flight.dat

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Vice City's flight*.dat map

The flight*.dat files controls the movements of NPC airbourne vehicles in GTA3 and Vice City. These files are located in the ..\data\paths folder in the GTA III and Vice City directories. The following files control these airbourne vehicles:

flight.dat	Aeroplanes (the Boeing jets)
flight2.dat	"Dead" Dodo
flight3.dat	"Dead" Dodo used in "S.A.M."	Police Maverick
flight4.dat	"Dead" Dodo used in "A Drop In The Ocean"

These airbourne vehicles are not solid so you cannot collide into them and there are no drivers in them. "Dead" Dodos can be destroyed by shooting a rocket through the plane.

Format

The file starts with the number of coordinates that will be used in the file. The rest of the file are X, Y, and Z coordinates linked as a path in the game.

Example the structure of file:

Total entries (Integer)
X, Y, Z

Example of a record file:

1
0.0, 0.0, 0.0

Script

These opcodes can be used in GTA III to control and check the Dodo along the flight paths.

• 0358 – used to create the Dodo to follow the path from the flight4.dat file
• 0359 – checks if the Dodo is destroyed
• 033A – creates the Dodo to follow the path from the flight3.dat file
• 033B – checks if the Dodo landed on the ground
• 033C – checks if the Dodo is destroyed
• 035A – gets the coordinates of both of the Dodos.