How to disable grass in MTA ?

[Maggi]

I am going to create gamemode like SA:MP's GodFather mod.

So, starting to prepare...First of all I want to disable client's "core" scripts like grass, stone on hills etc.

I've already searched MTA wiki but don't found any function that can disable grass.

[Zango]

there is no dedicated function to do such jobs - instead, temporarily replace the grass texture (although I reckon grass is by default on hills etc) with nothing.

[Maggi]

But game engine will still draw grass but with transparent texture...Game engine doesn't know about texture pixels... The purpose of disabling grass is to increase fps... for ex: the grass (or grass effect) is already disabled in samp...

[Towncivilian]

I found a memory address to disable grass. I don't know if this has any other side effects, and I don't know how to make this a function. Here is the result:

Grass: No grass:

nop 0x5BF8EA

EDIT: Of course, all of the above is no use to you. Display of grass is controlled by the in-game setting "Visual FX". If set to "Low", grass is turned off. Why exactly do you want to disable grass via script, anyway? If a player's computer already struggles to play GTASA, their graphical settings are probably at the lowest possible settings regardless.

[Ransom]

But game engine will still draw grass but with transparent texture...Game engine doesn't know about texture pixels... The purpose of disabling grass is to increase fps... for ex: the grass (or grass effect) is already disabled in samp...

Why is grass turned off on SA-MP? This can't be very significant... unless you have a very old machine which can hardly run MTASA anyway.

[eAi]

I believe SAMP may have turned off grass to get around a graphics bug.

Of course MTA could add an option for this, but I really can't see why...

[dzek (varez)]

adding (but not forcing) this won't hurt anybody, but can help some ppl

[eAi]

It takes time though, and adds another option for people to have to decide if they want. Why can't they just turn down their graphical settings until the grass goes that way?

[dzek (varez)]

well, that's right.

[Maggi]

thanks for reply

[J.S.]

This may sound like a dumb idea, but potentially a createGrass() function. I can think of a couple good uses for it - mapping and such.

Also, the problem I see with just turning down the FX is that it's only off on the lowest setting, which also does not have the shadows or reflections that higher settings do.

[eAi]

Grass is procedurally generated I believe.