Please visit www.gtbikev.com for most up to date information about the mod.
Description:
GTBikeV is a mod for GTA V that turns a Smart Bike Trainer, or cycling power meter, into the game controller, making your game time actual training time.
You'll have a cycling workout immersed in the GTA V world environment.
You can use some indoor running devices too and have a jog around Los Santos.
The mod features a library that listens to the ANT+ wireless protocol or BlueTooth signal from an ANT+ FE-C compatible trainer (Tacx, Wahoo, Elite, Bkool, Kinetic, Saris, etc...) or a Power meter, or a Smart treadmill or foot pod, reads the speed and applies it to the vehicle your character is riding during the game. It reads the incline of the terrain, the roughness (material) and the wind in the game and sends all that information to the smart trainer so it can reproduce the hardness of the terrain you are actually riding.
The mod records your training into a FIT file, accompanied with periodic screenshots, that you can later upload to Strava or your favorite training app to track your progress. The FIT file is complete with fake GPS location to make your virtual training more realistic. A new fit file is created when you start moving after activating the mod and every time you change to a new course. The files are stored in the user data directory for GTA V, usually located at "My Documents/Rockstar Games/GTA V"
The mod by default spans a road bicycle and dresses your character with biking clothes.
As using your keyboard while riding the real bike is difficult, the mod features a course reader which auto drives you around Los Santos following
different routes of various difficulty levels. If auto drive is selected but no course is loaded, the character will roam freely around the map (be warned, that could lead you to some serious uphills). Auto driving uses the best driving skill level available in the game so you are not likely to hit anything, but you still can be ran over when driving in the freeways with heavy traffic. The mod will try to recover from that without needing you to use the keyboard.
If auto drive is not enabled, the vehicle can be controlled with the usual steering keys or with a game pad controller.
Some settings can be controlled from an ini file, including the bike model spawn on start, the scale of the slopes (the game present unrealistic slopes way harder than the real life equivalents), and the real world GPS coordinates of 0,0 in Los Santos map that are used to map the location for the FIT file.
Warning: this mod requires actual PHYSICAL EXCERSISE to be meaningful.
Remember mods only work in Story Mode, not in GTA V online
Requirements:
Hardware:
- Smart trainer or Cycling Power Meter
- A bicycle compatible with your smart trainer
- ANT+ dongle for your PC to communicate with the trainer or BLE support in your PC
Software:
- Most recent version of GTA V. This mod gets updated as soon as the updated Scripthook is available.
- Alexander Blade's ScripthookV ( http://www.dev-c.com/gtav/scripthookv/ )
- ScripHooktVDotnet V3.0.x ( https://github.com/crosire/scripthookvdotnet/releases )
- My ANT+ communication DLL (included in the package)
- Guad's NativeUI V1.9 (included in the package)
- Newtonsoft json encoder/decoder DLL (included in the package)
- Fit file format encoding and decoding dll (included in the package)
If you don't have them already, you also need :
- Microsoft .net framework 4.5.2 or above ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42643 )
- Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2015 ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53840 )
Installation instructions:
Copy ScripthookV.dll, ScriptHookVDotNet.dll in the GTA V installation directory. If you don't have a scripts directory, create one and place there GTBikeV.dll, ANT_Receiver.dll, BLE_Receiver.dll, Fit.dll, NativeUI.dll and NewtonSoft.Json.dll along with the rest of the contents of the scripts folder contained in the ZIP file.
If you don't copy the ini file provided a new one with default values will be created in that same directory the first time you execute the mod .
Usage instructions:
Open the mod menu using F5 key.
Select the first option to activate the mod and initialize comunications with the trainer
Select the second option to toggle autodrive
Use the course selector to select the desired route
Available Routes
As of version 0.4.1.0 routes are downloaded from a central repository. There are more than 30 courses currently to choose from.
If you want to contribute with your own routes you can create them following the json scheme you'll find in the included ones. Ping me on the comments to include them in the repository.
