GTA IV and its mods

[Von Braun]

Hey everyone! I had a question for anyone who plays gta iv, and uses mods. I am new to modding, so I have no clue what I'm doing, and how to get the mods to work. So far I have Spark IV. I've recently, have been having trouble with two weapon mods. One was a MG3 mod. When I placed the two mg3 files into the spark iv weapons folder, and I went to check on the model to view what the gun would look like, it was not there. It was invisible. Same with when I tried an ak74u mod, I did the same things, but this time inside of it being invisible the gun was a pile of black spikes going every where. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the MG3 files named where like w_m4. which would replace my default m4 gun, while the ak74u had its own file type, w_ak74u. which that wouldn't replace any of my guns. I am completely clueless with this, and would REALLY, REALLY, appreciate it if someone would please help me.

P.S: On a side note, I tried other gun mods, that would replace my default gun files such as the w_m4, w_ak47, w_mp5. The gun mods i replaced them with seem to show up perfectly fine when I viewed them in spark iv. But, there were no gun sound files for thoughs certain guns, so I guess they will look different, but will sound like my defaults?

 

[ziant]

heh.. I don't mod the skins. just downloaded some script to make it more realism feel.
check out these two sites, they provide a clear instructions to mod skins..
GTA4-Mods
GTA Inside