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I believe you're the one who asked on our discord channel #modelling ? I gave an answer to that message earlier the morning. Please, if it wasn't you, connect to the MTA discord server and read my response. Besides you're replying to an old thread. Please create a new if you intend to have a continous discussion and add as much information to the thread as possible, that way we won't be left with a handful questions on what exactly you're trying to do. Please navigate to the following board and ensure you've read the posting guidelines for that board in particular. https://forum.multitheftauto.com/forum/177-modelling/

I believe you're looking for an alpha mask, but it's a little unclear what exactly is wanted. Have a look at these nonetheless. https://forum.multitheftauto.com/topic/60602-rel-50p-masking-textures-shader/ https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Shader_examples (at the bottom, mask hud) I can only give these references since scripting is not my field. I hope it leads to help though.

Nice ones, brings me back to when I was getting into modding by retexturing models. The asian gang member and second last one are my favorites. Please, can you upload through a direct download site (e.g upload.ee, mediafire, mega) and not having users to go through a monetized site (like adfly) first. The link in OP will be removed within 48 hours. Thanks, @cau123

It's possible that your snow mod uses tree leave textures that are named in a way that the MTA resource cannot recognise as leaves. If your snow mod is done through shaders then I think it might overrite the MTA resource "remove leaves" shader. I'm not knowledable on shaders so I cannot give much advise there.

Thanks for your reply. Did it work for at least a selection of trees (e.g ones shown on the mod's showroom) or do every tree appear with leaves? Good news either way though, I found there's a MTA resource which removes leaves too. To install it simply create a new resource folder in your server's resources area, call it removeleaves and drag and drop all of the downloaded file's contents into said folder. https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p=resources&s=details&id=15863

Hello and welcome to the community @Jedaje. Searching your inquery "GTA trees without leaves mod" brought me a few results, namely https://www.gtainside.com/en/sanandreas/mods/55377-trees-without-leaves/. I hope it helps. For future reference please stick to one thread per issue, so to prevent creating duplicats around the forum with same replies. As a general note, try and post sparingly. If you wish to add additional content to an existing post, please use the Edit function.

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@hilingOP as this is more of a scripting question I'd strongly recommend you ask in this board instead: https://forum.multitheftauto.com/forum/71-scripting/ Please make sure to read the pinned thread for guidelines and rules on posting.

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Okay, thank you very much for clarifying. I'm glad you resolved the issue.

I haven't messed that much with collision brightness to experience the same problem, but this post indicates you may have to change the vertex color/illumination values of the collision mesh. I can't see why it would work though considering it does not seem to be listed anywhere on the collision page on gtamods. Does it render your ped the same way in single player? Should you resolve the issue, please post what you did to correct the issue. ?

Please see the Turkish board for posting in your language. This is an English speaking forum section. https://forum.multitheftauto.com/forum/95-turkish-türkçe/ @harun2323

You can find a large variety of maps on the Resources board and site: https://forum.multitheftauto.com/forum/87-resources/ https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p=resources There are a lot of (mostly race) maps from Gtainside that you can also choose to pick from. Be aware that these maps include .DFF models as it's a modding site. https://www.gtainside.com/en/sanandreas/maps-all/

You cannot add new vehicles without replacing existing ID's, no (correct me if I'm wrong, please). I do however seem to recall someone having been working on a systhem that would sort of replicate limit adjuster (DIY), but I don't have any page or discussion that I can pull up for you to follow up on. To summarize it, no.

Your question could do with more details. Check this post, might help: https://forum.multitheftauto.com/topic/121953-how-to-delet-world-objects-treesweaponsetc/?do=findComment&comment=971201

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Click E and you'll get a more precise selection of objects. If this doesn't help, try removing the mapped object straigth out of the map file found in \resources\map-name. If you still have no luck, you may have to create your own code to remove the object. To do so: Find the object on Prineside that you want to remove, in my case, queens_04_SFS. You can use the Model search by map position feature to pinpoint the desired object's location. https://dev.prineside.com/en/gtasa_samp_model_id/model/10629-queens_04_SFS/ Then, on the object page click "Fullscreen / position export" and it'll give you the X position, Y position and Z position. You'll simply fill those into a removeWorldObject line (as below). It's possible you'll have to adjust the radius. I believe it defines the deletion radius, so if you have 10 other trees within 50 meters that you want to keep, you'll want to add a very small value if you only intend on deleting one of the trees. Or a value of 50 if you intend on deleting every tree. (that one was a mere speculation, no confirmation whether that's how it works or not) <removeWorldObject id="removeWorldObject (queens_04_SFS) (1)" radius="34.332691" interior="0" model="10629" lodModel="10673" posX="-2574.3516" posY="319.96094" posZ="12.07813" rotX="0" rotY="0" rotZ="0"></removeWorldObject> Oh and if that doesn't work either, it's quite possible that it's an object that's spawned through the "grass effect" setting on MTA video setting. They spawn on natural surfaces like grass, dirt, sand etcetera, all depending on the surface material.

