Opcodes for Bartons Editor (GTA3 + VC)

[Barton Waterduck]

Here are two I found while searching for opcodes in GTA SA. They work the same way in VC. I have this feeling these have been found before ?

 

04FE: deflate_tire <car> <tire>0496: is_tire_deflated <car> <tire>

 

Edited January 5, 2005 by Barton Waterduck

[Y_Less]

On vc-db, 0496 is unknown, but has 2 parameters, so may be that, but hasn't apparently been found (I wish someone would sync all the opcodes places!)

 

047E is is_player_on_motorbike, has 1 parameter and was found by CyQ, so isn't (or may not be) that.

[Barton Waterduck]

OOPS, a small typo there, it's supposed to be:

04FE: deflate_tire <car> <tire>0496: is_tire_deflated <car> <tire>

 

 

Example code in VC. If you use the parked faggio in the chase mission with the bfinjection with the gunner, both the tires of the faggio gets shot out.

 

 

:Label06505900D6: if  0047E:   player $PLAYER_CHAR driving_a_motorbike004D: jump_if_false £Label06508F00D6: if  08119:   NOT   car  6@ wrecked004D: jump_if_false £Label06508F04FE: unknown_car  6@ flag  004FE: unknown_car  6@ flag  10224: set_car  6@ health_to  350

 

 

It's easier to see it in SA because it's used with the spike strip / stinger mission "Puncture Wounds".

 

Edited January 5, 2005 by Barton Waterduck

[Y_Less]

Are the numbers direct references to tires (e.g. 0 = front left, 1 = front right etc) or are they binary based (e.g. 1 = front left, 2 = front right, 3 = front left AND front RIGHT)?

 

Based on reading the basic description on VC-DB, I believe it is the former, but could be wrong.

[Barton Waterduck]

Are the numbers direct references to tires (e.g. 0 = front left, 1 = front right etc) or are they binary based (e.g. 1 = front left, 2 = front right, 3 = front left AND front RIGHT)?

 

Based on reading the basic description on VC-DB, I believe it is the former, but could be wrong.

No idea. This is the SA code used with the stinger.

 

00D6: if  08496:   NOT   unknown_car_check @38  2004D: jump_if_false £Label1B893904FE: unknown_car @38 flag  2:Label1B893900D6: if  08496:   NOT   unknown_car_check @38  0004D: jump_if_false £Label1B895204FE: unknown_car @38 flag  0:Label1B895200D6: if  08496:   NOT   unknown_car_check @38  1004D: jump_if_false £Label1B896B04FE: unknown_car @38 flag  1:Label1B896B00D6: if  08496:   NOT   unknown_car_check @38  3004D: jump_if_false £Label1B898404FE: unknown_car @38 flag  3:Label1B8984

 

[Y_Less]

Thats what I put as the first option, but you don't know which is which?

[Barton Waterduck]

Thats what I put as the first option, but you don't know which is which?

Well, if you look at the code I posted, doesn't it look like it checks each wheel at a time ? Also, if each wheel is supposed to be a bit in a variable, then you have 4 bits for a car with 4 wheels and then you would check for the number 15 wouldn't you ? Doesn't look like that with the code I posted.

 

Short reply: Looks like

the numbers are direct references to tires

[Hammer83]

Some more opcodes:

 

 

03FB: car $MYCAR bind_to_current_island 0/1;; Works only in GTA3

 

 

If the parameter is 0, the flag of the car which denotes the island index is set to 0; otherwise, the island index is calculated from the current car position and is updated. Island index is needed so that computer controlled car doesn't drive to another island.

 

EDIT: Very similar to 044E, but that one sets the island index flag of the car to -1 if opcode parameter is 0. What's the difference between -1 and 0 is beyond me.

 

 

057F: $MYVAR = player $PLAYER_CHAR coach_passengers_dropped_off

 

 

Stores the number of passengers that got off at the bus station and resets this number to 0 in the player record.

 

 

0467: clear_actor $MYACTOR last_weapon_damage0468: clear_car $MYCAR last_weapon_damage

 

 

I have no idea what this does, but that's how Rockstar named these opcodes (although the name is pretty indicative of the effect of these opcodes).

