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I finished up a small mod that moves the Cruise Control onscreen text to the bottom of the screen so it doesn’t overlap the action/driving.

This was an interesting mod because the added y value that worked for widescreen 16:9 and 16:10 resolutions ended up pushing the text down too far in 4:3 resolutions. To make it work, I found a function I could use in another script named vint_hack_is_std_res(). This function evaluates to true for standard resolutions and false for anything else. The rest was simply a matter of setting up a conditional block and assigning a different (lesser) value for the added y position if it evaluated true.

I’ve uploaded the mod here if anyone wants to a preview. It will also be in the next beta release of GotR.

Here’s a little something I threw together for Chicken Chaser earlier tonight. Badass? You betcha.

InnocentSam just linked me his Sam (from Sam & Max) tattoo he’s been working on, and it looks awesome. I asked him to throw together a clothing logo of it as well, and I’ll be adding them both into GotR asap.

My good friend masayumemasa has struck again with a new Gentlemen of the Row video. This time he’s featuring some of the extra crib and vehicle options in the mod.

Make sure to check out his other GotR videos too!

Cheaters rejoice! GotR now has a brand new cheat #1337 that adds all cheats to the phone with just this one single code! With this spiffy new cheat, you will no longer have to toil away and manually enter in each cheat individually 100+ times!

I was able to accomplish this by adding a new conditional block in cellphone.lua with all the adds, and a global flag that tracks it all. It was all sorts of fun trying to figure out a creative way to stop it from playing 100 “THWONK”  sounds at the same time too.

This mod will be in the next beta release of GotR, but you can try it out yourself now by downloading the source here. As per usual, simply extract the contents into:

..optional_mod_stuff1-MODDERS_-_PUT_YOUR_OWN_PERSONAL_MODS_HERE

and build your patch. Enjoy!

Tattoo modding is pretty interesting. It seems that your new tattoo has to fit within the dimensions of the ink of the old one. Here’s the new Professor Genki’s Super Ethical Reality Climax tattoo I’m working on. This pic was my first attempt replacing the Skull02 upper back tattoo. See how the image only fits in the outline of the viking helmet?

Here is the fixed version replacing the Yin Yang upper back tattoo which is more square so everything fits correctly.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Professor Genki’s Super Ethical Reality Climax is the new activity from Saints Row: The Third which Volition describes as a cross between a Japanese crazy gameshow and the Running Man. The “Ethical” part of the name makes me wonder if the player will have to make decisions of a horrible nature deciding the fate of npcs or your coop partner. Sounds awesome, and this tat is just the kind of a thing a crazy fan of the show might get!

I also cleaned up the names of the some of the hidden outfits that were unlocked in GotR from way back with the Customization mod. The STREET_1, SEXY_1, Streaker, and CRAZY_1, SUIT_2, and SUIT_3 now all have descriptive names. The two purple suits (SUIT_2 and SUIT_3) were also moved to Impressions where it makes more sense to sell them.

I also fixed the Police Outfit not being for sale. It is still locked for regular play and unlocked by the Fuzz activity in Standard, but the Open version now has it correctly for sale at Let’s Pretend like the other unlockable outfits are. Thanks for reporting that one, Georgoon!

Here’s a new winged fleur de lys clothing logo, and also a new one for one of the truly great SR2 cutscene moments. I also added an Army Olive Drab color by request for my bro Trilby to get his military on.

CORRECTION: The original design of the winged fleur de lys was actually by Truxas IV and the stencil I used to create the tattoo and clothing logos was by ryorininseven.

Finally got new colorable tattoos working in-game without clipping! The trick was to use a plain white background (255,255,255) with only pure black for the tat (0,0,0) then change the _desc file from DXT1 to DXT5 and the UnknownFlags1A from 0701 to 0101. This particular design was by ryorininseven on the Something Awful forums, and I liked it so much that I finally buckled down and spent the time to make it work.

Now we can create all sorts of our own tats!

If you would like to check it out I’ve added the files here. Simply extract the contents of the archive to ..\optional_mod_stuff\1-MODDERS_-_PUT_YOUR_OWN_PERSONAL_MODS_HERE\

and build your patch. It replaces the Upper Back Star Tattooo at Rusty’s Needle.

Stanko-Prussian whipped up a new version of the SA spray tag that blows mine out of the water. I’ve already replaced it in GotR and it looks great!