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The first one seems quite reasonable. I'm not sure of the second but then again I might not be the best to consult on this matter.

I didn't completely understand your question. Are you referring to his video about character customization? I strongly believe it's done through vertex geometry deformation shader. (look it up) It looks like the model might've been CJ, but it's possible that it was a regular ped made up of an entire mesh. I'm a modeler and am not into any of the programming languages, so my help in this section may be very limited.

On topic I have very small knowledge on cheat regulations but i'd assume it's a bold no, and my common sense would urge me to avoid discussing the matter at all. Edit: answer is no, and should not be discussed. MTA offers a huge amount of scripting functions which can get you covered for whatever you need. There are code examples on most of the function pages as well to get yourself started. We also have a scripting section on forums and our discord server full of guru's to help out. I hope I was able to drag you away from your initial plan.

Open world interiors is possible. The way you go about doing it is up to you. There are ways that you can retain or destroy performance. GTA 5 uses MILO for interiors. I barely have any knowledge on them, but I've done some reading and found that it might be done by projecting an image, from a camera placed at the window. When the player opens the door, they'll be teleported to another dimension while a chunk of the GTA 5 environment remains loaded. Most of these are speculations. I cannot tell how exactly it works. If your interior has props (so not just 1 whole model) I would suggest you only have them load within a small radius else you'll have a large excess of elements streamed in, which can cause issues with performance. There are some GTA SA interiors - mostly for cutscenes, which have a chunk of the map to be seen from its windows. You can do this yourself to imitate the GTA 5 interior system. I was working on an open world interior but never finished. https://streamable.com/9bk4v I just found this video and it might be exactly what you're looking for:

I'm not aware of any particularly good hosts myself, but have you had a look at the Hosting solutions forum?

