Saturday 20 March 2004

Airwolf 1.0 (GTA Vice CIty Mod) PC

Airwolf 1.0 For GTA-VC

This was the first Airwolf related item to ever hit grand theft auto. Sadly it was never really messed with after its release besides a height tweak and an audio tweak to make it sound like Airwolf.

We can link you to four files for this

Airwolf 1.0 Manual Install Here
Airwolf 1.0 VCM Install Here
Modified Handling Manual Install Here
Redwolf Texture Manual Install Here

We shall update this when one of us has time.






Based on the games original Maverick helicopter model its been modified to look like airwolf, though it has mini gun animation from the nose location and Double missile launch (1 per wing) each time you fire. That's something that ideally needs fixing.
This mod requires the DMagic1 Wheel Mod

Original Readme.txt

Vehicle data:
This vehicles in-game display name is 'Airwolf', it has 4 wheel drive and is powered by a petrol engine. It has a top speed of 200.0 and engine acceleration of 16.0
pricing: 99000
This mod requires dmagics wheel mod

"It's not the Eighties without Airwolf"

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Airwolf v1.0 by Gareth Croke
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**Important for Webmasters if you want to host this file I have no problem but please contact garethcrokehotmail.com**

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Huge thanks to Ballard44 for sorting out the texturing problems I had
also
Oleg & _RicH_ for helping out a newbie in Zmodeler


IMPORTANT Dmagic1 wheel mod must be installed

This mod must be installed or the mod will probably look strange or maybe not work (untested)
Available on almost any Vice City(preferred), GTA3 website

IMPORTANT

BACKUP FILES THAT USED
Either models\gta3.img or
hunter.dff (rename hunterold.dff)
hunter.txd (rename hunterold.txd)
text\American.gxt
models\coll\vehicles.col
data\default.ide
data\carcols.dat
data\handling.cfg

**MAKE SURE ALL FILES ARE WRITE ENABLED INCLUDING MODELS\GTA3.DIR**

TOOLS USED

ZMODELER 1.6F AND 1.07B, www.zmodeler.com
GXTEDIT by Zverik, almost any GTAVC related Website
VICETXD by Spooky & Illspirit, almost any GTAVC related Website
IMGTOOL 1.3 by Spooky & Illspirit, almost any GTA related Website
COLLISION FILE EDITOR by Steve M, http://people.freenet.de/steve-m
PAINT SHOP PRO 7 & 8, Local computer shop
NOTEPAD, free with windows

TOOLS NEEDED

IMGTOOL 1.3
COLLISION FILE EDITOR 1.1 BETA OR ABOVE (OPTIONAL)


INSTALLATION


1. Open the GTA3.img file with IMGTOOL 1.3
2. Rename hunter.dff & hunter.txd accordingly
3. ADD hunter.dff & hunter.txd from this mod and close
4. Replace the american.gxt (or other language file *.gxt) with the one from this mod
5. or find the lines with the GXT editor, APACHE - COP_M3 - HUNTER - PICK10, if your file is already edited and edit accordingly
6. Replace the following lines in the following files with Notepad
Carcols.dat
OLD hunter, 43,0
NEW hunter, 1,92

Default.ide
OLD 155, hunter, hunter, car, HUNTER, HUNTER, null, ignore, 10, 7, 0, 256, 0.64
NEW 155, hunter, hunter, car, HUNTER, HUNTER, null, ignore, 10, 7, 0, 249, 0.64

handling.cfg - Planes section only
OLD HUNTER 10000.0 4.0 10.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 75 0.65 0.9 0.5 1 200.0 16.0 4 P 5.0 0.45 0 30.0 1.5 0.1 0.40 0.50 99000 0.20 -0.15 0.5 0.0 8028000 0 1
NEW HUNTER 10000.0 4.0 10.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 -1.0 75 0.65 0.9 0.5 1 200.0 16.0 4 P 5.0 0.45 0 30.0 1.5 0.1 0.40 0.50 99000 0.20 -0.15 0.5 0.0 8028000 0 1
7. either replace the vehicles.col file with the one included in this mod if your current file is not edited
8. or use the hunter.cst (collision script) file to import it into the vehicles.col file
9. if you use the script remember to delete the hunter collision script first before you import the one included
10. Have fun

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EXTRA INFORMATION
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This is a heavily modified Maverick
There are no known issues (except the weapon placement) but please let me know at garethcroke @ (removed here to avoid spam).com in case there are any problems
There are 5933 polygons used in the above
This is my first mod so go easy on me....... please....... pretty please with spots on
Stringfellow Hawke and Dominic Santini are not included


IN THE PIPELINE IN THE SAME THEME

for Version 2.0 (it may or may not happen, depending on how it goes)
Retractable Wheels
Weapon Placement "fix"
A "Nitro System" for the boost that airwolf had with exhaust flames
A Stringfellow Hawke skin for the game (possible)
A Santini Air "skin" for the maverick (possible)

HISTORY:
It was first officially released  on the 20th of March 2004 Here
NOTE that link points to a forum, but the download on the forum no longer works
but it was nice to see the original post (if that link dies, heres a shot of the post) that launched Airwolf into GTA...