@JohnFromGWN said in Downforce:

@Reyser you're calling me stupid?

No, he's saying that reply was clearly created by something like ChatGPT, so it's kinda silly to reply to these automated responses. In other words, the best way to combat this A.i. investation, is to demonstrate some 'i' ourselves.

@2tekno3 said in OpenIV installation has been cancelled.:

a friend of mine repacked the Open4 files and gave them to me. So I posted here. No virus is present inside because I got them from a reliable source

The link he posted is the same we put in the pinned messages on our discord in modding support. It came from the OpenIV community. Our linking it on our server hasn't been disputed by the OpenIV team -- primarily because they're absent, really. Which is the problem, of course: nobody's home.

There's a war going in the Ukraine, where Alexander Blade is from. The OpenIV tool (the team has Russian roots) is located on the same server as OpenIV is. Both are down. We don't know what's going on exactly. We reasoned that these are exigent circumstances, and that a link to this not-officially endorsed, offline OpenIV installer, was warranted for the time being. When we know more, you guys will be updated.

@Enumerator Your content is hereby deleted, as per your request.

@JohnFromGWN said in Possibility of adding content on 5 mods and on fivem:

But back to the original point of this thread, you're right..it is actually here...but definitely not for me.
In fact I find this drm crap insulting, even disgusting. Sort of a FiveM whore invasion into SP.

Let me make it abundantly clear, that I fully agree with you! TEBEX has all but killed modding. It's disgusting.

@JohnFromGWN said in Possibility of adding content on 5 mods and on fivem:

I understand what you're saying, but GTA 5 SP is not a client server model so how did they use Tebex in SP? Isn't a server required for this process

That a very good question. I just pulled up my Cfx.re Keymaster page, and still see my license:

Ambitioneers	Rags&Riches Light V2021.3.2.1	2021-12-25	2021-12-24

The mod uses .fxap files (for authentication, I presume), but not sure how SP connects to their servers exactly. I tried to contact the Ambitioneers team, but they're not very talkative.

@JohnFromGWN said in Possibility of adding content on 5 mods and on fivem:

If you're talking about MLOs you're SOL.
The GTA 5 dlc.rpf mod model is essentially the same as open source - even locked models can be unlocked.
Even if you could encrypt your dlc.rpf it would be impossible for OpenIV to load it or the game engine to display it.
Honestly, I would be shocked if this is even remotely possible.

Prepare to be shocked then. What the OP suggest is not only quite possible, but is already happening on FiveM, widespread, using TEBEX. In short, TEBEX offers is a way to encrypt your assets (usually just ydr's), and unlock them, ingame, via a keysystem running on their remote servers. Many MLO's are used in this fashion on FiveM to date.

The same principle has also already been applied to Single Player, when the Ambitioneers released their first free version of the Miles High Club (which they later withdrew from 5mods).

I am not a TEBEX expert, but it's quite doable to create a free license key, for use in SP, and distrute your MLO that way (as it's demonstrably already been done). Short of advanced tools that try and catch raw DirectX data, to manually reconstruct meshes from then, TEBEX to date has not been broken yet, and would more than suffice for what the OP has in mind.

@Gerbooo2 said in Porting FiveM mods to SP:

Hi i have a ycd file where do i put it in?

An animation file simply goes into assets.

@JohnFromGWN said in (MISC) camera "zoom" editor like in the Rockstar Editor !:

I think you mean field of view (FOV). Zoom refers to making something appear closer or further. As in Zoom in, Zoom out.

I think you mean Field of Vision. And zoom in/out is actually a de facto side-effect of changing FOV. You literally increase Field of Vision by pulling back the camera a bit (as if zooming out). With the camera normally at around where your eyes would be (1st person), or a bit behind you (3rd person) -- essentially with you as (near)center -- increasing FOV is not ideal per se, as it comes with a small fish-eye effect. I needed to do this in my game, anyway, as I play on a 3840x1600 monitor (which would normally, on a 4k monitor, be like cropping a bit off the top and bottom). So, I used the only (working) tool ingame capable of setting FOV automagically, at startup: Zolika1351's Trainer to set CamFOVConstant=60, the sweet spot for me.

@JohnFromGWN said in Regarding Rockstar's updated modding policy.:

@meimeiriver said in Regarding Rockstar's updated modding policy.:

But the official Louis Vuitton Malletier company can, and actively does, send legal notices to 5mods to have mods with their brand removed.

I had no idea they would stoop so low. I would comply and then send them a link to a site that sells fake Vuitton merchandise with an enjoy this site and GFY.

I have frankly no idea why they bother. Who cares whether a game exists with fake clothes in it, using their brand? It's free advertising, if anything. Lawyers tend to think more rigid, though.

@JohnFromGWN said in Regarding Rockstar's updated modding policy.:

In the SP Universe they can only protect their own IP. If someone uploads a Coke or Pepsi t-shirt here it will be up to those companies, not R*, not T2I, to make a DMCA claim

Partially true. They will vigorously go after Libery City mods; but they are legally also required to state their gaming platform can't be used to violate the IP rights of others. Like you say, though, in practice, they really only care about their own IP, of course.

Misuse is another story. That is defendable. But removing real world brands? Come on.

You better believe it. Like Ren said, try finding Louis Vuitton on 5Mods.

If they ever tried to enforce bullshit on SP, the workaround would be Steam emulators or cracked games - this would of course alienate their fan base so I don't see them going there.

Nobody can practically prevent a SP player from having a Louis Vuitton item in their game. (Or Liberty City, even) But the official Louis Vuitton Malletier company can, and actively does, send legal notices to 5mods to have mods with their brand removed. As Dr. Evil told Nr. 2: "That, too, already has happened." So, they can certainly go after the sites that distribute their brands -- thus making it harder for ppl to get access to these type of mods. So, it's not about "police a stupid policy on the 100s or 1000s of user maintained RP servers," but simply about cutting off the source(s) to these materials.