GTA: Blues Brothers mod (small, no TC)

[dex909]

"GTA Blues Brothers" a modification for GTAIII

THIS PROJECT STILL NEEDS A MISSION CODER!!

 

Introduction:

Hello!

 

While play- and bugtesting GTA:LC and trying to help there I came across an Idea for a -small- mod for GTAIII. If I could get my hands on any 3D model of Elwood (and maybe Jake aswell), the Blues Brothers, I could get them into the game and finally bring the Brothers to life as it should be. The plan would be to get the model of Elwood as the player character. GTAIII should be stripped of every mission and story (EDIT: already done). The mod will include only a few missions (I already have a concept for these aswell). An example to keep it simple and within the boundaries of the engine would be for first mission: Elwood drives to the jail and picks up Jake (NPC). Together they drive to the church in the city and get their first mission - to gather money to save the church (you might know the film, it´s almost the same there ) To do that they need to gather the "BAND". The other missions are to get all guys from the band from various locations under various conditions (only SIMPLE cutscenes, not really movielike with new models etc. - this mod keeps it simple). The goal is to finally get to a concert when all the band is together. Any new ideas and more complex modifications might be done AFTER this small modification is finished as this would take more time.

 

Needed crew:

1 scripter for the 11 simple missions

(1 modeler for the player model of Elwood Blues and the NPC Jake Blues)

(remember this is NO TC so this will be enough)

 

Goal:

- to create a small Blues Brothers themed mod in less than a few weeks

 

About me:

I already have experience on modding, unfortunately I am a 2D artist (oldschool pixel artwork and general art) and musician and have only basic coding and modeling knowledge (some greater projects in Maya but that´s it). I also created a game completely with leveldesign, enemiedesign, graphics, fonts, music and sound by myself except the code which was not done by me. You can get it here, it´s free: http://kickme.to/t4f

I also created a popular mod for the game "Shadowgrounds" which can be viewed here: http://www.shadowgroundsgame.com/forumv2/viewtopic.php?t=160

 

More information on this as soon as (hopefully) some people react to this Maybe there are some Blues Brothers fans among you? This will all be done just for fun and should be kept a small project.

Thanks for reading this, I´m looking forward to read from you!

 

EDIT: here is the complete "TO DO" list with the missions needed:

 

Done:

 

- changed graphics for menu to match theme

- new Radio with BB music finished

- Bluesmobile now ingame, Skin is in the works, I converted this model but can´t reach the author http://www.gtamods.de/screens/vicecity/car...d_crown_pol.jpg it is a "1986 Ford LTD" made by "Carface"

- "Elwood Blues" Player model created by me (still modeler needed that may make a better one!!):

 

To do list:

 

- insert "Jake Blues" NPC model

-"Bluesmobile" skin is in the works

- remove missions and cutscenes from GTA as well as percentage so that you can get 100% for doing the fewer BB missions

- Mission 0: "Bluesmobile" (earn enough money by doing stuff in GTA to buy an old police car - the Bluesmobile)

- Mission 1: "Jailhouse Rock" (get Jake at the Jail at a specific time - you have to be fast - with the Bluesmobile)

- Mission 2: "On A Mission" (drive to the church to learn that it will be shut if you can´t get enough money together - just a cutscene)

- Mission 3: "Gathering the Band" (drive to a location to meet the first Bandmember, he gives you information on where the next members will be)

- Mission 4: you will have a wanted star from start, meet the next members, each wanted star brings more police and eventually the military trying to stop you

- Mission 5: you will have 2 wanted stars, meet the next members

- Mission 6: you will have 2 wanted stars, meet the final member

- Mission 7: you will have 2 wanted stars, get the music instruments

- Mission 8: you will have 3 wanted stars, travel around Portland and reach various checkpoints to spread the news that there will be a BB concert

- Mission 9: you will have 4 wanted stars, travel around Staunton Island and reach various checkpoints to spread the news that there will be a BB concert

- Mission 10: you will have 5 wanted stars, travel around Portland and reach various checkpoints to spread the news that there will be a BB concert

- Mission 11: "Blues Brothers in Concert" you will now have 6 wanted stars, The concert takes place at a specific location, just reach it unharmed with Jake and the concert will start. The end.

- change some ingame menu graphics and screens to match the Blues Brothers theme (done by me)

- remove some of the violence (maybe guns and stuff should be left in as it may be too complicated to remove them, everyone can choose to use them or not) (done by me)

- maybe change some skins (done by me)

- change the texture of a specific (unused) shop/building in GTA to represent the musicstore (done by me)

- change the texture of a specific (unused) buildin in GTA to represent the concert hall (done by me)

- replace some sounds with sounds from Blues Brothers (done by me)

- maybe make Liberty City look a little more 80s (done by me)

- change the hud to match BB colors (done by me)

- change the colors of fonts in mainmenu (done by me)

 

 

RESOURCES for "Blues Brothers":

 

Pictures:

http://www.msu.edu/user/constanz/blues.brothers.jpg

http://www.bibi.org/box/2005/agosto/Blues_Brothers.jpg

http://screamerscostumes.net/store2/images...at%20f14937.jpg (the BB hat)

http://www.centurynovelty.com/catImages/163-023_large.jpg (the BB glasses)

http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/images/other/prison.jpg (the BB Band)

http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/images...elwood_2000.jpg (Elwood)

 

Websites:

http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com

Edited November 28, 2006 by dex909

[silvermanblue]

Should be a interesting idea. I dont know how well no guns thing will last though Ive seen plenty of mods try the no guns approch, Well its hard not to shoot people in gta. but during the missions you could have a weapon disabler code shouldent be to dificult. also make it a mission breaker if the player gets out of the car. I got a idea though how about you have the girl friend appear randomly and try to kill the blues brothers (you know like the movie) but yeah id like to help but no personal comp im using the work comp and it would be a big no no anyways good luck

[dex909]

Very nice! If you like to help you can start right away! So you would try to help with mission coding then? If so you can just use the "stripped" scm.txt that comes with BW GTAIII Mission Builder 5.0 and start from there (no GTA story and mission in this file). The project will only consists of these 11 missions to keep all this doable in acceptable time, any new and more complex mission ideas can be worked on after the release. I really like the idea of Jake´s girlfriend randomly attacking but I guess this is very complex, no? If this is easy for you to do - feel free to implement this!

[insomniacnumba1]

i hope you realise the blues brothers are a jazz group

[silvermanblue]

Sorry dude not really a coder just a idea man right now. Still just reading tutorials.

 

[lt_yao]

Maybe you need a modeler? i could help you with some new buildings