gtaweb

A conversion of Grand Theft Auto's internet to HTML.

For GTA IV, it works by parsing the .whm files and reconstructing the layout into HTML. WHM is quite similar to HTML, except stored in binary together with the DXT-compressed textures and zlib compressed. The DXT textures are decompressed and converted to PNG thanks to the library mauserzjeh/dxt.

For GTA V, the game uses a completely different system for its UI and web pages called Scaleform GFx, which is essentially a stripped down version of Adobe Flash Player by Autodesk. The .gfx files are converted to Flash .swf's and emulated with Ruffle (this is mostly still WIP as there's no browser controls or textures).

First, install Go if you haven't already.

For GTA IV: To run the HTML converter, you will need to copy the <GTA IV installation directory>/pc/html folder into iv/html and run whm2html (compile with go build -o whm2html). The iv/american.txt file can be obtained by decompiling the common/text/american.gxt file in OpenIV.

For GTA V: In OpenIV, locate the scaleform_web.rpf archives inside update/update - Copy.rpf/x64/patch/data/cdimages/scaleform_web.rpf, update/update.rpf/x64/patch/data/cdimages/scaleform_web.rpf and x64b.rpf/data/cdimages/scaleform_web.rpf, extract the contents of them into v/update_copy_scaleform_web/, v/update_scaleform_web/ and v/x64b_scaleform_web/ respectively. Afterwards, locate the gfxfontlib.gfx file inside common.rpf and extract it into v/

GTA IV:

• Where are the locale strings for www.eyefind.info, www.vipluxuryringtones.com, www.autoeroticar.com, www.littlelacysurprisepageant.com stored (e.g. CAR_NAV_HOME, EYE_HOME_2)? Can't seem to find them in american.gxt maybe i'm just missing something.
• SCO scripts? This is a long shot

GTA V:

• Support for textures. Currently they're extracted from the .ytd's, but i have no idea how to inform Ruffle of their existence.
• Browser controls (e.g. scrolling, input, mousedown)
• Fix corrupted textures
• Probably more..

• WHM page on GTAMods
• 010 editor types by Stanislav "listener" Golovin
• SparkIV, RageLib