[SA] Mobile to PC research project

[Niko_Bellic_IV]

I was thinking if any user in this thread would be able to recompile the mobile textures (from gta3.img) in their respective TXD files. They look quite better than the originals TBH. Thanks in advance

Edited July 6, 2015 by Niko_Bellic_IV

[El Dorado]

They're not. And some of them are worse than the PC ones. All the significant improvements was in the vegetation area, wich was already done and it's available on the first post.

[Niko_Bellic_IV]

They're not. And some of them are worse than the PC ones. All the significant improvements was in the vegetation area, wich was already done and it's available on the first post.

Yeah, you're right. It was the colorcycle tricking my eyes that made them look cooler

[DalekCaan]

I think a SweetFX that makes the saturation a bit more red might also make it look more in-line with the mobile version.

[YOEL_44]

The only improved textures in mobile map are: vegetation, fences (much cleaner than PC ones), gym equipment and some other things here and there

 

The difference is that most of the mobile textures has got tweaked contrast and sharpness BUT they are more compressed so they look more plain anyway

[El Dorado]

Due to the mobile port fixing alpha related stuff, most textures with an alpha channel were improved, but since the PC version still have those issues, no point working on them

[Niko_Bellic_IV]

Well, mobile textures looked sharp due to the details that were applied to them. Those are present in the DimZet13 texture zip.

Edited July 7, 2015 by Niko_Bellic_IV

[YOEL_44]

That kind of HDR filter can be easily done in photoshop and similars, and apart from the bark, the other ones are mostly the same in comparison

[champion2001]

I remade the LOADSCS.txd made by DimZet13, replaced the Nvidia and EAX splash screens with Android ones, also removed all 7 remaining PC loading screens.

 

Link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/qqkqqs

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1GPPvz4_bQxMmtnc3MyOHcyRm8/view?usp=sharing[uPDATED]

 

 

These are the ones

Edited July 11, 2015 by champion2001

[KaMiKaTz]

You can remake this hq fonts replacing the ¨ for the ~ ? I'm a brazilian gamer and of course, a gta fanboy since 2005.
I'm in a project for translate the trilogy to portuguese from Brazil. You can this " ¨ to ~ " for me?

 

Like that:
Before => Ää Öö
After => Ãã Õõ

 

Anyway, thanks man

[polivin emil]

What do you think?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBUrfqEFpRI

[hamx23]

What do you think?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBUrfqEFpRI

Very good!

[Blackbird88]

I'm now in process of adding image comparisions to everything that didn't have any before. I recall that someone wanted this ages ago heh

And no I'm not cropping them since I'd like to show where are those changes as opposed to someone asking "OMG WHERE CHANGE" every time!

Edited August 28, 2015 by Blackbird88

[Miller786]

What do you think?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBUrfqEFpRI

i would really appreciate if you could list all the mods you are using or screenshot your modloader folder and your shadow settings

[lardlad]

So what exactly am I supposed to do with 10,000 png files?

[Blackbird88]

So what exactly am I supposed to do with 10,000 png files?

They are obviously not meant to be used with the game, but for modders that don't have access to mobile version's files.

Edited September 7, 2015 by Blackbird88

[hamx23]

I also recorded gameplay, it's based on mods from this topic and some other content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jArSM_JvquY

Edited September 19, 2015 by hamx23

[Moving Idiot]

These are just awesome, nice work!

Edited September 22, 2015 by TalkingPear

[Igor Bogdanoff]

Maybe skygfx should be included so you can disable grass like on remastered version

[Blackbird88]

I was thinking of including it when Hero figures either the postfx or refs first and then including mobile config in spoiler.

Edited September 26, 2015 by Blackbird88

[El Dorado]

Yesterday I was redoing the vegetation textures, this time using more up to date tools with correct compression and mipmaps and all that stuff, but I realized there are some vegetation models that are different, and some textures looks bad using default PC models. I'm gonna wait until Hero updates his renderware converter then converting necessary models and releasing the whole pack.

[Igor Bogdanoff]

Btw fellas could someone post places with more parked cars? I know about that near pay 'n spray in LS. I have one theory.

Edit: Even i though abt it and it may be complete BS but still. There is hope!

Edit2: And no. Found some more places and no my theory was wrong .

Edited September 26, 2015 by Tomasak

[TWIST_OF_HATE]

I foung a bug (?) in iOS radar icons, they don`t show up on the map when CJ is inside the interior.

[Blackbird88]

Pretty sure that happens in vanilla SA too

Wait you mean the changed icons? That's not possible.

I see you have the icons changed so no that's not a bug at all. That's normal behavior.

Edited September 28, 2015 by Blackbird88

[El Dorado]

So I was tracking down this issue thinking it was bad modded txd...

 

 

 

 

 

... and it turns out it is caused by mobile specular map (ped_spec.asi)

[Reyks]

So I was tracking down this issue thinking it was bad modded txd...

 

-pic-

 

... and it turns out it is caused by mobile specular map (ped_spec.asi)

What the heck?

 

Let's just hope this is the only thing with this problem then :S

[YOEL_44]

So I was tracking down this issue thinking it was bad modded txd...

 

 

 

 

 

... and it turns out it is caused by mobile specular map (ped_spec.asi)

 

YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME

I've been trying to fix that freaking texture for weeks, and the culprit was a simple plugin!!!!!!

 

San Andreas a crazy open world modded game...

Edited September 30, 2015 by YOEL_44

[El Dorado]

I know, I was surprised too.

Firstly I uninstalled modloader, then restaured all img's to make sure the game was using default models.

The problem was still there.

Then I tought about a badly written cleo (there a LOT of them around), and unistalled cleo.

The problem was still there.

So I found myself staring at the installed asi's. Tried without skygfx, no luck. Finally I went through a trial and error system and all the evidence pointed against ped_spec.asi.

For the next five minutes after my conclusion, I was like

 

[Blackbird88]

Well that is really the last thing I expected to do this

Too bad DK will probably never fix it sadly.

[El Dorado]

Well... maybe there is hope. Hero already said he will update his renderware file converter, and if it can convert mobile dff's properly, ped_spec.asi will not be needed anymore for mobile fingered models.