Grand Theft Auto III: Beta Version Mod (Reboot)

Nice screenshots! Keep up the good work lads!

Hey Everyone,

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Sorry for not posting much, but we are still working on the mod. Lately, Dan and I are working on map changes on Portland and some final touches to Stauton (which will be shown to you all soon). Also, Miatza did some minor changes to the "Give Me Liberty" mission and he has more changes on the way. We can confirm the map changes of the mod is almost done. But, we are still doing some research to make sure things are accurate. Thank you all for your on-going patience and support. We will be happy to share more stuff about the mod soon.

Thanks!
GTA Beta Mod Team

Grade-A job MeltedSOX! I really like the presentation of your screenshots. Between I wanted to ask that was there a blue map in the E3? Also I don't know who but someone on the GTAForums posted a link which led to an album that had some interesting ''late'' BETA feautures like dark blue fist icon instead of having a yellow scheme. I will surely post the link of the album if I find it.

EDIT: http://gtaforums.com/topic/745716-grand-theft-auto-iii-pre-release-discussion/page-13

Here you go! It also includes other helpful findings. Worth a look!

ShadowRageEX wrote:Grade-A job MeltedSOX! I really like the presentation of your screenshots. Between I wanted to ask that was there a blue map in the E3? Also I don't know who but someone on the GTAForums posted a link which led to an album that had some interesting ''late'' BETA feautures like dark blue fist icon instead of having a yellow scheme. I will surely post the link of the album if I find it.

EDIT: http://gtaforums.com/topic/745716-grand-theft-auto-iii-pre-release-discussion/page-13

Here you go! It also includes other helpful findings. Worth a look!

Hey Shadow,

The blue weapon HUD was implemented after the E3 build. Most likely in the post release build which was shown around August/September 2001. This mod is mainly focusing on the beta build from E3 2001. We're studying hard to get the mod as accurate as we can. But I thank you for sharing some info. We will release some new info early November.

Thanks!

I realized that the info I posted is mainly about BETA and not E3 Silly me! Aaaanyways, I am looking forward for new updates! I hope my laptop get's fixed so I can play this mod.

ShadowRageEX wrote:I realized that the info I posted is mainly about BETA and not E3 Silly me! Aaaanyways, I am looking forward for new updates! I hope my laptop get's fixed so I can play this mod.

Your laptop should be ready by the time this mod is released. But, don't take too long.

hey how do i add a photo from my phone to this chat?

I don't know if you added this yet, but if possible it would be great if you do add these car light lensflares, i only have the back ones like the beta in this pic, but the front ones like from the train or plane would be awesome too. Notice how these slant wherever your camera travels. This i would love to see in the mod because thats all i notice when i watch the beta footages!
https://i.servimg.com/u/f97/19/56/45/74/img_2011.jpg

ChipotleIsLife wrote:I don't know if you added this yet, but if possible it would be great if you do add these car light lensflares, i only have the back ones like the beta in this pic, but the front ones like from the train or plane would be awesome too. Notice how these slant wherever your camera travels. This i would love to see in the mod because thats all i notice when i watch the beta footages!
https://i.servimg.com/u/f97/19/56/45/74/img_2011.jpg

Hey,

Thanks for sharing! We're still doing lots and lots of work for the mod. We have not added the lensflare yet, but, we will look into it. We will release more and screenshots of the current phase of the mod. Plus a major announcement!

MeltedSOX wrote:

ChipotleIsLife wrote:I don't know if you added this yet, but if possible it would be great if you do add these car light lensflares, i only have the back ones like the beta in this pic, but the front ones like from the train or plane would be awesome too. Notice how these slant wherever your camera travels. This i would love to see in the mod because thats all i notice when i watch the beta footages!
https://i.servimg.com/u/f97/19/56/45/74/img_2011.jpg

Hey,

Thanks for sharing! We're still doing lots and lots of work for the mod. We have not added the lensflare yet, but, we will look into it. We will release more and screenshots of the current phase of the mod. Plus a major announcement!

Alright awesome! Can't wait!

WOW! I didn't knew that you guys were progressing this fast! Pretty amazing.

