VC WIP Shine o' Vice

[BEGINit]

 

It's 1987. Vice City. A whole year has passed since Tommy Vercetti removed Diaz and Sonny Foreli thus becoming a new drug lord. But this story is not about him. Flint Casie - a new mobster from Liberty City - comes to this city in pursue of a mystery. His brother was killed here in Vice yet his rest in peace was ruined by an unknown party who completely destroyed his funeral. By coming here Flint expects find out who's behind it. Unfortunately, he will soon enough realise that things here are not done so easy.

 

 

Coming soon...

 

 

 

 

 

Coming soon...

 

 

Leaders:

BEGINit

Speccy

 

Story/writers:

BEGINit

Speccy

Braindawg

 

Coding:

BEGINit

Speccy

Silent

Vrockwave

 

Map & Character Design:

Braindawg

Speccy

Sal_Leone

Kalvin

Podbyrin

Frank.S

Mega

Turbocharger

Blue

 

Vehicle modelling:

Speccy

Leonazix

Stierlitz

Daitojo97

-Anti-

Blue

Tchuck

FacFerc

Deadman2

Togemax

TheMadeMan

Spartan_112

 

Soundtrack & SFX

Keith Ward

BEGINit

Blue

Braindawg

Speccy

 

Miscellaneous:

BEGINit

Frank.S

Speccy

Kalvin

 

Help & Contributions

ClaudX Cpt.

Rookie

DeltaCJ

Ivan1997GTA

DK22Pac

WillzyyyGTA

Ermaccer

Surya926

 

PLAYABLE DEMO DOWNLOAD!!!

 

 

WARNING!

This is a Playable Demo of a WIP mod. This is not a final release!

This Demo contains:

22 story missions, 4 side missions, 1 collectable, car purchase, bike purchase, clothes purchase, other script tweaks (approximately 25-30% of script)

Various map changes like new areas, roads, interiors, etc. (approx 50-60% of map changes)

New cars, peds, pickups (approx. 99% of changes)

New loading screens, menu, intro, radar, hud, etc.

 

INSTALLATION:

Get a fresh copy of GTA Vice City

Install Shine o' Vice to the game directory

Overwrite everything if asks.

Play the game!

 

Feedback and bug reports much appreciated!

 

 

 

 

FAQs

Q: Is it compatible with a Steam version of GTA Vice City?
A: No, it is not. The game is most likely to crash during the loading screen or may not launch at all. To fix that you need to find Non-
steam gta-vc.exe v1.0

 

Q: Is this mod compatible with other mods? 
A: It is highly recommended that you do not use any other mods with Shine o' Vice. Some other modifications may cause game breaking bugs
so please, make sure that the bug is not related to other modifications (remove those first) before reporting it.

 

Q: When I play the game I have no audio. When I go to audio options, it says "No Audio Hardvare Found". How come?
A: This installation does not contain audio files. Make sure that your game has audio files inside the audio folder. If you do have all
the proper audio files, it may be your gta.exe problem.

 

Q: When I start the game, I can hear the intro sounds and music, but the video is not displayed? How come?
A: Right-clik on gta-vc.exe->Compatibility-> Check Disable Desktop Composition

 

Q: When I play the game my mouse seem to not work. How come?
A: Right-clik on gta-vc.exe->Compatibility->Check Disable Visual Themes (or alternatively run the game in Win95 or XP compatibility
mode). 

 

Q: When I try to launch the game I get an error message that says "The program failed to initialise properly". What the hell?
A: Try installing the latest DirectX version to your computer. If it doesn't help, try updating the C++Redistributable on your computer.

 

Q: Everything works fine, but when I try loading savegames or restart the game, it crashes. How come?
A: Try Right-clik on gta-vc.exe->Compatibility-> Check Disable display scaling on high DPI settings. It's a long shot, but might work.

 

Q: Everything works fine, bet the longer my playing session the more unstable it looks. To be more precise, car geometry goes nuts!
What's that?
A: A bug that we are aware of and trying to fix. For now just reload the game (preferably turning it off and on again) and everything
should be just fine.

 

Q: I tend to run into some random bugs: a texture error here, a random crash there etc.? How come?
A: GTA Shine o' Vice is still in WIP state. We are working on finishing the mod and fixing all the bugs so there would be none in final
release. Untill then, bug reports are appreciated.

 

 

 

Edited April 12, 2019 by BEGINit

[Braindawg]

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Edited January 12, 2024 by Braindawg

[lolleroz]

Wow I really hope you don't give up on this, I remember one of your previous mods loooong time ago and the video was amazing, unfortunely you lost it in HDD crash or something. The selling drugs feature really got me pumped, I always wanted to create a mod for VC to sell drugs since there's nothing to do after main story, but never had enough coding skills.

