Open source data files

[mrgharabaghi]

Description of the problem

At this time, we have no control over bin files in data folder. Let us to control loading GTA V assets in data folder. pedmodels.bin vehmodels.bin vehmods.bin weaponmodels.bin

Desired solution for the problem

No response

Alternatives you considered

Another option for that is convert bin files to json.

Additional context

2295

[xxshady]

why do you need it?

[mrgharabaghi]

I want to control over the assets that are loaded to my server from the GTA V official assets.

[xxshady]

what is the use case?

[xxshady]

are bin files even related to what is being loaded in the game? isnt it info for the server so it can validate your code without game

[mrgharabaghi]

what is the use case?

One of them is related to GTA V latest update (version 3258). If I able to modify data files, I able to load the new vehicles that are added to version 3258.

are bin files even related to what is being loaded in the game? isnt it info for the server so it can validate your code without game

Yes. For example, if you remove vehmodels.bin, you can't spawn GTA V's vanilla vehicles.

/car adder
[Error] Failed to create vehicle: 3078201489 is not a proper model hash

[xxshady]

One of them is related to GTA V latest update (version 3258). If I able to modify data files, I able to load the new vehicles that are added to version 3258

if alt:V would support new gta version then you could spawn these vehicles even without .bin using createVehicle native or LocalVehicle class

[xxshady]

.bin is data for server to validate what you are doing, it doesnt mean these vehicles are not available in the game

[mrgharabaghi]

if alt:V would support new gta version then you could spawn these vehicles even without .bin using createVehicle native

1. If I spawn a vehicle with client side native, what happend to sync with other players?
2. What if alt:V doesn't support new update for 1, 3 or 6 months?

[xxshady]

1. it won't be synced
2. well new vehicles won'be available and changing .bin files won't help you with it

[xxshady]

and you can add any vehicle yourself via modding https://docs.altv.mp/gta/articles/tutorials/stream_vehicles.html

[mrgharabaghi]

2. well new vehicles won'be available and changing .bin files won't help you with it

Are you sure about that? 100%?

[xxshady]

yes

[xxshady]

.bin files do not contain vehicle models, textures, etc.

[mrgharabaghi]

Why aren't the bin files open sourced yet? Is there something security related about it that shouldn't be made public?

[xxshady]

no idea

[mrgharabaghi]

And another issue with bin files is that if you use dlcWhitelist in server.toml like this:

dlcWhitelist = [
    'mpbeach'
]

You are still able to spawn caracara2 on server side without any error. After creating this model, car object will added to server objects, but it doesn't appeared on client side. caracara2 added in vinewood DLC.

[xxshady]

you can create new bug issue for that if it doesnt exists already

[a-zzura]

• it won't be synced
• well new vehicles won'be available and changing .bin files won't help you with it

2021-2022 some community/mod members provided .bin files for new gta updates and then you could spawn the new vehicles if you used the new files (if they were not updated on the cdn), so it has something to do with spawning new vehicles except it has changed since then.

Example 1 - c00kie provides files Example 2 (actual question on spawning vehicle)

Example 2 is German, so you would need to use a translator.

[xxshady]

yes vehmodels.bin allows you to create vehicle on server if model presents in vehmodels.bin

[xxshady]

but if vehicle model does not exists in the game it will only be created on server but not in game, thats what happens here: https://github.com/altmp/altv-issues/issues/2294#issuecomment-2198412388

[xxshady]

and same will happen if you will add new vehicle model to vehmodels.bin but dont add it to the game

[a-zzura]

Yea, I think that is what he meant, or I miss understood it (with spawning new vehicles after update was pushed by alt:V)

[xxshady]

so this feature request doesnt make sense to me

[xxshady]

why would you modify vehmodels.bin if you dont have model in game?

[xxshady]

it should be handled by alt:V for you

[a-zzura]

The only reason could be so he can update it himself instead of waiting for the official files, but yeah, it is not 'public' for a reason, I guess.

[xxshady]

The only reason could be so he can update it himself

what do you mean by that? how he would adapt alt:V to new game version himself?

[a-zzura]

The only reason could be so he can update it himself

what do you mean by that? how he would adapt alt:V to new game version himself?

No, if alt:V has been updated to the new GTA version and the date files have not been updated

[xxshady]

they are always updated after gta update

[xxshady]

you don't need to do it yourself

[xxshady]

changing format to something more open like json can also cause false bug reports, questions, misunderstandings as it is happening now xd

[mrgharabaghi]

This is not a question. https://github.com/altmp/altv-issues/issues/2294#event-13342554131 Like other docs, we can provide essential information about data files, and convert them to json for people.

[xxshady]

i agree about docs, but still don't see any usecase for human readable format, that's why i marked it as "question"