Hey People around here,

Hope y'all enjoying our new screenshots,All the cars will going have the beta stlye as it was on the E3 Builds,
(with no bodytextures64 whatsoever and new beta styled Car corols [wip].)we've done lot progress since we started.
(map changes on both staution and portlant,car edits,billboards,and others but i dont wanna spoil 2 much)
But we got more things to do for reaching our goal to make a decent and legit first release.
For the 1st version we can only do all the important basics.since the team is low numbered at the moment,
And we need to get more experience,and researching stuff deepier.
so do not expect stuff like the car antennas,or Beta Maria,or the Beta stadium and College.
(Maybe i'll do them in later versions but again,Basic things first!.)

The mod is very Early W.I.P But we've done great progress already.

We're going to keep togheter and we're going to put more effort to this project.

Thank you for the support.  -Dan

Great job guys! I can see the progress and I think this will grow to be a great mod! Thank you for sharing!

ShadowRageEX wrote:WOW! I didn't knew that you guys were progressing this fast! Pretty amazing.

ChipotleIsLife wrote:Great job guys! I can see the progress and I think this will grow to be a great mod! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks, guys! We're just showing you all  how much dedication we're putting into this mod and that we're serious about it. The mod is looking great so far. We currently have no release date yet, we want to make it as accurate as possible. There's only 3 of us in the team. As Dan stated above, not everything will be in launch, but the main aspects and features will be there. So far as we're developing and testing the mod, the mod is starting to look just like the E3 gameplay.

Hope you all are excited about the trailer announcement! We will release more details soon.


Thanks!
MeltedSOX


UPDATE:

We are sad to announce that one of our team member who goes by the name of "MiATzA" is no longer with us. He has announced today that he cannot work on the mod any longer. We do not know the reason, but, we thank him for all the hard work he put into the mod. Good luck on all your future endeavors.

This does not mean the mod is cancelled (in case y'all wondering).

So only 2 members are working on this mod now? That's sad. Hope it doesn't hamper the fast progress of this mod!

We're Sad that Miatza left, (School life's b###) But We cannot stop now.
Me and Melted just doing great progress'es with the map editing,and the other small details.
Some Tree's in Portland now got absent as it was on the E3 Teaser.
Meanwhile i'm was going to recreate this building wich later it was replaced by the High Black Skyscraper Building.
http://swiatgta.pl/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/gta3_gspot_27.jpg
But sometimes Sketchup Keep Messing on me.
Even we got low numbered as Fuck Duck,
We Must continue our mission.

Glad we'only doing basic's now.wich about is 59% done.

i'm actually thinking about joining the modding group

Are you going to add the beta missions

ShadowRageEX wrote:So only 2 members are working on this mod now? That's sad. Hope it doesn't hamper the fast progress of this mod!

Yes, it's just us two for now.

But good news is, it won't affect the fast progress. The map is basically done at this point. We still have some few minor tweaks and that's it. Same for the vehicles, we're done with most of them already. There's some cars that are a bit inaccurate, but it still does look like their e3 type. The timecyc as well is completely done. At this point we're doing some final edits on the maps, finish up the carcols and add the PS2 sound effects. The mod is still going strong! But adding the missions will be a problem. We don't know any main.scm scripting, but I will try to do study on it. But if anyone out there who is interested to help us, please message me.

I can confirm right now, The mod is more than halfway done.

AwesomeGamr wrote:Are you going to add the beta missions

Yes, we are! We have the beta "Give Me Liberty" done already. Mission starts during the day, 8-ball can follow you around as well. We've also added the purple Sentinel. In addition, when you arrive to Luigi's, instead of walking before the cutscene starts, you and 8-ball jogs just like the beta.

Dan and I still have a lot of work to do between now and launch. But, the trailer will still be posted on November 25th. This month, we will definitely be giving out more information, more screenshots, the trailer and more to follow...

Thanks for the on-going support everyone. You are awesome!!!!

MeltedSOX wrote:

ShadowRageEX wrote:So only 2 members are working on this mod now? That's sad. Hope it doesn't hamper the fast progress of this mod!

Yes, it's just us two for now.    

But good news is, it won't affect the fast progress. The map is basically done at this point. We still have some few minor tweaks and that's it. Same for the vehicles, we're done with most of them already. There's some cars that are a bit inaccurate, but it still does look like their e3 type. The timecyc as well is completely done. At this point we're doing some final edits on the maps, finish up the carcols and add the PS2 sound effects. The mod is still going strong! But adding the missions will be a problem. We don't know any main.scm scripting, but I will try to do study on it. But if anyone out there who is interested to help us, please message me.  

