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{{Note|1}} The {{Icon}} icon marks the files that are present in every game of GTA 3D series (GTA 3, GTA VC, GTA SA and GTA IV).
 
{{Note|1}} The {{Icon}} icon marks the files that are present in every game of GTA 3D series (GTA 3, GTA VC, GTA SA and GTA IV).

Revision as of 15:02, 24 February 2011

DAT is the extension used for the data files of GTA 3D series games. They are commonly text files (although there are binary ones) and have different structures.

List of data files

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Game File Description Notes
Grand Theft Auto series[1] animviewer.dat
Grand Theft Auto series carcols.dat Contains information about vehicle colors
Grand Theft Auto series default.dat
Grand Theft Auto series fonts.dat Contains information about the fonts used in the game The fonts are split up into sprites. Fonts themselves are located in the ...\models\fonts.txd texture dictionary.
Grand Theft Auto series gta.dat General map listing file called gta3.dat for GTA 3 and gta-vc.dat for Vice City
Grand Theft Auto series object.dat Defines additional object information for dynamic objects
Grand Theft Auto series ped.dat
Grand Theft Auto series pedgrp.dat
Grand Theft Auto series timecyc.dat,
timecycp.dat (SA)
Controls the weather and the game's appearance
Grand Theft Auto series water.dat (all),
water1.dat (SA),
waterpro.dat (GTA 3 & VC)
Grand Theft Auto series weapon.dat
GTA III Vice City San Andreas pedstats.dat
GTA III Vice City San Andreas surface.dat
GTA III Vice City cullzone.dat,
cullzoneempty.dat (VC)
binary files
GTA III Vice City fistfite.dat
GTA III Vice City flight.dat
GTA III San Andreas GTA IV tracks*.dat located in the ..data\paths directory
GTA III chase*.dat binary files located in the ..data\paths directory
GTA III train.dat, train2.dat still present in Vice City but unused
Vice City map*.dat located in the ..data\maps directory
Vice City spath.dat, spath0.dat
San Andreas animgrp.dat, animgrp1.dat Contains predefined animation sequences (By default different types of walking)
San Andreas ar_stats.dat still present in GTA 4 but unused?
San Andreas cargrp.dat
San Andreas clothes.dat still present in GTA 4 but unused?
San Andreas furnitur.dat still present in GTA 4 but unused?
San Andreas gridref.dat Defines responsibilities of certain map areas and their owners for Rockstar's internal bug tracking system called Bugstar. Leftover from San Andreas development stage, apparently not required by the game.
San Andreas gta_quick.dat
San Andreas melee.dat still present in GTA 4 but unused?
San Andreas numplate.dat still present in GTA 4 but unused?
San Andreas plants.dat
San Andreas polydensity.dat
San Andreas popcycle.dat
San Andreas procobj.dat
San Andreas shopping.dat
San Andreas statdisp.dat
San Andreas surfaud.dat
San Andreas surfinfo.dat
San Andreas GTA IV carmods.dat
GTA IV ambient.dat
GTA IV bloodFx.dat
GTA IV cj_gta.dat
GTA IV credits*.dat
GTA IV distantlights.dat binary file
GTA IV entityFx.dat
GTA IV explosionFx.dat
GTA IV FemalePlayerSettings.dat, MalePlayerSettings.dat Contains info necessary to render the multiplayer player
GTA IV frontend.dat
GTA IV hud.dat Contains inital display settings for each HUD component
GTA IV hudcolor.dat Contains RGB colour values that the game uses
GTA IV loadingscreens*.dat Contains the animation of static loading screen images
GTA IV materialFx.dat
GTA IV materials.dat
GTA IV meleeAnims.dat Specifies all anims available to the melee system
GTA IV moveblend.dat Contains some parameters for blended ped animation
GTA IV nav.dat This file is read in to initialise the "CPathServer" pathfinding class
GTA IV navprecalc.dat binary file
GTA IV networktest.dat
GTA IV pedpersonality.dat
GTA IV pedpopulation.dat binary file
GTA IV pedProps.dat
GTA IV scenarios.dat
GTA IV visualSettings.dat Stores initial values for configuration of in game elements
GTA IV handling.dat Contains the attributes of all vehicles in the game

^ The Grand Theft Auto series icon marks the files that are present in every game of GTA 3D series (GTA 3, GTA VC, GTA SA and GTA IV).

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