 

 

0595: mission_complete

 

 

Has the same effect as 0318: set_latest_mission_passed, except that it doesn't update the last mission name. By the same effect, I mean it also resets taxi restart and increments the number of missions passed.

 

 

0598: stir_ground_around_cutscene_object $OBJ radius 10.0 flag 8

 

 

Used with helicopter in the opening cutscene to create effect of moving particles on the ground due to propeller's rotation.

Edited May 4, 2005 by Hammer83

[PatrickW]

Nice finds hammer,

 

 

But the thing that intrigues me the most is the source of this knowledge:

 

Some more opcodes:

 

I have no idea what this does, but that's how Rockstar named these opcodes (although the name is pretty indicative of the effect of these opcodes).

 

 

Do you have connections at R* ??

[Hammer83]

Hehe.

 

The source is GTA-VC.EXE/GTA3.EXE That's my Rockstar source.

[Y_Less]

Nice finds hammer,

 

 

But the thing that intrigues me the most is the source of this knowledge:

 

Some more opcodes:

 

I have no idea what this does, but that's how Rockstar named these opcodes (although the name is pretty indicative of the effect of these opcodes).

 

 

Do you have connections at R* ??

I was also intrigued by that, though I guessed at one possible source (the one he used).

[random_download]

Hehe.

 

The source is GTA-VC.EXE/GTA3.EXE That's my Rockstar source.

I just followed the dissassembled exe through as if 0467 was being executed and the offset to: 'CLEAR_CHAR_LAST_WEAPON_DAMAGE - Charact' is pushed to the stack for some reason :S. Any idea why this happens? Or why it doesn't happen to other opcodes as well?

[Hammer83]

It prints the rror message for some opcodes if something is wrong. Unfortunatelly, out of 1000 opcodes only about 20 have error message, if not less.

 

OT: Mr. 47 is cool. Can't wait for Blood Money

[Hammer83]

A couple of GTA3 opcodes:

 

 

02F0: create_barrel_pickup_at $x $y $z (this one is not in the ini)02F1: create_exploding_barrel_pickup_at $x $y $z

 

 

Creates a spinning barrel pickup. First opcode creates BARREL1 model, the second one creates BARREL2 model that explodeson contact.

 

EDIT: Oops, sorry for double post.

Edited May 5, 2005 by Hammer83

[jacob.]

How did you find out the names of those opcodes, hammer? Debug strings in ps2 gta3?

[Hammer83]

Most of them made up based on things they do. Some have error messages in the exe containing opcode names, like random_download said.

 

BTW, there are a lot of opcodes in GTA3.exe and GTA-VC.EXE that are not in the INI files at all. Neither in Barton's nor in TbM2k's

[random_download]

Most of them made up based on things they do. Some have error messages in the exe containing opcode names, like random_download said.

 

BTW, there are a lot of opcodes in GTA3.exe and GTA-VC.EXE that are not in the INI files at all. Neither in Barton's nor in TbM2k's

Which do things? when I was looking through I looked at a few which were not in the INI file and when that opcode was called the jump table tells it to return without doing anything at all, so I assumed that that was why some of the opcodes were completely omitted (ie. not even called unknown). Looks like I was wrong and that some of the opcodes not in the ini file actually do something

[Hammer83]

Another one of those not working anymore opcodes (it was for GTA3):

 

03FC: actor $MYACTOR bind_to_current_island 0 (false)/1 (true)0438: set $MYACTOR level 0 (clear)/1 (from_position)

 

 

Same as 03FC works the same as 03FB, but with actors. 0438 works like 044E but for actors. The difference between 044E and 03FB is explained previously.

Edited May 12, 2005 by Hammer83

[Opius]

What does setting the actors level actually do? By 'level' do you mean 'island'?

[Hammer83]

What does setting the actors level actually do? By 'level' do you mean 'island'?

In used Barton's terminology. I think island is a better description. It basically locks the actor on one island. He won't take any roads that will lead to another island.

[.:Xieon:.]

Hi to all!

