Area Livery Mod - Max Liveries

[spreilly 145]

I'm trying to make an LCPD pack that encompasses all islands (vehicles for all 4 islands, or precincts).

 

What I want to do is have about 10-15 liveries for each precinct, totalling 40-60 liveries. To do this, I'm using Area Livery Mod 2.0. When I try to put in more than 15 liveries on one vehicle, however, the vehicle won't spawn.

 

Basically, the maximum I can get is 15 liveries. Is this anything I can fix?

[Yard1 2,158]

That's the way your PC says: "Oh god why stop no more liveries please".

 

However, I doubt getting a better one would help. GTA is a terrible port, as you should already know, and after you hit a certain point, better hardware won't help.

[spreilly 145]

Does it have something to do with the file size or the livery number?

[Yard1 2,158]

I think that if you were to reduce wtd size, it could work. Maybe try making the liveries 1024x1024?

[spreilly 145]

Wouldn't that cause texture misalignment?

[Yard1 2,158]

If the proportions are the same (1:1), then no.

[Illusionyary 4,632]

The textures won't be misaligned but they'll look awful up close (in terms of quality).

[ineseri 5,125]

GTA IV doesn't really support extra liveries in the way that you are describing. 

[unr3al 1,124]

Wouldn't that cause texture misalignment?

I'd say it'd be more likely to make the textures look like ass. You'll see heavy pixelation because the resolution isn't as high. It's like taking a small photo and setting it as your desktop wallpaper in Windows by "stretching" it.

[EvilJackCarver 331]

15 liveries is a little excessive, don't you think...?

But no, the limit these days is 255 do us all a favour if you release and stop well short of fifty, even ten is a lot for GTA4 to handle

[cp702 1,930]

15 liveries is a little excessive, don't you think...?

But no, the limit these days is 255 do us all a favour if you release and stop well short of fifty, even ten is a lot for GTA4 to handle

Er, not quite. We *think* it's 255, 256, or 254 (not sure which way the off-by-one goes from 255, if indeed there is one). But that's just based on the code selecting a livery for the vehicle; it's possible other texture management routines impose a smaller limit (we certainly didn't test to 255 liveries, unless I wasn't told about something). For instance, it's conceivable (literally no idea if this is true or not) that IV might impose a cap on textures loaded in a .wtd, or of a particular texture store in memory (in that case it's probably more likely that the game would just crash or give trippy results, but it's possible that R* foresaw a possible issue and coded to catch it). Also, keep in mind that textures take a lot of memory; it's compressed, but still big. If you actually tried 256 liveries, my bet is the game would just fail to load them all, leading to massive visual glitches (actually: anyone game for an experiment?)

Reading the OP again: If the issue is it not spawning, it may be that sticking in too many liveries is making it large enough that IV is never picking it to spawn. It's possible that it's so big that it can't fit in the amount of memory allocated for spawning vehicle types (or something along those lines), in which case it's pretty much a reverse taxi bug.

[EvilJackCarver 331]

Er, not quite. We *think* it's 255, 256, or 254 (not sure which way the off-by-one goes from 255, if indeed there is one).

If it is an off-by-one, it'd be 254, as the highest an 8-bit integer can be is 255 (2⁸-1) and anything over that would cause an overflow (Pac-Man, anyone?)