flight.dat

GTA III's flight*.dat map

Vice City's flight*.dat map

The flight*.dat files controls the movements of NPC airbourne vehicles in GTA III 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 (Airtrain/Boeing 727)
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

	Type	Description
Section 1
A	integer	The number of lines that are to be read from the file.
Section 2
A,B,C	float[3]	X, Y, Z coordinates, each line linked to create a path

Script

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

• 033A, spawns a Dodo to follow the path from the flight3.dat file
• 033B, checks if the flight3 Dodo has completed the trip
• 033C, checks if the flight3 Dodo has been shot down
• 0358, spawns a Dodo to follow the path from the flight4.dat file
• 0359, checks if the flight4 Dodo has been shot down
• 035A, gets the coordinates of the flight3 Dodo
• 03A6, gets the coordinates of the flight4 Dodo