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[Captain Cody]

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Edited September 8, 2016 by CodyL
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[darkdreamingdan]

Interesting project. I'd like to see some conversion of the radar too - perhaps using shaders to replace them when in proximity.

[Captain Cody]

I did do radar in my latest version. Here's just a quick picture that I have lying around that shows it.

[Captain Cody]

I've managed to convert GTA united without any crashing or missing textures. (Some models such as street lights and what not are missing, but that always happens when I'm converting for some reason..)

LOD loading is decent, but not the best since I have it tuned for gosTown (Better look / performance in gostown)

[Captain Cody]

Liberty City Map - 95% converted, no major issues other then missing street lights

Vice city map 80% converted, some land chunks missing, should be easy to fix.

So basically, you can visit Liberty City, Vice City and SA all on the same server if you were to buy this resource and put it on yours server. I'm also going to do some re-texturing for a more HD look, also going to redo all of the prelighting with a more modern look (The old lighting was done with a much older tool, meaning it doesn't look anything like It can today.)

[Captain Cody]

Tomorrow I'm going to load the entire map up into 3ds max and generate working IPL / IDE files for a proper import into MTA. There seams to be some issues with loading that I cannot fix without doing so.

[Captain Cody]

Lot more progress on the gta SA united. Fixed alot of missing stuff in vice city and all the missing things in liberty City. Only thing left to be converted in vice is beach front. For some reason the GTA United .ipl files are not linked corrected with the beach so it's missing a small section. Tomorrow I'll do a single conversion with just the beach front and it should be just fine.

Also the streaming in vice city and liberty city rocks compared to what I had before. Could need some more work but other then that it looks awesome.

Look at a part of liberty City --

And the broken part in Vice City -- // Basically just missing some buildings and a road beach.ipl is the issue I believe. //

-- There's also a missing bridge, missing in every conversion of vice city I've ever done for some reason. (I'll have it fixed tomorrow)..

Using my streamer I made it so both liberty city and vice city are on the same map as they should be, but with no crashing and no loading times.

Any ways, pricing of this conversion starting at $15. (Or Heretrics may get an expansion if enough people want it)

[HeySlickThatsMe]

with the bridge thingy and missing roads in vice city

i have similiar thing when i converted it with scene2res

i think some object id's are invalid , thats why

also good work

how about adding liberty city and vice city togeher with gostown on your heretics server?

[Captain Cody]

The plan is to start with just GosTown then expand later on. Also the issue with the bridge and what not is actually missing IDES. I'm using scene2res to do an inital conversion. But alot of stuff have to be manually fixed + I'm using a custom streamer.

[HeySlickThatsMe]

i know about that streamer already

im reading most of posts you make because you are one of "MTA GODS" (i mean that you know how to do certain stuff that most of people don't know)

waiting for more info about heretics ^^

[Captain Cody]

Basically all public info on heretrics can be found in the first link in my footer. Or for more info you can join the Skype chat.

[kashtesov]

Good It manually or auto-convert?

https://vk.com/mta_ports , russian project, in development. Auto-converter global mods (analogue scene2res).

It convert IPL to readable MTA format with lods, and copy all required resources ;3

[Captain Cody]

Well I use scene2res for a quick automtic dump. Then use then tables and what not from it and copy them over to my streamer.

But I have to manually convert alot of stuff to.

[kashtesov]

Your streamer? How it work, if not secret?

[Captain Cody]

I spent months trying to get it to work correctly with any map, it is a bit of a secret.

[kashtesov]

I spent months trying to get it to work correctly with any map, it is a bit of a secret.

We get this result with default streamer Map size >60% GTA:SA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auHg9fCvWe0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hvymkwbtlv1xb ... 6.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vktp2a8q1tfk0 ... 4.png?dl=0

[Captain Cody]

Hm, odd. Default streamer for me was only showing like ~200 feet in front of you.

[kashtesov]

Hm, odd. Default streamer for me was only showing like ~200 feet in front of you.

it without lods

[Captain Cody]

No it had lods.

[kashtesov]

Huh, how much time you need for portable vice city for mta?

[Captain Cody]

2-3 hours to do it right.

[Captain Cody]

Dropped work on gta united because of the UNITED map in general missing object definitions and what not which messes with a lot of things. But I've got a new plan that'll be much better (And be more FPS friendly).

[Captain Cody]

I converted gta United again this time got it 100% converted but then I found an Issue I was no expecting.

Due to me having converted every single object there posibly is from united MTA cannot handle it. So in short it crashes the game when I try to load it. I have come close to breaking the game multiple times but just barley staying in bounds. This time I cannot fix it unless I were to make a streamer 100% dedicated to the united map. Which will take me to long and I'm busy working on heretrics. So I only have vice city 100% converted right now, I'll convert liberty city tomorrow or something.

-- Edit --

-- In short MTA seams to inject the files into SA to make them load, but due the shear amount of injecting this has to do it, crashes the game. I'm think that maybe if I add a timer to loading I'll be able to fix it maybe; but that's for later.

[Captain Cody]

AFter spending a few hours working on it today I fixed it.

[DakiLLa]

Hey CodyL, could you do a small video showing off the progress on Liberty City? I'm really exited and interested in something like this. By the way, is it possible to place objects on the custom map? I mean.. load it in map editor and put some stuff like trees, trash, etc.? Won't it cause problems with streaming custom objects?