[fastman92]

IMG & Stream Limit Adjuster 3.0

This open source ASI plugin adjusts amount of IMG archives possible to load.
By default GTA San Andreas is able to load max of 8 archives (3 standard archives gta3.img, gta_int.img, player.img and 5 archives defined within default.dat or gta.dat)
It`s very inconvenient when making total conversion. More IMG archives means better organization.
Not only IMG limit is hacked - stream limit had to be hacked either.

Now limit is:
MAX_NUMBER_OF_IMG_ARCHIVES = 127;
MAX_NUMBER_OF_STREAM_HANDLES = 400;

It should be sufficient for anyone.

Also it adds support to read IMGLIST file defined within default.dat or gta.dat, like in GTA IV.
For example IMGLIST DATA\IMAGES.TXT

in images.txt:
anim\anim.img
models\paths.img
models\pedprops.img

Works with GTA San Andreas v1.0 [US] HOODLUM No-CD Fixed EXE
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Download
http://www.mediafire.com/?cz9tb7u5ce6jj7s

***** Installation
- Many users complain it doesn't work with DEP enabled.
In that case you may have to exclude gta_sa.exe from Data Execution Prevention in Windows.

- Make sure you are using this version of gta_sa.exe:
GTA San Andreas v1.0 [US] HOODLUM No-CD Fixed EXE:
EXE size: 14 383 616 bytes

- You need to have ASI loader installed, it is already enabled if you installed CLEO Library.
Otherwise you can download ASI loader from here: http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=8321

- Put ImgLimitAdjuster.asi into GTA San Andreas directory.

- There are two ways to define new archives
1. Open default.dat or gta.dat. Add entry like this:
IMG models\weapons.img

2. Open default.dat or gta.dat. Add entry like this:
IMGLIST DATA\IMAGES.TXT

Create images.txt and put entry:
models\weapons.img

Commented lines are possible, must begin with # sign.
For example:
# comment

IMGLIST handling has been introduced in IMG Limit Adjuster 3.0, inspired by GTA IV's IMGLIST.

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***** Informations:
Date of release: 29-02-2012 (d-m-Y)
Author: fastman92
Version: 3.0
For: GTA San Andreas
Visit fastman92.tk

This post has been edited by fastman92 on Wednesday, Feb 29 2012, 18:49

This mod is hosted at GTAGarage.com

Downloads:
Download IMG & stream limit adjuster 3.0 - 0.052MB, uploaded on Feb 29 2012, downloaded 1184 times
Download IMG & stream limit adjuster 2.0 - 0.047MB, uploaded on Feb 09 2012, downloaded 1585 times
Download IMG Limit Adjuster 1.0 - 0.045MB, uploaded on Feb 08 2012, downloaded 566 times

Click here to view the mod at GTAGarage

[City_Poke912]

32? Wow, great job

[fastman92]

QUOTE (City_Poke912 @ Wednesday, Feb 8 2012, 16:19)

32? Wow, great job

32 (_streamHandles) - 9 (audio archives) - 1 (cuts.img loaded in missions) = 22 IMG archives

[SomeGuy86]

Wow, thanks for this awesome discovery!! You basically just made the number of adding new vehicles unlimited!

[fastman92]

QUOTE (SomeGuy86 @ Wednesday, Feb 8 2012, 17:36)

Wow, thanks for this awesome discovery!! You basically just made the number of adding new vehicles unlimited!

About adding vehicles there`s another limit - ID range of defined object within .ide
ID may range from 0 to 19999
You can`t define this, you`ll get the crash.

CODE

22343, newvehicle,  newvehicle,  car,   LANDSTAL,  LANDSTK,  null, normal,  10, 0, 0,  -1, 0.768, 0.768, 0

[SomeGuy86]

QUOTE (fastman92 @ Wednesday, Feb 8 2012, 16:44)

QUOTE (SomeGuy86 @ Wednesday, Feb 8 2012, 17:36) Wow, thanks for this awesome discovery!! You basically just made the number of adding new vehicles unlimited! About adding vehicles there`s another limit - ID range of defined object within .ide ID may range from 0 to 19999 You can`t define this, you`ll get the crash. CODE 22343, newvehicle,  newvehicle,  car,   LANDSTAL,  LANDSTK,  null, normal,  10, 0, 0,  -1, 0.768, 0.768, 0

Hmm, good point, didn't think about that one... Personally, I'm using IDs from 18631 to 19091... Which gives me 800 (and something?) more IDE slots to go... As for vehparts, I'm using 17999 and less, not sure at this point. Added approx. 80 new parts, but ended up having strange problems due to massive "shopping.dat"

[nWo51289]

Finally!! I've been waiting for a hack for this limit since I first joined here back in 2008! So far I've got 6 added IMG archives and it works perfectly! Thanks!

