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    for the Grand Theft Auto PC game

GTACars3.2 now available to registered users.

    Key Features 3.2 Registered:
  • Remaping Tab improved.
  • Auto Remaping when imported sprite has different palette. (No manual rebuilding!)
  • Display/Edit 'missing' animated tiles.
  • And features listed below...
    Key Features 3.1 Registered:
  • Import BMP files quickly and easily without having to find sprite!
  • Set "GetIn" car door position.
  • Car Names are changed and loaded/saved seamlessly into english.fxt (10x faster than FXT2TXT!)
  • And features listed below...
    Key Features 3.1 Shareware:
  • Context sensitive online help!
  • Edit Cars, Sprites, and Tiles, as listed below in Features Section.

Why?
  • My intention was to develop a sprite editor for the 24bit color files in the Grand Theft Auto PC game. GTACars for Windows 95 is the result.
  • The sole purpose of the program was originally to adjust the Car Info fields, and import and export the sprites (especially cars), but GTACars has grown to do more than that!
  • See the Cool Things To Do section below.
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"Keep up the good work. Your editor is much more advanced than anything we had when we were actually developing GTA !"
         - DMA Design

"If it wasn't for you, we'd all be using the cars that came with the game!"
         - GTA Cars user

GTACars3.1 
Snapshot
    (GTACars3.1 in action)
Features:
    Edit Car (8bit and 24bit):
    • Adjust all the detailed settings of the each vehicle contained in the STYLE files. This includes: weight, speed, braking, turning and audio aspects.
    • Adjust and rebuild Remaps (The non-parked car color variations, and color variations after a ReSpray) (24bit only)
    Sprites (8bit and 24bit):
    • Export sprites directly from the GTA data files. Edit them in your favorite graphics editing program and import the modified version back in.
    • Import your custom sprite's palette (24bit)
    • View the deltas (The sirens, doors, and crash marks)
    • Import/Export/Rebuild those deltas
    Tiles (8bit and 24bit):
    • Import and Export the tiles
    • Import your custom tile's palette (24bit)
    • Automatically build each tile's "3 brightness palettes" during import
Cool things to do:
  • Drive the Boat, Chopper, or Model Car: Exchange model numbers between regular cars. See notes in the GTACars FAQ
  • KeyStone Cops: Exchange the model number of the Bug with the Squad Car.
  • Clicky-clack car: Take the tank sounds and put them on a car.
  • Armor plating: Take your favorite car, crank up the damage factor to make it tougher. (May require other adjustments, like Moment)
  • Ice Racing: Set the Mass of a car to 50.
  • Drive your car from the roof: set the convertible flag to 1 on a hard top car.
  • "Death Blossom": Set Moment to 100, and Tyre Adhesion_X to -0.3 Sneak up on the car in the game, be careful not to bump it with another car. Get in but watch out, it may be a one-way ticket ride!
  • Audi stuck gas pedal simulation: set Tyre Adhesion_Y to -0.1
  • Fast Bug: Set Thrust to 30
  • Land Mine: Change the graphics of a car to a mine. Change the max vel so it can't move. And reduce the damage (or other related settings) that will make it blow on impact! (Just a proposal, you will need to figure it out exactly.) -Michael Mendelsohn
  • Color Changer: Build new crash deltas so that after the car is hit from every side, the car's color is changed. -Marc Hokum
  • Palette Hack: Modify a car so that it has numbers or stripes after a respray. (GTALondon - see Tutorials below)

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    Shareware Full Install v3.1 GTACars310S.zip (2.4meg) USA UK
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FAQ:

Tutorials: News:
  • GTACars3.1 Registered version used to assist in the making of GTALondon!

  • GTACars3.1 Released with context sensitive online help, and InstallShield installer. Thank you all that have registered!
    • GTACars2.4 was used to
      create a new and
      unusual car,
      the "Saucer Cop"

      (The Saucer Cop deltaSet is now included in GTACars3.1)

  • GameStar, one of the best computer games magazines on the market in Germany (on par with PCPlayer and PCGames) will master GTACARS2.0 for inclusion in their next issue's cover mounted CD-ROM.
  • Additional development ramblings of the 24bit version and DMA's CDS.DOC
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