[SA-Idea] Low grass draw distance fix

07 Mai 2023, 07:49

The solution for the problem with grass popping in and out 50m away from the player has not been found yet. It is a distracting and annoying issue.

While browsing gtaforums.com, i found a recent topic about this issue, and there was a post that caught my attention: some coder found a way to increase the draw distance of procedural objects by tweaking game memory. He was able to increse grass draw distance from the usual 50m to about 300m. He did not leave a mod to test it out, but he did leave some information on his research.

Here are his posts:

https://gtaforums.com/topic/980558-incr ... -distance/

https://gtaforums.com/topic/194199-docu ... 1072047593

Now, since he was able to do it, can his solution be imlemented in the existing limit extender or addition to an already existing mod?

07 Mai 2023, 23:50

The topic was moved to the English section.
To find the English section, go to the initial page, scroll down to the bottom and there you will find "English - All games".

08 Mai 2023, 01:32

This guy implied that he managed to increase the distance of the grasses "but there were some bugs", but what he did was just change 2 values of distance that completely broken, very far from working.
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In own my research months ago, I changed this and about more 10 values, it turned out much better than his, and still I was far from achieving something acceptable and I gave up, this is harder than it looks.
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Changing these 2 values he made spawns further, but completely "perforated", I don't remember how but I managed to do it in a way that spawns "perforated", but with time, and movement back and forth, it fills in correctly, then you leave close and it will keep there, but the problem I had was, when I left too far away, it was removed, and when I came back, nothing appeared, so I had to leave again and come back again to reappear.

I think it has nothing to do with object limits as I really managed to make many appear, the main problem is something in the logic.

I can send my source code for some programmer to try (I prefer not to send it in public because someone can get it and not credit me, more and more people are stealing my mods around especially now that I'm inactive).

10 Mai 2023, 03:35

Junior_Djjr escreveu: ↑
08 Mai 2023, 01:32
This guy implied that he managed to increase the distance of the grasses "but there were some bugs", but what he did was just change 2 values of distance that completely broken, very far from working.

In own my research months ago, I changed this and about more 10 values, it turned out much better than his, and still I was far from achieving something acceptable and I gave up, this is harder than it looks.

Changing these 2 values he made spawns further, but completely "perforated", I don't remember how but I managed to do it in a way that spawns "perforated", but with time, and movement back and forth, it fills in correctly, then you leave close and it will keep there, but the problem I had was, when I left too far away, it was removed, and when I came back, nothing appeared, so I had to leave again and come back again to reappear.

I think it has nothing to do with object limits as I really managed to make many appear, the main problem is something in the logic.

I can send my source code for some programmer to try (I prefer not to send it in public because someone can get it and not credit me, more and more people are stealing my mods around especially now that I'm inactive).

i'm interested in your work, it's really a nice progress. if you don't mind, i'd like to see your source code. also, i hope people will stop stealing other people's work... in order for this not to happen, i share my work only on MixMods.

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