This tutorial assumes you already have installed dmagic1’s wheel mod, if you don’t know how read my other tutorial here http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=390873

What you will need:
Txd Workshop 3 http://www.gtatools.com/pafiledb/pafiledb....=download&id=15
IMG Tool v1.3
http://download.t-n-media.de:4017/cgi-bin/...?file=IMGTool13
RW Analyse
http://people.freenet.de/steve-m/rwanalyze.zip
Collision File Editor and D3DX81ab.ddl (put the D3DX81ab.ddl in the directory of the col file editor)
http://people.freenet.de/steve-m/colleditor.zip
http://people.freenet.de/steve-m/d3dx81ab.zip
And a modded xbox with gta vice city on the hard drive.

Step 1
Download a car of your choice from various grand theft auto modding sites (check the links topic that’s pinned). I chose the 2004 BMW 325ci Convertible, which has its own .col file (not every car gas a .col file with it). It should contain a .TXD file a .DFF file and a read-me with what to replace in the handling.cfg and default.ide files.

Step 2
Extract your car to a folder on your desktop for easy use. Then open up your car in txd workshop 3, then click properties/compress/ok. It will compress it to either DXT1 or DXT3 depending on weather alpha is used. DO NOT PRESS COMPRESS ALL! IT WILL NOT WORK THAT WAY! You need to compress each one individually. Once you’ve done that press save.

Step 3
Now open up your car.txd in RW Analyse, then do this:

Step 4
Go back to the read-me that came with your car. It should look like this:

Step 5
Open up those files with notepad (handling.cfg, default.ide and carcols.dat), they are all located in the data folder. Then replace the line in the files with the ones given to you in the read-me.

Step 6
Once you have done that open up your gta3.img with img tool 3. Press f2 and find your car.txd and car.dff, in my case I’m finding “deluxo.txd and deluxo.dff”. Rename it deluxo_orig.txd and deluxo_orig.dff. Then go commands-> add, and add your txd and dff files. Rebuild your archive (commands->rebuild archive) and exit.

Step 7
If your car doesn’t have a .col file with it skip to step 9

Step 8
Open up the collision file editor then press load. Load the vehicles.col located in gta vice city->models->coll->vehicles.col. Find your car.col (deluxo.col for me) and click replace, find the replacement that came with your car and replace it. Hit save and then exit.

Step 9
Now to ftp over all your stuff. Just replace all the stuff you modified (vehicles.col, default.ide, handling.cfg, carcols.dat and gta3.IMG) with the stuff on the hard drive. Always to remember to delete GTA_VC.CAP.Final if you don’t it wont work!

Step 9
Go play vice city with your new cars!


*note*
A car you download may come with a particle.cfg file, you can use it if you want.

Thank-you for reading my tutorial and feel free to comment on it or ask for any help. This tutorial was totally made by scratch by me.

nice tutorial. I think its worthy of a pin. I put a request thread in the Compliments / Suggestions / Complaints forum to get the "links" thread pinned. Try that. Best of luck

the TXD workshop link isnt working

i tried replying about this earlier but the X-S server was down like usual

can u send another link or something please

nvm about to post before i said but goto gtatools.com and then search for the workshop there.

anyways besides that I tried to save it in TXD workshop that was all good but when i goto the rwworkshop then when i try to convert to XBOX the thing says that the file is not a dxt1 and is only a 16bit color and has to be a 32 bit or somethign and i went back with another file also and the same thing happened, so its starting to piss me off when i goto do this over and over again. do u have a solution?

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oooo i see now, u didnt explain that u had to convert every single item tho anyways lemme read this and update my reply as much as possible lol

Ok something isn't right here....I'm missing the info in step 3.

The picture that's posted of what it looks like in step 3
It's not there when I get to that point.

So I have no idea why and I followed all the steps up unil that point but that part isn't there for me I have never even seen that until now.

