Driver Madness

Hey people! i created this topic so we all can share what we know about the files of Driver 3. Hopefully, it will help some of us modify it? Who knows?

Ok i've been tryin to mod the game for about a year now but didn't get any good results. I can change the color of the weather and switch cars to a different city. What i want to know is if someone ever found info on the mission files? my personal goal would be to have the cops' speed like in survival. So i was wondering if anything could be done.

Btw, if i made this topic like one that has been made (that i didn't see), moderators feel free to delete it.
Alright, waiting for responses!

Yeah, it's actually a very good idea, i always liked Survival mode in Driver series(in Driver PL it cannot be called Survival mode because it totally sucks)

It would be awesome to play in take a ride with those crazy cops(you also could choose any vehicle)

Yeah! and you could use the invincible code to never die, since you die pretty fast in survival.

Ok i runed through some experiments and i find out that the "Recordings" Files in "Missions"
are actually scripts, for example:

I removed

M28_CO1
M28_CO2
M28_CO3
M28_CO4

and
M28_CO5

Calita's car didnt move and tanner's car had poor speed.

For M28_B01
M28_B02
M28_B03
M28_B04
M28_B05

im not exactly sure but i will keep testing.

For "Personalities"

Im not sure too becuse:

If i remove something like: mission28 it crashes.

If i rename mission31 to mission28 it crashes again.

so... yea

i wil keep testing for the results....

Maybe i will find how to remove "Mission Failed" script But i think that belongs to the .MPC files.

ok i opened mission04.mpc With NotePad and i found:

Unknown pRole
pPersonality
pPersonalityIndex
pHealth
pFelony
pWeapon
pVulnerability
pFlags
pCharacter
pSpeed
pBurnoutTime
pDesiredTransport
PathAndVehicle
pLookAt
pAttachTo
pCameraZoom
pBlur
pWeight
pSoftness
pIFragility
pDemoOnlyExplosionSoftness
pTintValue
pType
pWireCollection
pNoDelay
pTarget
pCameraType
pDuration
pBlendTime
pThrillCamZoom
pThrillCamSpeed
pThrillCamBlur
pDisableCivs
pSubtitles
pMessage
pTimer
pPriority
pMusicType
pFadeToColourTime
pFadeFromColourTime
pColour
pPath
pFadeInTime
pFadeOutTime
pDensity
pParkedCarDensity
pAttractorParkedCarDensity
pPingInRadius
pPingOutRadius
pChasers
pAggression
pArmour
pGoonWeapon1
pGoonWeapon2
pGoonWeapon3
pActor
pActivity String Collection
ŔExported Mission Objects
Exported Mission Prop Handles
Actor definitions table
ÄŒBMission summary
Actor Set Table

Note: I didnt post All of them

And if you Extract With GameExtractor The File Type is: .EMMS

DANG!! :O do you think that "p" stands for player or police? Because my second wish wud be to have more acceleration on my cars... Btw you rock man...you might the first one to mod D3 (if you succeed,you'll have my biggest gratitude)

Could be but i think P stands for "Personalities"

oh...yeah i forgot about that... true, it could be. oh well, i still hope you can help modify it! ^^

update:
i found out something vierd

renamed mission31.mpc to mission28.mpc
renamed mission31.dam to mission28.dam
renamed personality file did not crash the game
renaming recordings would not affect becuse they are scripts for the cars that you have to chase

basicly i renamed everything i could find

as a result nothing didnt change and yet i renamed everything THAT i found in missions folder

so the main mission scripts are not in missions folder

hmmm.... but then where could they be? would the car handlig file be in the cars folder? I already renamed all those and even tried to hex modify them but it just either crashed or failed...

Could be that for some strange reason the numbers are ignored? don't count on it though.

Missions can't be elsewhere than the actualy mission folder. Maybe they're just made untouchable.

You're probably right. But that sucks anyway lol

EDIT: Hey i actually found something! I used a HEX editor to ope the actual .exe or Driver 3 and i found some nice stuff like "pVehicleSpeed","pWalkSpeed" and others. I'm gonna see if i can edit the vehicle speed. I'm excited

Submaniac wrote:You're probably right. But that sucks anyway lol

EDIT: Hey i actually found something! I used a HEX editor to ope the actual .exe or Driver 3 and i found some nice stuff like "pVehicleSpeed","pWalkSpeed" and others. I'm gonna see if i can edit the vehicle speed. I'm excited

Yo any updates on that?

Nope Didn't have much time, and i couldn't get anything to work yet.

Submaniac wrote:Nope Didn't have much time, and i couldn't get anything to work yet.

Dammit it would be nice if we could edit the game to make the cars go faster they are so slow in the game.

Olanov wrote:Missions can't be elsewhere than the actualy mission folder. Maybe they're just made untouchable.

maybe...maybe not i will try something else

Maybe that the mission files are in the same way as in Driver 1, one file that tells which mission file should be started, and somehow the numbers can be ignored because of an certain line it seeks for in a certain mission file? I weird guess but who knows.

Olanov wrote:Missions can't be elsewhere than the actualy mission folder. Maybe they're just made untouchable.

maybe you got right that they decrypted some of the files so you can see only what they want you to see

ok i got deep in the .dam files by game extractor. anyway

opened mission01.dam with game extractor.

extracted files.

opened file that has been extracted (there are 2 of them, one of them is not CHNK type(can be discovered with notepad))
anyway got deep intro that file and:

there are 3 files that are diffrent types(not CHNK)

one contains possibly textures
other models

and third possibly what character has the model (heck i might change tanner finaly intro jericho)

still i will find out if the files of models can be extracted (i will post file types)

WISH ME LUCK!

update on DAM files

these are file types that can be found by game extractor:

.mdpc contains models and textures

.upxd or something contains possibly what model goes to certain character

and some vierd filetype 11117....and so one, this one countains bones and skeletons (can be viewed by note pad)

hopefuly some program can open this files and finaly we can change models

janujeq wrote:update on DAM files

these are file types that can be found by game extractor:

.mdpc contains models and textures

.upxd or something contains possibly what model goes to certain character

and some vierd filetype 11117....and so one, this one countains bones and skeletons (can be viewed by note pad)

hopefuly some program can open this files and finaly we can change models

try unity i know imhotep has been importing stuff into that

Indeed we need someone who is a skilled coder to decrypt these files

wont unity work?

Unity is a authoring game engine tool, not a import/export tool.Not the same thing.

imhotep405 wrote:Indeed we need someone who is a skilled coder to decrypt these files

you mean encrypt...

Make the files readable and exploitable, in brief

imhotep405 wrote:Make the files readable and exploitable, in brief

let me explain

decrypted files are the files that...

wait! ...
did you confuse words decrypt and encrypt?

imhotep405 wrote:Indeed we need someone who is a skilled coder to decrypt these files

sorry man iI Did confused enycrpt and decrypt

got wrong info... DAMN!

while i was browsing thru front.mec hex editor id found that there is third file type belong .mpc and .dam.
this file presumbly contains script files for that mission, NOT mpc file.So mpc file is for starting cutscenes for that mission (rename them you will find out)

i think .mps files are located in missions folder and are made unssen and/or untouchable