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Every map's startup position and default landing zone is its baked spawn. The old rule (upward triangle nearest the origin) put the skater over the void on MegaPark and on the roof of Industrial Skate Park and StartPark, because park origins sit at a corner and retail floors are sometimes wound downward. New map_starts.py resolves each district's start from retail data: the world row's start locator (parks), a chosen fe_locations row for districts with several (University career start, Industrial Haystings Park, DownTown Rosalita Skate Park, Maloof street), or the district's only fe_locations row. Position and heading come from the district's global_locators records; the heading is now written into the .skate header. Districts without an authored start fall back to geometry: compact parks use the new ground_spawn search, city-sized districts keep the original rule (ground_spawn put Industrial under the streets). See docs/hails-additions/04-map-spawns.md.
Skate 3 Rust Engine
A Rust and Bevy skating project built from Skate 3 reverse-engineering research.
Includes skating, tricks, grinds, offboard movement, difficulty settings and
.skate map support. Gameplay parity is still a work in progress.
Play
Download Experimental.
Successful main builds replace this prerelease. Choose Latest in Updates
for experimental updates; Stable is the default.
Extract the Windows release ZIP and run skate3rust.exe. Select your Skate 3
Xbox 360 ISO, or select default.xex in an extracted game folder. Keep its
data folder alongside it. Setup prepares the skater, animations and all disc maps, then
starts University. The original scoring and session-marker HUD assets are also
exported automatically during setup. No Blender, Python or Rust installation is needed.
ISO extraction needs internet access. The first conversion can take a while.
Use an XInput controller to play. Escape opens graphics, difficulty and map settings. Maps can be switched without restarting the game.
Skate 3 assets are not included. Your converted files stay in
the data folder beside your executable. Each freshly unpacked copy runs its
own setup; it does not adopt another installation. In-place updates refresh
only changed asset groups.
Build
Requires Windows, Rust with the MSVC toolchain, and LLVM installed in its default
location. Run BUILD.bat to build, then PLAY.bat to launch the test world.
PLAY.bat opens your saved map (University by default); use the in-game menu to switch maps, or drag a .skate file onto PLAY.bat. An XInput controller is required for gameplay;
Escape opens difficulty and graphics settings.
Development builds use a prepared asset set in assets/private/ or the
installed asset directory. scripts/Build-Release.ps1 builds the portable Windows
package and requires Python 3.13. GitHub Actions builds main automatically;
numbered releases are published separately.
Custom animations and climbing support remain available, but no custom clips are shipped. The included format-demo map is original procedural content.
Implementation notes are in docs/. Patched Bevy dependencies and
their licenses are in vendor/. This is an unofficial project,
not affiliated with EA.
Advanced diagnostics
Windows builds support opt-in performance timeline capture
through the --trace CLI option, including optional GPU pass diagnostics.