RE3 Cut Content

Well, the content of the video is, in fact, interesting. Hardly any mod will do it, given the difficulty of removing objects or the fire sequence with Nemesis Rocket Launcher.

I looked at some collision files from Raccon City (Downtown and Uptown) and noticed that the Uptown part is almost nothing involving player and bullet collisions. Since most of the scenario is entirely scripted to induce the player to press W infinitely, it would be necessary to add new collisions (which, in particular, adding and drawing vertices is stupidly hard, but consistent) to make such an area more exploitable.

In Downtown, things are more interesting. With any Hex Editor and 3ds max, I was able to remove only the fire located in the Donut Shop and toy store, but I still haven't found any file that defines the invisible damage caused by the fire which, although not visually there, still kills the player.

It is extremely important to mention that there are defined player and bullet collision files for the east wing of the RPD on two floors, which makes me think that there was a definite project for such an area that was abandoned for some reason. There, you can also see that some items have been programmed for the player (by IDs, Lockpick was set to be adquired at East 2F, in the same room where we got the card for Leon to get the shotgun).

I don't really know what happened with the development of this game, but apparently even at that point it was set to follow the original path of 1999 (even if Jill didn't enter the STARS room, there is still hope that the entire RPD would be open. for her)

Well, as for the part of the battles out of order, I can't say it wouldn't be cool. However, following the Flamethrower Nemesis, especially inside the building, it was designed to disregard any damage caused, by this cause that immediately arises. There may be some script that changes or removes this, without removing your flamethrower (if there is any way to copy the moveset and dynamics from the Rocket Launcher Nemesis to the Flamethrower Nemesis, I have yet to analyze it).

Regarding the part of the connected areas in Downtown, I am still trying to locate the exact objects that must be removed together with their collisions. Even if retool extracts the pak and shows many mcol files belonging to the city center, some are inconclusive and corrupted. Furthermore, as another modder here has already said, it is extremely delicate to deal with such files.

PS: Ah, there is a detail that I forgot to comment.

Many streets in Raccoon City are connected and closed by a barricade, a car, whatever it is. Most of Downtown really connects, even though some streets are not shown on the map (the Staglia to the building being demolished, the streets of the power station and, further away, the main street can be connected to the building, by logic)

The problem is that since the map was not defined for such areas, many of them have no physics and, depending on how the player steps in these places, certain scenarios are rendered in different ways. It is common to happen that the player explores beyond the Staglia and ends up falling on the stairs of the sewer, as there is no definition of gravity for the streets and scenarios just illustrative of this part of the city.

It may be possible to define collisions and physics for such areas, just as they work in the Staglia, but without them, they would be open streets without the certainty that they would work as they should, because even enemies (zombies and dogs) cannot access them (the dogs can't access the open corridor via the More Exploration mod, it's funny to see the programming line so shitty).

The chronological order of your video is consistent and fair, but moving cutscenes, elements and inserting other characters (like Brad) is very complicated. I can't say anything because I don't understand that part.

Anyway, as much as all these changes are made in Raccoon City, the shit has already been done. It won't do much to make Uptown and Downtown extremely exploitable while the rest of the game is a corridor simulator. In addition, the Nemesis dog appears very early and things only get worse from now on.

I hope your video attracts the attention of more people. I don't comment a lot here, but I follow the work of each one of the forum and reinforce the congratulations to the persistence of each one.

I can't say that Carlos sequence in the RPD is bad, but I understand your point of view. I would not complain if Jill visited the RPD before Carlos, still considering the timeline that he covered in the video above.

PS: the idea of Carlos sequence is broken. Find Dr. Bard at the police station? Did a person with an important name and certainly one of the puzzles involving Umbrella go to a police station to seek refuge among civilians? That's at least funny xD

Regarding the second form of Nemesis, the battle on the clock tower (which doesn't even exist, lol) could be done with the Nemesis Rocket Launcher, but then all that cutscene would have to be removed and apparently the trigger to continue the scene when we went up the stairs it is almost impossible to remove. But that part would be more interesting with a "less scripted" Nemesis, I must admit.

Still on the RPD, it is possible or impossible to migrate some files from RE2 to RE3, this I don't know. However, if it were possible, it would be extremely pleasant to connect the main street that leads to the RPD next to the Parking Lot, at least Jill could visit the police station. I intend to research about it, although it can be quite complex.

People are so busy being busy that they're busy being busy or something like that, I don't remember. I keep getting 'scolded' for asking why people somehow have time for big tiddy mods but no real mods. I even had a modder send me mods that he doesn't release to the public for NO reason whatsoever. Something about people not wanting them? (they're definitely cool, shit like leon over jill and stuff). This is by long and far the strangest of strange modding communities I've ever been in. And I'm in quite many; it's not close. The anime porn thing isn't the only thing, that's in some other places too but nothing like this. Skyrim has less nudity page-per-page than RE3 does sometimes, it's staggering.

If someone could just remove the damn fire damage entity somehow we could be set. I know removing the fire has been done by pether2108 there but without that second part, it's moot. Here's to hoping!

I can't mod RE3 (or even 2!) as I'm modding Mass Effect 3, but I think that there's great potential for improving RE3R. But I do think that if you're aiming to flesh out the game with larger areas, then you need to be realistic about your aims and about what the game needs. For example, you'll never convincingly rebuild the original Jill exploration of the RCPD building because you don't have the audio and cutscenes for it, so you're better off abandoning that, but if you can remove barriers in a building so you can explore more rooms, then that can be used to slow down the pace of the game.

Smaller changes like adding more notes to read, removing barriers or moving items to different places can go a really long way to improving the game, and are more likely to be completed than an intense overhaul. I really hope you succeed in opening up some areas and making them feel as if they truly belong in the game.

I posted this over in your "Remove Fire" topic, but this topic seems to have much more constructive thinking.  I'll carry on with the discussion here (if I even have a choice).

I would say the best plan would be to start small. Find a room that you can open up fully, like that toy shop (I think that was it), find a way to add an item, zombie or letter/file to read. If you can do that successfully, think bigger.