Maximum size for custom object?

[Artisz]

Hi!

Is there any limit for size of a custom object? And if there is, what is it?

And there is another question. What should happen, if I just delete everything, and create a full custom map? Is it even possible?

[Tut]

I recommend you check the modding book by fastman: https://gtaforums.com/topic/765452-doc-gta-sa-modding-book/

No polygon limit comes to mind immediately but I think it's safe to say that your models or each component shouldn't exceed 10 or 20k polygons. Collisions should generally be kept as low as possible and you can do so by utilising primitives to eliminate a good bunch of polygons used by the collision mesh.

 

There's an example on this wiki page regarding removal of world objects: https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/RemoveWorldModel

What you're asking may very well work on MTA, but you'd have to utilise a custom streamer I think to keep performance impact subtle as possible. I'm not sure how well a map which fits SA dimensions loads and renders in MTA. From what I've seen it does have some issues, but that might be due to the creators not using LOD elements.

[Artisz]

Thank you for your help. I will read that book.

Can you please give me some more hints/links, what should I learn about to do something like this? To make a new world, or what. I mean, I don't know much about Cols, streamers, and so on. I know what are these, but never learn about them. 

[Tut]

I've never been in charge of handling object streamers, only had to do the model and placement conversion before. I do know there are people in the community who do have experience behind streamers and the entire process of converting or making maps as replacement for san andreas. 

I think you might find use in scene2res, have a look: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://forum.multitheftauto.com/topic/32665-gtasa-scene2res-converter/&ved=2ahUKEwixiq6ujoXoAhVioosKHc_XAeUQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw1b9Up4GnQOkZ8WIwvsMZ5_

I've also made some guides surrounding MTA modding, check my sig for those. If you have any questions that aren't looking for answers related to coding then i'll try give a response. For coding however, i'll let the right people find this thread and give the right answer.