Fagaloa/mpassault engine sound question

Rstein

Whatever I do, I can't seem to change the sound of the Fagaloa.

Already tried:

vehicles.meta in x64/dlcpacks/mpassault
vehicles.meta in update.rpf/dlc_patch

Wat do?

a63nt-5m1th

@Rstein
Should be the one in update.rpf\dlc_patch\mpassault

...\mods\update\update.rpf\dlc_patch\mpassault\common\data\levels\gta5\vehicles.meta

As long as edited correctly (see 'Example:' below), no corruption exists, & there isn't another 'vehicles.meta' containing fagaloa data in your game (that somehow overides 'update.rpf'?!), I'm not sure why it wouldn't be working?!

Diagnostic Approach:
Go into the update.rpf\dlc_patch\mpassault 'vehicles.meta' & edit the fagaloa '<lodDistances' values to look like this:

      <lodDistances content="float_array">
        0.000000
        0.000000
        0.000000
        0.000000
        0.000000
        0.000000
      </lodDistances>

If you then get a translucent fagaloa in first person:

translucent fagaloa

& an invisible one in third person:

invisible fagaloa

you know that is the 'vehicles.meta' file the game is loading

Try your edits again:

Example:

    <Item>
      <modelName>fagaloa</modelName>
      <txdName>fagaloa</txdName>
      <handlingId>FAGALOA</handlingId>
      <gameName>FAGALOA</gameName>
      <vehicleMakeName>VULCAR</vehicleMakeName>
      <expressionDictName>null</expressionDictName>
      <expressionName>null</expressionName>
      <animConvRoofDictName>null</animConvRoofDictName>
      <animConvRoofName>null</animConvRoofName>
      <animConvRoofWindowsAffected />
      <ptfxAssetName>null</ptfxAssetName>
      <audioNameHash>sabregt</audioNameHash> <!-- sabregt sound example -->
      <layout>LAYOUT_STANDARD</layout>
      <coverBoundOffsets>FAGALOA_COVER_OFFSET_INFO</coverBoundOffsets>
      <explosionInfo>EXPLOSION_INFO_DEFAULT</explosionInfo>
      <scenarioLayout />
      <cameraName>FOLLOW_CHEETAH_CAMERA</cameraName>
      <aimCameraName>BOX_VEHICLE_AIM_CAMERA</aimCameraName>
      <bonnetCameraName>VEHICLE_BONNET_CAMERA_LOW</bonnetCameraName>
      <povCameraName>DEFAULT_POV_CAMERA</povCameraName>

& see if that works?

If the '...update.rpf\dlc_patch\mpassault\vehicles.meta. 0.0000 lod edits do nothing, try the same with the 'vehicles.meta' in dlcpacks/mpassault & see what happens?

If neither do anything & the fagaloa still spawns in-game, there must be another 'vehicles.meta' data entry somewhere. Use OpenIV's Ctrl+F3 search box to search for 'vehicles.meta' & dump them all into a folder somewhere on your PC

OpenIV Search Box

& then use an external search program (Agent Ransack is free if Windows Search don't cut it) to search for references to 'fagaloa' within the files & see how many you find.

If you find more than two files, OpenIV exports them in the order you find them in the search box, use that & file size to figure out where it is in the game files & edit accordingly.

Rstein

@a63nt-5m1th Weirdly, I Agent Ransack'ed all .meta files and the only Fagaloa lines are in both mpassault vehicle.metas. I also changed them both to the engine sound I wanted but still nothing.

Could it be that FiveM ignores modded .meta files somehow?

a63nt-5m1th

@Rstein
I have no idea about FiveM, never used it, but that might well be the case.

Might be possible to add it as an add-on tho, maybe that is how it has to be done for modified vehicles?

Rstein

@a63nt-5m1th I'm trying to mod the Fagaloa's sound clientside as I don't host my own server.

a63nt-5m1th

@Rstein
I don't know for sure, but if I had to guess, I'd say it has to be done server side