups either by highlighting them in Edit Mode and clicking Assign, by using Weight Painting, or with a combination of the two.
Weight groups should be assigned in the correct area for each bone.
The center for the front and back of the car should be assigned for the front and back bones.
Popup headlights do not get assigned to the front bones, they get assigned to headlight.left and headlight.right

FBX is the superior way to export a car to the program that exports cars to the Driver Syndicate
Reasons to use FBX over .esm