Vehicle Explosion Control 1.02
Tired of GTA 5’s vehicles blowing up too easily?
The Vehicle Explosion Control Mod ensures that vehicles become undriveable in a more realistic manner. Vehicles will only catch fire or explode under extreme conditions, allowing for a far more immersive experience.
Features:
Engine Health Check:
The mod monitors the engine health of all vehicles (including air vehicles) in the game including NPC vehicles. When a vehicle’s engine health drops below a certain threshold, the engine becomes inoperable and the vehicle begins to smoke.
Fire Prevention:
Say goodbye to spontaneous combustion. This mod keeps your vehicle from catching fire due to regular damage, making it smoke instead and then becomes undrivable. And yes, this feature is optional.
Explosive & High-Impact Exceptions:
While regular damage won’t set your car ablaze, certain extreme actions can still make it explode. Features like shooting the petrol tank or fuel ignition can be toggled on or off via the ini file.
Improved Realism:
With more nuanced damage responses, this mod adds a new layer of realism to GTA 5, making gunfights and car crashes more realistic and engaging.
Enhanced Realism for Air Vehicles:
The mod also extends its features to helicopters and planes. Control how these air vehicles behave during critical events like low altitude or collisions, all customizable via the ini file.
Additional Compatibility:
You can use this mod alongside my other mod ‘Clean And Repair Anywhere’ (https://www.gta5-mods.com/scripts/clean-repair-anywhere) to be able to repair the vehicle if it becomes undriveable.
Although ‘Clean And Repair Anywhere’ does have a similar feature in the ini, it’s only for the vehicle you drive, whereas this mod affects all vehicles in the game world and has a ton more options.
Installation:
To install “Vehicle Explosion Control” simply drag and drop “VehicleExplosionControl.dll into your ‘scripts’ folder located within the GTA V main directory. If the folder doesn’t exist, create one.
The ‘VehicleControl.ini’ will be be built when you load the script.
Requirements:
Before you dive in, make sure to have the following installed.
Bugs:
No known bugs.
A Special Thanks:
I would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to De_Moon_Rad and Peter Badoingy for their invaluable contributions to this project. Your extensive bug testing and innovative ideas have been a cornerstone in the development process, helping me refine features and troubleshoot issues that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Further, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone else who has taken the time to contribute ideas, suggestions, and feedback. Your collective insights have been instrumental in shaping the project, allowing me to enhance its features and optimize its functionality. Your input has been invaluable, and I am thankful to have such an engaged and helpful community.
Your dedication and keen eye for detail have not only helped me improve the mod’s functionality but have also enriched the overall user experience. I am incredibly grateful to have had you all as an integral part of our development journey and can’t thank you enough for your tireless efforts.
Changelog – Version 1.02
Enhanced Realism:
In this update, I have taken a major step towards enhancing the realism and immersion in your GTA V experience.
I have managed to decouple the ignition of the fuel tank from the engine itself. In the vanilla GTA,
an ignited engine would set the fuel tank on fire also.
However, with this new feature, only the fuel and fuel tank will ignite, mirroring real-life scenarios to a degree.
It’s worth noting that you have the flexibility to enable or disable this feature in the ini file.
By separating the ignition sources, I aim to offer a more authentic and dynamic gameplay experience.
Precision-Engineered Vehicle Degradation:
In pursuit of an optimal and universally consistent experience, the degradation mechanics have been overhauled.
Now, the degradation is timed based on the system clock rather than the game loop.
This ensures that the degradation remains consistent for all players, regardless of their system performance or FPS.
This change enhances the gameplay, making the vehicle degradation system more reliable and uniform across different gaming setups.
Helicopter and Plane Bullet Vulnerability:
This update introduces more nuanced control over helicopter and plane vulnerability.
You can now specify whether these vehicles are immune to bullets, while they remain susceptible to explosives.
When crash landing a Helicopter for example can survive if it crashes on its side however a nose dive or tail end first will often result in an explosion.
Additionally, targeting the pilot or tail rotor still leads to a crash, providing a balanced experience.
Vehicle Damage System Overhaul:
I have completely restructured the vehicle damage system for all vehicles, excluding cycle bikes.
This revamp provides a more realistic and engaging in-game vehicle interaction.
Now with the correct settings you could leave the engine on fire without going out and without causing an explosion unless the fuel tank is damaged or you can even make it so the engine
will not catch on fire from Molotov’s however the body/wheels and eventually fuel tank will, leading to more realistic gameplay.
Codebase Optimization:
I understand the importance of performance in your gaming sessions.
That’s why I have gone the extra mile to optimize and refactor the existing codebase.
Through the application of new logic and refined programming techniques, I have significantly reduced the overall code size.
This not only results in improved performance but also ensures smoother and more efficient gameplay.
With these enhancements, I hope you can enjoy your adventures with a seamless and immersive experience.
Enhanced Realism for Air Vehicles:
I’ve extended the realism features to helicopters and planes. Now, the mod will consider these types of air vehicles for specific behaviours like crash-landing.