Also as soon as I replace any car in the game with a new one. as soon as I get to the area that particular vehicle is supposed to be there the game locks up.
I have done this with over 50+ car mods and the result has been the same all 50+ times..It's almost like the game can't be missing the actual model of the car that's supposed to be there and if it is missing the game can't read properly.
I have tried cahnging all different vehicles, Motercycles, Buses, Mopeds, Golf Carts, normal vehicles.

People keep saying these are simple mods and that the tutorial is easy to follow.. but I can't see how this is possible or why they are saying this. (Well I did follow the tutorial) ,I can see if it didn't work with some or most mods but not every single mod I've tried....and I've even tried it with the mods that people said they got working......And I don't see how it's possible that every single mod I have downloaded just happened to be non-compatible.

Any ideas

Ok I know why I'm having problems with it, it's because Step 3 is missing information.
All you said was: Now open up your car.txd in RW Analyse, then do this....You never finished explaining what your supposed to be doing, What the point to this RW Analyse thing is, or what you mean by do THIS...You also never mentioned anything about closing the RW Analyse .....This is probably easy and I'm probably going to kick my self and don't ask me how but you lost me here.

But forgetting about that all that's needed here are the missing explinations other than that this tutrial looks awesome...Good job (And I'm not being sarcstic either) I really mean that...Good job

Oh yeah BTW what is this asking because i have no clue to what this is asking

In this part in the tutorial:
Collision File Editor and D3DX81ab.ddl (put the D3DX81ab.ddl in the directory of the col file editor)
http://people.freenet.de/steve-m/colleditor.zip
http://people.freenet.de/steve-m/d3dx81ab.zip

This means to do what?

Because this is missing explination as to what he actually means by this because right now I have no idea whatb this is, what it means or where I'm supposed to place that D3DX81ab
I have tried the following
Placing everything in the same folder
Dragging the D3DX81ab into the exe.
Opening the colleditor with notepad but there is no where the D3DX81ab can go (You can't pace a file inside a text document and then have it work)

The above situaltion, is why I say that people don't know how to wrote proper instruction manuls/guides. and the guide they do have certain parts are written very shitty. I'll bet you he didn't even take into account that someone would not know what he was talking about. So now what I have to do is keep making topics about this until someone answers my question and it's all due to the fact because something that should have been written to begin with, wasn't.

Eh dude, i allways use compress all, and it always works.

Its alot easier.

Also, i use batch converting for the large projects, works without any errors.

Really? I heard that some people couldn't do it so I never tried. I'll check that out.

And if it still doesn't work clear your cache. It will definatley work now, if not go back to the tutorial and see what you did wrong.

Also if you are sure you have done everything right there is a good chance that the car just simply doesn't work on the xbox version.

I have a question, I tried your tutorial, followed every step, and the game freezes, even after clearing the caches and deleting the GTA_VC_CAP.final or something similar (don't have the Xbox right now), so my question is, adding cars works with a trained xbe??

I'm not sure, I have never tried that, that might be the problem.

But what car did you use? Because I think that some cars just don't work for the xbox version of vice city.

Thanks Zdemon for the (quick!!) reply, I actually may have done a really stupid thing, I installed 2 cars and a weapon and sent the file to the Xbox, I did not try installing individual vehicles and testing to see if it worked. I will try again when I get back home.

Great tutorial, btw!!

Thanks!

Of course, my xbox has new vechicles and also has project x's trainer for vice city.

Thanks darkblizzard for the reply. I later tried adding a single car, which replaced the Deluxo, and the game froze when I got to the car dealership, so I gave up for the night and will try again when I have a little more free time.
Anybody know the reason or the solution for the frozen game when getting near the dealership?

I'm having a problem myself, I replaced the files in the GTA3.img and everything, but when the game loads, nothing is changed. I also cleared the cache but that didn't do anything either. Anyone know what's going on?

Delete the GTAVC.CAP.final

There are 3 things that might have happened,
1) You didn't install dmagic1's wheel mod
2) You didn't follow this tutorial correctly
3) It isn't a car compatible with gta vc on xbox

Yes, ZDemon right, not every car for the pc works with xbox. Some of them slow down the game a little, some work just fine, and some don't work at all. I've experienced alot of cars that slow down the game when you pass themand a few that don't work, period. Good luck with your cars, try different cars and try less advanced, more similar looking cars first that will run better in the game.