I can confirm right now, The mod is more than halfway done.

AwesomeGamr wrote:Are you going to add the beta missions

Yes, we are! We have the beta "Give Me Liberty" done already. Mission starts during the day, 8-ball can follow you around as well. We've also added the purple Sentinel. In addition, when you arrive to Luigi's, instead of walking before the cutscene starts, you and 8-ball jogs just like the beta.

Dan and I still have a lot of work to do between now and launch. But, the trailer will still be posted on November 25th. This month, we will definitely be giving out more information, more screenshots, the trailer and more to follow...

Thanks for the on-going support everyone. You are awesome!!!!

cool

So are you going to leave the inaccurate vehicles just as they are or will try to make them accurate? I don't want to sound like a rude dude but just clearing things By the way, you said that you don't have a scripter then how did ya' managed to make the BETA changes in the first mission? Got a lil' experience, eh?

ShadowRageEX wrote:So are you going to leave the inaccurate vehicles just as they are or will try to make them accurate? I don't want to sound like a rude dude but just clearing things By the way, you said that you don't have a scripter then how did ya' managed to make the BETA changes in the first mission? Got a lil' experience, eh?

The first mission was done by me, MiAtzA, a former member of the team.

I could do more changes but im pretty busy and im not in the team anymore. However melted apreciated me alot and still considers me a good team member. But in reality, i haven't done much. The first mission was pretty easy to do anyway.

ShadowRageEX wrote:So are you going to leave the inaccurate vehicles just as they are or will try to make them accurate? I don't want to sound like a rude dude but just clearing things By the way, you said that you don't have a scripter then how did ya' managed to make the BETA changes in the first mission? Got a lil' experience, eh?

The vehicles shown in the screenshots were from Alpha Version Mod 2.0. It was just a test. We might use the vehicles again from Beta Version Mod 2.0 with some changes we've made as a place holder. If we cannot have the vehicles done by launch, we will release the mod with the place holder vehicles. As a reminder, not all vehicles will have significant changes. Some vehicles in the E3 demo were launched with the game. As for the missions, it was done by Miatza. But I managed to study some scripting and have changed the respawn coordinates and pickups at the hospital in Portland. I will read more about missions during the e3 phase. We're also going to add and replace every single audio file of the game with the PS2 version. Simply just copying and pasting won't work, we will have to rebuild the sfx file and replace each audio clip with the PS2 Version. Now that there's only two of us working on the mod, it's much more pressure now. Dan and I are doing the best we can. Top of all this, we're still doing map changes. And we're adding back objects that were present in the PS2 version and are absent in the PC version. We do want to release an accurate E3 mod, but release won't be 100% perfect. We want to release the mod as an "early access" so we can get more input and feedback from every one of you guys. We're doing our best to not disappoint you all.


Thank you!

Take your time, mate! My exams are scheduled to end on Nov, 23! So I hope I get to play this mod And my laptop might get fixed at that time so I will be ready. By the way, I know this is an E3 mod but can you please please please add some BETA elements? Like having the ability to recruit 2 Yakuza's member after Kanbu-Bust-out, or the ability to heal Claude by going to the hospital? Putting these things will add more uniqueness to this already unique mod

MiATzA wrote:I could do more changes but im pretty busy and im not in the team anymore. However melted apreciated me alot and still considers me a good team member. But in reality, i haven't done much. The first mission was pretty easy to do anyway.

Any chances for you to come back in the near future? By the way, maybe you missed this small detail, or maybe it's just me but I noticed something in this pic,

Don't you think that the Diablo's headband was yellow instead of red/orange? Also, I don't know who the second diablo's member you have shown us in the ss on the op is based on .. care to post the source?

Sorry for the 3rd reply, I know it counts as a spam but this mod just got me hyped! Not saying that you guys are incapable but maybe you guys can ask Jinx. to use his GTA 3 BETA CARS MOD! Will save you guys more time Here,
http://gtaforums.com/topic/709116-wipiii-gta-3-beta-cars/?st=0
Also this, it includes a detail explanation on BETA changes, you might know about it already but hey, here
http://es.gta.wikia.com/wiki/Betas_de_Grand_Theft_Auto_III

We don't want to use that, but still, we may, melted needs to contact Darth on this matter.
Also, i was thinking of re-creating the beta pony. But with my time being low, i can't do it right now.

