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[Captain Cody]

Yes you can place objects, also I'll do a video showing off united in a bit. (Liberty city and Vice city)

At the moment I'm working on one last convert because I left the mall in vice city on accident.

Also side note, before video is made / uploaded. Streamer at the moment is tuned for use with gostown, so it does indeed struggle a tad in UNITED; but it's still much better then the default object streaming. Before map is put into any real use I will go about redoing the streamer for best performance / look in united.

[Captain Cody]

Cannot do video right now but pictures ---

// ignore gostown at the bottom, It's currently set in the same location as I work on it //

// I'll post some of liberty city and what not in a bit, just need to restart my laptop; it's over heating atm.//

[Captain Cody]

Alright so I'm not going to run the map on Heretrics due to it being far to unstable for servers. The original united map came with a few scripts that adjusted limits and what not and that's the reason it worked so well in single player. But in MTA I cannot match those same scripts. So although I can break some of the limits using my streamer; there is just certain limits I cannot bypass.

For example, when high up in the sky you will experience ALLOT of lag while looking over at anything, because to stay in limits I had to cheat at the LODS and use the same object for LODS as the originals. (Without this download would be like 800, and there wouldn't be enough free IDS to do so)

Another thing (Although I actually managed to fix this) when driving around in some bits your graphics will just break, and it will render it unplayable. // Well I for the most part fixed it, just found out that it will still happen //'

In vice city there's no lag issues what so ever, in fact it runs perfectly for me, and the streaming is not to bad either. But as soon as you enter liberty (Unless you have a beefy computer which I do not) you will be struck down with a lot of lag when facing directly at it.

Also, the load time is quite big, for me it'll take 5-10 minutes to load. Which really for a map that is quite a while.

Maybe if MTA limits are raised later on I can continue work. But I've done all I possibly can to make it work in MTA right now.

If any one has any ideas as how to fix any of these, by all means please tell; with enough time I could possibly end up making united run perfectly. But soon enough I need to get back to working on main scripts for Heretrics and I'm just one person.

But I know now where I was going wrong when it came to porting over liberty city / vice city separately so I can easily port them now, in fact I'm working on porting vice city now, then I'll do liberty city. (I'll post videos later)

-- Here's a picture of how the streamer was handling united

Some times it's spot on such as what is shown there, then one tiny lag strike happens and the streamer dies.

///// EDIT //////

I converted liberty city and vice city, same exact thing happens on them, lag strike happens and the streamer dies. Meaning it's my computers fault. So I can continue work on united.

[Captain Cody]

Well there's no more real work I can do on converting United; I've done all that I possibly can, I just keep running into all these limits (I've managed to bypass some, but others wont budge) although I've managed to do alot better in terms of streaming then alot of other people were able to do. There's just no way at the moment that gta UNITED will be able to run stable enough to run on a server for the time being. Maybe later on when I redo the streamer for gostown I can try again; but as of now, MTA over loads itself when a certain amount of custom models get loaded and instead of just dumping the unloaded objects, instead it just continues loading them until you crash. I know how to fix this, but even when that is fixed; there is still the extremely long inital load, map keeps over heating my laptop (Bring stuff to a stand still) and the view distance is not to good at all.

On another note, streamer I made for gostown doesn't play fair with united what so ever, so the only way I could at all get it to load is go back to the standard streamer. -

If any one is interested in getting a hold of the map 5 dollars and it's yours. I can't really do much else with it at the moment. And when I'll do I'll probably end up making a streamer just for it and continue on forward like that.

[Captain Cody]

After a good amount of work, I got untied into a stable state, no crashing; and lag strikes have been fixed.
At the moment it won't be used at all because there's no way possible to get it to load along side gostown but here's a look

(That's also running some recent graphics improvements I've made for Heretics)

 

 

Features -

 

The entire state of Liberty City, And Vice City converted

Radar textures changed

f9 full screen map

Ability to go to and from UNITED and SA (With a bit of loading)

Decent streaming for what it is.

And since I'm not able to edit the post any more?  // What is with these new forums //

 

I've also adapted Project 2dFX over to the conversion

https://thirteenag.github.io/p2dfx

And I used this Ren712s custom_coronas resource to make it happen.

 

Edited September 6, 2016 by CodyL

[Captain Cody]

Tomorrow I'll be posting a video of UNITED.

Also I found the main issue with the streaming in UNITED, in the parts with no trees, or lots of small objects; streaming is perfect. But when you run into trees and small objects (Lamp posts, road blocks, details, etc) streaming dies. I think I'm just going to limit the LODS to the larger objects (Although really streaming aside, it does look alot when trees have LODS)

Again I'm not sure if I'll actually be using this map at all due to already running gostown on Heretrics (And after asking some people what map they wanted, gostown won by far)