It's possible. I've done it for mods like the Nascar mod. I made about a half dozen different colors for a few of the rims. The player selects them like they were all different rim types.

I put in white, black, gold, red, green, blue, yellow, orange etc.

For a 1970s Gatecrasher mod that I've been messing with, I even have a bunch of 2 tone rims.

I don't really have time to do this for all rim types for all cars, though. That would take an incredible amount of work.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1829765652

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1995879313

Old pics. I've improved them since then but you get the idea.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1995895006

Thanks for the response^^ And yeah, those pics are sort of what I'm getting at, nice work :)

Good to know it's possible, however since I'm not a modder myself I have no idea about the workload yeah. Guess it depends on how the files for the wheels are stored in the game? Would it not be as simple as 'copy wheel files to a new directory and apply color filter over texture files'?

I've thought about making a mod for all colors for all rims for all cars but then I realized that it would take about 1,000 custom files that I'd have to make.

Two-tones would multiply that.

I'm not quite that much of a masochist.

The texture files aren't the most time consuming part. Those can be shared between cars. The problem is setting up the parts to use them all.

Ah so it isn't just a case of a simple color filter then. That explains why nobody has done it yet I guess XD I can understand ppl not wanting to take on such a huge project if it's that big.

Thanks for the info though, interesting to get a bit of a look into how the game works from someone who knows.

I asked once about making custom rim models that map their texture/color to some spot on the car body paint job skin. Someone said that there would be a problem with making the texture spin as the wheel turned. Not sure why.

I made some for the Wingman also.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1998444989

Originally posted by TestTestTest:

I asked once about making custom rim models that map their texture/color to some spot on the car body paint job skin. Someone said that there would be a problem with making the texture spin as the wheel turned. Not sure why.

Yea i've tried it before myself. If you map the rim texture to body shader, then the rims models just explode into a mess of verts whenever there is any contact. You can set them as 'non deforming' but then they still move off their pivot point. So you end up with a wheel rotating 10 meters around the axle.

https://i.imgur.com/GFm7NIc.jpg

Possible solution would be to map to body shader (allowing colour change)>set as non deforming object (so doesn't explode)>place proxy box over each wheel with full movement restriction.

But its hard to place proxy's on a car when you don't have the complete original model. There's also downsides to this;
No suspension or brake mechanical damage
No wheel loss or wheel damage (wobble/movement from original position = floating wheels)
No visual body deformation around the wheels
No health loss if damage sectors are close to wheels

Lots of compromises, but would work if you were making a non deforming car and you had the original model, in theory.