[HELP] Make car mods less laggy

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Hello guys, I keep seeing servers with tons and tons of mods, and with very little lag with a shitty host, but still manage to get less lag. So, what can I do to make the mods I put on my server less laggy? Do I need to edit the textures or something?

[xeon17]

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I tried to make all the .pngs from the txd's at least half their size, but every time I upload the txd, the car is white and I get the error: "Error loading TXD" Any ideas how to fix it?

Edit!!

Fixed it, it was because I used invalid sizes.

But it still lags even when the txd gets from 14MB to 100KB... Any ideas?

[GERgta]

Your model probably has too many polygons (or your GPU has like NO VRAM left for the textures). You'd have to hop into a 3D-Modeler and reduce the number of polygons by using some downscaling method. Not sure on how to do this, but I bet there's some tutorials on the net for that.

I'd recommend that you use "low-poly" car mods, those won't slow down the game as much.

[rain_gloom]

If you are versed in the ways of 3D, you could just do a retopo, if not, there are methods for decreasing polycount.

I'm a Blender user, so I can't speak for Max or Maya. In Blender, you could use the `decimate` modifier, but if you mess the topology up, the shading can become ugly.