III Released [III Classic/DE] Natural HD Textures for III

[saihtam92]

Damn. I was just thinking about trying to play it again and was looking for texture mods.

This just looks amazing. Is there any new updates coming? As I understand from the first post that the 0.4 beta is from 2013?

[Fivekills]

The mod installer link is dead, can we get it replaced with a working one? Is there going to be any type of update for this mod? I seen the mod maker comment a page back he was working on it again.

[positivcho]

This looks amazing! As Fivekills said, can we get an updated installer? Can't wait to play with this mod

[TWIST_OF_HATE]

Progress ? ETA ?

Edited June 14, 2015 by TWIST_OF_HATE

[Dingleman]

A substantial amount of life commitments (and I'll admit.. lack of motivation) have gotten in the way of this. In honesty, there has probably been enough progress since last release for a new one.

I'll look at doing a bit of digging + spit and polish on this over the weekend and having a new release in time for next week.

[Silent]

Pity. Would love to see the materials released, though!

[GaMeR-X]

Awesome!

[Woojin671]

can anybody plz tell me how to save the zip file on windows 8.1? this mod looks really great and i wanna play it so badly!!!!!

[TWIST_OF_HATE]

Please man, just release something ...

[Donel]

Wow, I've discovered this mod yesterday, it's pretty good.

 

Dingleman, you should at least release your latest work, the beta in the OP is really outdated compared to the stuff you posted in this topic from page 2 on.

 

 

Congratulations for the awesome work.

Edited August 12, 2015 by Donel

[[email protected]]

cool... you've made a nice work...

[macrohard]

Abandoned again?

[Matt714]

Seems to be.

 

E-mailed the author just to know if it was still alive and haven't heard back.

[Dingleman]

New version has been uploaded and linked in the OP.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Dingleman

[TWIST_OF_HATE]

Dingleman, you did it ! Better late, than newer. It will be awesome combination with Xbox mod.

Edited February 23, 2016 by TWIST_OF_HATE

[Dingleman]

Currently awaiting for a GTAGarage support ticket to be approved so I can increase the upload limit for those who aren't fond of MediaFire.

Also would like to thank you guys for the ongoing support in spite of my ongoing work (or lack thereof ) for this mod. I intend for this to be the final version unless something drastic is pointed out to me.

Peace out!

[AztecaEh]

a shame , this had great potential. thanks for your work tho . it looks awesome .

[Hoods_CZ]

It's awesome, but origin posters with Badfellas are from beta version. In this mod Leone family are from full version GTA III.

[TWIST_OF_HATE]

Dingleman, can you please upload latest version on MEGA or torrent ? I have 10 kb/sec on mediafire

Edited April 28, 2016 by TWIST_OF_HATE

[Ruvix]

So any new news ?

[stef_92]

Man, this mod is awesome. But why did you put a whole txd.img file instead of providing a folder with all txd files you've changed. If I only want to replace the textures that you've changed and keep the rest (because I may have other modifications) what am I supposed to do?

[zanesix]

Could somebody give me just the files from the mod so I don't have to replace the entire IMG's? That would be great, thanks in advance.

[Alt]

Could somebody give me just the files from the mod so I don't have to replace the entire IMG's? That would be great, thanks in advance.

 

 

Man, this mod is awesome. But why did you put a whole txd.img file instead of providing a folder with all txd files you've changed. If I only want to replace the textures that you've changed and keep the rest (because I may have other modifications) what am I supposed to do?

 

You guys can actually find changed files yourself.

 

* Get original IMG archives

* Extract files from (original and modded) img archives with whatever tool you want into some separate folders (e.g. gta3-img/gta3-img-original; txd-img/txd-img-original)

* Grab WinMerge (binaries as it's portable version). Install Visual C++ 2008 Redist (x86) if you don't have it.

* Open WinMergeU.exe. Then go to File -> Open. For the "Left" choose "gta3-img" folder and for the "Right" respectively "gta3-img-original". Click OK.

* "View" - uncheck "Show Identical Items"

* Select all files (Ctrl+A/ Edit -> Select All), right-click somewhere on the selected area and choose "Copy -> Left to..."

* Congratulations, now you have modded files in the separate folder.

Edited June 20, 2016 by Alt

[stef_92]

[stef_92]

Guess what... it didn't work. It showed me that all files were different

[Alt]

Guess what? I don't owe you anything. Just passed by and tried to help, And in return got only "go f--k yourself" reaction. As it turned out you didn't even try what I suggested back then.

