GTASOL - The Topic That Started It All

[Mad Daine]

Dear X-Ceti, what is difficult, in search of sharing services?

[X-Seti]

Looking for stable file hosting, some company who is not going to take the files down within a week.

 

This has happen to me 3 times now.

[X-Seti]

Job-0009:

 

Job-0022:

 

are now FIXED!

 

btw I'm having a hard time editing gta3.col it open fast but once I finish my thing and save it takes a loooooong time, freeze or crash and gets corrupted.

 

I'm using colleditor 2

 

 

 

Gonna upload the files and go to bed, 'night.

The Col editor has to sort through memory so it will appear to freeze so just leave it be, so trying to close this will corrupt the file.

 

But we have everything in one file for 2 reasons, game speed and to make sure there are no clone files that can make the engine crash in game, I also check col against IDE.

 

Your notice the img file is sorted the same way, this is so everything is indexed in memory before and after the game is loaded.

 

 

Somehow I'd like to make new tools

[Mad Daine]

Looking for stable file hosting, some company who is not going to take the files down within a week.

 

This has happen to me 3 times now.

Clearly, http://www.mediafire.com/ fit?

[X-Seti]

Ok, I will comfess a little.

 

I do not like using hosting sites that make money from your files.

 

As I have tired Rapidupload, Wupload and one or two others - but the truth is unless your files make money by the amount of hits to well placed advertising, Your files are going to get deleted.

 

Those hosting companies make more money from illegal file hosting more so and this is what keeps these companies in business because without all the legal hosting these companies would not be there.

 

Right now these illegal files can be taken down by order by MCA or soon to be SOPA or and this is where things are going to get interesting when some US bills are passed for us modders too looking for a place to host files.

 

That issue aside.

 

SOL has copyrighted media within so this is why I am remodelling the maps to make this our own and why I got permission in the first place.

 

So there are a lot of issues to sort out here.

 

I have found a place to host the file besides droppybox.

 

I will post these links soon.

Edited March 14, 2012 by X-Seti

[X-Seti]

Thankyou m8, i've got that one now

[KrinkinOnline]

 

Ok, I will comfess a little.

 

I do not like using hosting sites that make money from your files.

 

As I have tired Rapidupload, Wupload and one or two others - but the truth is unless your files make money by the amount of hits to well placed advertising, Your files are going to get deleted.

 

Those hosting companies make more money from illegal file hosting more so and this is what keeps these companies in business because without all the legal hosting these companies would not be there.

 

Right now these illegal files can be taken down by order by MCA or soon to be SOPA or and this is where things are going to get interesting when some US bills are passed for us modders too looking for a place to host files.

 

That issue aside.

 

SOL has copyrighted media within so this is why I am remodelling the maps to make this our own and why I got permission in the first place.

 

So there are a lot of issues to sort out here.

 

I have found a place to host the file besides droppybox.

 

I will post these links soon.

 

Well.... Mediafire is a very good service. Rapidshare was them wait times and slow download speeds which are very annoying. Dropbox is designed for syncing to be honest. Megaupload got closed down.. tis' a shame...

 

As long as the download speeds are good and you give us links sometime today I can start on a GTA:SOL trailer.

[X-Seti]

The links are up - refresh your browser m8

 

Edit;

 

Download link 1

GTASOL 69.2 (LightBull)

[KrinkinOnline]

 

The links are up - refresh your browser m8

250kb/s.. not too bad. Anyway, for the the trailer, was thinking of teh song in the GTA United 1.1 trailer as that is an iconic GTA Vice City Song..

 

[KrinkinOnline]

I think a Gallery page on the GTA:SOL website would be good. Everybody can send in some images and they can be placed into the gallery and people can go through them like a slideshow or something

[X-Seti]

Progress on mapping; day 3. (Midway)

 

Midway is a very hard island to redo as I want to model the buildings from scratch.

 

Thinking in a module sense I am peacing the land mass together slowly deleting the old messed up mesh as I go.

 

 

I have a lot of options here too, I was thinking about Red Dead Redemption, Turning the small town into an updated present day counterpart of Armadillo.

 

This way we could start the game with Jack Marston as an old aged man telling a story about the west.

 

Now the trick here would be the have the camera on this guy as his talking away then pan towards Mainland Liberty showing a busy city, a police chopper in the foreground playing passed

 

Opening the game with a new story.

 

 

[X-Seti]

Good idea.

 

I want to get things upto scratch first before we make any major moves towards a website.

 

We have a lot of hacks to remake and mapping issues to fix.

 

 

[X-Seti]

What song is this?

 

I clicked on the link but you know I should have realized there is no sound on this computer. (giggles)

 

Anyway I live for the 80's and my favourite game is Vice City.

 

City of Rock and Roll!

[Silent]

It's The Outfield's "Your Love".

[X-Seti]

Do what is best

 

We could have a vote on it with others so post your ideas about this on the right thread?

 

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=500908

[KrinkinOnline]

I could work on one as a side project along with the trailer I plan to do. With the limited time I'll have and the skills I'll have to refresh I could have both done by the end of April.

[X-Seti]

Sounds cool.

 

Keep up with the updates m8, I'll put you in charge of media

 

[KrinkinOnline]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9tJKPzv5o4

 

69.2B Gameplay Video 1

Edited March 14, 2012 by KrinkinOnline

[KrinkinOnline]

Could we do an England themed Island, maybe something like London towards the bottom right hand corner, maybe with a long road or bridge to get to it.

[GlockPL]

I have one question. Is this mod is multiplayer?

[KrinkinOnline]

no the mod isn't multiplayer.

[X-Seti]

That was cool.

 

I counted 10 bugs, not counting the work that has to be done to Mainland liberty.

 

That island is going to be redone soon.

[X-Seti]

We could add a mini london map in a cutscene.

 

Like with LC in SA.

[KrinkinOnline]

I said I had a fraps crash but I got one of them random crashes crossing that bridge to the right at end, however I went there again and I didn't crash.

[KrinkinOnline]

I suppose a mini London map in a cutscene would be nice.....

Edited March 21, 2012 by KrinkinOnline

[X-Seti]

We are looking into this, and the dodgy exe hacks.

 

 

[KrinkinOnline]

What bugs did you spot from my video

[X-Seti]

The long blue bridge to LC

Other tunnel with the land missing

Road piece missing from island 2

Building not spawning

Flicking (This is due to the LOD having to be redone)

 

Just some i've noted.

[KrinkinOnline]

I personally didn't notice the blue bridge but the rest I did spot. All how long have the Liberty City tunnels been bugged for?

[X-Seti]

These got fixed in the online version, but since the splitt all the hacks stayed with VC0.

 

We need to redo everything.