Phone mod (beta version)
Please report bugs. Please post your ideas as well.
Activated by entering PPP as a cheat code or by pressing a button. Scroll subscribers with
mouse wheel, left-click to dial, right-click to close the phone.
Button activation is disabled by default — you can activate it in ini. And you can change
the activation cheat code there as well.
This mod uses Motorola MicroTac model — it fits the lore of the game perfectly.
So far you can call:
- Taxi. This is my adapted and stripped Taxi mod Works the same, just deleted the "Hail taxi" part.
- Homies. Four homies will come in Greenwood. They will not be added to yourgroup. They'll just hang around and attack all other gangs except Triads and VLA. They will also kill drug dealers and they will attack anyone who damaged CJ. Homies are armed with weapons that are set by the game or modified by mods (check priority in modloader). So, three of them will carry a set weapon and the fourth one is melee-only. You can make them kill a char — just target someone and hit ~ key (the one right under ESC key). This function will still work if you "hire" them to join your group.
- Cops. Two nasty ones. One with shotgun. Will shoot all dealers, criminals and gangs on sight (including GSF). Bug: will sometimes shoot other cops. This script is so-so. Might have some behavior glitches.
- Medics. An ambulance will come and the medics will will search the area for 15 seconds forkilled peds. If you kill one of them — the remaining one will stop reviving a ped (if he is doing that) and rush to revive his collegue. Search timer will be reset and after 15 seconds they willget into a car and drive away.
- Fire Department (SAFD). Turned out to be too hard to add custom behavior, so this is totally game-controlled. A firetruck will (hopefully) come and put out fires.
- Pizza. A courier will come and give you a pizza. After CJ finished eating it you can paythe courier or fight him. Warning — there is a high chance that he knows martial arts.
- Road Assistance. A mechanic will come and fix your car. He will fix burst tyres ($100 each) and engine ($500). Engine(vehicle) will be fixed up to 600 hitpoints, only if it has less than 550. No full restoration. Works only on cars and bikes. Don't use it on trucks if you have a trailer attached!
Only the phone itself remains in memory. All subscriber scripts are loaded when called
and terminated when finished — when everyone is killed or CJ leaves the script area.
Update 1:
- fixed Road Assistance bugs
- added dialing sound and scroll beep
- when ordering pizza — you now have to get out of the vehicle (12 seconds to do it)
Update 2:
- minor bugfixes
- eating pizza adds 20 health now
- removed real company name from phone
- slightly altered texture positions
- added lighting of buttons after 20.00 and up to 6.00
- phone model (the one that is on screen) altered (thanks TrueSaintXp)
- phone model (the one CJ holds) now matches the on-screen image and glows slightly during
nighttime (thanks KaiQ)
- added animations, so that CJ looks at phone before dialing
- animation fixes (thanks Artem.1.9.9.6)
- bugfixes
- added AI-generated voice lines for CJ
- added weapon dealer:
he has all weapons in the list, but not all of them are available from start of
the game (menu will say 'out of stock'). Might be a spoiler, but who cares — the game
is old enough.) They will appear as the player progesses through the missions.
Melee and misc items are always available.
And you can sell brass knuckles to dealer for $1 (a little feature to get rid of them).
As usual — refusing to pay will result in a fight.
Update 3:
- bugfixes (being hit while calling or during animation resulted in disabled controls) thanks PhilRoll for discovering this bug
- fixed some price-related text
Update 4:
-bugfix: Misc menu section fixed in Weapon dealer script.
Note. You can use the phone in vehicles. But you won't be able to accelerate on motorcycles (and quad) — the phone is in the right hand (same as accelerator handle).
Two known visual bugs. Even if motorcycle is standing still — when CJ has a phone in hand his legs will be placed like he is riding. When he's on a bicycle — his legs won't move. Game limitations.
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