Pickup
A pickup is a spinning object (with a glowing halo in GTA III and Vice City) that can disappear when the player goes through it or interacts with it. If the model is a usable weapon, the player can "pick" it up and use it. Some pickups are created as collectibles. They are usually difficult to find but collecting them is required for a 100% completion of the game. Mines are classified as a type of pickup though their usage is limited to GTA III. All pickups are saved in block 7 of the save file in GTA III, block 8 in Vice City, and block 6 in San Andreas. Other than script-based creations listed below, the only other time a pickup is created in the game is when a character dies and drops money or weapons.
Mission script
| 0213 |    |
creates a pickup |
| 0214 | |
checks if the pickup has been collected |
| 0215 | |
removes the pickup |
| 02E1 | |
creates a money pickup |
| 02EC | |
creates a hidden package |
| 02F0 | |
creates a mine |
| 02F1 | |
creates a nautical mine |
| 032B | |
creates a pickup with ammo, equivalent to 0213 with an additional parameter to set a weapon's ammo |
| 035B | |
creates a drop-off package, used in the Donald Love's mission "A Drop In The Ocean" |
| 03DC | |
adds a blip to the pickup |
| 03DD | |
adds a sprite blip to the pickup |
| 048C | |
checks if there is any pickup at the coordinates point |
| 04A6 | |
creates a protection pickup |
| 0517 | |
creates a locked property pickup |
| 0518 | |
creates a for sale property pickup |
| 055B | |
creates a clothes pickup |
| 0958 | |
creates a snapshot |
| 0959 | |
creates a horseshoe |
| 095A | |
creates an oyster |
Pac-Man pickups
Pac-Man pickups are a collection of pickups unique to GTA III. The entire collection is interestingly named "Pac Man" and the pickups "Power Pills," references to the Pac-Man arcade game. They can only be collected while the player is in a vehicle and have a spinning halo that is unique from all other pickups in the game. There are two types of pickups: "race" used for donkey magazines during "Big'N'Veiny", and "scramble" used for platinums during "Bullion Run".
| 02C3 | Creates a collection of donkey magazine pickups |
| 02C5 | Gets the number of donkey magazines collected |
| 02C6 | Clears all donkey magazine and platinum pickups |
| 02C7 | Creates a collection of platinum pickups |
| 02C8 | Gets the number of platinum carried |
| 02C9 | Clears the number of platinum carried |
| 02D9 | Clears the number of donkey magazines collected |
| 02DA | Creates a single donkey magazine pickup |
See also
- Save pickup, a code snippet that allows the ability to save the game when a pickup is picked up.
- Buying property, a code snippet that allows to buy a property and view a cinematic scene.
