"A Russian person making an Ukrainian car for NFS Most Wanted? Now that's interesting."
(This mod has been already released. Please check it here.)
Making Tavria for NFS Most Wanted has a lot of stories to tell. Most importantly, unlike its predecessor, the ZAZ-968M Zaporozhets, this one is more obscure in any pre-existing unmodded video games. One of few options was to take GTA SA models made by CR Team or emexD or even edit and improve Strik's Tavria mod (which belongs to 90% of Sturgeon's Law of Russian vehicles), but since these conversions made by people who are aware of their stuff being edited or converted, it would be too risky to do so. Another option is to make the model entirely from scratch, but believe me, the best I can do is GTA SA-style car models, and thus, I'm completely out of luck. However, I leanred that IGCD listed Tavria on its Motor Depot page, and thus, I decided to somehow obtain Motor Depot and extract contents from it to get first ever good Tavria model. The funny thing is that Motor Depot is Unity-based game, which should be vulnerable to AssetRipper and AssetStudio, though it only worked with the former (AssetStudio ate so much RAM that I had to restart my PC and rip the models using only AssetRipper). The models are in .glb format when extracted with AssetRipper.
The funny thing is that Motor Depot models are quite lowpoly and suitable for conversions to NFS Most Wanted compared to paid models like those by Hum3D/3DModels.org. As for customization, yes, even this thing will never be riceproof. Motor Depot's customization is just a bunch of accessories, like eyelids or rear spoilers, which I added them to my Tavria project. But as for bodykits, it won't stay with unpainted plastic bumpers anymore, unlike Strik's Tavria, and the bodykits are completely custom. Headlights, aside from having eyelids on stock headlights, will also receive unique model, and yes, stock headlights had to be improved as well so it's not just a flat texture.
Because, like I said before, Motor Depot's models are lowpoly, it is now possible to convert a HUGE amount of Soviet and post-Soviet vehicles from there, including IZh-2126 Oda, GAZ-3111 Volga, VAZ-2103 (Lada 1500), '98 VAZ-2123 (Chevrolet Niva/Lada Niva Travel before it was cool), and many more.
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