Introduction This guide intends to teach 3ds Max users the basics, and more advanced ways, of working with (environment) animations and rigs to enhance atmosphere of the game. Animations, moving images or however you name it, they are there, everywhere in games. GTA San Andreas and its predecessors do utilize animations, however to a limited extent; most environment models were kept frozen in the dark days of PC games to save computer resources. Few objects like mechanical oil drills and food store mascots are animated. Today we're past those days and have advanced in technology to exceed limits, and integrate known resource demanding features into our games without much of a performance impact. It's important to keep in mind that the Renderware engine has various limitations associated with models/3D assets. These limitations do apply very harsh on what this guide covers. Table of contents Demo reel - Custom rigs and animations Prerequisites Recommended Character skeleton Basics to skinning Simulation conversion to bones workflow Demo reel - Custom rigs and animations Prerequisites Must have Autodesk 3ds Max of any desired version. 2017+ needed to speed up cloth rigging. Must have Kam's Maxscripts. Must have Animation Manager tool. Recommended You can use virtually any modeling or animation software e.g Blender or Cinema 4D to do 90% of the work. 3ds Max is required to export to GTA formats IFP and DFF. It's recommended to have experience in game modding and 3D modeling software of choice. It's highly recommended to use Shagg_E's anim/char helper for easy setup of bones and animation. For those who calculate bone hierarchy, add SPunknown = 4 to Root bone's object property. It's possible to use ARKTOS Tools VertexToBones for converting vertex-baked animations to bone animations. It should be noted however that this does not create bone hierarchy the desired way. It creates bones that aren't linked to each other, only the root, so it generates the animation for each bone to move, not rotate, and thus the majority of the animation relies on position keys, where SA animations only support rotation keys. Character skeleton San Andreas uses bones for its character animations. These bones are linked together, forming a skeleton with joints that can be rotated. Motion capture data can be transferred onto bones to ease the creation of character and more detailed animations. This was done for GTA cutscene models primarily. On 3ds Max, bones can be virtually anything, ranging from camera's to dummies. When exporting to GTA formats, the bone objects are automatically converted into dummies (helpers). This is how bones worked in early 2000's and/or 90's. If you desire to convert a helper or model into a dummy, follow this CGTalk post's instructions. For creating a skeleton, place all bones around the inner mesh of the model. Everything must be in a hierarchy and bones can have as many children as desired. Naming conventions are only recommended for easier overview, however they can be named according to one's desire e.g Bone_0 - Bone_12. To have the bones show the way the imported skins ones do, head to Display Panel under Links, and check both boxes. Make sure this is done for every bone. This will display joint links in correct hierarchy in viewport. Some games may use vertex baked animations, thus negating the need for bones. This is often seen on models such as all types of clothing. For game engines that do not support vertex animation or dynamic cloth, bones will be used instead. Below is a spoiler of valid bone ID's for regular ped models. There are 31 functional bone ID's, 32 with Root included. Once again, bones does not have to use same naming convenience as presented below. They also don't have to use same order of ID's or bone hierarchy, so for instance, Pelvis and Jaw ID's can be exchanged, as long as Root ID = 0. Or, the Head bone can be child of R Hand, not necessarily the Neck. Basics to skinning Although not hugely covered in this guide; Skinned models use a different system from vehicles and map objects. Besides having their 3D mesh, they have a skeleton. A skeleton is made of bone joints linked to each other, so that when the shoulder moves, the lower arm does as well. A bone will only affect part of the mesh that it's weighed to. If you weigh all vertices of the player's hat to the Head bone, then the hat will move according to the head bone. If you weigh all of the hat's vertices to the Pelvis bone, then the hat will stay static in air while the head moves. All vertices must be affiliated with at least one bone. Although a skin can have 32 bones, it'll work just fine if you weigh all vertices to only 3 bones. Not all bones require to be affiliated with a vertex. If you try to export a skinned model where 1 vertex is not weighted, the exporter will reject your request to export or your game will crash. A skin can have as few as 2 bones (root and children), so if your model has only 8 vertices, there's really no point having 32 bones when only 8 are functional. Below image (credits: IamObama) shows the basics to weighing joints to a character mesh. While this doesn't show all of the bones, it can prove very helpful as a lookup while weighing vertices to your skin. You can also load in a GTA ped to reference its miscellaneous bones e.g facial and fingers. Simulation conversion to bones workflow Note: The following process or techniques may apply for Blender/Maya users as well. 3ds Max has inbuilt cloth physics. These can simulate with help of gravity, wind, etc. and is a great way to generate animations for cloth-like elements. With help of tracking markers, you can track a bone to follow the orientation of a marker, which can then be baked into keyframes. The process is incredibly simple, you just have to understand the basics of cloth physics and object constraints. Video tutorial: Text tutorial: Create your model simulation model Be mindful about geometry and bone count when creating your model. The fewer polygons, the more rough the animation will be. The more polygons, the more cloth-like it'll look. The more bones with keyframes, the larger the file size (lots) of your IFP. For flags, one bone should never have full influence of a vertex. A vertex should always be affected by 2 or more different bones for a nice blend. It may be an idea to load in a GTA model so that you can somewhat reference the scale, if you don't have access to a dimension ruler. For the purpose of the guide (assuming you follow along the video), create a plane (primitive) with 8 segments in both directions. Make it length: 1,280 meter, width: 848 millimeters. Prepare your simulation model Convert the primitive to either editable mesh or editable poly. Polygon mode is more sustainable for modeling, but it needs to be in Mesh mode once you export it. Enable angle snap (default: A) and rotate it so it stands vertically. On the Hierarchy tab, reset transform to reset rotation values to 0. Add a Cloth modifier to your model. Go to sub-object level group of cloth modifier. Select the vertices that you want to act as solid points (e.g ones attached to flagpole). Click Drag as group