[fastman92]

Thanks for replies.

I just released version 2.0 which adjusts limit of stream handles too.

Now limits configured in source of plugin are:
MAX_NUMBER_OF_IMG_ARCHIVES = 350;
MAX_NUMBER_OF_STREAM_HANDLES = 400;

I doubt anyone will exceed those.

It's highly useful for total conversions; one could work on separated part of map and use separated IMG archive instead of sending files and messing around gta3.img

[mascotefera]

I'll try to put 350 IMG =D

[lpgunit]

Can you make it compatible with other GTASA binaries besides the Hoodlum fixed EXE?

[X-Seti]

The ID limit is 1 - 19999 however 20000- 20300 are used by the engine?

I could not find a work around to this?

SOL uses a total of 24350 objects, but I am adding more to this each day on the VC Engine.

[SomeGuy86]

QUOTE (fastman92 @ Wednesday, Feb 8 2012, 22:32)

Thanks for replies. I just released version 2.0 which adjusts limit of stream handles too. Now limits configured in source of plugin are: MAX_NUMBER_OF_IMG_ARCHIVES = 350; MAX_NUMBER_OF_STREAM_HANDLES = 400; I doubt anyone will exceed those. It's highly useful for total conversions; one could work on separated part of map and use separated IMG archive instead of sending files and messing around gta3.img

Have to be honest, I'm not sure what STREAM_HANDLES stands for... But otherwise things are just getting better & better around here!

[Gforce]

could have done with this 5 years ago, but better late than never, i have it working perfectly with 3 extra map img's and the game runs perfectly stable

huge thank you for creating this

[-BLITZ-]

A little more explanation if you could do,

I know the basic limit of SA gta3.img is 4GB[3,89] and after that the game goes in .lod mods. Using this plug-in/add-on, you wish how to name it, could make more than one GTA3.IMG witout reaching the 4GB limit ? So, did we escaped from this hell issue for ever; although having the same file in both IMG doesn't affect the game like cars for example ? Which file the game will choose first. I know about this from other members saying they are using more than one gta3.img. Me, I haven't made such test on my own game at the moment.

Another important question is that, this .asi increase the IDE & IPL limit or this doesn't have anything to do with what I'm saying, because above 18631/18636 the game reaches the limit.

This will help me with the .lod stuff.

[fastman92]

QUOTE (lpgunit @ Thursday, Feb 9 2012, 02:27)

Can you make it compatible with other GTASA binaries besides the Hoodlum fixed EXE?

Coming soon for GTA: San Andreas v1.01 [EURO] No-CD/Fixed EXE

QUOTE (-BLITZ- @ Thursday, Feb 9 2012, 21:53)

A little more explanation if you could do, I know the basic limit of SA gta3.img is 4GB[3,89] and after that the game goes in .lod mods. Using this plug-in/add-on, you wish how to name it, could make more than one GTA3.IMG witout reaching the 4GB limit ? So, did we escaped from this hell issue for ever; although having the same file in both IMG doesn't affect the game like cars for example ? Which file the game will choose first. I know about this from other members saying they are using more than one gta3.img. Me, I haven't made such test on my own game at the moment. Another important question is that, this .asi increase the IDE & IPL limit or this doesn't have anything to do with what I'm saying, because above 18631/18636 the game reaches the limit. This will help me with the .lod stuff.

There is sequence of loaded files:

CODE

• Hard-coded, loaded by _openStandardImgArchives) 1. MODELS\GTA3.IMG 2. MODELS\GTA_INT.IMG • Defined within gta.dat or default.dat, in standard game: 3. DATA\PATHS\CARREC.IMG 4. DATA\SCRIPT\SCRIPT.IMG 5. MODELS\CUTSCENE.IMG • Special player.img, hard-coded: 6. MODELS\PLAYER.IMG

For example you have model "dumper" defined in vehicles.ide.
A game searches for this file in archive 1, failure? Searches in archive 2. Failure? Searches in archive 3.
It will search continuously until finds a file with defined name in the archive. After that full list of files is created in memory.
A search is case insensitive, "bullet" and "bUlLet" is the same.

.lod problem is caused by exceeding limit of Unsigned int32 which is used to store positions and offsets.
Limit of UNSIGNED INT32: 2 ^ 32 = 4 294 967 296 bytes, divide by 1024^3 = 4 GB.
You can export some files from gta3.img, remove, then create new archive with these files. In the end define an archive within default.dat or gta.dat.
It doesn`t matter what`s the number of archive in sequence, file must occur in one of loaded archives and it will work.

