steve-m Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Since I won't have much time to continue working on my map viewer the next weeks, and due to the many requests I received, I decided to publish the current alpha version. Works for GTA III, VC and SA (all PC). SA PS2 should work too, but very ugly and buggy. Â Â [ Download GTA Map Viewer ] Â NOTE: This an early, user-unfriendly, slow alpha version - don't complain! Â And before using, read the complete readme! You won't get it working otherwise. And I will ignore questions that are already answered there. Â Edit: Good descriptions how to create the games.cfg can be found here. Â Â nick7 and Shagg_E 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaKilla Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Thanks.. I have been waiting on this, from the time I saw it working on the PS2. Â At least we can get a feel of how the map is setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demarest Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Looking fabulous. Intentions question: Will this one day grow to be the map editing tool that MooMapper was? Kudos for making it work with all GTA3Ds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-m Posted July 8, 2005 Author Share Posted July 8, 2005 Looking fabulous. Intentions question: Will this one day grow to be the map editing tool that MooMapper was? Kudos for making it work with all GTA3Ds No. But the techniques and algorithms I'm using will be made available to the MooMapper coders, so we can see some better quality there some day. Or a completely new tool from scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gforce Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 oh yes, this is just what the doctor ordered, now i can see if any of my models actually show up in the SA engine.  on a side note i think you and Delfi should join forces and turn Ked/Moomapper into one big kick-ass map editor for the masses  Massive thank's for releasing this Steve...................... Gtaiv2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob. Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Hey steve, nice release.. unfortunately it's not working for me. Â I create a 'games.cfg' in MapViewer's directory, with these contents: Â C:\Program files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto San Andreas\C:\Program files\Rockstar Games\GTA Vice City\ Â Â I load MapViewer.exe, press F1 - nothing, press F2 - nothing. Am I doing something wrong? I doublechecked the readme file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertyjerzian Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 (edited) Hey steve, why is there no way to close this thing man? other than that, cool. Â Edit: Don't start it without creating the config file I knew I'd need one, just wanted to look at it. Everything is working over here. Â So what all can be done with this little tool? Just look? What should I look to utilize this in? Edited July 8, 2005 by dertyjerzian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gforce Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 (edited)  works great, i used this line in games.cfg ---------> C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas  @dertyjerzian try hitting escape key Edited July 8, 2005 by Gforce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertyjerzian Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 (edited) works nice though, if you dont draw too far, it's actually pretty smooth. Been waiting to see this thing, Nice work Steve-M. Â EDIT: Steve-M, you cad! "You? You're Good Youuu" This is my favorite feature by far: Â right mouse button - show information (dff, txd, id) about the focused object in the title bar (not in fullscreen mode) Â How hard would it be to implment some kind of way to choose a "spawn" point for the cam, or save a position in some kinda config snapshot? Edited July 8, 2005 by dertyjerzian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainingAcid Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 I hope this become a map editor soon=). Nice tool Steve! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-m Posted July 8, 2005 Author Share Posted July 8, 2005 How hard would it be to implment some kind of way to choose a "spawn" point for the cam, or save a position in some kinda config snapshot? You can save your camera position by pressing ctrl and a number from 0 to 9, and you can load it by just pressing the number. There is currently no way to move to specific coordinates, other than entering them in the cam pos file with a hex editor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertyjerzian Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 (edited) Â How hard would it be to implment some kind of way to choose a "spawn" point for the cam, or save a position in some kinda config snapshot? You can save your camera position by pressing ctrl and a number from 0 to 9, and you can load it by just pressing the number. There is currently no way to move to specific coordinates, other than entering them in the cam pos file with a hex editor. I thank you for stating for me the all too obvious, I bow to you steve-m. Edited July 9, 2005 by dertyjerzian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeDFXP Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 awesome job m8, as usual hehe, gonna have alot of fun with this one.. thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexX Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 excellent. know what would be even better? col rendering unless i missed it, which i dont think i did.. Â nonetheless, a very neat app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dertyjerzian Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 I know that that feature for dff and txd viewing is making this file go "right off the shelves" and Mr. M's server is running a little hot by now. More props where it due, yet not yet seen* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse_nl Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Steve, Â You're GREAT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleXXX Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Very very very nice program! I hope, you with Delphi will make KED/MooMapper for San Andreas. Mapviewer has opened Myriad for GTA SA too. Pics: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uNi Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Awesome work Steve. