G-Tools

G-Tools is a collection of tools and editors by REspawn capable of editing the contents of all currently release PC versions of GTA 3, GTA Vice City, and GTA San Andreas. In February 2009 REspawn announced that the G-Tools as they were planned are not under development any longer.^[1] Because of this, G-TXD's successor was G-Texture which is released on March 2009.^[2]

G-IMG

G-IMG is an editor for the .img archives used by GTA to store the majority of the games files. It allows for full control of the archives contents in an easy-to-use multiple file environment complete with previews of file contents.

• Add, Extract, Replace, Move, Merge, Delete
• Multiple archive viewing / editing
• Multi-lingual support
• Search Inside Files
• Quick Extract and replace
• Full drag and drop support
• Auto loading
• Archive Merge / Conversion

G-TXD

G-TXD is a texture editor, it allows you edit and manage .txd archives which are used by the game to store textures. It is the first texture tool to offer MipMap support and preview.

• Add, Extract, Replace, Move, Merge, Delete
• Multiple archive viewing / editing
• Multi-lingual support
• Template Library
• Invert alpha channels
• Full drag and drop support
• Auto loading
• Archive Merge / Conversion
• DFF Checker
• Copy between open files
• 3 Step TXD
• TXD Builder list support

G-TXD has been replaced by G-Texture

G-CYC

G-CYC is a time cycle editor. It was in pre-beta stage but no longer available for testing.

• Features to come: 3-D preview with sun, cloud and weather preview as well as color transition tools.

G-DAR

G-DAR is a radar map editor. G-DAR is discontinued since it has serious errors not yet fixed.

References

^  GTAForums: G-Tools topic
^  GTAForums: G-Texture release topic

External links

• Turnipfan.com - Official website, unavailable
•  GTAForums: Release topic
•  GTAGarage: G-IMG Download
•  GTAGarage: G-TXD Download
•  GTAGarage: G-DAR Download