Mafia Freeride-Expansion Country+city

[Duelist]

@Abradox, Firefox3860

Creating shader water is ridiculously simple. I will explain how to do it in 3D max (I don't know if zmodeler can do anything from these things).

Water
1. Open/import countryside.
2. Choose water meshes you would like to convert to shader water and hide all the rest.
3. Apply tessellation with 0 tension and 3 iterations, collapse modifier.
4. Scale each mesh by 0,5 in all axes.
5. Reset Xform, collapse modifier.
6. Scale each mesh by 20 000 in all axes.
7. Export to some file.

Water is nearly done. Now either copy meshes from exported file to the waterC.4ds and adjust their material ID (hex) if you want them all in one file. Or copy just that one material from waterC.4ds to your exported file. Adjust visualFlags (hex) so they are the same as in waterC. Either way, water now works.

Reflections
Countryside has some reflections already so you can use them.
1. Hide all other objects you don't need.
2. Scale each mesh by 0,125 in all axes.
3. Reset Xform, collapse modifier.
4. Scale each mesh by 80 000 in all axes.
5. Export to some file.

Adjust visualFlags (hex) so they are the same as in reflection.4ds. Reflections are ready.

As for the gap. I didn't try anything yet. It would be best if original author made it so it's not hardcoded somehow . I will probably level main riverbed and banks to the city level. But ponds and water behind dam would still need some solution.

@brokenneedlecaa76

I don't know how to help you as I was trying to achieve something entirely different. I wanted to start a race from a dialogue with an NPC (for example) not from main menu, but it crashes the game

[spartaque12]

Duelist
thank u 4 all of your guides and enthusiasm towards mafia <3

[Firefox3860]

Thanks, Duelist. I'll try your method. But I do not understand what is visualFlags.

Another question about locations. How do you transfer collision data (unite files tree.klz)?

[Duelist]

Hmm, I assumed you are using hdmaster's 010 editor templates These are object render flags like - to recive shadows or not, or be visible in game at all. You don't have to adjust that. It's just that water will recieve cars shadows if not adjusted for example.

I'm creating them in 3D max but I won't write tutorial right now. I'm not using face collisions for buildings so I have nearly eliminated texture flicker. And cache objects are not done yet.

[Firefox3860]

Ok. But I think that using so many cubes is not good, it's better to do face collisions wherever they are in the original.

[Duelist]

Why's that?

[ASM.]

[Duelist]

This got me thinking. ASM. did you try to find a limit for maximum number of collisions for a mission? I've conducted some experiments and it seems that limit for amount of XTOBBs is somewhere between 91 117 and 91 216. I thought it would be the same for AABBs but I'm at 123 024 and game still loads fine. I didn't check the remaining types yet. MWE gave up at some point and stopped drawing some collisions, later it stopped displaying some meshes

[ASM.]

[Duelist]

Reloading mission doesn't help. It depends on camera position and the direction its pointing to. No big deal I doubt that anyone would get even close to that point

[Firefox3860]

[Duelist]

Farm added.

[spartaque12]

amazing , but tractor ? where did u find him xD

[AMadeMan]

[AsaSK]