Debug menu

[The Hero]

The last week I've been working on a nice little plugin:

An in-game menu for III, VC and SA to tweak values and execute commands from within the game.

The menu itself is completely empty by default. Other mods have to load it and fill it with whatever they like.

 

Just so this thread isn't too boring I also wrote some nice little mods that make use of it. SkyGFX and sharptrails also

expose their settings via this menu now.

 

To install just put the debugmenu.dll into the root game directory. DO NOT rename this file, otherwise other mods won't find it.

The module is not loaded by any dll/asi loaders, that would be pointless because it is empty. The individual mods that use it load it.

 

You can get the menu here:

https://github.com/aap/debugmenu/releases/

 

The debug mod has the following general features (different in each game, read the readme):

- debug camera (original R* leftover in III made usable from the keyboard and ported to VC and SA) (

)

- save and load camera positions and time & weather

- standard game cheats in the menu (not for VC, the cheats are awkward to call there, maybe in the next version)

- vehicle spawner with some "interesting" vehicles for quick acccess

- change time and weather

- change some player stats

- COL renderer for III

- lots of postfx settings in SA

 

Get it here:

https://github.com/aap/gtadebug/releases/

 

And have a screenshot:

 

 

Some information for programmers:

If you want to make use of this, check out the readme at https://github.com/aap/debugmenu

and in particular the header file which you will need to include: https://github.com/aap/debugmenu/blob/master/debugmenu_public.h

In this first version of the mod I have not yet settled on a 100% definitive API. So please be aware that later versions of the debug menu may be incompatible with earlier ones. I hope this will not happen but I can't promise. If you have suggestions for functions which you would like to see, tell me. Right now I haven't implemented anything that I didn't need, but a more complete and more flexible API would be nice of course.

Edited November 12, 2017 by The Hero

[dkluin]

Good work!

[_Æ_]

Nice.

[Claude_Lib]

Sh*t, sounds awesome.

Edited September 6, 2017 by Claude_Lib

[Igor Bogdanoff]

One thing is missing for me and that's airbreak, like in IV and V simple native trainers. But anyway great work, especially on ability to change settings on skygfx from ingame.

[The Hero]

Airbreak? Explain what that is or link me to something that explains it.

[Rachel Amber]

Its something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c77WnXCEGIc

 

ALSO i have problem with debug menu in sa.. i renamed it to asi opened the game and when i press ctrl+ M game show's me arrow and "debug menu" text... thats it

Edited September 6, 2017 by Rachel Amber

[The Hero]

Its something like this

I don't really see the point. With the debug camera you can fly around and teleport the player. Is it important that the player moves with the camera as you fly?

 

 

To install just put the debugmenu.dll into the root game directory. DO NOT rename this file, otherwise other mods won't find it.

ALSO i have problem with debug menu in sa.. i renamed it to asi opened the game and when i press ctrl+ M game show's me arrow and "debug menu" text... thats it

Did you expect anything else? Edited September 6, 2017 by The Hero

[Rachel Amber]

but when i placed not renamed dll it didnt hooked at all

[The Hero]

Did you also install any mods that use it? You have to give a little more information than 'it doesn't work'

Edited September 6, 2017 by The Hero

[Rachel Amber]

yep skygfx as always (new one)

Edited September 6, 2017 by Rachel Amber

[Igor Bogdanoff]

 

Its something like this

I don't really see the point. With the debug camera you can fly around and teleport the player. Is it important that the player moves with the camera as you fly?

 

Fair point, i am used to airbreak, because 3D gtas lacked something like this.

Edited September 6, 2017 by Tomasak

[inadequate]

Is your server down aap? I can't see your screenshot.

[Ash_735]

And remember folks, you too can make Rockstar quality promo shots with just a few clicks and well placed direction!

 

 

[The Hero]

Is your server down aap? I can't see your screenshot.

f*cking DNS again. Damn HE X( Updated it manually now but this sh*t isn't acceptable. I should really check out if I there's anything I can do about it. Edited September 6, 2017 by The Hero

[savidge]

am i doing something wrong? (probably)

i have to rename skygfx.dll to skygfx.asi or else it will not load up properly. i haven't touched debugmenu_SA.dll as stated in the readme, but running the game with either sa_debug.dll or sa_debug.asi isn't working either. i have moved and tested each file in both my root and scripts directories but nothing changes. anybody else encountering this issue or is it just me?

[Rachel Amber]

me too

[zanesix]

Use SA_debug.asi and rename debugmenu_SA.dll to just debugmenu.dll. That's what fixed it for me.

Edited September 8, 2017 by zanesix

[The Hero]

Whoops, the dll for SA indeed had the wrong name. Sorry, it's fixed now.

[Vlady_xD]

How to use the debug camera ? What button should I press?

Edited September 9, 2017 by Vlady_xD

[zanesix]

Ctrl D

[Vlady_xD]

It doesn't work

Edited September 10, 2017 by Vlady_xD

[Rachel Amber]

Yeah can confirm it doesn't work for me too...

Edited September 10, 2017 by Rachel Amber

[DK22Pac]

Nice, but can you also release this as plugins for Miles Sound System?

Edited September 10, 2017 by DK22Pac

[Ash_735]

The remains of Additional Sound Interface will not be forgotten.

[Concavax]

Hi

 

I have a few questions about debug menu.

 

1) Sfkygfx 3.4 is supposed to use it. How i can activate the menu? Ctrl + M doesn't work for me.

2) It's some kind of platform dependent? I'm using Windows XP

 

Just the camera works for me (Ctrl + D) in debugmenu, so is a proof that is working. Like the graphics effects (blur,bloom, etc) with Skygfx.

 

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[Finn The Human]

Yeah Simple Native Trainer for GTA 3,VC and SA!!!!!!!

Very awesome and can replace "Cheat Menu"

Edited September 15, 2017 by Finn The Human

[Makaveli_In_This]

This thing is conflicting with Ultimate ASI Loader, some scripts won't be loaded properly. It really needs an update.

Edited April 6, 2019 by Makaveli_In_This

[inadequate]

Rename to ASI.

[MightyMax]

nice see simple trainer gta san andreas