This tutorial will teach you how to insert custom vehicles in San Andreas.

What you will need:
Txd Workshop 3.5
IMG Tool
A modded xbox with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the HDD.

Ok, let's get started.

1. Download a car of your choice, I am using the Hummer H2.

2. Open up the landstal.txd in txdworkshop, is should look like this:

Then hit save.



3. Open up gta3.img (GTA SA/Models/gta3.img) with the IMG Tool and hit f2 (find) and find the landstal.txd and landstal.dff, select landstal.txd, right click and select replace. Do the same for landstal.dff. Then go commands -> rebuild archive.



4. Open handling.cfg (GTA SA/Data/handling.cfg) and replace the landstal line with the one usually provided in the readme. Save.

5. Then open carcols.dat (GTA SA/Data/carcols.dat) and replace the landstal line with the one usually provided in the readme. Save.



6. Now ftp into your xbox and search where gta is stored on the HDD.
Then replace : handling.cfg (GTA SA/Data/handling.cfg), carcols.dat (GTA SA/Data/carcols.dat) and gta3.img (GTA SA/models/gta3.img).

Clear your cache (x,y,z) an boot up San Andreas with your new cars!

Tutorial written fully by Zdemon, this is original, please do not steal it, ask permission before putting it on your site.

Enjoy!

EDIT: Pics up.

Any feedback much apperciated.

where do you find the landstal.txd at?

nevermind about that post. i got the img tool and the gta3.img but i cant open it there. it gives me an error about it not finding a DIR file.

i. were is the gat3 img
i opened img and clicled open. now wat.
please help.

The pics arent up.

The gta3.img is in the "GTA San Andreas/models/gta3.img"

I will put the pics up really soon.

What setting do you save it under so it shows up on the game? Is it the Vice city one?

Can i BURN VERYTHING TO A CDRW AND USE FILEMANAGER. Sorry for the caps. I use cd for trainers so i thought this was similar. if so can you give a tut for that. Thanks.

ive tryed it is way but the cars never show up in the game even when to put in a spawn cheat is there an update to the img tool that converts to SA xbox ?

I'd like to know this as well, as this is the same problem I'm having. Really wish I could get it working..

You guys probably aren't clearing your cache. Use REPLACE when u replace a car, not delete and add, and then when you ftp gta3.img over to your xbox, or whatever file it is, clear X,Y, and Z, and you might also want to clear E:/Cache

Oh, okay, save as Vice City XBox and the textures work fine. Too bad that model I had looks so great but cuts my FPS down to about 1/sec. Weapon replacement models still look great. Thanks for the guide.

Well the pics wont show

i think X-S bans Image shack or something... read the URL's

yeah... well, unpin this if you want HSD.

so last night I replaced a bunch of cars and ran into problems I think were specified somewhere.

game lags when high poly count cars are in abundance in the game? anyway around that? Why does the pimp bike make it lag but the warthog doesnt? I mean if the warthog is twice the size of the bike why doesnt its poly count lag the game opposed to the bike I think it was the hiabusa (cant spell) or the honda crb.
Second I replaced cars that arent seen often but spent a long time looking for them in the usual place they spawn and nothing for like 2hrs. Does the car not work if the replacement car isnt put back right? Just some questions for people who have tried this or know what there doing cause god knows I dont but I think im on the right track.can either of these be solved by clearing cash?

No theres really no way around a high poly count unless you were to take the polys out in a program like 3dmax, and im not real good at that. Although one thing some people have done is edit the stream.ini file to allow for more memory, and here is a link to a topic about that so that you can edit yours as well. And some cars just wont work, Period, unless you get more memory for your xbox or lower the poly count.

http://www.forum.gtaxboxmods.com/viewtopic...ighlight=stream

The problem is that most of these cars were made for PC's which have alot more memory than an xbox, as an xbox only has 64 MB i think. Also, that bike might just have more poly's than the warthog.

Sometimes it will take a very long time to find certain cars since they spawn randomly, as when i put the Hummer 2 in my game it took a good 45 minutes to find just 1 and then they started showing up all over the place.

I am founder of a website deciated to GTA Xbox Mods and we will try to pump out some nice mods for you, such as our upcoming XXi Mod. Visit the link below and browse around our site and forum and maybe some people there can help you.

http://www.gtaxboxmods.com/

im aware of the site I visited it after hsdemonz asked for a mod for this forum. Which I have to add went really nicely. Fucken scene is full of children sometimes. Not to say I dont personally like to flame f@g3t5! but anyway I love some of the mods you guys have on the site, like the ability to mod any car thats sweet! and I thank you for the links and knowledge. Everything you have posted here was helpful. I was aware of modifying the stream.ini file but after talking to ReRuss I really think the improvement is placebo. It still lagged with the bike and now I have the improved slamvan as the only car in the game that is modified and it is lagging. I know the txt is large but I dont know enough at this point to change it. 3rd day modding GTA:SA. Been going at it with Morrowind modding and KotoR 2 modding for a while now. Games that set up an override folder rock. Games like this though that have one image files suck in my opinion. Next im working on getting my liberty city guy back Im not a big fan of cj. Plus I think it would be funny to see a white gangbanger since there arent any in SA. Any suggestions for driving and shooting? Oh and I wasnt dissing you in that thread when I said asset I meant you would really do a good job just for clarification.

