CARS (IPL Section)

This article describes the usage of the CARS section inside a plain text IPL. For the definition of vehicle models see CARS (IDE Section)

CARS (IPL section)

Short description:	Creates a parked car generator
Supported games:	GTA SA, GTA IV
IPL Sections: 2DFX • AUZO • BLOK • CARS • CULL • ENEX • GRGE INST • JUMP • LINK • LODM • MLO+ • MULT • OCCL PATH • PICK • RTFX • SLOW • TCYC • VNOD • ZONE

The CARS section is a simplified method to create parked cars. Usually parked cars are created by the scripts, but just as unique stunt jumps they can be separated and written inside plain text or binary IPLs. Since parked car generators are related to savegames^[1] a new game must be started before they are applied to the game. It is possible to create parked car generators without starting a new game using CLEO^[2].

Format

CARS or parked car generators are used to place permanently, randomly or limited cars which are placed (parked) around the world. For this they need a position, a rotation, information about which car should be placed, the car's colors and some additional information.

San Andreas

PosX, PosY, PosZ, Angle, CarID, PrimCol, SecCol, ForceSpawn, Alarm, DoorLock, Unknown1, Unknown2

Identifier	Description
PosX, PosY, PosZ	The real world coordinates of the car as floating point values.
Angle	The angle of the car in dagrees.
CarID	The ID number of the car as defined in the IDE or -1 for random car parks (influened by the popcycle.dat file)
PrimCol, SecCol	A car color defined in the carcols.dat file. If it is set to -1 the color will be randomly choosed.
ForceSpawn	Vehicles spawn more reliably if this is 1.
Alarm	The probability of triggering the alarm system (0 - 100).
DoorLock	The propability that the doors of the vehicle is locked (0 - 100).
Unknown1, Unknown2	Unknown (Zero).

Binary format

CARS is one of the known sections which can be used in binary format inside streaming IPLs. For detailed information about the format see the format specification in the supposed article.

Scripts

Opcodes

• 014B – Creates a parked car generator in SCM
• 014C – Sets the flags for the parked car generator.
• 09E2 – Creates a parked car generator where the car has a special numplate text.
• 0A17 – Sets a parked car generator as owned by the player

Native functions

• CREATE_CAR_GENERATOR
• CREATE_CAR_GENERATOR_WITH_PLATE
• CREATE_CARS_ON_GENERATORS_IN_AREA
• DELETE_CAR_GENERATOR
• DISABLE_CAR_GENERATORS
• DISABLE_CAR_GENERATORS_WITH_HELI
• FORCE_GENERATE_PARKED_CARS_TOO_CLOSE_TO_OTHERS
• IS_OUR_PLAYER_HIGHER_PRIORITY_FOR_CAR_GENERATION
• REMOVE_CARS_FROM_GENERATORS_IN_AREA
• SET_ALL_CAR_GENERATORS_BACK_TO_ACTIVE
• SET_CAR_GENERATORS_ACTIVE_IN_AREA
• SET_HAS_BEEN_OWNED_FOR_CAR_GENERATOR
• SWITCH_CAR_GENERATOR

References

^ Car generators in save files
^ Creating a parked car generator via scripts.

External Link

•  GTAForums: Documentation of San Andreas IPL file format