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Sweet work. Â My PC didn't like it but i got some shots: Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thesord Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Greate work as usual steve! It would be interesting to see an editing tool like you mentioned.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marklund Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Hey steve, nice release.. unfortunately it's not working for me. I create a 'games.cfg' in MapViewer's directory, with these contents:  C:\Program files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto San Andreas\C:\Program files\Rockstar Games\GTA Vice City\   I load MapViewer.exe, press F1 - nothing, press F2 - nothing. Am I doing something wrong? I doublechecked the readme file. Got the same problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceeinstein Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 (edited) Did you try putting four or more directories? Edited July 9, 2005 by spaceeinstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob. Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Marlurk: My problem was solved just by removing the \'s at the end.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver007 Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Great Work Steve M. as usual, however, i have a problem, i have the same problem in moo mapper  (the VC Mansion) im 100% sure its my stupid video card, dosent support DXt compressed textures, though they will appear in Vice City fine  so i guess it sucks to be me, o well, great program anyways!  i also am wondering, i dont have San Andreas, but i have the gta3.img and the map files, i tired loading in the map in your veiwer and it didnt let me, mostl likely because i was missing some files, would you mind telling me what files you need in order to make it work?  Im also wondering if you map veiwer can load in and see Liberty City in SA, cause that would help me alot in my mod im doing for GTA:LC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corevil Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 how do i make the games.cfg file? i gotta make an empy file named games.cfg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT-1 Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 @ corevil, when extracted you should see a file named settings.CFG. You could just copy and paste this remove the contents from within the file replace it with the directory listings and then rename it games.CFG. Or you could just create a new file and name the extension .CFG. Â @ Steve, very nice work. Will surely help with mapping placement and for looking at object information though I have not looked at that yet. Â In simple flight mode, with distance culling enabled and set to full screen should be fun for those with older computers. Â Â @ Jacob., try pressing F4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-m Posted July 10, 2005 Author Share Posted July 10, 2005 im 100% sure its my stupid video card, dosent support DXt compressed textures, though they will appear in Vice City fine Yea, I think that's the problem. My tool uses hardware decompression for the textures. You probably have a txd.img, but the map viewer won't load it. You can try to add all the txd files inside the txd.img to gta3.img, replacing the old ones. The game should still work then as well. Â Â i also am wondering, i dont have San Andreas, but i have the gta3.img and the map files, i tired loading in the map in your veiwer and it didnt let me, mostl likely because i was missing some files, would you mind telling me what files you need in order to make it work? It looks for 'gta_sa.exe', 'models\gta3.img' and 'data\gta.dat' to verify the game. So just set up the directory structure properly, and create a dummy exe (can be empty). But you will need a complete data directory, and also 'models\generic\vehicle.txd'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vercetti Gangsta Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Steve..... That's just so awesome It looks beautiful. Very nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marklund Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 (edited)  Marlurk: My problem was solved just by removing the \'s at the end.. Why do everyone call me marluk? And I wrote: C:\Program\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto San Andreas  But it doesnt load. And I did press F1 - F4.  Edit: Wahaha, C:\Program\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas was the right. Silly me.  Edit #2: COuld you make a coordinate viewer? Edited July 10, 2005 by Marklund Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evndude Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Â In simple flight mode, with distance culling enabled and set to full screen should be fun for those with older computers. Â I can't wait until the Grand Theft Auto series looks like that in-game. Â Maybe it could be achieved with lots of modding to SA though, but the computer would probably need to be pretty top of the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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