I did install the Dmagic's Wheel Mod. Like darkblizzard said, it is a matter of trial and error, as I found out after installing different cars, one of them slowed down the game a lot, other than that, the game works fine now.

Thanks for the help guys, and to Zdemon for the tutorial.

thanks, it was the.final file, what is the point of that file anyways?

I guess when the car isn't changed at all but replaced with the same car just no wheels means the mod isn't Xbox compatable?

If you have checked these three things:

1) You didn't install dmagic1's wheel mod
2) You didn't follow this tutorial correctly
3)Clear cache and delete GTAVC.CAP.final

And if it still doesn't work, it's just one of those cars that won't work for gta vice city xbox.

what is it about a car that makes the car work on the pc and not the xbox?

I'm not too sure, but it has to do with the way it's modelled, what it's moddelled with, and what textures it uses.

now I get a new error "read is beyond end of file" with IMG Tool, what does that mean?

so I guess no one knows about the problem or how to fix it?

Download the other tool called "IMG" and see if that works better. Download it here.

How well does the xbox handle the high poly cars?

It doesnt at all...an Xbox will freeze up with high poly cars.

Ok... thanks a lot.

I had inserted a few cars in vice city, but they were low poly.

when i go to open gta3.img in the imgtool i get an error that says "unable to find dir file!" then it has the location of the gta3.img file except it says gta3.dir in stead? i coppyd the .dir file to that location and it still says that?

I'm not sure about this but try opening the .dir file straight from the game folder where it is stored. (make sure gta3.img is still in there too)

My game freezes up during the loading screen with the pink loading bar. I have checked everything and it seems fine. I do not know how to clear the cache, but i did delete the .final file.

Can someone tell me does this tutorial apply to GTA3, I would like to try installing the REALGTA3 mod
http://realgta.net/realgta/

I have managed to get the "mechanics" to work, just not the cars and models, I see that not all cars are insertable for Vice City, so I'm guessing this applies to GTA3 as well.

So far I have the spread on the shotgun changed, to the more realistic spread and added power, as well as the power changes to other weapons also the abilitry to run while firing the shotgun (much loved addition). As well as added my own custom stations (lol easy considering they're WMA files )

The config files are identical to the PC version so I've managed to change all the car names to their REALGTA3 real life counterparts as well as modify the handling of the cars to match the mod. (you can straight out copy the config files to the game but you end up with menu's not displaying the controller options correctly e.g "press y to enter car") so some editing is required there unless you know the game inside and out, then that doesn't matter I guess.

I just can'tseem to get any of the models to run, I have compiled the files like inserting the mod/models into the PC version but the game won't load. So just wondering if doing it like this tutorial should it work? Before I go spending a ship load of time attempting to convert this large mod over.

This for is just a personal project for now as my pc copy of GTA3 runs like crap more so with REALGTA installed, as I can't see any way to legally upload it for others to use. (and yes I do own my copies of the PC and Xbox versions gotta support the games industry )

So if anyone can help me here or direct me to a thread that may of already covered this as the forums search function just refuses to work for me.

Thanks (and yes if doable I will be seeking the REALGTA's author's permission to do this as well as try and get around any legalities that might come from a release to the public. I have no desire to break any laws here)

Thank-you for reading my tutorial and feel free to comment on it or ask for any help. This tutorial was totally made by scratch by me.


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I'm having issues installing mods on my GTAVC right now. I've been at it since last night and I've deleted my Cache, GTA.CAP.final and none of my mods are working. It seems that there is a step I'm missing or something. I've had success with this in the past on my older Softmodded Xbox's, but this v1.3 I have now is giving me issues. I modded my copy of GTASA and it worked fine with the mods and everything. I wonder if I should install the game disc again using DVD2Xbox instead of FTPing it over like I did. Anyone have any assistance? I've tried everything I know, Google, etc...nothing.