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reverse engineering project to push vice city to its limits

About

gta-maxout is dynamic link library originally written for game modification: Grand Theft Auto: State Of Liberty. At the current moment I am transitioning the sources to work with all kinds of Total Conversion modifications for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and also as an API for C++ developers to work internally with the game engine.


History

I had always been fascinated by computer games and wanted to know how they work internally. So I took the liberty to tweaking them a bit and was excited with what I would discover. Some few weeks later, with great inspiration and works of fellow modding community, I was able to release a map modification called GTA:East Coast Stories for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City collaborating with 3 other members of the modding community.

At around 2010, I teamed with Keith Mckay, well known as X-Seti to help him with the exe patching that was required for Grand Theft Auto: State Of Liberty in order to run the game's critical features that in normal condition would only be suited to the original game without any modification.


Core Feautures

  • extended game boundaries with a grid from 24000 units North To South, and 16000 units East-West

  • extended water physical and visible arrays and tiles to cover the new map boundaries

  • extended AI pathfinding object and boundaries limits

  • extended Radar tiles to cover the new map boundaries

  • cars section added to IPL files which is able to spawn cars early

  • helpful messages that helps to debug the game


Screens

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42357312/Posted-Images/SOL/sol-sf-paths.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42357312/Posted-Images/SOL/sol-ls-paths.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42357312/Posted-Images/SOL/sol-vc-paths.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42357312/Posted-Images/SOL/sol-lc-paths.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42357312/Posted-Images/SOL/sol-lv-paths.png

Installation

This mod now requires an asi loader that loads asi files early before the game starts. Please use ThirteenAG's asi loader from now. https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate_ASI_Loader/releases