Topic: The Best Tutorial Ever (Read 277 times)

beefmank · « **on:** July 19, 2004, 12:03:00 PM »

http://forums.ninjah...?showtopic=2548
yeah, i wrote it, but its SO easy to follow and its 100% delicious.
-beefmank

NEUROMODS · « **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2004, 06:27:00 PM »

A great tutor with easy to follow instructions and pix! I love it.
But when I delete that stupid GTA_VC_CAP.Final my game never loads, even if I set the clock and cut trainers off. When I add it back, loads no problems but without the cars. I also have totally redone my hard drive and just installed this, and no loading still!

adamscybot · « **Reply #2 on:** July 24, 2004, 06:37:00 AM »

Brilliant tutorial.

Do you mind if i put this up on my new site (www.xboxmods.tk)

Youw ould have full credit of course

beefmank · « **Reply #3 on:** July 24, 2004, 12:41:00 PM »

feel free to put it up on your site, just make sure you link to ninjahacker.net, because they were kind enough to host an xbox-gta forum at my request.
also, making it clear it was written by me.

im glad ive gotten such positive response, i worked hard to make it easy to understand and follow, allowing anybody with GTA and ftp access to convert and add pc cars to their game.

i encourage you to come join us over at the ninjahacker forum. we want to eventually convert GTA:LC to an xbox version.

also, feedback on my tutorial is always welcome.
-beefmank

KaioShin · « **Reply #4 on:** July 24, 2004, 09:52:00 PM »

Ive not got time to write a tutorial myself but I figure since you took the time to do that one you might want to fool with this and write one after you get comfy with it.

I got tired of some cars freezing the game up simply because they use to much ram. Many of the ones that had this problem had HUGE txd files even after conversion and compression. I've also noticed that many really large (1024x1024 and larger) textures simply do not compress and cause the errors you mentioned in your tutorial.

Well... I went through some of these large txd files and extracted the textures. I then went and resized them to 1/2 or 1/4 their original size using paintshop pro. (I'm thinking the dimentions have to be kept at multiples of

then imported them back into the txd overwriting the originals. Then finally I went through and converted it all to VC XBOX and compressed.

I dont think I got any of the textures with alpha channels within the txd to go through all that properly. (Just to clareify... I did get txds with textures that had alpha channels to go through it all. I just couldnt get the spacific textures within the txd that actually had the alpha channel to go. So I left them at their original size and compressed to VC XBOX)

Also I beleave that the 8Bit textures must be exported as BMP and 32 as TGA (TGA may work for both)....

But the end result is that I got cars working that otherwise wouldnt. They looked fine in game but if you lowered the resolution too much the skin would get pixelated.

BTW... not a bad tutorial. Reminds me of the advanced Quake editing tutorials I used to write (under another name) that I was regularly told were 'newb friendly' due to the details and step by step screenshots I included. I've also noticed that compressing indvidual files is a bit more error free than batch compressing (compress all) so I was happy to see when that was included in the tut. (though I usually batch compress first and then if that doesnt work I redo it compressing file by file)

This post has been edited by KaioShin on Jul 25 2004, 07:23 AM

adamscybot · « **Reply #5 on:** July 25, 2004, 03:43:00 AM »

Thanks beefmank! I shall do that!

SupaDawg · « **Reply #6 on:** July 25, 2004, 11:53:00 AM »

wow, i didnt realize gta3 modding was so difficult... i used to mod the living shiet out of my grand theft auto for pc... changed all the cars, edited car names and maps.... but that was nothing compared to this. whew.

good tut thou... it sure is a starting point for me.

SupaDawg · « **Reply #7 on:** July 25, 2004, 12:19:00 PM »

hmmm, just tried adding the diablo... my game loads fine but freezes when i enter starfish island for some reason... major bummer i say

This post has been edited by SupaDawg on Jul 25 2004, 07:28 PM

beefmank · « **Reply #8 on:** July 26, 2004, 04:49:00 PM »

wierd... try re-ripping vice to the hd, dont change anything, delete (or rename) the save game, and try from scratch.

try THIS CAR first...
im 100% positive it works deliciously.
-beefmank

-ViciouS- · « **Reply #9 on:** July 26, 2004, 07:29:00 PM »

I had the same problem.

The solution is to install the dmagic wheel mod.

Only a few cars work without it, and it freezes because the game tries to load the infernus at Diaz's Mansion, but fucks up because it can't find the right files.

Fllow this tutorial to get everything working smoothly.

SupaDawg · « **Reply #10 on:** July 26, 2004, 10:13:00 PM »

thanks, i''ll give it a shot.

beefmank · « **Reply #11 on:** August 02, 2004, 12:08:00 PM »

hope you can get tha Dmagic wheel mod working, its excellent to see them custom wheels.
-beefmank

KaioShin · « **Reply #12 on:** August 05, 2004, 01:20:00 AM »

Beefmank:

Have you happened to try out what I posted?

beefmank · « **Reply #13 on:** August 05, 2004, 05:48:00 PM »

no i have not, post details over at the forum i am active in
then many people over there will get to try it.
i have not had time to do gta stuff recently, but i will get back into it soon.
i encourage you to go over there and post about your progress and contribute to the whole scene.
-beefmank

mr.rims · « **Reply #14 on:** August 07, 2004, 10:18:00 PM »

how do u hack cars in the game

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