I'm sure that this can be done one way or another (hint: HashCheck + X-ConTEXT). I might test it properly, write another guide or even upload archive with modded files. But ask yourself one simple question mister: why should I bother myself doing it for few ungrateful kids people with a rude attitude?

Edited June 24, 2016 by Alt

[stef_92]

You didn't get a "go f--k yourself" reaction. It seems that you got me wrong. I just wanted to mention that I have tried and unfortunately it didn't work. And also if you see one post above - i expressed my thankfulness. So I was not ungrateful neighter rude.

Edited June 24, 2016 by stef_92

[barti]

Here's an idea - the contents of TXDs have some minimal variations between them, but file sizes stay the same. You can use Beyond Compare to comb out the duplicates. Simply use Folder Compare, and set the Rules to only compare by file sizes.

[Alt]

@stef_92
That guy on the gif looks annoyed so I thought of sarcasm for something. Glad that it's not like that.

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Dug a bit further and found the case. Each time game creates txd.img it results different *txd files inside this *img archive. Content of these files stays the same but technically they're different (so you can't compare them by checksum/MD5). Luckily we have Magic.TXD which could unpack txd files and unlike R* method creates each time exactly the same txd files from the same content. So I unpacked all resources of all txd-s, packed them back and compared resulted files by hash (*md5-files from HashCheck, ExamDiff for comparing them and creating the list + txt editor with regex support for removing unnecessary symbols on the left).

 

Here's the list of modded files:

 

8balls.txd
airgrndb.txd
banshee.txd
basmntcrpark.txd
buildsite.txd
chopper.txd
clif22.txd
combroadwy2.txd
comjetty.txd
compark.txd
comsky3.txd
comstadium.txd
comtunel.txd
com_police.txd
crap_jetty.txd
dam.txd
dambase.txd
docks.txd
fdr_underpass.txd
hospital2.txd
indbeach.txd
inddbridge.txd
indpolice.txd
indredlitblk1b.txd
joeysext.txd
luigiclub.txd
newbuildind.txd
newprojectland.txd
pinetrees.txd
pjs.txd
postersub.txd
pumphouse.txd
radar02.txd
radar03.txd
radar04.txd
radar05.txd
radar06.txd
radar07.txd
radar09.txd
radar10.txd
radar11.txd
radar12.txd
radar13.txd
radar15.txd
radar17.txd
radar18.txd
radar19.txd
radar20.txd
radar21.txd
radar22.txd
radar23.txd
radar25.txd
radar26.txd
radar27.txd
radar28.txd
radar29.txd
radar30.txd
radar31.txd
radar33.txd
radar34.txd
radar35.txd
radar36.txd
radar37.txd
radar38.txd
radar39.txd
radar40.txd
radar41.txd
radar42.txd
radar43.txd
radar44.txd
radar45.txd
radar46.txd
radar47.txd
radar48.txd
radar49.txd
radar50.txd
radar51.txd
radar52.txd
radar53.txd
radar54.txd
radar59.txd
radar60.txd
radar61.txd
rocky.txd
subhospital.txd
subind1.txd
subind2.txd
subind3.txd
subind5.txd
subind6.txd
subind7.txd
subtunl10.txd
sub_projects.txd
sub_villas.txd
trees.txd
trees2.txd

Theoretically textures were replaced with HD ones so *txd file sizes should be different. Well, they're for most of the files but 3 of them remained the same (dam, dambase & pumphouse).

So almost same as before:

* Get original txd.img

* Extract files from both (original and modded) txd.img archives into some separate folders (e.g. txd-img, txd-img-mod)

* Grab WinMerge (binaries as it's portable version). Install Visual C++ 2008 Redist (x86) if you don't have it.

* Open WinMergeU.exe. <Edit> -> "Options" -> "Compare" - "Folder". Change "Compare method" to "Size"

Then go to File -> Open. For the "Left" choose "txd-img" folder and for the "Right" respectively "txd-img-mod". Click OK.

* "View" - uncheck "Show Identical Items"

* Select all files (Ctrl+A/ Edit -> Select All), right-click somewhere on the selected area and choose "Copy -> Right to..."

* Congratulations, you have almost each modded file in the separate folder. Now just move there the rest of them (dam.txd, dambase.txd & pumphouse.txd).

 

Well, that wasn't boring also found some useful utilities...

And yeah, you're welcome

Edited June 26, 2016 by Alt

[stef_92]

I hope this doesn't look sarcastically