ShadowRageEX wrote:

MiATzA wrote:I could do more changes but im pretty busy and im not in the team anymore. However melted apreciated me alot and still considers me a good team member. But in reality, i haven't done much. The first mission was pretty easy to do anyway.

Any chances for you to come back in the near future? By the way, maybe you missed this small detail, or maybe it's just me but I noticed something in this pic,

Don't you think that the Diablo's headband was yellow instead of red/orange? Also, I don't know who the second diablo's member you have shown us in the ss on the op is based on .. care to post the source?

Well the second Diablo member was mostly colored based on my imagination,until i looked the old screenshots and the e3 trailer deepier
and i quickly realized i was doing wrong.soon i'v have 2 fix it.

The Beta Diablo gangbangers orginally made by Alex/GTA3Beta guy,The Textures enhached/corrected by me.

On the other side of the hood,I Can Promise the Beta Radio Station with Removed Songs & Ads.

I'm happy that this project is now back in action

I haven't been on this website in a while. Now that I saw the trailer on Nov 25th bit...I am foooking buzzing for this mod!

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! We cannot wait for release as well.

Okay, I have no clue if anyone else has seen this before, and this is my first time seeing this image.

Look in the background, you can see a blown up vehicle that looks like some kind of 3-wheel motorcycle. Not once have I ever seen anything like that, and I just want to hear everybody's input on this. I just now stumbled across this image so I'm just curious.

ChipotleIsLife wrote:Okay, I have no clue if anyone else has seen this before, and this is my first time seeing this image.

Look in the background, you can see a blown up vehicle that looks like some kind of 3-wheel motorcycle. Not once have I ever seen anything like that, and I just want to hear everybody's input on this. I just now stumbled across this image so I'm just curious.

That's one of the unreleased vehicle called Buggy.

Yeah, it's a buggy. Between good to see that this mod is gaining popularity

ShadowRageEX wrote:Yeah, it's a buggy. Between good to see that this mod is gaining popularity

Thanks! Dan and I are happy  as well. Cool signature by the way.


Update: Oh yeah I almost forgot, new screenshots are coming this weekend.

MeltedSOX wrote:

ShadowRageEX wrote:Yeah, it's a buggy. Between good to see that this mod is gaining popularity

Thanks! Dan and I are happy  as well. Cool signature by the way.


Update: Oh yeah I almost forgot, new screenshots are coming this weekend.

Thanks for the signature Can't wait for the new screenshots!

MiATzA wrote:Also, E3 had actual fps view in cars, there's a video with it. I can speak to melted about this stuff, and if he agrees, we might have something.

I know this is late but Melted, you gotta give the FPS view a try

ShadowRageEX wrote:

MiATzA wrote:Also, E3 had actual fps view in cars, there's a video with it. I can speak to melted about this stuff, and if he agrees, we might have something.

I know this is late but Melted, you gotta give the FPS view a try

We're already looking  into it. But we cannot promise it'll make it in the release build.




Update: Screenshots will be pushed back for a week. We're still doing some major work and we're not ready to show screenshots just yet. Sorry for the delay.

Sounds like a plan! I'm just curious, did you guys add the beta car light lensflares like I mentioned earlier, if so, how's it going with that?

ChipotleIsLife wrote:Sounds like a plan! I'm just curious, did you guys add the beta car light lensflares like I mentioned earlier, if so, how's it going with that?

We'd got permission from Silent to use his Airtrain explosion and his Silent Patch. He's been a very big help and we thank him so much.

That's amazing to hear!

I this is great to hear! The fact that we we have a new beta and alpha mod coming up, it is double the fun! Thank you Melted, also, the fact that the team is so small is what's so crazy about it haha.

Will there be a trailer on Thanksgiving? (Before the December realease)

ChipotleIsLife wrote:Will there be a trailer on Thanksgiving? (Before the December realease)

Hey Chipotle, thanks for the kind words. We are definitely releasing a trailer this Friday coming up. As a matter of fact, we are working on it right now as I am posting this message.

That's awesome!!! Cheers!