[Tutorial] How to create ambient vehicle spawn locations via cargens
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Hey guys, I'm having troubles finding any info regarding this and I think any tutorials would benefit the community regarding this dilemma, anyway...
We got instructions on how to add vehicles to spawn in traffic and police chases however, nobody seems to cover how you create vehicle spawners for simply parked cars.
Say one of the LSPD stations for example, in-game there are only a few parking spaces with the random police and police3 cars spawning in those spaces. In codewalker, there are vehicle spawner boxes over these parking spaces that spawn these vehicles.
So my question is-
a) how can you edit these parking spaces to add more possibilities of say adding police2 and police4 to have a chance to spawn there rather than just police and police3?
b) how do you create one of these spawners from scratch?If we had an in-depth guide to do this... Anyone say who makes a police car mod (there have to be millions of them I swear...) rather than just having the replace or addon folders to spawn your car via a trainer or mod... Mod authors can also add their car to spawn alongside other ambient naturally spawning cop cars in other parking lots around the city.
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@ReNNie Please?
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@GTAV-Noob-Modder117 @inbetweendays_
you'll want the lastest CW, version R30_dev13
only available from dexyfex' discord, https://discord.gg/BxfKHkk
ambiently spawning vehicles are controlled by ymaps, via a
cargen
Start CW and press T for the toolbar
so you can create a new ymap with a new cargen inside
and press the<< iconto your right, in that side window:
then set the View tab to World View and on the Selection tab select cargens in the drop-down box
so you'll see the vanilla cargens as blue squares placed on your map
as you don't want to place your vehicle over a vanilla vehicle
In the dialogue you can type a specific vehicle model
or even a POPGROUP VEH CATEGORY such as LARGE_CITY eg
to have to game choose a model from what you have in set in popgroups in that category
You can also make the cargen spawn a vehicle in a specific color
(just like in carvariations.meta) and even a specific livery
where the livery to use is one minus the sign_ in the YTD
so if you want vehicle_sign_8 to show up, set to livery to value '7'I always set Flags value to 3683 as I found this to work in my game
You can move the vehicle around via the blue/red/green arrows
but only when the move icon is selected on the Toolbar (the icon with arrows surrounding it)
for some reason a ymap always needs to have at least ONE prop inside
I took JRod's protagonists garage ymap as a template and worked on that
as he placed a small prop invisible under the world mapyou can export an ymap to ymap.xml for Notepad editing via OpenIV
via right-mouse button 'export to OpenFormats'
after I create my own cargen I copy those entries via Notepad into JRod's ymap.xml
and drag that file into my custom dlcpack to make the game load ityou can import the created ymap via OpenIV into your game
use a custom_maps dlcpack to make the game load your own created cargens
Good Luck!
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Wow... It actually worked. I got the Scout police car spawning in a vacant space outside one of the city precincts. My plans are working!!
Thanks for the help guys, wouldn't have done this without you! Special thanks to JRod for the un-intrusive 'egg' template.
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Ok, there is one little bump I encountered...
The having a randomly chosen vehicle from a popgroup doesn't seem to be working for me no matter what experiments I try.
I put LARGE_CITY in the CarModel line, PopGroup line and both and all three methods failed me, nothing ever spawned.
Odd... I know I'm doing it wrong.
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no entry in carModel and LARGE_CITY in popcyle entry
this is what a vanilla ymap with the method looks like
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Hmmmmm....... VEH_LARGE is supposed to be trucks right? I seem to be getting different colored Huntley SUVs spawning in the spot now...
Odd, its working but now I don't seem to be getting the models listed from the popgroup.
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carModel says 0 meaning 'choose a random game model'
instead of not having a value there
so that probably overrides the entry in PopGroup?I don't know, keep experimenting, export your ymap to ymap.xml
and compare it against the screenshot I posted on the vanilla ymap above
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So this was my original single car spawner, it worked perfect as my police18 car spawns. Side note- I find it a little annoying how it literally ALWAYS spawns (I'd prefer a chance spawn but whatever at least its spawning).
<carGenerators>
<Item>
<position x="627.31130000" y="23.79878000" z="88.16220000"/>
<orientX value="1.67764400"/>
<orientY value="-4.71015000"/>
<perpendicularLength value="2.60000000"/>
<carModel>police18</carModel>
<flags value="3683"/>
<bodyColorRemap1 value="-1"/>
<bodyColorRemap2 value="-1"/>
<bodyColorRemap3 value="-1"/>
<bodyColorRemap4 value="-1"/>
<popGroup/>
<livery value="-1"/>
</Item>
</carGenerators>Now the 'plop' groups crap:
<carGenerators>
<Item>
<position x="627.31130000" y="23.79878000" z="88.16220000"/>
<orientX value="1.67764400"/>
<orientY value="-4.71015000"/>
<perpendicularLength value="2.60000000"/>
<carModel/>
<flags value="3683"/>
<bodyColorRemap1 value="-1"/>
<bodyColorRemap2 value="-1"/>
<bodyColorRemap3 value="-1"/>
<bodyColorRemap4 value="-1"/>
<popGroup>LARGE_CITY</popGroup>
<livery value="-1"/>
</Item>
</carGenerators>
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@GTAV-Noob-Modder117
In the screenshot on the vanilla ymap with the poop group it uses 3616 as a flag, would that make a difference?
Probably flag value also controls chance, but as I said, I don't know diddly on flagsVan_Zandt isn't registered on the forums so can't even tag him, check his remark on February 21, 2019
https://www.gta5-mods.com/maps/static-planes-removed-add-onYou could ask in CW discord if anyone has more Intel on flags usage in cargens?
I'd love to hear back
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Well... It seems the problem is with spawning popgroups themselves. No matter what I copy or change, the vehicle remains as an Infernus in codewalker and random SUVs, Super cars and bikes spawn.
Maybe the flags do dictate what spawns?
I think this is just too complicated for my simple brain to comprehend. I'll poke around and ask. This is just odd...
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UPDATE: FAILURE. I cannot get any cargens to spawn random vehicles from a pool of vehicles from a popgroup.
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Hey, is anyone still using this thread? I am very interested in knowing how police and sheriff vehicles spawn on the sides of highways in Blaine County on rare occasions... I couldn't find any of them using CodeWalker though I see some parked at police stations.
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Holy crap, I just discovered something weird! When you go into "Scenario" mode in CodeWalker, there are little boxes on the spots where police cars would normally spawn alongside the highways. This must be one of the only exceptions for it to not be known as a parked car.
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Correct those are scenarios and not cargens. Cargens can't spawn peds so anything involving peds is a scenario
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@ReNNie Hi, I only started to use CW, and I want to ask, how can I spawn add-on car like a map, because I tried tutorial which is here, but nothing works, map loaded, but without my car.
Upd. simple cars also doesn't spawn
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It dose not work
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Thats work, you need an Custom_map Folder use that tool to mount it => https://fr.gta5-mods.com/tools/dlc-pack-creator
Also u can try with the flag used by Jrod in his mod for a better spawn with yours selected cars. https://fr.gta5-mods.com/misc/ls-car-generators
The only thing messy is the popgroup function, but with an car model selection, that's works well.Edit: thanks to ReNNie for the tricks
Edit2: Another link about the same thing if you have trouble
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Hi, I am working on the add new car generator, however, although I managed to make it work, I am noticing that ,example: I add a police car, then when i go and take that car, it never spawns again.
any help please?
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@ReNNie Thank you for the tutorial! I do not suppose you know what values to set the BodyColorRemap1-4 to keep bodycolor same as default?
Adding to a project of mine and would to spawn same color every time
(default body color is Red) - many thanks
