How about an expansion of this to affect non-vehicle related ground fires as well? Since the game has a fire propagation system (that's just kind of gimped in vanilla but can be unlocked by tweaking fireFX.dat) it would make for some visually amazing forest etc. fires.

Or a variaton that would spawn FEAR-style lingering dust clouds from heavy gunfire. There's something like this in interior areas at the moment but the effect is not very strong and outside of story missions there are rarely any indoor shootouts.

Loving the effect so far btw.

Looking good, I really like that the dismemberment causes some proper environmental blood splatter as well - even most AAA games can't get that right out of the box.

Once you have a configurable INI this'll be pretty damn revolutionary when it comes to gore/response effects in GTA5.

Man, this looks awesome and the kind of next-gen dynamic I wish games at large would adopt.

Also now I can relive my favourite Steel Frontier line in GTAV;

"You and I watched the world catch fire, we saw the sun eclipse from the smoke of burning flesh!"

This looks really awesome. I agree with nkjellman though, please give us a change to discriminate which actions trigger the dismemberment via an ini file. Car-related dismemberment looks amazing but people falling apart from light firearms is a total buzzkill. It's the main reason I deleted the jedijosh dismemberment mod instantly after testing it out.

Also, if possible, explosion-related dismemberment would be the coolest thing ever. Right now GTAV has no body damage from even the biggest explosions which is kind of silly.

@Eddlm

Here's a pastebin for the coordinates of the swimming pools, with the city area and size in the description.

https://pastebin.com/0zp4e98N

All taken from the middle of the pool. Also I left out ones that are less than waist-deep (and I may have missed some, there are a lot of pools in Vinewood).

If you want to do something with the open interior areas I can get you the coordinates to those as well. A lot of them seem to be completely unpopulated atm.

• Peds walking up to a soda machine and getting a drink, or walking up to a hotdog/taco stand and getting a snack

Can be done, but I need the machines' model name and a fitting animation/scenario from the game.

Dunno about the animations but I'll see if I can track down the models names.

• Peds actually playing tennis at tennis courts, or doing other activities in places reserved for them, like golfing

Way more complex than it looks, tennis and stuff are entire gamemodes reserved for the players. Doubt I'll be able to code this.

Hmm. Maybe it could be simulated in a rudimentary fashion by spawning peds that simply play an animation cycle of playing the sport (idle animation + occasional timed hit?). There's one mission-related golfer in-game, and maybe the animations for tennis could be tracked down as well. It would be way better than the empty fields we have in vanilla.

• Peds actually swimming in their private pools - at the moment they just sunbathe or sit by the poolside. There could even be a cycle of sunbathing, then swimming, then going back to sunbathing.

I'd need coords for these pools.

I'll track some down.

Another thing that popped in my mind, that might actually work fairly easily based on the internal game logic would be to spawn an occasional fire in a non-city location. Like a wildfire in a forest area or a burning farmhouse. As far as I've observed, every fire prompts a fire truck to spawn and put it out. Like an expansion of the emergency vehicles you already have added.
Having the rare non-player related fire emergency unfold would be a cool little bit of emergent behavior.
A caveat with that one are the fire stats, in vanilla the fire doesn't really spread and dies out pretty fast so the player might not get to see it - this can be changed from the firefx.dat and I have it set to behave like in Far Cry 2 and 3 in my game.

This mod is awesome and definitely something GTA5 needs to take away some of the artificiality of the gameworld.
One of the things that's been bugging me is the fact that peds don't really interact with the world on their own, instead it seems they get spawned in and then either walk around endlessly, stand in place, or play an idle animation like smoking.

Aside from the cool special encounters like hunters I'd like to see more peds assigned to do small cycles of everyday action, like the ones you're already working on like entering cars or shops.

Others I'd suggest:

• Peds walking up to a soda machine and getting a drink, or walking up to a hotdog/taco stand and getting a snack
• Walking up to another ped and initiating conversation - at the moment it seems like they simply spawn in groups and conversations don't seem to happen organically
• Ped spawning on a car/bike, parking it and walking away (not sure if this exists already?)
• Larger amounts of people entering/exiting trains/subway
• More variety on the amount of people in cars - at the moment it seems like it's always one, or max 2 peds in a car and only cops/enemies occupy more seats. Would be interesting to see some peds carpooling.
• Simply walking up to a terrace/restaurant and sitting down
• Peds actually playing tennis at tennis courts, or doing other activities in places reserved for them, like golfing
• Peds walking up to the stationary binocular thingies and using them
• Peds actually swimming in their private pools - at the moment they just sunbathe or sit by the poolside. There could even be a cycle of sunbathing, then swimming, then going back to sunbathing.

Some other ideas for unique stuff:

• Packs of hostile feral dogs in Sandy shores/desert
• Rednecks shooting up a car wreck/targets at the Sandy shores area
• Peds driving waterscooters in the rivers/rapids
• Choppers landing/taking off from plain areas like the Grand senora desert. This could be tied to some other scenarios like drug deals.

Also if it's possible to involve the open interiors mod, seeing people interact with or move in and out of the interior areas would be pretty cool.

At the moment peds have gore decals for burning, melee/gun damage and via Zippo's Roadkill mod, being run over. But explosions or getting thrown around leave no marks, which is kind of lame.
I noticed that the GoreV script does react to physics damage, peds hitting their heads into things have the polygon bullet wounds appear on their heads. Maybe a script with a similar principle could be able to add blood decals on peds when thrown around? Or an expansion of the Roadkill script to include explosions/general physics damage?