Events

[Roms1383]

Hi @Halen84 ! Lately I looked into RDR3 Native DB to gather informations about the events of the game, and I'd like your feedback to get a better understanding.

What I'm interest into are probably the eventTypes, and I'd be interested to know if they can be listened to. Ideally I'd like to intercept all the events of the game, more specifically the interactions between player and NPCs.

A second specificity that I noticed but do not quite understand are methods like TASK_SET_BLOCKING_OF_NON_TEMPORARY_EVENTS and their usage: what are the NON_TEMPORARY events ?

Thanks for your time :)

[Halen84]

Yes, events can be listened to, but it's very annoying. Each event has it's own unique struct, which means you'll need to know the size and members of each struct. Here's an example with EVENT_HITCH_ANIMAL in C++

// Event Struct
struct sHitchAnimalEventData
{
	alignas(8) Ped Human;
	alignas(8) Ped Animal;
};

// Main Game Loop (called every frame)
int numberOfEvents = SCRIPTS::GET_NUMBER_OF_EVENTS(0);
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfEvents; i++)
{
	if (SCRIPTS::GET_EVENT_AT_INDEX(0, i) == MISC::GET_HASH_KEY("EVENT_HITCH_ANIMAL"))
	{
		sHitchAnimalEventData data;
		if (SCRIPTS::GET_EVENT_DATA(0, i, (Any*)&data, 4))
		{
			PED::SET_PED_TO_RAGDOLL(data.Human, 5000, 5000, 0, false, false, "");
		}
	}
}

SET_BLOCKING_OF_NON_TEMPORARY_EVENTS is used for if you want a ped to ignore reacting to permanent events, e.g decision maker.

[Halen84]

Not that I know of. You might be in the dark on that one. Looking at the decompiled scripts is probably your best bet

[Roms1383]

Thanks a lot @Halen84 :)

[Roms1383]

Just a little follow-up, I found tons of different versions of decompiled scripts across different Github repos, but searching for EVENT_HITCH_ANIMAL in any of them doesn't return any result, so I'm wondering if you found it out during your own experiments (e.g. in IDA), or maybe in a particular repository ? I wonder if I'm searching in wrong or outdated repos @Halen84

[Halen84]

Using IDA would help if you know where to look. If that doesn't help then you're just going to have to do lots of trial and error

[Roms1383]

Fair enough :)