mode. Simulate the model Head to Create tab > Space warps. Create a wind. Its position doesn't matter, only the rotation which represents the direction, matters. The default settings of the wind are usually too high. Try setting strength: 0,12, Turbulence: 0,8, Frequency: 0,05. Select the simulation model. On the cloth modifier, select Cloth forces and choose the wind. On the same interface, select Object properties. Select the model's name, then select Cloth, then pick a preset of your preference. Try silk or cashmere. You can optionally use Edge springs. I'm not fully sure what it represents, but I believe it's got to do with keeping the edges intact and not stretching them (which you don't want for bone animations). Try simulating the model. You may want to increase the timeline to a more reasonable duration, but be cautious as the higher it goes, the more your potato will suffer. If you aren't happy with the simulation, erase it and it'll let you try resimulate it. If you're unlucky enough to get the infamous error message dT increased/decreased you may want to start a new 3ds max project file... Create your real model In most cases you'll simply clone the simulated model, name the clone skin_mesh (name can be anything, but for easier scene management, name it something related). Remove the cloth modifier from your "real" model. For the simulated model, select the create keys button in cloth modifier. This will collapse your modifier and bake animation into keyframes, can NOT be reverted! Move the simulated model a bit away from the skin mesh, so that it'll make it significantly easier for a later procedure. Make sure to center the skin mesh to 0,0,0 or you'll get real trouble later. Convert the model to editable mesh. When you need to export later, it doesn't want it as editable poly. Create bones for your model Apply a Skin modifier to your model. This is used to carry the skeleton bones for later on. To make the bone creation and setup a whole lot easier, run Shagg_E's animation tools (link in top of thread). If you simply choose to create a set of dummies, his script won't recognise them as bones and you'll have to add all the object properties manually. So do yourself a favor and use his tool. Navigate to the Char helper section on the interface. Click create root, this'll create a dummy in center of the scene, assuming it corresponds to the model's center. Click create children, this'll create a dummy linked to the root. Drag it out from the model and title it "Pelvis" (again naming doesn't matter, can be "sampsucks" and samp modders will know once they load in your skin!). This bone is usually needed to keep part of the model's verts (abbreviation for vertices) in place, e.g flag pole attachments. Keep creating children bones until you reach your desired amount. It's a good idea to enable snaps (to vertex) so that you can magnet position bones directly onto the vertices. Select any bone in hierarchy and click Calculate for all hierarchy. This calculates bone ID's, bone index and bone type. If you were to set this yourself, you would need to understand how they work, on top of this it would be very time consuming. So we can all thank Shagg_E for making this wonderful script. Select the root bone, head to object properties, in user defined add to the string SPunknown = 4 or else your skin won't work as intended. Prepare motion tracking Create motion tracking markers. Head to create tab -> helpers -> point helper. Keep their scale at .2 or so. Spawn the amount equivalent to the amount of functional bones (excluding root and pelvis). Select all of the point helpers. Under the Animation rollout, select constraint -> attachment constraint -> select the simulated model. Go to Motion tab. The positions are based on triangle points, so you have to insert either 0 or 1 on A and B, then pick a face. It'll make more sense if you watch the video. You need to position the point helpers to the vertices where the bones are positioned at. I don't know of any more efficient way of doing this. On the model's skin modifier, add all functional bones (except root and pelvis). If you're running Max 2017+, you can use Voxel Solver to automate rigging (rough solution) and works great for simulated models. Use setting: falloff 0,2, max influence 3, max resolution 128. Try rotating some bones and hopefully they should affect the skin mesh. Now add the rest of the bones which you didn't rig to the model. If the model is a flag, then select a few vertices that you want to be solid in place, and weight those to pelvis at 100 weight. Track the motion of the simulated model Select all point helpers, click E for rotate, click F12 for rotate transforms and reset all 3 axis to 0. If you don't, some of your bones will be rotated massively (undesired). Apply an orientation constraint to all of your bones, 1 by 1, to their point helper counterpart. This tracks the rotations of the point helpers onto the dummy bones. You can add a shortcut to speed this up a tad... Select all the functional bones. Go to motion tab, click trajectories. This is where you bake the orientation constraints into keyframes for your bone animation. Settings below. Start time = 0 by default, or the first frame of your timeline End time = last frame of timeline OR whenever you desire Samples = amount of keys for the animation. If Start = 0, End = 1500, you can add 1500 samples to have 1500 keys generated, or 150 to have 150 keys generated. Don't use much more than 200 samples or you'll get in serious trouble. You'll have to optimize your keyframes at some point. You can change the keyframe tangent mode (i prefer auto or spline) to change the velocity of the keyframes. Once everything is set, click collapse. This generates keyframes. Animation is now made. Making the cloth simulation seamless/loop is another story. Finishing up Custom model and custom IFP is essentially done now. In order to export animation from 3ds Max, simply select all bones, find an IFP file on your computer and clone it, on 3ds Max run the IFP script, click "load IFP" and then save your custom animation to the cloned IFP file. You can remove excess IFP animations from the IFP archive by using Animation Manager Tool. Have fun with it! There was a recent update where MTA made a couple dozens of unused ped ID's available for servers to use. This is what inspired me to make this guide, since you could use those ID's to "add" new models, of which could be environment models to bring life to the world. Custom IFP's can simply be added into the server, they don't need to replace existing ID's. It's important to note that by changing bone ID's, you change the way that the custom model reacts to default animations. As such, models like banners will appear incredibly distorted. In those cases it's suggested to create some idle, walkstyle and run animations. It's also important to note that you can create LOD animations, since there's really no limit for how many IFP's a server can have. LOD animations may be very handy for animations that have highly dense simulations applied, so the further away the player goes, the less keyframes will be processed.