[tommzy2]

mod sounds awesome, vice city needs another story, one that isn't short :@

 

anyways, we want some screens and footage!

[Frank.s]

Here's a tip BEGINit: If the mod doesn't use cleo or certain controller buttons then it can be ported to mobile. (eg. the action button isn't always available on-screen on mobile

 

What's your thoughts on this being released for mobile VC as well? If you are ok with it being ported but have no mobile device and if no-one else does it then i might as well.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Frank.s

[lolleroz]

BEGINit, you should consider posting a topic in III Modelling section to get someone to help you writing exactly what you need, that way you'll be able to find the right person faster. I'd really like to help you myself but the only thing I can do in 3dsmax is just converting guns from SA/IV to VC/III.

[Silent]

Holy f*ck. 70-80 missions and you all made them by yourself?

 

Insane. I never had enough patience to even code 10 missions from scratch.

 

EDIT:

Come to think of, are you working on it snce like 2009? Otherwise looks like your patience is nearing infinity

 

EDIT2:

 

(eg. the action button isn't always available on-screen on mobile)

I'm pretty sure it's called out by a Mobile-exclusive opcode. So, should be usable.

Edited August 28, 2013 by SilentPL

[BEGINit]

^^yeah I believe it's being developed since 2009. Got ups and downs. lolleroz was right it's the one which was almost lost because of hdd crash. Started it over from an early backup I had on other PC. Some time later I managed piss myself off because my idea of non linear game became too complex. So got rid of the idea and started again. Not to mention that for some time I was developing it at the same time with Perils of Liberty City and Frosted Winter bug search. Thank God I've not started anything on SA...yet

[Silent]

Then I'm seriously impressed by your patience and creativity (after all, missions DO need a plot). My TC pretty much died due to lack of both of these

[BEGINit]

Thanks for a good word. I just don't like to leave unfinished business

[zmudziak32]

Good to hear, about new story in Vice City. Keep going.

[Satourn]

Man, you never stop impressing. First a great mod for III, now a great mod for Vice City. I'm gonna wait for the release, good luck with finishing it.

[elMarcoPL]

Your mods are really entertaining and long in case of story, so this one is worth of waiting. Good luck.

[Node]

Sounds interesting, keep up the good work!

[BEGINit]

Sorry. for no updates. Unfortunately I wont have an internet connection for quite some time. Im writing fro another pc in a public library. Cant get used to the keyboard d. Anyways, scripting continues

[BEGINit]

Due to low response of my help requests (I bet everyone plays GTA5) and some real world issues my enthusiasm slowly drops. Nevertheless scipting continues (slow progress).

Edited September 28, 2013 by BEGINit

[Silent]

Due to low response of my help requests

Where?

[BEGINit]

"If someone could lend some help with modeling it would help me a lot to finish this mod as soon as possible. Please "

 

also on modelling requests topic

 

also waiting responses fom MinnieMan TripleAS and lolleroz for about a month now regarding the help they offered

[Tadzik]

I hope this will be compatible with Vice Cry

[elMarcoPL]

I hope it will get released anyway. I have never played a great TC mod with new storyline for Vice City.

[Tadzik]

It would be great if BEGINit will make mission mod like this of Frosted Winter for new SOL when it'll be released

[Tadzik]

I see you were online, are you still working on this mod?

[BEGINit]

At this point Im waiting for some models so I could continue coding and fulfill my vision. Or something

Edited March 27, 2014 by BEGINit

[CharlesVercetti]

Just continue the coding. Project is awesome!

[Silent]

Indeed, if it's about ped models, placeholders ftw.

[Gummy]

I hope you make something like those suicide bombers in Frosted Winter.

[Jerkоv]

Anything new, BEGINit?

[BEGINit]

I have to say that I've got so many things to do in life, that moding gta is probably the slowest process of them all. Nevertheless, its happening. Now the bad news is that I'm pretty much at the point where the process is halted due to the lack of my envisioned models. I scripted everything by taking into account the idea of having a few new buildings, interiors and dynamic objects. Unfortunately, I cannot model well (I'm not going to learn, it would take considerable amount of time). Furthermore, almost every attempt to find someone, who could make those models for me failed (either people encounter various technical problems or simply disappear). So yeah, I'm basically having the game where there's nothing to do script wise because scripting is like 90% done. The last 10% is incomplete and waiting for the new models to be adjusted to. Umm... Did all this make any sense?

[Tadzik]

Maybe you can ask HackMan128 for help with mapping/modeling

[BEGINit]

I just checked my inbox to make sure. I asked HackMan128 some time ago, but there was no response