Barstow Interior Wood-Panel Removal & Brake-Light Refreshment

Let's abbreviate this as "BIW-PR&B-LR". Here lies the deal. Epic idiot (me) is attempting to remove the wood paneling AND "refresh" the brake lights of the Barstow. Epic idiot (me) also has no previous experience doing anything mod related except for downloading them. I have made *some* progress removing the wood paneling by throwing one of the interior dds images into a photoshop alternative and I replaced all wood paneling with a part of the Wendover Gray Interior. It ain't much, but it's honest work. I also intend to slap some new textures onto the brake lights. Specifically, textures that make the brake lights have similar textures as the remastered Covet brake lights. Anyone who knows someone who can properly show me how to continue this project without nuking the game with pure ugliness, please do refer them to me. I know many are likely busy with resting from the modding contest, but any help is appreciated. I am not necessarily asking someone to do it for me, but rather someone to give advice on HOW I can do it. If this actually takes off, I will likely release the mod. If release happens, I will credit all who helped me. Thanks!

 

I don't really have the time to help out a bunch right now, so here's a pretty detailed explanation for a similar mod

 

on god bruh i thought it was going ok but it didnt work

 

Alright so I did a really quick check of your file here and found quite a few issues.
#1: When you open the zip, the first folder should be the "vehicles" one, remove the folder before that.
#2: There is no .dae file in here. This is important because in order to make the new version of these parts with the new textures, a version of the part models with new materials for those textures must be present (Unless it is a skin or something of the sort)
#3: Your materials file still includes every single material for the barstow, only include the ones you've made/edited.
#4: Your taillights JBEAM overwrites the vanilla ones, change the section here

Code:

{
"barstow_taillight_R": {
    "information":{
        "authors":"BeamNG",
        "name":"Right Taillight",
        "value":70,

To something like this

Code:

{
"barstow_taillight_R_hd": {
    "information":{
        "authors":"You",
        "name":"Remastered Right Taillight",
        "value":70,

For both taillights.
There's probably more, but I'm short on time so I'll leave you or someone else to figure out the rest.

 

Still didn't work. I can't get the folder made before vehicles to go away without deleting everything in it (including vehicles).