I have found new OPR:

 

 

0519: unknown car $86F flag  1

 

 

this same as:

 

 

0519: lock_car $86F in_current_position  1

 

 

Opcode forces the any car to "freeze" on the current place.

To shift the car it is impossible. Useful in movies or at creation of the special roadblocks.

Opcode 04FE works and in VC, not only SA, I in VC have found it,

and when have going it to post, I have seen that have outstripped me

However in VMB, 04FE still appears as unknown, It is necessary to add myself.

 

And the database of opcodes (vc-db) for a long time itself is not updated,

and the opportunity of the additive unknown opcode now does not work. Why? The most of unknown there opcodes are already known in VMB...

[PatrickW]

Nice finding..

 

And welcome

 

Yeah, there are various sources of opcode definitions, which do not always agree, and are not always updated together. The best thing with exotic opcodes, is to check all sources, compare the results, and test yourself, which one is correct.....

[ZAZ]

I found the following code in the original bank robbery mission of Vice City and

I used it for my own mission mod. So I know, its not gas or smoke.

Its a visuell animation scene of swats. They climb down a robe and its not possible

to hit them by weapons.

 

0503: create_gas_smoke -907.307 -336.618  26.00503: create_gas_smoke -907.307 -345.504  26.00503: create_gas_smoke -915.401 -336.6184  26.00503: create_gas_smoke -915.401 -345.5  26.0

 

It needs the 0247: request_model #SWAT before using

 

____________________ZAZ__________________________________

Edited June 9, 2005 by ZAZ

[Demarest]

BUMP!

 

0534: increment_pizzas_delivered_stat X

 

 

I just tested this

:LabelMAIN30001: wait 250& ms00D6: if 0?047A:   in_pizza_car $PLAYER_ACTOR004D: jump_if_false ��LabelMAIN3018C: play_sound  1? at  0!  0!  0!0002: jump ��LabelMAIN3

...along with Car Spaw v3 and ANY 2-wheeled vehicle was chiming. On the surface, this looks just like 047E, although R* used both so A difference is implied. If you'll look at its context in The Party, you'll know from playing the game that if you're escorting Mercedes on a motorbike, she never asks about putting her hand in your lap. Pretty straight forward.

 

[EDIT]

Just tested 044B. It was constantly chiming unless Tommy was actively pursuing entering or exiting a vehicle. As in "is_on_foot_and_free_from_commitment" or what have you. NOT like is player controllable because it continues to chime while diving out of the way of oncoming traffic, uncontrollable falls, flying off of a motorbike, etc. I have to assume that 044A is the same, except for players not actors.

Just noticed that 044A and 044B are still listed as unkown in the Opcode Database.

Edited July 14, 2005 by Demarest

[Demarest]

I'll keep posting as if somebody's actually reading

 

03AB set_car( $CAR).do_nothing 1?

 

The car will remain still with no directive until released by code or given something to do. Setting it to 0? did nothing from what I saw, though it was used in original code during Silence The Sneak.

[Demarest]

0578: set_highest_vigilante_level_to ($)int

 

[EDIT]

0582: set_hotring_best_result_to 0? ($)int

 

[EDIT2]

0544: set_longest_time_in_bloodring_to ($)int

 

[EDIT3]

0536: increment_drug_deals_made_by ($)int

 

[EDIT4]

0534: increment_pizzas_delivered_by ($)int

Edited August 10, 2005 by Demarest

[ceedj]

A couple of Vice related things I found while converting my mod...

 

04ED: request_animation

 

Used in a few places, but the ones that interested me was when I was putting together the Mailbu and Pole Position clubs.

 

When you do this:

 

04ED: request_animation "STRIP"04ED: request_animation "RIOT"

 

they're used with animation wait states 32 and 29 (which when used alone crash the game), so the peds will do a Dance (32) animation (like in the clubs) and the Riot (29) animation (like in the RIOT mission).

 

I haven't been able to locate any use of animation states 28 and 34, although I haven't tried them with these animations loaded yet either. When I muck about with it more, I'll check those, and also check to see if I can load the animation to run throughout the game so I can use these in Vice Studios.

 

[Demarest]

First and foremost, Y_Less gets credit for this opcode! I experimented in game, but it was his brainstorming that led to the articulation of this opcode.

