I really like the first-gen CRV and I wanted one in Zomboid, so I made it. It's the 1997-2001 RD1 with real-time 4WD, the side-hinged tailgate with the spare hanging off it, the picnic table hidden under the cargo floor, and a B20B that just won't quit.
This repo is everything behind the mod: the shipped mod itself, and the Blender and Python pipeline that builds it from a source mesh to the files the game loads.
Get it on the Steam Workshop: Build 42, no other mods needed.
The car
- All eight factory colours, from Electron Blue Pearl to Naples Gold
- Every door, the hood and the tailgate open. A prop rod holds the hood up, and the rear glass lifts with the side-hinged gate
- A new engine bay, modelled from photos of a real B20B
- Its own engine sound, horn and door sounds, and its own damage, rust and blood textures
- Proper headlights, and tail lights that light up on the brake
- Fold the back seats flat into a bed you can sleep in
- A storage well under the cargo floor
- An owner's manual in every glove box, with the last owner's notes in the margins
The picnic table
- Take it out from under the cargo floor and set it up behind the tailgate. It's a real 3D model you can put things on
Off-road
- A 3 inch lift on 30 inch all-terrain tyres, on the stock alloys or black steelies. It comes off again, and you keep your parts and whatever is in the trunk
- Bull bar, snorkel, skid plate, steel rear bumper with a hitch, and a ladder up to the roof rack
- Jerry cans on the tailgate and in the roof rack that hold real fuel
- Find the kit as rare loot, build it at a workbench, or learn it from a magazine
Armour
- Bolt-on door plates, window mesh, arch guards and a rear glass plate. Heavy bare steel that zombies can't reach through
Everything else
- Spawns in suburbs, on farm roads, in parking lots and in traffic jams
- Sandbox options for spawn rate, accessory chance, loot rarity, armour strength and engine volume
- Built for multiplayer (dedicated server testing is still in progress)
- Works with Project Viewpoint first and third person: the cabin and the panels are closed from eye level and from the seats
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| The picnic table comes out from under the cargo floor | A new engine bay, modelled from photos of the real B20B |
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| Every door, the hood and the tailgate open | Side-hinged tailgate with the spare on it |
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| Bull bar, snorkel, skid plate, rack and ladder | Steel rear bumper, hitch, jerry cans |
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| 3 inch lift on all-terrain tyres and black steelies | Bolt-on armour |
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| Fold the rear seats into a flat bed | Eight RD1 factory paints |
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| Its own mechanics screen, accessories included | An illustrated owner's manual in every glove box |
Subscribe on the Steam Workshop and enable Honda CRV (1st Gen) in the mod list.
To install by hand, copy mod/Contents/mods/HondaCRVGen1 into %USERPROFILE%\Zomboid\mods\.
- Vehicle mesh based on "Honda CR-V 2001" by kotris666 on Sketchfab, licensed CC BY 4.0. It was split into game parts, decimated, re-unwrapped and retextured. The engine bay, cabin furniture, accessories and every texture are original.
- Surface grain from Poly Haven (CC0).
- The shipped shaders are generated from the game's own vehicle shaders, for use in Project Zomboid mods.
AI disclosure: I made this with AI (Claude, by Anthropic). I directed it and tested everything in game.
Honda, CR-V and the H emblem are trademarks of Honda Motor Co., used here in a free fan mod. This project isn't affiliated with Honda or The Indie Stone.