Trails in Vice City
This page shows various ways on how to enable the "trails" option in Vice City. This option is available to toggle in the console versions but is absent in the PC version. Trails is a visual effect that adds motion blur, enhances particle effects, and adds an orange glow to the atmosphere. There are multiple ways on how to enable this option.
Plugins
Plugins can enable this feature without the need to alter the executable file.
GTAGarage: Vice City Trails by Silent. It allows you to toggle the feature through the in-game menu.- GTAForums: Sharptrails by The Hero. It also allows you to toggle the feature through the in-game menu while removing the blurring effect.
- DexX's tool by DexX, retrieved from archive.org. It controls various hardcoded and extra graphical settings. Open the
spec.inifile and set the "Trails" setting to 1. This tools disables the functionality of the trails menu option if added through the Menu Editor.
VC Menu Editor
This method involves directly editing the executable file using the Menu Editor by steve-m.
- Download the program. Extract the files, start the program, and read the accompanying ReadMe. When everything is set up correctly, the "Menu Screens" should show legible texts.
- Under "Menu Screens", select
04. FEH_DIS. - Under "Menu Items", select
FEDS_TB. - Click the "Add" button, which duplicates the item.
- Select the duplicate
FEDS_TBitem and go to the "Associated Function" drop-down box and choose 009. - In the "Target Menu" input box, set to 4.
- Set the "X-position" to 40 and the "Y-position" to 153.
- In the "Alignment" drop-down box, select "Left".
- In the "Menu Item Text" drop-down box, choose
FED_TRA. - Click "Up" until
FED_TRAis betweenFEM_FRMandFED_SUB. - Click "Apply".
- Set the "Y-position" of
FED_SUBto 178 and click "Apply". - Set the "Y-position" of
FED_WISto 202 and click "Apply". - Set the "Y-position" of
MAP_LEGto 228 and click "Apply". - Set the "Y-position" of
FED_RDRto 253 and click "Apply". - Set the "Y-position" of
FED_HUDto 278 and click "Apply". - Set the "Y-position" of
FED_RESto 303 and click "Apply". - Set the "Y-position" of
FET_DEFto 328 and click "Apply". - Set the "Y-position" of
FEDS_TBto 353 and click "Apply". - Finally, click "Save Menu" button.
- Close the program and start the game. If everything is done correctly, you should see this:
Note: If you use the original protected gta-vc.exe, you must start a new game. This is necessary, because the protected exe have trigger that disables all traffic and pedestrians after you load save file; this happens if any byte of exe file was changed. Use a cracked exe instead.
See also:
- Tutorial on GTAForums – by Pagnell, retrieved from archive.org
- German tutorial – @GTAInside.com.
