Skin and Bones

[The Hero 6,846]

Finally you can use skinned Xbox peds on PC!

 

I'm now releasing the first version of this mod. It's still not perfect but I didn't want to keep you guys waiting for too long (oh wait, i already have...):

 

Get the plugin here:

http://gta.rockstarvision.com/iii_anim/skin_and_bones_3.0.zip

And the converted xbox peds here (with flipped frame hierarchies, for better compatibility (EDIT: as of version 3.0 hierarchies don't have to match cop.dff anymore) (EDIT: textures are fixed too now)):

http://gta.rockstarvision.com/iii_anim/xbox_peds_fixed.zip

 

See the README for installation instructions and a list of known bugs (there are bugs!).

Huge thanks to Fire_Head for fixing a few things and most importantly implementing the cutscene hands.

 

Source code:

https://github.com/aap/iii_anim

 

Original post from before it was released:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is that an Xbox model with skeletal animation in the PC version? o_O

 

 

 

It is, stay tuned

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 08:39 AM by The Hero

[George Costanza 11,342]

OH MY f*ckING GOD Hero I JUST SH*TTED MY PANTS

sorry for caps but really

gg work there

Edited August 13, 2015 by Tomasak

[Jinx. 7,224]

OH MY f*ckING GOD Hero I JUST SH*TTED MY PANTS

My reaction aswell, and this comes from someone that makes ped models for GTA 3 Edited August 13, 2015 by Jinx.

[Inadequate 3,396]

OH MY f*ckING GOD Hero I JUST SH*TTED MY PANTS

 

This.

[GeneralSteve93 199]

OH MY f*ckING GOD Hero I JUST SH*TTED MY PANTS

 

That's my reaction too!!!

[M0rk 4,871]

Holy sh*t, This is amazing, My dreams finally came true!

[Jeansowaty 4,590]

I just fapped to this. Jk, great job, really looking forward to it, main chars from III will look beyond badass with that

[The Hero 6,846]

At first I thought maybe it wouldn't be that difficult. Then it turned out I had to rewrite parts of the animation system so I just reverse engineered and replaced the whole thing. But that wasn't everything...I had to implement some parts of Renderware that aren't in the exe and now I have to replace all the code that assumes a model is animated by a frame hierarchy (because it no longer is). I had to change some struct sizes, that's always madness. Right now I'm trying to implement weapon switching.

[George Costanza 11,342]

So almost like you write your own gta.

[R4gN0r0K 1,616]

but without R* Vision

[The Hero 6,846]

Pretty much of it anyway...Here is the code btw: http://tohjo.eu/aap/iii_anim

[Kalvin 10,617]

http://tohjo.eu/aap/iii_anim

[The Hero 6,846]

And I can change weapons:

[Silent 15,050]

And I can change weapons

lol you can change weapons even without any mods, so useless

[Jinx. 7,224]

Wow, would it be possible to include a FPS view mode aswell? There are leftover animations and data lines (for guns). THAT would be epic.

Edited August 14, 2015 by Jinx.

[George Costanza 11,342]

 

And I can change weapons

lol you can change weapons even without any mods, so useless

 

But this mod has real time weapon change

https://youtu.be/IH2w2l1JTs4?t=2m52s

[Jerome 1,894]

This is awesome, great work, The Hero!

[Claude_Lib 3,574]

I can almost see the day when we have our own, fully open-source GTA game.

Edited August 14, 2015 by Claude Liberty

[The Hero 6,846]

I'd totally participate in a project to reverse engineer a whole gta game. III or VC would make sense, they're not as complicated as SA yet, but this takes a long time and there aren't many people who'd work on it

Edited August 14, 2015 by The Hero

[George Costanza 11,342]

Yeah but knowing R*, i wouldn't be surprised authours of this project would be one morning surrounded by swat team

Edited August 14, 2015 by Tomasak

[ThirteenAG 3,451]

Would it be possible to use ped.ifp completely from Vice City?(with changed anumation names or something if necessary)

 

I'd totally participate in a project to reverse engineer a whole gta game. III or VC would make sense, they're not as complicated as SA yet, but this takes a long time and there aren't many people who'd work on it

There's one: https://sannybuilder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=26488#p26488

Also DK was working on this: https://github.com/DK22Pac/vice-37

and there are some issues with ped models, maybe you could take a look?

[The Hero 6,846]

Just replacing RenderWare is a small project compared to reversing the whole game, it's a start of course. Also, if these people discuss things in a russian forum a large part of the gta community will excluded.

[LINK/2012 1,534]

Would it be possible to use ped.ifp completely from Vice City?(with changed anumation names or something if necessary)

 

I'd totally participate in a project to reverse engineer a whole gta game. III or VC would make sense, they're not as complicated as SA yet, but this takes a long time and there aren't many people who'd work on it

There's one: https://sannybuilder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=26488#p26488

Also DK was working on this: https://github.com/DK22Pac/vice-37

and there are some issues with ped models, maybe you could take a look?

 

There's also Joe's Bullet one: https://github.com/jte/GTASA

 

But ageed with ape, GTASA is a much more complicated game compared to III/VC, it'd be more prone to be finished if it was III/VC.

Edited August 14, 2015 by LINK/2012

[George Costanza 11,342]

From which GTA3 version are you getting code? Xbox or mobile?

[The Hero 6,846]

Both. Mobile has symbols while xbox hasn't But xbox is x86 which the Hex-Rays decompiler can handle better than ARM (especially floating point) so I try to name the stuff I find in the xbox file as I go along. Sometimes the versions differ from each other a bit, so I implement what makes more sense to me.

 

I want to give credit to The_GTA btw for helping me debug some things

Edited August 14, 2015 by The Hero

[ThirteenAG 3,451]

You didn't say:

Would it be possible to use ped.ifp completely from Vice City?(with changed anumation names or something if necessary)

 

Both. Mobile has symbols while xbox hasn't But xbox is x86 which the Hex-Rays decompiler can handle better than ARM (especially floating point) so I try to name the stuff I find in the xbox file as I go along. Sometimes the versions differ from each other a bit, so I implement what makes more sense to me.

I hope we will see those xbox rain droplets one day

[The Hero 6,846]

Well, rendering is a different beast Although now that I have an older Xbox RW SDK, things could get easier. But I'm much more interested in reflections...I hope the Xbox I bought on ebay arrives tomorrow...I want to see for myself how it looks

 

I don't see why you'd want to use Vice City ped.ifp...what sense would that make?

Edited August 14, 2015 by The Hero

[George Costanza 11,342]

I always heard there are some realtime shadows for buildings on xbox but i have never seen them in any video, so i hope you (or anybody else) will post video/photo of them if they exists. And if they exists I hope you will try to implement them

[ThirteenAG 3,451]

I don't see why you'd want to use Vice City ped.ifp...what sense would that make?

Because of the animations, I have some cool custom animations including swimming, climbing, running with weapons etc, and it'd be great to use them in gta3.

[The Hero 6,846]

Why don't you just make them for III? Just change the bones.