[ocram88]

steve m. has written down in the first post, that section 6 the
Link lengths in full units is.
i've set it to 255, because i was to lazy to calculate the distance between 2 nodes

[steve-m]

But you have to calculate them, otherwise path finding won't work.

[ARMax]

<Deleted - Im no longer a nub>

This post has been edited by ARMax on Tuesday, Dec 19 2006, 16:19

[Interdictor]

A note about the train and tracks dat files in SA

Both train.dat and train2.dat are NOT used by the game since these files are relicts of
previous games (they are identical with the files of the same name in the Vice City data folder where they didn't play any role as well for there was no rail system in VC, of course; I think they come from the first 3d GTA but am too lazy to install and check). This has been tested: I cut both files, but the game didn't complain about it and I haven't experienced any problems, no abnormalities have occured so far.

However, tracks.dat files are necessary for proper running of the game. If you cut them, delete them or make a mess in them, your game will get frozen or an error message will appear indicating that something went wrong in SA application. I've found out how the file tracks.dat works, but I keep testing it now and because I want to provide more complex info about it, I don't intend to post it right now.

I've been working on a new railroad through SA that would connect villages but it is a real pain in my a.s. Any further development depends on my spare time.

[sueey]

Excuse me?the download links doesnt work!

[ChrisBenoit!]

I wish me a little tutorial
Who can make me a tut. ?

Sorry for that bad english^^

[steve-m]

If you mean SA's car/ped paths, I'll continue working on that in a few weeks. I'll finish my tool, and then write a short tutorial on how to use it.

[ocram88]

hi, the last weeks a was to lazy to continue my work on path tool,
and atm i'm lazy too. but i will release my current stuff.
it is atm only for peds sry, but i hope you have fun with this

Download

Edit: when you create own path, than the old paths are deleted

This post has been edited by ocram88 on Saturday, Aug 19 2006, 08:45

[steve-m]

I didn't have time to continue working on my tool either, but it's still too premature to be uploaded. Still needs much testing, and the car stuff was missing several things. But I still hope I'll be able to release it somewhen this summer.

[ocram88]

sorry guys, i noticed the 'Add paths from another .npf' was always gray.
i looked in my code und saw the code is incomplete, so i finished the procedure for adding with multi-import.

New Download

[ChrisBenoit!]

Good work

[Astramak]

Dont work

[steve-m]

All file format information moved to the wiki (and heavily extended, especially sec 2). I've been sitting on this stuff way too long...

Wiki: GTA SA Paths

Also, here is an early and incomplete alpha of my Path Tool. No proper documentation or tutorials available, please refer to the readme (and possibly the file format specs). For in-game examples see the test path releases in Myriad's paths topic.

[Mark]

ooh cool I'll take a look at the wiki and the tool. Probably not the best person to do paths for MI, but meh, it's fun to have a go myself.

[leviatan]

Hi everybody.
Mr Steve M, Mr Ocram, hello.

One more time, that guys shows how incredible they are.

Well, i have been experimenting with both tools. But no results . My fault, of course.
Ok, let me show my doubts:



I think i know how to compile the txt. Check if this is right: I Need to open the console , promp, and then:
1º cd my foler
2º run Executabletool(exe) textFile.txt ENTER



I hope so.

Well, nother weird thing: if i delete all the original nodes from gta3.img, the game dont crashes and i still see all the cars in game. I am talking about my Speed Island map. I cant understad where is the engine reading that data. Really, its so weird.

I hope somebodycould help me. Thank you so so much.
Ocram, Steve, you are the ENGINE BREAKER !!!

[leviatan]

Oh, dont worry



Steve, Ocram, I LOVE YOU

[leviatan]

Damn, i have a troubble.
I dont know what´s happening. I already got it, peds + cars, but i dont know what i am doing wrong, because, when i try to do a more elaborated path, and mixing peds and cars....in game, it doesnt work
Can somebody tell the rules of the game? Maybe i am doing a wrong line, i have no idea



I have got it, but then, i lost it



This post has been edited by leviatan on Thursday, Dec 7 2006, 16:00

[steve-m]

QUOTE (leviatan @ Dec 6 2006, 17:46)

Well, i have been experimenting with both tools. But no results    . My fault, of course. Ok, let me show my doubts:

If you want to have a circuit then yes, you have to close the spline. The name doesn't matter, that's just for you to distinguish your paths. However, Max seems to export them sorted alphabetically. It's generally recommended to export paths for big roads first, so the small roads get joined to the big ones at junctions, not vice versa, and alphabetical naming might be useful here.

QUOTE (leviatan @ Dec 6 2006, 17:46)

I think i know how to compile the txt. Check if this is right: I Need to open the console , promp, and then: 1º cd my foler 2º run Executabletool(exe) textFile.txt ENTER I hope so.

Yep, correct.

QUOTE (leviatan @ Dec 6 2006, 17:46)

Well, nother weird thing:  if i delete all the original nodes from gta3.img, the game dont crashes and i still see all the cars in game. I am talking about my Speed Island map. I cant understad where is the engine reading that data. Really, its so weird.

Weird indeed. Did you also delete the separate ones in the paths folder? (Although I'm sure those aren't used.)

QUOTE (leviatan @ Dec 7 2006, 16:49)

Damn, i have a troubble. I dont know what´s happening. I already got it, peds + cars, but i dont know what i am doing wrong, because, when i try to do a more elaborated path, and mixing peds and cars....in game, it doesnt work  Can somebody tell the rules of the game? Maybe i am doing a wrong line, i have no idea

I see the highway flag checked in that one screenshot. Better use only default settings for testing, since I think I never tested that flag. Use default settings, test if paths work, and then play with the settings until it stops working. Oh, and having cars and peds mixed works fine for me, so you might be doing something wrong. For troubleshooting, you can disable paths in the text file temporarily by changing the keywords "vehicle_path" or "ped_path" to something else, then that section will just be skipped by the parser. Theoretically it should work.

[pingdanlantian]

I'm a newhand and who can give me a help?

I want the tool empty path nodes, the link is disable.

Anyone give the link once again? thanks

~

e, Also I want the tool named Aschratts Path-Editor

This post has been edited by pingdanlantian on Thursday, May 31 2007, 17:52

[Aschratt]

http://www.aschratt.com => Downloads => Tools (Preloading... so there isnt a direct link to the DL Section).

You can create empty nodes using my tool... Just start it up, klick Tools => Create stripped Nodes.