The title alone brought in 54% of the fourth quarter sales of 2004. In a press release ending the fiscal year of 2004, Take 2 Games announced the success of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It has sold over 20 million copies to date, no small accomplishment.īoasting partnerships with leaders of the entertainment industry such as Interscope Records and Universal Music, Rockstar aimed to compliment their game with one of the strongest soundtracks ever in a video game. This addition to the Grand Theft Auto series was warmly welcomed by the general public, and strengthened Rockstar Games' position at the head of the industry. The title was surrounded by enormous hype during its development, and is widely recognised to have passed the expectations set upon it. Set during the 90's in the pseudo-California state, we hit the streets of three cities with Carl Johnson, our newly met gangster. Two years after the release of the mega-hit "Vice City", Rockstar Games presented us with a new chapter in the Grand Theft Auto book, "San Andreas". Publisher ~ Rockstar Games (Parent Company TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE)
Tutorials for its usage are included on the GTA Modding page.ESRB ~ Mature 17+ (M) (intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.) It can detect a wide variety of structural problems inside of TXD files and fix them automatically for you. You can do that by passing the textures through the TxdGen tool.
To further improve the quality of TXD files, it is advised to clean them.
It is usually safe (without significant quality loss) to half the resolution, or depending on model complexity (is it a highly realistic mod or not) up to reducing resolution by the power of 4 (for example resize from 512 x 512 to 128 x 128) or even 8 if the internal textures are unnecesarily high resolution (like initially 2048 x 2048) - If the texture is lacking mipmaps click "Edit -> Generate mipmaps" to add new ones (for all internal materials) If the texture is not compressed (raw raster format) click on "Edit -> Manipulate" and select compression format DXTn to save much space - If the texture is too big in width x height click "Edit -> Resize" and type in dimensions to scale down texture.
These can usually be reduced by several MB's which saves memory and download time.Įxample of how to reduce the size of a TXD file Magic.TXD
Model mods downloaded from the 'internet' often contain bloated TXD files. 2 Example of how to reduce the size of a TXD fileĪ TXD file contains image files for GTA to use.