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[Hammer83]

Big Launcher Update.

 

New features:

- Fully customizable HUD colors (more values might be added in future versions). Individually assign values from wanted stars to 'Wasted' text. Default values are set to GTA3 colors.

- Redone audio paths. Now you can edit every single audio path that the game uses (even radio stations names) and see what their SCM shortcuts are in the same list. You also change cutscene names (for eventual cutscene integration). Note that because of that, ini-files from previous launcher are not compatible with the new ini-file.

 

URL for the binary is in Official Downloads thread, URL for the source is still the same.

Edited November 22, 2004 by Hammer83

[Craig Kostelecky]

Here's a shot of the new HUD:

 

If we can figure out how to straighten the text on the bottom of the screen, we can make this look totally like GTA3. Good work Hammer83 for getting the GTA3 HUD colors.

[sleeper777]

just wondered if everybody had seen this( i am sure i am way behind) but when i found it i was like this is really cool.....

 

Gamespot Info page

 

then again they pretty much copied the ideas and general write-up almost word for word

 

since their team list is so small i guess they haven't checked in in a while

 

Edit : I also noticed that where the help section is the link to the forums is missing

Edited November 22, 2004 by sleeper777

[Craig Kostelecky]

What's the issue with that page? They just look like one of the beta 1 mirrors to me.

[Majuub]

Woo Hoo, thanx Hammer this is the 1st time ive been able to launch the launcher and not have errors or have to play it in compatability mode

[Craig Kostelecky]

This also allows players to play GTA3 radio without using cracked exe files! Well done Hammer.

[sleeper777]

Cool Thanks Hammer ....

[Hammer83]

This also allows players to play GTA3 radio without using cracked exe files! Well done Hammer.

Nope it doesn't

 

The thing is, even if you use a no-cd and Vice City CD2 is in the drive, the game will use files from the CD. So in order to play LC you have to be able to run the game without CD2 in the drive.

[Mark Pagliaro]

How about implementing the pager _Squiddy_?

 

That could be very useful

[Squiddy]

Doesn't Vice City has a pager too?

 

Some time passed since I played gta3 and I can't really remember how the pager looked. Could someone give me a screenshot or, better, the texture? Google doesn't shows much for 'gta3 pager'.

 

Drawing the pager is not a problem. How about telling which text to display? I don't know how gta3 handled the display.

[Mark Pagliaro]

Vice city had a cell phone but not a pager. I haven't got GTAIII installed nor vc right now and tried to get a screencap from google search but could not find anything. Perhaps I am not the best person to talk to about the pager but you should work along side with craig to see how to implement this feature.

 

Closest thing I could find is this.

[Black-hawk]

@ Craig: Dude .

That's just friggin' awesome.

 

 

And my crap pic:

 

 

And

 

Edited November 22, 2004 by Black-hawk

[Monitor57]

i say make the vc banshee the gta3 banshee also becuase the roof jumping in action is a flag in the handling.cfg, not a .exe issue so we can straighten up that cars sound..

[Hammer83]

In terms of HUD todo list, the following things are left:

- Some more work on ammo text need to be done. I've managed to move it up in the yellow region and remove the shaddow, but I still need to find a way to make it smaller. I believe that if you get 9999-60 AK-47, then ammo text will get beyond the yellow rectangle.

- Wanted stars need to be shifted to the right, under the weapon icon.

- Most scm texts still have VC styles and colors.

- As Craig noted, remove the deformations from zone and car names. Also swap their positions, zone next on the bottom, car name on the top. Finally, if this can be done, then change Rage Italic font to Pricedown.

[Knaxia]

the roof jump isn't a flag in the handling.cfg, the no_roof flag stands for if the shirt will act like if there is wind when driving or not. I already tried that back there when we first converted the cars.

[AzO]

after some time i finally intalled this mod again i downloaded all updates i took a couple of pics

 

[Craig Kostelecky]

Actually I played with the launcher a little bit. If you rename the radio files to something different, then tell the launcher to look for the new file, it will look at the HD to play it. It's only when the files are the same filename between the CD and HD that it automatically goes to the CD.

 

You could even place the files in the audioLC folder (and leave their original names) and it would work.

[Monitor57]

the roof jump isn't a flag in the handling.cfg, the no_roof flag stands for if the shirt will act like if there is wind when driving or not. I already tried that back there when we first converted the cars.

ah ok thanx, i was just told this sorry

 

well im out of ideas then..

