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It is possible some of it is hardcoded, for example it is not possible to move sprites in gry & g24 files.


so you're saying that the vehicle's default radio stations might be somewhere in the .G24 files like GTA 1 but hardcoded?


Yes. It is possible the data is in gt24, but also hardcoded ...

It is possible some of it is hardcoded, for example it is not possible to move sprites in gry & g24 files.

As it says in its help text, you can't open fstyle.sty in STYed, and it will error out any file you try to open after too if you do that. That's the only way such an error happens for me.


If needed, fstyle can be edited in newer versions of my gta2 sty tool (the one published in january on ...

1. yes - using scripting
2. yes, using scripting (vehicle immunities)
3. yes, i think there is a setting in sty or nyc.gci file to set can drivee over other vehicles flag, but it will not behave 100% like tank does.

Pretty sure this is related to roadblocks then.

Maybe you can use gta2 powermanager or script option to disable roadblocks - try if that works.

Maybe the gta2 reverse engineering project can answer some of those questions ( https://github.com/CriminalRETeam/gta2_re ), but it sounds like it is actually running out of some fixed object allocation, perhaps the crashing is related to objects created for roadblocks. does it work fine without any ...

some of these parameters like vehicle type and max health can be modified in the sty editor (it also edits car handling data), but others are script dependant and needs recompiling script (vehicle weapons and immunities).

gta1 and gta2 networking is deterministic tick-sync (like old c&c games) and not a typical interpolated client-server (quake)

So, lag is a really important factor, ping must be as low as possible as games WILL wait for each packet to update all players.
Additionally, networking has to be ...

perhaps there is a limit how much objects can be on screen or your random coordinates are placing objects inside buildings and cause problems?

Try placing them on road surfaces only.

nice to see someone add objects, gta1 maps were full of them and they were great, lack of ambient objects in gta2 always disappointed me.

News! I've finished a program which changes xyz parameters from gta2 script. It uses python as well. I've annexed on the first post the singleplayer maps rotated. I need to fix Industrial District weird crash though. It crashes after some ~20 seconds of gameplay for a unknown reason, even if I ...

is there any difference in sty file format for ps2? do those style files not just open in my gta2 style editor?

Yes. but i'm not near my home computer to do much with it. I can publish the source code, if you wish to try figuring it out sooner.

To solve the second item I just need to interpretate what is the word/dword stored in data section for each (x,y). I thought it would be the column index, but actually it is an word/dword offset.



It says that in documentation tho that it's an offset (so, address), not a index.

a 2D array ...

My next desire is to port the PSX maps to PC. Just knowing how to get block info from compressed data is enough.


is cmap not same as DMAP but 16 / 32 bit lookup for blocks?

it even says so in documentation:


In a CMAP, there is a limit of 65536 distinct blocks in the world. In a DMAP ...

This can be really disorienting, but it gives some variation to the classical maps.

In TDC, i've implemented rotating camera to follow your orientation that also feels weird and you really need to get used to it.

You are correct, but i have no idea what would cause this, i will investigate further, but at least we are getting somewhere now.

Try this:
http://gtamp.com/tdc/gta2stytool_PALB_TEST.7z

As far as i tried, it works (load and save) but the only difference is, that it pads palette clut up to 64 palettes (just how editor always worked).
I hope gta2 doesn't crash when loading it, but if it works, it's first time fstyle was ...

After you import your palette, export the whole main palette clut to bmp and send that.

i'd still like to have the image file you imported, because it could be related to how your program saves it, that it causes the problem in the clut editor.

I suspect that because if the program loads palette into image, then it has to save properly - the logic to calculate how much bytes to read ...