GTA Mods: 2002 Honda Accord for Vice City (2004)

The game series that would eventually bring me into the industry, GTA was a past time I could dump countless hours into making mods for. Back in 2004 one of my best mods was recreating my current real life daily driver at the time, the 2002 Honda Accord V6 Coupe and installing it into Grand Theft Auto Vice City. Using a really grass roots modding/modeling app called Zmodeler (Zanoza Modeler) by Oleg Melashenko and a few blueprints found from the net, one trigon at a time pushing single vertices into place I managed to create a fully built car with an interior and damageable parts. No normal maps back then just raw vertex mesh smoothing groups, diffuse textures, HDR shaded specular channels and the occasional constants emission shader for lights. At the time since GTAs doors only had single hinge swivel behavior I borred a dummy node hack seen used on other creators Lamborghini mods to bring old school scissors style doors into the game.

https://www.gtagaming.com/1998-honda-accord-coupe-vcm-f457.html