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First of all, thank you for your incredible support!

I've decided to make future Patreon posts public, starting with this post. My content is only usable with the generated license, and the scripts themselves are available through this projects' website, so this makes knowing what I'm doing and what's available easier to find :)

Now about the update and its contents:

Demo mode

A demo mode has been added in this update. This demo runs for 15 minutes before disabling itself, and can be activated 4 times per game session. This demo mode enables the full script, so you can check if your wheel properly works with this script and take other features for a test drive.

Surface force feedback effects

While GTA V's world is quite detailed, it also contains large patches of "offroad" materials which are physically perfectly flat. Force feedback now responds to the surface the vehicle is driving on, giving a surface-dependent rumble through the steering wheel. If you're interested or want to play around with settings, the new surface_feedback.ini file contains the settings per material, and you can globally turn up or turn down the new effect.

Unrecognized devices

After system or driver updates, or after moving around devices on USB ports, the script used to not recognize previously set up devices anymore. While this was fixable through digging around in Gears.log and setting the new IDs in settings_wheel.ini, this was cumbersome. Starting with this new update, additional information about the set up devices is saved, and will be used on future startups to verify and update the new device IDs.

This will only be effective from 5.7.0 onwards, so if you're already actively having this issue, it may not immediately resolve itself after installing.

Textual improvements

More interactive descriptions are now present for settings affected by "Enhanced Steering" to make enabling or disabling synced steering animations easier.

Names and descriptions of force feedback settings have been changed to better represent what they do, such as "Detail effect multiplier" becoming "Suspension FFB strength" and more.

Internal improvements

Ever since I added support for DirectInput wheels some 8 years ago, the code has mostly been left alone if stuff didn't break. There were a few peculiarities in how the devices and force feedback were set up, which may have caused some issues with some wheels. Almost all of that is now rewritten to be more stable and maintainable.

As settings have their defaults set internally, the settings are removed from the .ini files included with the release archive. On first launch of the game, these will be populated, if you still prefer to poke around in Notepad and want to edit settings from scratch. Note that you do not have to replace any files for an update!

For update instructions and other information, check the online readme or the readme pdf in the release archive.

Downloads

• Available from GitHub

• Or in the attached file in this post

An update to Dynamic Vehicle First Person Camera, with an additional gamepad camera control mode as requested by a user.

It adds looking modes for the gamepad:

• Classic, like how GTA itself worked, where the joystick moves the camera.

• Directional, like how NFS games work, where camera yaw is the direction of the joystick.

Finally, the camera looking options have been moved to work for all configs and cameras, so the existing looking adjustments are not used anymore. Looking settings should be all uniform now.

As this script remains free, check the download on GTA5-Mods.com! You'll also find the full changelog there (and in the download).

Update 1.1.1! 

A user spotted an issue and someone requested FiveM compatibility, so I quickly made this update:

• Add FX_ASI_BUILD versions for FiveM compatibility

• Fix an issue with detecting current vehicle resulting in no inertia effects

Check the update on GTA5-Mods.com!

A minor update to Handling Replacement for compatibility with newer game versions. Somewhere after game version 2802 (or more likely, 3095) this caused crashes when used, which this new version solves.

As far as I know, only Manual Transmission's dynamic AWD system uses it, so if you do not have cars that use this, this library is probably not needed for you. I just use it for Wanted188's R32 GT-R (seen in the banner) to simulate Nissan's ATTESA for that car.

This update takes some shortcuts to get things working - the readme/changelogs contain the technical details if you're interested, otherwise they should be of minimal consequence for you.

This library remains publicly and freely available on GTA5-Mods.com and GitHub.