The added ini settings give you full control over how these air vehicles behave during critical events like low altitude or collisions.
HelicopterHeightThreshold: This setting allows you to define the height below which an air vehicle (helicopter or plane) is considered to be in a crash-landing scenario.
Lowering this value will make the logic more sensitive to crashes. The default value is 7.0 units.
HelicopterInvincibilityCounter: This setting specifies the time duration (in seconds) for which air vehicles will be invincible during a crash landing.
Increasing this value will give the vehicle more time to ‘survive’ the crash. The default value is 5 seconds.
EngineHealthAfterCrash: This setting lets you decide what the engine health should be after the air vehicle has crash-landed.
Setting it to 0 or below the EngineHealthLimit will completely disable the engine and simulate a crash landing,
while a higher value than EngineHealthLimit will normally result in the helicopter exploding when crashing. (Default: 0)
New ini settings:
MakeHeliPlaneBulletImmune: This setting allows you to control bullet immunity for helicopters and planes.
If set to true, these vehicles will be impervious to bullet damage. Default value is false.
AllowFuelIgnition: This setting controls whether leaking fuel from a vehicle can be ignited when shot.
Please note that this feature requires DisablePetrolTankExplosion to be disabled. Default value is false.
HelicopterHeightThreshold: This setting allows you to define the height below which an air vehicle (helicopter or plane) is considered to be in a crash-landing scenario. Default value is 7.0 units.
HelicopterInvincibilityCounter: This setting specifies the time duration (in seconds) for which air vehicles will be invincible during a crash landing. Default value is 5 seconds.
EngineHealthAfterCrash: This setting lets you decide what the engine health should be after the air vehicle has crash-landed. Default value is 0.
Version 1.01
Realism Improvements:
– The vehicle is now capable of sustaining fall damage from great heights without resulting in an explosion while making sure vehicle deformation can still happen.
– Removed the ability to ignite leaking petrol by shooting it, to align with realistic behaviour.
Special Note on Vehicle Explosions:
While I have largely dialled back the frequency of vehicle explosions for realism, there are still specific, albeit rare, circumstances where an explosion can occur:
1. High-Speed Aerials: If your vehicle is traveling at an extremely high speed and is airborne for a duration less than what’s specified in AirTimeRequired, an explosion upon landing is possible.
2. NPC Wall Collisions: NPC-driven vehicles can also explode if you ram them into a wall at extremely high speeds.
3. Aircraft Crashes: Planes and helicopters haven’t been entirely exempted from this rule. Crashes may result in explosions, although these instances are less frequent than before.
4. Helicopter Fall Scenarios: Shooting NPC helicopter rotors and pilots will usually result in the helicopter surviving the fall. However, should the helicopter land tail-first and break its tail, an explosion is often the outcome.
‘- High-Speed Aerials’ & ‘NPC Wall Collisions’ is something i am working on however ‘Aircraft Crashes’ & ‘Helicopter Fall Scenarios’ I have retained these conditions to uphold a certain level of realism within the game.
Configuration Options:
Introducing a new configuration file named VehicleControl.ini, which allows users to fine-tune a plethora of features to suit your gameplay experience.
– AirTimeRequired: Specifies the minimum time (in seconds) a vehicle must be airborne to activate explosion prevention logic.
Be cautious, If this logic triggers your engine will also disable once the vehicle has landed so if you want to do them crazy stunt jumps increase the time.
– EngineHealthLimit: Sets the minimum engine health below which the vehicle becomes inoperable.
Once engine health drops below this value, driving is no longer possible. (Default: 10)
– EngineHealthAfterLimit: Determines the engine health value to set once it falls below the EngineHealthLimit. (Default: 0)
– DisplayEngineHealth: Enable this option to have your current vehicle’s engine and body health displayed on-screen.
This is currently only used to find your settings preference but in time i may make it look appealing for people to use if they wish. (Default: false)
– DisablePetrolTankExplosion: Prevents the vehicle’s petrol tank from exploding. (Default: true)
The following settings are optimized for seamless integration with my other mod, Clean And Repair Anywhere. I have introduced a new feature in that mod to repair only the engine to a predetermined value, leaving the body damage untouched. This simulates a realistic experience where your vehicle can be in a state that requires frequent stops for engine repairs until you can reach a full-service garage. (Pay & Spray) These settings also work for all vehicles in game, this means you will even see NPC vehicles breaking down if their engine is damaged however the logic works different for NPC Helis/Planes currently.
– EnableHealthDegrade: Activates a feature where the vehicle’s engine health gradually degrades over time once health is below HealthThreshold. (Default: false)
– HealthThreshold: Sets the health limit below which the engine starts to degrade.
If your vehicle’s engine health falls under this threshold, expect engine performance to diminish. (Default: 500)
– EngineDegradeRate: Configures the rate of engine degradation when health is below the HealthThreshold. (Default: 0.05)
Bug Fixes:
– Resolved an issue where teleportation actions caused engine failure; added logic to detect teleporting.
– Fixed a bug causing the engine to break after continuous minor impacts, such as those experienced while off-roading.
