American Truck Simulator Modding Tutorial - Episode 01 - Prepping Blender

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[@veagan_01]

Great video bro well explained 👍 👏 👌 I appreciate your teaching sir.... I've just started modding about a month ago with zmodeler but I heard blender give a more immersive ui and I've been watching some vids and yours is the most well explained thus far thanks man..... just 1 thing though we need to be able to see the cursor movements thanks again u got a sub

[@koolgaming876]

just finished witching part 1 and followed all steps successful .... p2 next thanks new sub + like

[@nonamech14]

i made few mods for ets 2 and im still leraning i want to learn how to make full truck

[@MnTrucker1984]

Im way late to this modding game, following along at (22:44 ) I am able to select unit, then hookup But it still show red on the right side. The hookup folder is also blank for me. You seen to have things in that folder. What may i be missing?

[@Faelandaea]

3 months!!!! Why did this not give me a notification??? I am so sorry. Yes, if you extract all of your game files, then the paths for hookups and such have to be set. Just set the path to wherever you extracted the game files and all should be good. If you still need help, poke me on Discord, since KZbin seems to have decided to quit sending me emails of comments :( I just noticed yours while looking at settings for something unrelated O.o

[@royk8721]

the best tutorial on ats modding ive found in over a year of dicking around on the intrernet. problem is i still havent found a tutorial on how to take a damn bike accessory from one truck to another. between all this modding confusion and the game crashing all the time, im almost done with the fuckin game. i had hope but then you ended the tutorials

[@Faelandaea]

Roy, trust me, I know how you feel. I started making these tutorials because no one else would. Trust me when I say I REALLY want to find the time to make more. I ended up doing a lot more time on the road to make finances meet, and that is why my channel has slowed waaaaaaaaay down. But I am trying to get myself to a point where I can have more home time or even find something local to quit the OTR bit. When I do, I plan to dive in again on modding videos.

[@royk8721]

@@Faelandaea thats great to hear. maybe ill finally learn blender properly while waiting

[@dand3975]

I don't like new versions Of ATS, seems like they are aimed at breaking mods, a long with some new SCS updates. Backing videos are always cool for your real truck videos. I wish ATS had a yard dog mode. My first attempted mod will be 4' Fiberglass CB antennas or the old school chrome Fuller Road ranger 13 speed shift knob.

[@Faelandaea]

Thanks for commenting, Dan. Any game I have that has a lot of updates can easily frustrate me when it comes to modding. For ATS I’ve started sticking to only my own mods and mainly focus on just skins, etc. that can survive multiple updates. That said, I REALLY need to find some time to start working on a new real companies mod from scratch for ATS. The one I initially created is way out of date and the ones being maintained on steam have grown to be almost as unrealistic as the default fiction names. I plan to use my experience with shippers and receivers and knowledge of freight out here to make it happen. I think a game mode that has you moving trailers around a large facility like Target DC in Pueblo, CO would be outstanding. That’s a great idea. Someone already made a yard dog vehicle for ATS so we can “role-play” that now, but an actual mode with door and spot assignments would be sweet indeed. I’d gander such a mode could give a choice of vehicle as well, as I have seen some larger facilities utilizing day can trucks as yard dogs as well. CB antennas can be fun to mod. I just recently made a booster antenna modeled after the one I have on my truck in real life. Compared to other accessories they can be so easy to make. I just wish we could animate in ATS to make the antenna “flex”. I imagine it has to be possible. Even Farm Simulator allows me to do that (my antenna in FS22 flex and bend as the vehicle moves, hits bumps, etc.)

[@dand3975]

@@Faelandaea I stayed with version 1.39 till a month ago. Running 1.46 now. Had to sell a huge fleet of mod trucks, old w900s, coe Internationals, Freightliner Long nose, those mods broke the heck out of I.46, even crashed the game whenever I acessed the Colorado Springs Garage. Replaced the old trucks with plain SCS company trucks, no mod engines & white paint jobs. I will stick with 1.46 as long as possible,. Learn to Make some of my own skins and simple mods .

[@miqo101]

i followed all the steps but got lost in 14:48 of this video because i couldnt see your mouse cross hair to see what to click lol...

[@TheFussball17]

when you got to the SCS Material properties, I don't see a tool icon between Object Properties and the texture properties (where did I go wrong ) LOL

[@Faelandaea]

Can you take a screenshot for me? I am on the road (real life) at the moment but will be home Saturday night to hopefully compare.

[@TheFussball17]

@@Faelandaea I found it, F1, and clicked Materials ..

[@Faelandaea]

@@TheFussball17 aaaah okay. Awesome. I’m glad you found it. :)

[@5.0king]

Hi I need some help regarding setting up preferences in blender when i got to preferences then add ons and scs it only gives me import:export converter PIX wrapper not scs tools as well does the matter or not So i skipped it and went on to setting up active tool and workspace settings and it doesn't come up with any scs global settings or project base path need help plz!!

