GTA SA TUTORIALS

I'll be adding here all the tutorials I think are the best for this game, is really useful when you're a modder

INDEX

GTA SA TUTORIALS

INDEX

MAP TUTORIALS

Creating IPL and IDE files

Animated Textures

Night Vertex Colors Painting

Vertex Alpha (alpha blend)

Dynamics shadows for models

Dynamic objects

Transparent textures for windows or glass

Animated Map Objects

PEDS TUTORIALS

Animations

Adding Normal Map to Peds (Ryosuke)

Adding Normal Map to Peds (DK22Pac)

Converting MMD Ped-Models to GTA SA

MAP TUTORIALS

Creating IPL and IDE files

3dsMax Plugins:
gtaforums.com/topic/907323-rel-kams-gta-scripts-2018-upd-31052020/

Difficulty: Easy

Animated Textures

Animating textures in models

3dsMax Plugins:
gtaforums.com/topic/277798-3dmax-script-pack/

Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Night Vertex Colors Painting

Adding night vertex colors for models.

3dsMax Plugins:
www.gtavision.com/index.php?section=downloads&site=download&id=3395

Difficulty: Medium

Vertex Alpha (alpha blend)

This is useful to add transition between grass and pavement (alpha blend).

Difficulty: Medium

2dfx for models

Here is shown how to add Lights and Particles to models.

3dsMax Plugins and Tools:
www.gta-modding.com/area/file-515-dexx-tool.html
www.steve-m.com/downloads/tools/rwanalyze/

Difficulty: Easy - Medium

GTA Water

Here you can see how add new water segments.

3dsMax Plugins:
gtaforums.com/topic/928506-rel-gta-water-io/
www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=5781

Difficulty: Medium

Dynamic Doors

Here is shown how to create a new dynamic doors.

3dsMax Plugins:
gtaforums.com/topic/907323-rel-kams-gta-scripts-2018-upd-31052020/

Difficulty: Easy

New paths

Remember that this will totally replace all the paths in GTA SA, so it is perfectly for a total conversions (you can't edit current paths)

3dsMax Plugins:
gtaforums.com/topic/283684-sa-path-tool/

Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Dynamics shadows for models

These shadows are shown in the game when you select "High Graphics" options in the game.

3dsMax Plugins:
gtaforums.com/topic/907323-rel-kams-gta-scripts-2018-upd-31052020/

Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Dynamic objects

This is great to create new objects that can be liftable by player.

3dsMax Plugins:
gtaforums.com/topic/907323-rel-kams-gta-scripts-2018-upd-31052020/

Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Transparent textures for windows or glass

For total conversions this is really useful, you can make a texture transparent.

3dsMax Plugins:
gtaforums.com/topic/907323-rel-kams-gta-scripts-2018-upd-31052020/

Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Animated Map Objects

These videos (part 1 and part 2) shown how to create an animation for objects and how to add it into GTA SA.

PEDS TUTORIALS

Animations

This video show how to create a smooth animation for GTA SA using biped (I used this method to create the animations for my Spider-Man Mod).

3dsMax Plugins:
In the description of the videos.

Difficulty: Medium

Adding Normal Map to Peds (Ryosuke)

This is great to give to the peds additional details.

Normal Map Plugin:
hotmist.ddo.jp/plugin/normalmap/index.html
gtaforums.com/topic/485241-normal-map-tutorial-for-sa/

Difficulty: Easy - Medium

Adding Normal Map to Peds (DK22Pac)

This plugin works better for me. Test it by your own ;)

Normal Map Plugin:
gtaforums.com/topic/760083-normal-map-plugin-tools/
www.mixmods.com.br/2015/01/normal-map-by-dk-plugin-tools.html

Difficulty: Medium - Hard

Converting MMD Ped-Models to GTA SA

Great tutorial for fixing MMD models and adding them into GTA SA

by J16D