GTA 3 Graphics modding guide (must see)!

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  1. jxw245

    jxw245 Well-Known Member

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    Cool, so if modded most of the cars in the game to real world cars the game would just be unplayable?
    Anyway, thanks allot for doing this, your making it really easy to make a great game even better for people like me who don't know much about modding.
     
  2. K0N3

    K0N3 Well-Known Member

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    Time For me to go to bed now...it's 12:15am, I've done as much as I can for today. The reason I've stayed up so late Modding for you guys, is because "We" are having a baby tomorrow (first born). My wife is over due and we go in tomorrow...scratch that...today at 10:00am. We don't know the gender of the baby so it's a (late) christmas present for us both :thumb:

    I will be back as soon as I get chance to complete what I've started so don't worry, but as you can expect...I'll be very BUSY to begin with (I'll sneak on when I can)

    I'll try to get the Buildings Mod post completed by the end of the week with a newly compiled IMG file, it will have both the custom cars and custom buildings added

    WISH US LUCK...
     
  3. Marck527

    Marck527 Active Member

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    Wow congrats on the baby :D
     
  4. chukwuka13

    chukwuka13 Well-Known Member

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    Hey I have a few questions. First is how did u get the skin mods for ur character to work on the iphone. And the second one goes back to my post on the other gta 3 thread. Do u no what is making my game with my game 6 modded cars glitch. I'm guessing it's because the vehicle mods I have on my phone are much more detailed than regular ones. Whats ur guess. I'm on a 4s too
     
  5. Barcâ

    Barcâ Well-Known Member

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    Start a new game, but before you get into the car on the bridge, climb up on the side of the bridge and jump off. Then you are free to roam the entire first island wearing the jail outfit. No mod needed.

    What could be happening with your mods is that the framerate is dropping every so often due to the high poly count of your mods. I don't know what you mean exactly by glitching...if you could be more specific I could try and recreate the problems your having.

    Just list the car mods you have, settings you altered, etc.
     
  6. chukwuka13

    chukwuka13 Well-Known Member

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    #166 chukwuka13, Jan 9, 2012
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    Here are the files
    http://www.mediafire.com/?qtcdyar2qr1ccn2,z2hdbd4hpop6pdv
     
  7. Nukie

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    #167 Nukie, Jan 10, 2012
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    How to add car mods on a Mac using 4SModdedIMGfile or iP4ModdedIMGfile:

    1. Locate and make a duplicate of your gta3.ipa. (It's always good to make a backup of the original file. Save the original and work on the duplicate.)

    2. Change the file extension from .ipa to .zip. Extract the ZIP file. Open the extracted gta3 folder and open the folder named Payload.

    3. Option click on the file named gta3 and click on "Show Package Contents". (You're in like Flynn!)

    4. Copy the car mods from either 4SModdedIMGfile or iP4ModdedIMGfile (depending on your device) into the folder, replacing the existing files.

    5. Now for the slightly tricky part. Zip the contents of the gta3 folder, not the folder itself, meaning, select everything inside the folder, ctrl-click and compress. You can rename the archive to the name of the app and then change the .zip extension to .ipa. Double-click on it to add it to iTunes (or drag the file to iTunes). Be sure to delete the unmodded ipa from both iTunes and your iDevice. Sync your iDevice and your done.

    6. Bonus: You will notice that your gta3 ipa file has gone from 720.9MB to 465.6 MB. You just saved yourself a bunch of disk space on your iDevice. For some reason when you zip the file back, it gets much smaller. But the game plays just fine. Enjoy the extra disk space on your iDevice!

    P.S. This works for the car mods. For the store mods, you will need to be able to use the Windows program IMGTool 2.0. I was able to get this working using Crossover, a mac app that lets you run Windows .exe files. When KON3 creates a modded gta3_pvr.img that includes the building mods, then you should be able to use the above technique without having to use IMGTool. Have fun!
     
  8. Bawls

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  9. Nukie

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    I believe that mod is the same one the comes with the Batmobile. I installed both. The Batmobile did not work correctly, ie, problems with the wheel graphics. But the flames mod did work on all the cars, include the Batmobile. So if you like the flames mod, I would say go for it.
     
  10. Bawls

    Bawls Active Member

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    The flames one works fine also would this mod work just like the other car mods? http://planetgrandtheftauto.gamespy.com/View.php?view=GTA3Mods.Detail&id=54
     
  11. K0N3

    K0N3 Well-Known Member

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    Well guys & gals she's done it!! She has finally given birth to an healthy baby boy. We are "over the moon" with our belated Christmas present. Over 72 hours of a complicated labour...she's my hero :p

    Give me about 2 days and I'll have the rest of the building mods up and a newly created IMG file for all to install :D
     
  12. aceyprime

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    Has anyone been able to successfully replace the default police car with the Crown Victoria police car and get it to work? On my iPad 2 it won't load after I add it to K0N3's IMG (hangs at the loading bar).

    Also, congrats K0N3! We had our baby boy last year...life changes dramatically after having a child but it's a wonderful thing indeed. Enjoy your time with your new baby!
     
  13. jxw245

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    #173 jxw245, Jan 14, 2012
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    I'm surprised your even on the internet with a newborn baby to take care of, not gonna complain though :D
    congrats
     
  14. Barcâ

    Barcâ Well-Known Member

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    Thats most likely due to an incompatible car mod. Too many polygons, certain tires not working, or something else entirely.
     
  15. K0N3

    K0N3 Well-Known Member

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    Yes...I have had the CV police working successfully with my IMG file, I'll double check for you though to make sure it's not an error at my end. All of the mods that I've uploaded so-far have been personally tested by myself before uploading them here ;)

    THANKYOU :D I'm loving every minute!

    As a couple of you have requested to know when I will be putting up the new IMG file, I thought it would be best to give you guys/gals a progress report...

    Well basically, my lil man couldn't come home untill Saturday morning, so as you can probably guess, we've been very, busy bees. What I will do for you though is make an IMG file with the buildings that I have already tested (the ones posted) and upload that for you today.

    It won't have all of the building mods that I have planned, but at least you'll have some. I will add more buildings and upload a new IMG file each time I've added a new one, just so you guys have something (I know how frustrating it can be waiting for someone).

    Please bear with me guys/gals and I will have this game fully modded as quick as I can...Give us an hour or so and I'll have the new IMG file uploaded for you :D
     
  16. K0N3

    K0N3 Well-Known Member

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    Rights guys/gals...that's it for today, I've updated the Building Mods page with a new IMG file with three new buildings replaced!

    Buildings Mod Page

    Enjoy!
     
  17. Marck527

    Marck527 Active Member

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    #177 Marck527, Jan 15, 2012
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    You are a legend!! Thank you

    It just surprised me that 3 buildings could be 50+ megabytes ,looking forward to the next update!


    EDIT:

    As I was testing this I found some problem, so before I installed your building hack I didn't have the car mod installed, so I installed everything on the zip. Folder just like it said on the READ ME .txt but some of the stock wheels were missing( not all) so I added the car Hack and it seems that this fixed it! The only problem was it keeps crashing now on iPod touch 4g , when I only alhad the building mod it did not do this.
     
  18. Barcâ

    Barcâ Well-Known Member

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    Take some time off and play with your son. We can all wait for the mods.
     
  19. DPP13

    DPP13 Well-Known Member

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    I don't quite get how to do this. :(
     
  20. Sin City

    Sin City Well-Known Member

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    Tried out Dan007's "best" settings for iPhone4 this game has been completely transformed this game back to it's console goodness! Thank you so much for your hard work and for uploading the file! Everything works perfectly!
     

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