I did everything right importing the txd files to gta3.img and when i boot sa it freezes at the loading screen. same with the tattoo mods. Anyone wanna help me?

then you forget to compress it or something

compress as VC Xbox

clear your cache X,Y,Z and theres one on E

E:/Cache

i cleared caches all of them. For sa compress as vc xbox?

Yea, for Vice City and SA compress as VC Xbox in TXD Workshop

Thanks guys got it to work

Very good to hear dantera. Always glad to help out!

can we get pics for this?

Well here is the updated version with pics, I will probably get banned for helping people but, oh well.

It is a word document, I don't know why this site blocks images from photobucket and imageshack.

Download for updated version of Inserting custom cars into Gta Sa.

Zdemon is signing out!

It should look like what?
This doesn't help me. Is this the best explanation.
Im sure i could figure it out if i had time, but the point is .....that this is a pinned topic.
Who is the new moderator in this forum, speak up pleese.
you banned the last mod here (the guy who wrote the tut im try to figure out).

I downloaded this and it seems to have pics...

Thanks for the reply, but i downloaded that already. My computer cant handle the pic format.

I haven't tried the program yet (its probably straight forward) i'll do it this weekend.

i appreciate the help guys/girls.

Right... I was just using the Vice City tutorial last night. I got my cars in game and everything. So today I thought I would try the same thing with San Andreas, but I'm not having as much luck...

The game stops loading when the bar is about 98% It just completely freezes up. I have delete all my cache data wherever I can find it... on E:\ X:\ Y:\ ... I never found any data stored on Z:\ I saved my txd as VCXBOX in Txd Workshop. I followed everything else in this tutorial as best I could, but I'm guessing pictures might help me figure out what I did worng.

Any thoughts?

Just wanted to say... Nevermind, I gots it, yo.

I found a program that deletes the cache data through the EvoX Dash. I have no problems now. I'm guessing there was somthing on Z:\ that I wasn't seeing. But it wouldn't show up on my FTP program.

how do I install this pimp ass ride look it has like 5 txds
http://www.gtagaming.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1182

so, where is a good site to download vehicles at? i am having a hard time finding one.

San Andreas Cars
http://www.gtaxboxmods.com/pafiledb/pafile...=category&id=23

http://www.theborggaming.com

Has a good selection of both San Andreas and Vice City downloads.

Also: http://www.gta-action.com <-- German site, but its easy enough to find your way around.

i downloaded a Viper that replaces the Bullet. Now when u say

,"Open handling.cfg (GTA SA/Data/handling.cfg) and replace the landstal line with the one usually provided in the readme. Save."

And

,"Then open carcols.dat (GTA SA/Data/carcols.dat) and replace the landstal line with the one usually provided in the readme. Save."


What program do i open carcols.dat and handling.cfg in to replace the lines?

I followed the directions for the Hummer2 addition. I have a question. Do I have to copy the file to comp, then edit or can I just edit it in FlashFXP. I cant seem to get the mods to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.....Harmageddon

Yes, it works when you edit it straight from FlashFXP .

http://vcmod.hp.infoseek.co.jp/mod/download.html found some really good looking cars. i tried to install but ended up screwing up my .img and now i cant play gta. anyway just wondering i anyone else could get them working.

ialso dont know where to add their deafult ide info.

txd link wont dl, can someone upload it to another site like rapidshare.de or something, please

here ya go

http://www.gtatools.com/filedb/Files/txdworkshop.rar

gta keeps freezin after i press start to load the game, i did everything in the tut to the tee, deleted my cache, im very familiar with modding halo with maps and such, but not having any luck here. any insite guys, TY in advance

Where is everyone???

adding cars to GTA:SA on the xbox really isnt much of a task. its very straigt forward.

just a couple of points to make that some people seem to miss.

To add the "lines" included in a cars readme file, just use Notepad to open the files you need to add the lines into.

and if you still cant work it out, check out www.gtaxboxmods.com because everything you need to know is right there for your reading pleasure.

HEY EVERYBODY, where can i fnd gta sa xbox compatible mods?

i kno that xboxgtamods is down and i dont think there r anymore sites, unless pc mods work


plz contact me AIM= Xsk8forever11X

thank you

Ok where you put replace handling.cfg and carcols. Replace those with what?!?!

there's other site similar to xboxgtamods:
http://xboxgamemods.invisionplus.net/
it has xbox gta mods, tools, afew tutorials, etc, the site's just new.

Hey can you use the computer car mods or do you have to use the xbox ones? And if so do you know of any other sites that carry them other than the "xboxgamemods" b/c there kinda limited. Thanks, Cobra