[@wmgthilgen]

I'm a new player, and maybe it's due to my age of 73, but adding mods isn't any issue, it's the placement when activating them. Apparently assuming they are compatible and will work in the new version such as the one I have which is 145. They all seem to request and or demand that they be first, and that's impossible. Apparently there is a catorization system in which one catagory should be first, and then the mod placed in a catagory must be in the right location. With all the various mods requsting and mandating they be first. How does one when they are not actuall classified as to which catagory they should be placed, let alone higher or lower in the catagory. Does one insert mods. I've spent hour's trying to get various mods which are supposed to work in 145, by moving them from place to place.

[@Faelandaea]

Sorry for the delayed reply. As a truck driver, I only get to really get to comments every few days, especially on days like today where I arrived at my customer 20 hours early LOL. Category does not matter unless you are uploading the mod for others to use. All that does is help sort the mod list so you can find stuff easier. Purely UI stuff and has nothing to do with function in the game. As for mod order, the simplest way to put it is: If two mods give you the same thing, always have the one you want above the other. Example, two mods modify a decoration flag texture in your sleeper. One has one picture, the other one has a different picture, then the one you want should be above the other one. Whatever is higher in the list always overrides what is below it. Mod authors can be like bad sales people, always saying "put my stuff above everything else or this won't work." Sometimes that is true, sometimes it is not. It all comes down to what the mod does and if anything else you have downloaded tries to do the same thing. I hope this helps :)

[@66biker95]

​@@Faelandaea In my collection of mods, I have a "real companies" mod, with some very excellent models you made, which I am very grateful to you for making them, and after watching this video, I now apologize profusely for being one of the people who suggested (on SCS's forum) that you release them to the public. Myself, I always give credit where credit is due. You are one of the few mod makers that I know who makes everything yourself. And I thank you for these videos as well...

[@Faelandaea]

@@66biker95 Thank you so much for the kind words, Sir. I appreciate it. I just wish I had more time to make more videos, but freight is moving crazy fast so work/duty calls. But I hope to be able to redo a video I did years ago on making those signs so that anyone can put their favorite sign into their game easily.

[@rossmiller5557]

Great video but I've hit a snag. When I go to click SCS tools under blender preferences (13:17 in vid) I get an error and I can't figure out what I did wrong. PLZ HELP!!!!!

[@Faelandaea]

I’m on the road at the moment so no access to blender or a computer, but I’ll try to help. Which versions of scs tools and blender are you using? The versions are very specific to each other and will cause issues if not matched right.

[@doubledealin249]

i am trying to follow the video but i cant seem to click the folders to assign the paths what am i doing wrong the folders are like in active

[@Faelandaea]

Hmmm. If the icons are greyed out, that usually means a compatibility issue with versions of either software. Which version of Blender are you using and which version of SCS Tools?

[@doubledealin249]

@@Faelandaea damn i pulled my hair out and that was it i had the newer tools and the 2.9.3 ver of blender thank you so much now i can finish your videos thank for the reply and helping a old man learn something new

[@Faelandaea]

@@doubledealin249 I’m so glad I could help. If you need anything else just ask. Just bear with me on delayed replies as I drive all week and am home weekends only, usually, but I try to reply when I can out here on the road.

[@patrickrichmond9896]

Hey. This is awesome. I hope that this program will let me take a truck from a Windows picture and have it applied to this program. If that is so, that would be really great!

[@drm4nh4tt4n7]

hello thanks for the videos got a question im trying to add the path to conversion tools and still on red why i got everything how u got on the video thansk for the help ion advance

[@meatmotor]

I had the same problem with the latest v2.15, but the older v2.14 seems to work

[@Faelandaea]

I definitely need to look into this. I have not touched Blender since early January because I have been crazy busy on the road and also with college studies. I planned to start Modding again this summer, but I will try to find time to look at this asap to see if I can reproduce it.

[@meatmotor]

Blender development is going so fast, I had to roll back from v4.0 to v3.3 LTS for the latest scs blender tools to work properly as well.

[@southboundtp2067]

Create a txt file inside your created conversion tools folder with the name extra_mount.txt and with no content. After that it should work.

[@Faelandaea]

@@southboundtp2067 thank you so much for chipping in. I appreciate it. Still out here on the road and hadn’t even had a chance yet to research this. Hopefully it helps him out. :)

[@Nonchalant_Gemini]

Hello hows it going, just wondering if you could help me progress I’m stuck with the errors red bars and nothing happens when I double click.

[@Nonchalant_Gemini]

Figured it out, thanks for the video

[@RileyRailAviationNTrucks]

@@Nonchalant_Gemini what'd you do? Still having some trouble figuring this part out. The def world files are all still greyed out for me.

[@RileyRailAviationNTrucks]

Nvm I got it. Just reinstalled some of the scs tools and it worked.

[@Strykar86]

no links in the description 🤨

[@Sleeepy_Monke]

19:48

[@Faelandaea]

I’m sorry, was there a question about the extraction process at that part of the video?

[@Sleeepy_Monke]

No just wanted to continue later and did not want to lose track of my time

[@Faelandaea]

@@Sleeepy_Monke haha. Okay. I was watching it and trying to figure out if I made an error. LOL. Keeping me on my toes there. :). Thanks for watching and I hope the video helps you out :)