Roadmap

The roadmap as communicated earlier this month will stay as-is:

• Handling Replacement library (Done and released)

• TurboFix (Patreon)

• Custom Torque Map (Patreon)

• Handling pack? (Advanced showcase using all my scripts)

• Ghost Replay (Release location to be decided yet)

Update 28 september 2024

ScriptHookV has been updated for version v1.0.3337.0! Since v1.0.3337.0, the ScriptHookV author has put in a menu of sorts inside ScriptHookV itself. I recommend using the version without UI! The version with UI blocks the ~ (tilde) key, which is required to open some of my mods by default.

Update 20 september 2024

ScriptHookV has been updated! Grab it here: http://www.dev-c.com/gtav/scripthookv/

The original message still applies: BattlEye still needs to be turned off and you should still make backups :)

The original message continues below:

First of all, CREATE BACKUPS of your existing game installation! More about this below. Do not try to start the game, this will cause the new files to be installed.

BattlEye anti-cheat

Today, Rockstar released an update for GTA V which installs BattlEye, a fairly invasive anti-cheat. While having BattlEye enabled, this completely stops mods from working by blocking dinput8.dll, which is generally used to load mods.

Luckily Rockstar allows this anti-cheat to be turned off in the Rockstar Games Launcher settings, so single-player mods may continue to function after ScriptHookV has been updated to support the latest version of the game. The screenshot above shows what to uncheck.

ScriptHookV

As written above: ScriptHookV needs to be updated to be able to continue using mods on updated game versions. At the time of writing, Rockstar just released the update. It's generally expected of Alexander Blade (the ScriptHookV author) to update it in several days to a bit over a week. Here, you can't do much but to wait.

Check http://www.dev-c.com/gtav/scripthookv for an updated version. You'll know there's a new version if the "Released" is after 16 September 2024, and/or Version is v1.0.3323.0.

What you can do in the meantime

Create backups. 

Back up your current version of the game. The needed files are listed above. I will not distribute these to you, it is your own responsibility to backup existing game versions. Once you have backed up the affected files, allowing the game to be updated and then restoring the files may allow you to continue playing on the old version of the game. Depending on game launcher (Rockstar Games Launcher, Epic Games, Steam) this may or may not work, though Steam is sure to work this way.

How it affects my scripts

At the time of writing, it's not clear if much in the game itself has changed, or this update is just to add BattlEye. If no big changes are made, my scripts should still be compatible once ScriptHookV updates, and mostly leaves me unaffected.

If there are changes to vehicle code, I may need to return to update existing releases (Manual Transmission and Custom Gear Ratios) before resuming work on what I'm busy with. This is still unknown for now, but I think I will not be affected much by this update.

Since build 1.0.3095.0 of GTA V, many of my scripts have stopped working, while I had decided to take a step back from GTA V and modding to focus on life and other things. This was unfortunate, as I did not have any intention on picking things up again, leaving many of my scripts in a broken state.

I've decided to pick things up again at a slower pace, but in a way that is worthwhile for me. Creating and maintaining mods is software development after all, which is the same as my normal job - so spending so much time on work got unhealthy. Add to that the additional "work" went unpaid, this situation did not sit right with me, which is why I am switching up things: to create a more sustainable situation for me regarding modding, and allow me to work on stuff for you to enjoy.

Changes and how it affects you

New updates for my existing scripts and new scripts and mods, will only be accessible through a Patreon membership. The scripts will require a unique "license", which you can generate while being a Patron. This license grants you lifetime access to the scripts using that license version, as long as no significant changes are made to your system.

How it works

• After becoming a Patron, you get access to License Generator

• Run License Generator and allow it to access your Patreon information

• A unique license will be generated, and scripts requiring Patreon can now be used

Features

• Unrestricted number of activations on any number of systems while being a Patron

• License stays forever valid for the activated system configuration 

• License usage is 100% offline and does not require any online connectivity

What is affected

Driving-related scripts such as (but not limited to) Manual Transmission fall under this new Patreon model.

Scripts that are more used as community tools or have a lot of community contributions enabling them (such as Add-on Vehicle Spawner and Handling Editor) are not affected and will remain public and free to use.