[QUESTION] Is there such thing as a "preload" function?

[Moony]

The wheel upgrades have a limited amount of wheels. Replacing those can give you a limited amount of options. I was thinking that if I could "preload" more skins, I could make functions that also replace the .txd and .dff for each wheel, thus, surpassing the amount of changable wheels.

[Hoffmann]

I don't really like the idea of making wheels with huge customization options as vehicle components because of big .dff file size. You could make unlimited number of wheels as if they were objects. In this way you have to make regular wheels invisible (setVehicleComponentVisible). Then, inside onClientRender or even better onClientPreRender event you have to copy the position and rotation of default wheels(getVehicleComponentPosition and getVehicleComponentRotation) and set it as the position and rotation for your objects that will represent your wheels. Later, you will want this to be synchronized between other players. onClientElementStreamIn and onClientElementStreamOut events might help.

On the other hard, if you'd like to do this with in-build components, shaders could be used to apply different textures on wheel's parts. And all the components are made separately, but it's stuff related to modeling.

Edited April 9, 2020 by Hoffmann

[Moony]

I already have such script. I just wanted to add more variety to the wheel models. I haven't found I way to change the color of the object, so I thought I could add more models while learning about colors.

Edited April 10, 2020 by Moony

[Hoffmann]

Color could be changed via shaders. 

[Moony]

7 hours ago, Hoffmann said:

Color could be changed via shaders. 

I heard about shaders, but I don't have enough knowledge yet. Would you please explain a bit more about shaders?