 

0596: is_riding_mission_restart_taxi

 

One parameter: a player. It is used only once in VC and SA and then only to determine if you are eligible to even receive the textbox that informs you to press submission, let alone launch Taxi Driver. The accompanying opcodes of 058D and 058E were NOP'ed in SA, but 0596 was not despite it having no valid application. I'm assuming it was left in the SA sniffer as a result of a clumsy copy/paste of VC's approach.

[spaceeinstein]

Three-year-old bump?

 

There are lots of undocumentation/lost information for opcodes. Here are the ones I have detailed so far for Vice City and some for GTA III so that people won't need to rediscover them again. It also includes stuff that I think are new discoveries (for a six-year-old game?!).

• 00BA

  Page updated to include Vice City's. III coming as soon as Thanksgiving if I can remember to do it.

   

• 0152

  Sets the gang car spawn. The numbers from parameters 4 and up cannot exceed 1000 when added up, i.e. "250 0 0 0 0 0 250 500 0 0" (250+250+500) is the most you can set. You can set it lower than that but not higher. It seems that param 12 is trying to load an invalid ped model because the game doesn't crash right away. Can someone find out what model is it trying to load?

   

• 015C

  Functions similar to above but for gang on foot spawn.

   

• 01B5

  This was documented as "force weather" but that doesn't sound different from "set weather." A more clear description is "set next weather cycle."

   

• 024A

  Misleading description, it doesn't "create" a phone. It grabs the nearest phone model and assign it to a variable. If a phone model is not close by, the game will crash.

   

• 0324

  Sets the zone's ped spawn. The zone is defined in info.zon. The last parameter is the line number in the pedgrp.dat file. Line number starts at 0 at the top. Each "line number" contains 16 peds. The game reads 16 peds as each line, not the line you see in the text editor.

   

• 03ED

  Prevents a flipped car from blowing up, as long as YOU are not in it. I discovered this by accident in Vice City and was really pure luck. I was just insanely spawning cars and some flipped over but didn't blow up. Opcode's functionality discovered!

   

• 042E, 042F

  Stats opcodes. See links for list of stats.

   

• 04D8

  Functions the same as in San Andreas, prevents actors from drowning, even you.

   

• 0533

  Increments "Assassination Contracts Completed" stat

   

• 0551

  Kaufman Cabs radio

   

• 057D

  Known to play bridge status audio file but can also play ANY audio file in the Audio folder. See link for a complete list from 0 to 73 and some for above.

It seems like the predecessors of III coding do know a lot about some of these opcodes but I cannot find any documentation on them.

 

Congratz on the millionth visitor to GTAModding.com. I was the million and forty first.

 

EDIT:

More newly discovered/more detailed/redefinition of opcodes

• 0372

A COMPLETE list of descriptions of all animations used by that opcode in the game, even the ones that was previously found to crash the game.

 

03F1

I rediscovered this and didn't realize it was posted before. Now it's documented in one place.

 

0445

This is well-known but no one specified which specific cheats would be checked. In Vice City, these cheats are checked: airship, comeflywithme, gripiseverything, loadsoflittlethings, seaways.

 

0493

Disables the tank's ability to explode on contact! 0 = disable, 1 = enable

 

0291

Sets the actor to attack threat when provoked.

 

04AA

Checks if the player is in a helicopter

 

0552

Riot noise, like the one heard during the mission Riot for Ken Rosenburg. By default, values go from 127 to 0, 127 being loud and 0 being silent. It is hardcoded to play the noise at that location and for the volume of the noise to change with distance.

 

0168

I feel like 0168 is grossly misnamed but apparently corrected in San Andreas. It should be renamed "set blip size". Default size of most blips is 3 although there are exceptions. You can set it to any number, even 100 to cover up your radar with a giant pink square.

