Wednesday, April 19, 2017

How to Change The Camera to A Cellphone in GTA San Andreas

Want to take screenshots with the camera in GTA SA but no mod released yet for replacing it with your favorite cellphone? This post will help you!

MAKE BACKUPS BEFORE EDITING!!

1. Download a cellphone mod or extract the cellphone's model from GTA3.IMG
Site for Cellphone mods: http://www.gtainside.com/en/sanandreas/skins-224/

2. Once you download the mod you'll have 2 files(Cellphone.DFF and Cellphone.TXD)

3. Rename each file to Camera so it should look like this: Camera.DFF and Camera.TXD

4. Replace the model inside GTA3.IMG or use ModLoader for easy installation (Create a folder, drag and drop files inside the created folder)
Should look like this: GTA San Andreas\modloader\(CREATED FOLDER NAME HERE)

ModLoader Link: http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=25377

5. Launch the game, equip the camera inside CJ's house bedroom in Grove Street

6. Start capturing screens with your cellphone instead of camera!!

BUGS:
The Animation doesn't look good(Your Player put his other hand on the camera)
The Camera's screen look empty (Not like the original camera)

ENJOY TAKING PICTURES WITH YOUR CELLPHONE!!

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

How to Prevent Crashing Mods in GTA: San Andreas

The Game likely is going to crash because of having multiple vehicle mods installed in the game which most recent vehicle mods released are using custom strings inside these files(Vehicles.IDE, Carcols.DAT, Carmods.DAT and Handling.CFG)

If you want to have vehicle mod in the game, and replaced the .DFF and .TXD files inside the GTA3.IMG, Be VERY CAREFUL when replacing strings inside one of the 4 files listed up here

Also you should use ModLoader for very easy installation(Drag and drop inside the modloader folder)

Link for ModLoader (Compatible with GTA Vice City and San Andreas) 
http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=25377

Actually ModLoader says that it's compatible with GTA 3 but when I installed it required Ultimate ASI Loader (Only For GTA 3) then when I want to modify Claude's .DFF file it doesn't affect it so If you want to replace any files inside GTA 3 or Vice City's GTA3.IMG or GTA3.DIR use IMGTool 2.0

Link for Ultimate ASI Loader(ONLY FOR GTA 3)
https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases

Link for IMGTool 2.0 (Compatible with GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas) https://www.thegtaplace.com/downloads/f552-img-tool-20

Also your game is likely going to crash if you have multiple CLEO scripts installed because of incompatibility or conflicting with other scripts installed

Link for Latest version of CLEO library (Compatible with GTA 3,Vice City and San Andreas) http://cleo.li/

I hope this post helped you and don't forget to always make backups before you modify your game, because It might get corrupted and likely you're going to reinstall the game again

EDIT 4/8/2018: When installing all types of mods, Drag and drop inside a folder inside the ModLoader's folder to ensure compatibility and the lesser percentage of crashing.
Example: GTA SA/modloader/New CJ House <- thats where to put mods, I did an example
Now do your job.