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If, like me, you have far too many dlc packs, all of which fighting for control of your popgroups.ymt file, you're no doubt fed up of half your add-on vehicles not spawning in traffic.

There are many traffic spawners out there that will drop random DLC vehicles near you, but none feel quite natural, like they were meant to be there.

Obviously the only way around this is to modify the popgroups.ymt file manually, but who's got time to sift through some 8000 lines of code? (Seriously, the original file has 8641 lines).

Well do I have the tool for you!

The Popgroups Generator is a tool that will find every single vehicle currently in your copy of the game, and create, from scratch, brand new code for your popgroups.ymt file.

There is a full readme included which provides a walkthrough of how to use the file. Here is a basic overview of what it does:

• Reads every single vehicle used the last time GTA V was played and displays them all in the main table

• Finds all vehgroups in the currently stored poplist.ymt (this is vanilla by default)

• Allows you to generate a new table based off the poplist.ymt in your modded game (particularly useful for those using VWE or WOV)

• Individually select what vehgroups every single vehicle in game belongs to, if any.

• Pulls a list of all vanilla vehicles from the web to ensure it is always up to date.

• Autosaving after code is generated to prevent it being lost

• Hard default that can be reverted to if things go horribly wrong!

Full installation instructions are included in the Readme file, but it is simply a case of dropping the .xslm into your game folder.

ikt's Addon Spawner is required, that contains the logs that the generator refers to when pulling the vehicle lists (available: https://www.gta5-mods.com/scripts/add-on-vehicle-spawner)

I have extensively tested this and am currently using traffic spawned in using the generated code without issue, I strongly recommend modifying the settings.xml in My Documents/Grand Theft Auto V to make full use of the increased number of vehicles available to spawn, full details of how to do this are in the readme.

Huuuge thank you to ikt for pointing out the log in his Addon Spawner mod, and also to DurtyFree for providing the link to his vanilla vehicle list, without either of these things there would be a lot of manual work needed by you to make the generator work!

I have done all I can to make this as user friendly as possible, if you have any suggestions or problems please send me a message or leave a comment and I will do what I can to implement the change. I've spent about a week writing 800 lines of vba code in order to help you spend 30 seconds writing 10,000 lines of xml code, so please do get in touch first if you have any problems before leaving a bad review!

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@LevelDockSix_ that was my thinking also, just include a popcycle.ymt that can be pasted into the workbook if requested.

The Popcycle generator is now completed as far as I can tell. I need to stress test it and put the completed code in my own game to be certain it works as expected, and that the integration with it I put in the popgroups generator also works as expected.

With that complete I will be able to modify the README file and upload V2.0 to the main site.

To add to this I am now working on a complementary popcycle generator. I have it to a point where it can read and parse the data from an existing popcycle, the problem I am having at the moment is presenting that in a user friendly fashion. Right now I have a table of all the vehgroups and the areas on the map, duplicated for each of the 12 time groups, within the table the percentage dedicated to that vehgroup is written. Users can either re-populate the table to get the traffic levels they want, or even change the names of the vehgroups in order to have a wider variety of the types of vehicle the game will load

Thoughts and input will be greatly appreciated

Have patience. Its usually around a week for the updated version to drop, depending on how much in the game has been changed.

all you need is simple troubleshooting. Back up all your mods, then re-install the game. Install mods one by one and launch the game after each install. When the game refuses to launch, uninstall the last mod and try again. If it works then whatever that mod was is the cause. Its not something that can easily be found just by looking at game files.

It works! Generator now copies the data from each of the 12 timestamp tables and creates code that (eventually) works in the game!

Next step is to find a way to make this as user friendly as possible, as at the moment it relies on users individually selecting vehgroups for each of the 115 areas defined in the game, for each of the 12 time stamps.

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I have put my main focus on vehicles as I don't personally see the merit in ped variety, but given the universality of the generator, I don't see why it couldn't be implemented. only sticking point is that of the 8000 or so lines of code in the vanilla popgroups file, 6000 of them are dedicated to peds. at present the generator just copies that directly, then generates it own code for the vehgroups. Including that would naturally increase processing time at least 4 times.

In other news, my popcycle generator is now able to generate the basic format of the code required, next step is to have it able to copy the spawn percentages and ped values from the original popcycle for each time stamp, then I can move onto getting the code to write brand new values based on the inputs from each of the time sheets

Almost correct, you can skip step 2 entirely, you don't need the folders in your mods folder for them to work. As long as the mods dlclist has been updated they will work

I have simply replaced the GTAV.exe with my backed up version and have added the two new dlclist lines and its all working fine in my SP game now. Only thing missing is the wheels because the Track section doesn't exist in trainers yet

if you look in the vehicles.meta you will see that it borrows handling from one of the SUVs (I forget which one) and the centre of mass is all out of whack, especially if you are using Eddlms handling overhaul. You can add your own handling.meta and add it to the content.xml file, look at other mods with custom handling to see how it is done.

I know menyoo allows you to modify the x,y,z and rotational position of any object, and freeze it in place, I'm sure other trainers allow something similar. Menyoo's spooner mode is probably the safest bet.

I had some comments and criticisms to provide the author of the Elegy RH6 however it looks like Reyser has stepped in to close the comments. Please can we have them re-opened to allow those with feedback to properly advise what can be done to improve.

@MARK2580 Thats simply not true. Cop cars ambiently spawn all over the map at certain times of day. You can check for yourself in the VEH_COPCAR popgroup within the base games popcycle file.

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Because 5Mods is a primarily single player mod site. MP only mods are not permitted, and should always have an SP equivalent. That and the site is barely chugging along as is, we are unlikely to see any changes to how the site works as the way it is written makes it very easy to break the site if anything is changed.

Similar symptoms are seen when VStancer is installed. If you do have vstancer installed, deactivate the mod within the vstancer menu and respawn the car it should fix itself.

There are thousands of mods, all with their own ID's. At present, the highest modkit currently in use by official Rockstar DLC is 445. There are some spaces below that, but on the balance of probability you are safer to go higher than that. Do not go higher than 1024 or you risk conflicting with modkits at the lower end of the ID scale.

@Animale said in Script hook:

the new version of scripthook is out already, I just downloaded it from their site...

but still the mods don't work. Maybe Rockstar has found a way to invalidate scripthook permanently ....

Are you sure about that? The last update on dev-c was for Cayo on 18th December. There's no new files since then

vehiclemodelsets.meta. The gang sections are clearly labelled within there, it defines spawn vehicles, colours, and tuning options. Modify to suit the bikes you want to add in their place.

it wont make the police any more aggressive, but it will make it easier for them to keep up as their top speed should be higher if you've done it correctly.

First off, this is Site-Related Questions, you want to post a thread in installation help and troubleshooting.

Secondly, if you want anyone to help, you need a lot more detail. What shops are you trying to access, is it all shops or only specific ones, what mods do you have installed, what mod did you install when it stopped working etc....

Without this information no-one can help you reliably.

Thats perfectly reasonable for any mod site. If the author is inactive, the author is inactive. Doesn't automatically give anyone the right to republish their work. Same rules apply as any other retexture, post your files and your files alone, link to the mod that they are designed to work with, and provide instructions on how to implement your own textures.