[SA] PS2 Grass to PC

[BMWSauberF1.08]

^that is related to collision material,it has nothing to do with grass

Edited February 22, 2015 by Aztecas_5

[nyolc8]

Is grass stored in gta3.img? Or wtf?

 

original gta3.img:

 

modded gta3.img with lots of replaced things in it:

 

Time and weather is same on both screenshot.

How gta3.img related to grass? I thought grass is in plant1.txd.

Edited February 22, 2015 by nyolc8

[The Hero]

Maybe you're using a different col now?

[Mugetsuga]

@Aztecas_5

Is this fixable ? If it is, i'll post that in the good topic.

[_CP_]

Hm, so probably that grass model lacks of night vertex color.

[The Hero]

Grass dffs don't have night vertex color.

Edited February 22, 2015 by The Hero

[savidge]

Lel, and @Kalvin made the new .col file. DAMNIT KEFFLOM!

[TJGM]

Lel, and @Kalvin made the new .col file. DAMNIT KEFFLOM!

I'm pretty sure that was intentionally done though, he was trying to change the grass so it matched the PS2 grass.

Edited February 22, 2015 by TJGM

[savidge]

I'm pretty sure that was intentionally though, he was trying to change the grass so it matched the PS2 grass.

"intentionally" being the key word, lol.

[nyolc8]

Maybe you're using a different col now?

Well yeah, as you said it I just realized that the whole hill have a different model in gta3.img... maybe the key will what Mugetsuga said about the ground dff (or ground col)? Edited February 22, 2015 by nyolc8

[inadequate]

Partly probably. But as long as it looks like on the PS2 this mod is doing exactly what it should. Fixing the PS2 rendering is another thing.

 

Well, no problem. Now we have exactly the PS2 grass. And waiting the rendering fix.

[nyolc8]

Answer for bright grass (and bright character on some places) I think:

http://gtaforums.com/topic/236585-map-coll-making-sa-lod-colls/?p=3560173

 

and this part:

 

The Brightness Meter is for use with COL3 Type Collisions which are used for San Andreas. This does not determine how bright your model will appear in game, that is vertex prelighting. This will determine how bright or dark certain models will appear while on this collision, such as vehicles, peds and your character. Between 1/4 and 1/2 is a good range, look at original SA models for an idea.

[SilverRST]

What about replacing the faulty dffs with the good dffs with no radioactivity sh*t?

[The Hero]

The DFF has nothing to do with it. The materials are overwritten.

[nyolc8]

Can someone post a screenshot of where are the glowing grass exactly in LV (with map)? Because I fixed my vinewood grass by setting the brightness of the faces in the hill's .col file.

 

with modded gta3.img, tweaked brightness in the hill .col file, now nice dark grass:

Edited February 22, 2015 by nyolc8

[nyolc8]

I don't think editing the plants.dat will do something. And it seems it's not the grass the problem but the area dff.

Here, i'm on a different dff and the grass is ok (don't look at the grass on the left) :

Here i'm on the dff that poses problem, you can see that CJ shine like daytime :

With MEd, by selecting the dff, all the red zone, if Carl is there, he will shine at night like the grass :

There are many other dff, but too many screenshots.

Test this file, put it into your gta3.img, I fixed the brightness of that part (which you higlighted with red) to test if this fixes the grass (it should fix the bright character there):

http://speedy.sh/WsefP/vegasw-2.col

 

of course make backup from yours

Edited February 22, 2015 by nyolc8

[Mugetsuga]

Thanks nyolc8 that works great ! I'll post the screenshots later, there's a lot of areas like that.

[nyolc8]

It also fixed the glowing grass? (not just the bright character?)

[Reyks]

Test this file, put it into your gta3.img, I fixed the brightness of that part (which you higlighted with red) to test if this fixes the grass (it should fix the bright character there):

http://speedy.sh/WsefP/vegasw-2.col

 

of course make backup from yours

I guess you figured it out, nice work

 

It could be a little bit darker to match the other ones nearby imo.

 

EDIT: Just for comparison heres the grass on the other model nearby:

Edited February 22, 2015 by Reyks

[nyolc8]

fixed some more parts which I found in that area: http://speedy.sh/aDNub/vegasw-col.zip (vegasw_2.col updated too in the zip)

Edited February 22, 2015 by nyolc8

[savidge]

@nyolc8 to the rescue! Nice work!

[inadequate]

You can upload the Vinewood one?

 

EDIT:

Nevermind. Nice work nyolc8.

Edited February 22, 2015 by inadequate

[nyolc8]

I just uploaded it in a minute ago lol It's in the improved vinewood topic: http://gtaforums.com/topic/759346-relsa-improved-vinewood/?p=1067007596

[inadequate]

lol. I see it a few seconds ago haha.

[Reyks]

Well... guess it's time to scan the map for radioactive weed grass.

[-Quantum-]

Well... guess it's time to scan the map for radioactive weed grass.

yup

 

 

 

[Mugetsuga]

Here's the map with the glowing grass :

Do you need screenshots in game or just the map is ok ?

[inadequate]

Well, Venturas stills with a lot of radioactive grass, in the zones where Mugetsuga points.

[SilverRST]

It's better to wait for a fix than rather scanning the entire map in search of these annoying radioactive grass.

Otherwise you'll get different places with different looking grass.

[nyolc8]

The fix itself is to fix these messed up .col files... Because the .col files have too high values in them for brightness. You can check it out (and fix it) with coll editor II. Some map elements have normal brightness, and some (these glowing grass ones) are have much much higher value there (basically it's set to full instead of 1/8).

Another R* thing...

 

@Mugetsuga: map is fine, just need to find out the col files... that's the hard part

 

edit: I checked 2-3 places from that map (at the northeast corner) you made and found totally normal brightness values for those areas. :pokerface:

Edited February 22, 2015 by nyolc8