[Craig Kostelecky]

Doesn't Vice City has a pager too?

 

Some time passed since I played gta3 and I can't really remember how the pager looked. Could someone give me a screenshot or, better, the texture? Google doesn't shows much for 'gta3 pager'.

 

Drawing the pager is not a problem. How about telling which text to display? I don't know how gta3 handled the display.

That sounds like a good project for some hooking.

 

The pager was handled in the GTA3 opcode with the 014D text_pager opcode. It looks like this:

 

014D: text_pager("FM4_1",  140&,  10?,  2?)

The first parameter is obviously the gxt string that is displayed. I'm not sure what the next three are.

 

To solve this problem with our limitations, I gosubed a play pager sound thread, then I simply displayed the text in a text box.

 

If you want to test this, here is a very recent scm. You'll want to look at the LabelPagerAudio thread. And the first example of the pager sound is the el Burro page. You can find that 03E5: text box "DIAB1_A"

 

Let me know if you think this is possible in any way.

[chubb]

hey, im not completely sure if this is in the right area... how possible is it to get some car mods...as in how can i get custom cars into LC? i know that in VC there are MILLIONS of custom cars. can i put the VC car mods into LC?

Edited November 22, 2004 by chubb

[KoLSPD2]

One issue needing to be fixed is the Pricedown for missions, and the Cage font will be replaced with the font used for entering districts "i.e. Callahan Point." All I have to do is upload it somewhere in a .RAR as font2, with an alpha of font2m, then possibly upload the pager font, if possible. Then add the Pager graphic, if possible, and another step closer to GTA3.

[Hammer83]

Oh! Cool! I'll do that on my install, thanks for the info.

[MajorOutage]

can i put the VC car mods into LC?

Yes, yes you can!

 

And you don't even have to replace any LC cars. Just use the leftover slots.

[MajorOutage]

Wouldn't it be possible to use a Directx hook to display the text instead of the VC system?

[GameMaster90]

EDIT: Hammer did figure out the HUD colors. See the screenshots thread for a picture.

Is this avaliabe for download yet?

 

I'm not a modder, nor do I know anything about it, but I think it would be much easier if you took the Directx hook route for the pager, instead of messing with the Vice City Code.

[MajorOutage]

 

EDIT: Hammer did figure out the HUD colors. See the screenshots thread for a picture.

Is this avaliabe for download yet?

 

Yep, it's released. HUD color control is one of the features in Hammer's last launcher update

 

I'm not a modder, nor do I know anything about it, but I think it would be much easier if you took the Directx hook route for the pager, instead of messing with the Vice City Code.

 

 

I thought of the pager afterwards too. The DX hook is most likely the only way to make it work properly.

Edited November 23, 2004 by [4D]Outback

[GameMaster90]

Outback' date='Nov 22 2004, 22:46']

EDIT: Hammer did figure out the HUD colors. See the screenshots thread for a picture.

Is this avaliabe for download yet?

 

Yep, it's released. HUD color control is one of the features in Hammer's last launcher update

 

I'm not a modder, nor do I know anything about it, but I think it would be much easier if you took the Directx hook route for the pager, instead of messing with the Vice City Code.

 

 

I thought of the pager afterwards too. The DX hook is most likely the only way to make it work properly.

Thanks, but I installed it and I noticed that on my LC, it looks slighty different:

 

 

Maybe it's becuase I have DigitalChick's New Hud installed as well, and if that's the case, I am going to need the original Hud & Font txds because I forgot to backup.

[Craig Kostelecky]

The great thing about this mod is all Vice City mods can work in Liberty City. You replace cars the exact same way you would with VC. And like Outback said, there are a lot of extra slots to use.

[MajorOutage]

 

Thanks, but I installed it and I noticed that on my LC, it looks slighty different:

 

 

Maybe it's becuase I have DigitalChick's New Hud installed as well, and if that's the case, I am going to need the original Hud & Font txds because I forgot to backup.

Even better. I set the texture back to white to remove DigitalChick's color adjustment. So the colors will look like the Official one but with the Pricedown font.

 

Here ya go.

[Hammer83]

Comparison of GTA3 Hood and GTA:LC HUD2 (WIP):