QUOTE

The game loads two text files whose names are hardcoded – data\default.dat & data\gta.dat. Let`s name it “Basic map file”. These files refer to other files in game directories to load such as IMG archives with binary models, textures or collisions, COL files, item definition files, item placement files and so on. Paths used in basic map entries are relative to executable location. default.dat is the first Basic map file loaded. It is followed by gta.dat. It is important for game to load IMG archives before IDE using models and textures, and IDE before IPL using entries from IDE, because the game loads them in order as it is in basic map file. Lines can be commented by the # sign at the beginning.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtop...st&p=1060623971
I`ll try IDs above 18636.
It doesn`t do anything about .ide or .ipl, simplest explanation: game won`t crash if define more than 5 IMG archives in default.dat or gta.dat

This post has been edited by fastman92 on Friday, Feb 10 2012, 10:04

[nWo51289]

QUOTE (X-Seti @ Thursday, Feb 9 2012, 17:58)

The ID limit is 1 - 19999 however 20000- 20300 are used by the engine? I could not find a work around to this? SOL uses a total of 24350 objects, but I am adding more to this each day on the VC Engine.

I was always lead to believe that 19999 was the limit, and anything including 20000 & above doesn't exist in the engine? Can't imagine how much bigger SOL is compared to the last Beta I played!

[TheD94]

Today, after 5 motherf*cking hours making slowly and carefully more *.img files with no f*cking Error, no Files are double, No file is missing, Every file is there where it suppose to be, gta3.dat edited correctly, looked after typing mistakes (none found), etc etc. Ofc gta3.img was still there, which had only all cars, peds, weapons and radar files. Other had map files, tuning parts, vegetation, level stuff (like seabed and objects). Rest stuff like some left over *.cols and all .ifp's in a file called gta4.img.
I am sure: 100% no mistakes at this stuff.

When I finally started my GTASA and loaded a game from savegame which works always to me normally:

At 50% loading: CRASH!

Started new game... well no big change: @ 50% CRASH!



Nothing works here. Not even the asi loader you advise here. Nothing. Can you maybe tell me what I maybe did wrong? I mean 5 hours for nothing? Hell no, I won't do this sh*t again. I better go to hell than doing it again.

Oh and gta_sa.exe is US 1.0 No CD. The same you recommend.

This post has been edited by TheD94 on Saturday, Feb 18 2012, 21:57

[oksa8]

If it crashes at 50% of loading, then it has to do with your data-files. Double-check any file modified, and especially try re-creating gta3.dat, it shouldn't be tough job.
If it would crash right after the loading bar finishes, then it would be problem with your .img-files. I tested it and I can quarantee you don't need to do that thing again. (Unless after you fix the 50%-bug it also crashes at the end.)

[Gforce]

crashes on the loading bar usually indicate a missing collision file for a model that has been defined in an ide file and mapped in an ipl.

there is a very useful feature within Colleditor 2 called "sort by ide", it will let you know if a collision file is missing.

Edit: one other possibility is that you had errors when rebuilding an img using G-Img.

[TheD94]

QUOTE (oksa8 @ Saturday, Feb 18 2012, 23:08)

If it crashes at 50% of loading, then it has to do with your data-files. Double-check any file modified, and especially try re-creating gta3.dat, it shouldn't be tough job. If it would crash right after the loading bar finishes, then it would be problem with your .img-files. I tested it and I can quarantee you don't need to do that thing again. (Unless after you fix the 50%-bug it also crashes at the end.)

Everything worked before doing it. I had all cars, peds, weapons and radar files in a file called gta3.img, rest in gta4.img. I recovered orginal gta3.img, installed SRT3 and a Vegetation mod. Ofc i didnt replaced the gta3.img with cars, peds, weapons and so on.
Anyway... so hows that? If IMG's are wrong, crash at beginning? I spotted something stupid made by me in my gta4.img. I spotted, that i had still peds in there. I had in gta3.img and gta4.img peds in. Wouldnt that make a crahs at begin? It crashed at 50%. After deleting those peds which are doubled in gta4.img, it crashes now at 60%.

There should be a tool which checks all files of a gta and tells you if anything is ok... I am sure, somewhere is only one gaylord file which causes this sh*t.

Gforce, I did only IDE Harvest with G-IMG only. After that I imported with IMG Manager by x-men. Gotta check col files anyway

EDIT: Pretty long listing. What should i do to fix it?

EDIT#2: I deleted all col files from old img's, and re-put them all in only one file. Now it crashes after loading at the black screen after loading screen. Loading music is still there, but with lower volume.

This post has been edited by TheD94 on Saturday, Feb 18 2012, 22:40