Edited December 19, 2009 by spaceeinstein

[spaceeinstein]

• 0159 is the most freakiest and randomest opcode I've ever experienced. Here are the values and what they do:

 

1 - frozen camera, low draw dist

2,3,12,18,22,33,37 - frozen camera, normal draw dist

4 - revert to normal

5,6,9,10,13,15,19,20,21,24,25,26,27,30,31,47 and up - 0,0,0

7,8,34,46 - first person, can move and hit but cant jump or enter cars, movement controls also affects camera movement

9,10 - 0,0,0

11 - camera angled from tommy, sometimes jitters because follows rule of no camera clipping colls, stuck

14 - camera first person, stuck, x angle from -45 to 45 degs

16 - frozen first person, can only move forward, previous limitations apply

17 - CRASH

23 - camera zooms sraight up while stayed pointing to tommy

28 - camera stuck, some distance away from tommy, follows rule of camera clip

29 - wasted camera motion, will keep moving up

32 - busted camera motion, wants to rotate around tommy and messes up when clipped, cinematicy-like

35 - camera will want to zoom out away from tommy until hits colls, if no coll, stops at 0,0,0

36 - some weird angle, smooth, stuck

38 - camera stuck in lighthouse (odd)

39 - sniper rifle, can move, when rotate camera moves in wide circle, can zoom in and out, zoom in makes even larger circle

40 - rocket launcher, movements similar to sniper rifle zoomed out

41,43 - same as rocket but without anything on screen

42 - 1st person weapon (ie kruger), movements like launcher

44 - stuck camera somewhere high overlooking ocean beach

45 - less restricted 1st person, can't enter vehicles

 

I might record a video on this, some of these are really freaky.

 

EDIT:

• 0506: Here's a list of car variations used in Vice City. Param 1 sets the variation, param 2 overlays another variation to your car. So you can combine two variations for one car! All these are spawned in the game and I haven't checked the cars' model files so there could be more variations.

 

Most but not all of the blank and empty variations are also variant -1.

 

Model	Changes	0	1	2	3	4	5
barracks	Bed coverings	Closed top	Open top with frame	Open top
bfinject	Engine	Variant 1	Variant 2	Variant 3
benson	Company names and contents	Sumo	ZIP	Vice 'n' Easy	Bitch 'n' Dog Food	blank and empty
bloodra	Numbers, ads, and rear window style	53	27	3	69	99	1
bloodrb	Numbers, ads, and rear window style	83	11	41	59	48	73
boxville	Company names and contents	CityHaul	Haul	Marlin	R.S. & L. Bows	blank and empty
burrito	Roof	Spoiler and roof light	none
cabbie	Roof light	normal	normal	Lightless
caddy	Rear contents	Brown golf bag	Brown satchel	Red golf bag	Purple satchel	Green golf bag	Blue golf bag
cheetah	Mirrors and dashboard	Single mirror	Double mirrors	No mirror, black siren on dashboard	No mirror, clean dashboard
coach	Company names	Vice Free Bus Line	Whippet Express Coach	Bullet Bus and Coach Line	blank
firetruk	Numbers	1	2	3	4	5	6
flatbed	Rear contents	Stacked boxes	Stacked pipes	Tall covered thing (whale?)	Short covered thing (whale?)	Stacked smaller boxes	Stacked boxes (like in variant 0)
gangbur	Bear position	Front	Top	none
hotrina	Numbers and ads	46	21	34	78	56	99
hotrinb	Numbers and ads	14	28	35	65	69	80
kaufman	Roof lights	normal	normal	Lightless
mesa	Bed coverings	Covered back	Framed back	none
mule	Company names and rear contents	Haul	Outta Sight	Marlin	Vice Voice	R.S.&L. Bows	blank and empty
patriot	Bed coverings	Low covered back	High covered back	Open back with rack	none
peren	Roof	Roof rack	No roof rack
pony	Company names	R.S. & L. Bows	Gasmaster	blank
romero	Casket	Fancy brown casket	Black casket	Simple brown casket	empty
taxi	Roof light	normal	normal	Lightless
stallion	Roof	Closed top	Open top
trash	Trash	Trash sticking out in rear	No trash in rear
vicechee	Side mirrors	Single mirror	Double mirrors	No mirrors
yankee	Company names	CityHaul	Haul	Marlin	R.S. & L. Bows	blank
zebra	Roof light	normal	normal	Lightless

Edited December 17, 2009 by spaceeinstein