Step-by-Step Guide to Creating MLOs in Blender for GTA 5

hello welcome back today we are on episode 6 of the from blender to

5m Series today we're going to be starting on the actual creation of the MLL I'm so excited to jump in I know

so many of you have been waiting for this day to come we've covered the basics if you're new here

and you haven't you don't know the basis of blender be sure to go check out my previous videos so that you can stay up

to date be up to speed and so that you are not left behind

um also if you're new here don't be shy go on and subscribe like the video if you are enjoying the series I also want

to let you know before we get started is that I offer oneone sessions um for those who are looking to move along

maybe a little quicker or just get some little uh some extra one-on-one help with making an mllo as a result of

taking uh private one-onone sessions with me you will flow through blender with ease to create whatever you want

I'm interested in helping those who want to make amazing mlos and dbls without struggling and getting frustrated along

the way so who do you know is ready to create ml's and dwbl the easy way

and we are going to dive in let's go all right now that we are in cold Walker we will

use cold Walker to go to the location um for the hacker lounge and we're going to go grab the file so that

we can import it into blender um the way you move around in cold Walker if you don't know how yet well before we

actually talk about moving um what I want you to do is put come up here to the right hand corner of the screen and

you're going to click on these arrows and what you need to do is make sure you have your DLC

enabled as well as uh your mods if you have mods that you are using um mods isn't necessary if you're if you're not

using certain mods that you may or may not have but you want to make sure that DLC is enabled and once you do that you

can come over here to you know back to the top hand corner click on options and go down here to where it says save

settings and that way whenever you load in cold Walker this will already be enabled your

DLC DLC will already be enabled that enabling the DLC just ensures that all the updates that come with GTA 5 you

have them and that way your your files won't be outdated so the way that you move around in code Walker is that you

have to left click left click to PL pan around this is different from blender blender you

have to click down on the middle Mouse button to pan around not in here and cold Walker you click down you left

click and then you can look around and then you just use W ASD at the same time to move um within the

space all right so let us go to the

location for um also you can press shift while you are moving um it'll to move you uh

faster uh this is our L this is what we about to get um you can just um um move around to get get the height that you

need all right so if you once we get here if you click press down on the key the T key if you press T it'll bring up

this tool bar up here at the top left corner of your screen you can also press it again to get rid of it or you can

come down here to the bottom right and click show toolbar and it'll bring it okay what we want to be in in order to

grab this file cuz we want to be able to export um this this little Hut and we are also going to want this but we're

not going to worry about this just yet I don't know if they are linked together but let's see what you're going to do is

come to the left hand corner of in the toolbar and click the mouse cursor

icon which will allow you to select the different uh assets um and and

you eventually we're going to move them so you're going to come over here to the with this already selected you're going

to come to the move move tool and select it now if this isn't selected and you click this right first if you click the

move tool first and then you go click the mouse cursor it's going to deselect the move tool so make sure you select

the mouse cursor first and then you select the move tool so I have something selected I don't know if it is but what

we're basically going to do is just move stuff until we find what we want and boom they are connected too that was

easy that's why I wanted to choose it because it allows uh it it's just easy to work with this location is so easy to

work with I think um so this is what we want we have it selected this is the only thing that we're going to be taking

with us right now um so with this selected you're going to come over here to

this rightand panel and you're going to click on the selection tab with this selected because this is

selected right here it tells us the name of this asset it's called CS

cs605 formore shed what you're going to do is copy this highlight it and then contrl C to copy or or um right click

and copy whichever one you know controll C you know works good for me and then once you have it copied you're going to

come up here to where it says tools click on it and then go to RPF Explorer and click on

it and it's going to bring up a new window okay so with this window once it's finished loading up uh you should

be fine come here to this search box and I want you to paste

in the name of the asset that you copy and press enter okay I told y'all it was easy to

work with I love it I love it I love it because sometimes you you'll get an asset and it'll be like duplicates here

in this window this one is only giving us one so we Ain got to worry about trying to make sure we pick the right

one okay so here is this is this right here is the model that we want this right here these are let's let's just

click on it it's just textures just textures that are used in the

surrounding you know to that make up this whole look at this this whole area um that's not what we want we're not

looking for that what we want is this right here it it is the name of our asset our model it it has ydr at the end

of it so you're going to right click on it actually before you right click it just double click on it if you double

click on it it'll bring it up so you can view it and make sure um this is what you want this is

the correct correct uh object this look like it to me um so we're going to go with this

um you can exit out of it now what you're going to do is right click and then you're going to go down to export

XML and click okay then you're going to find the

folder or create a folder I have a folder that I created myself I created it

somewhere somewhere okay here we go hacker this is just what I called it I created a folder

I called it hacker Lounge you can call it whatever you want within this folder I created another folder called XML

files just so we can have everything organized cuz when you start cuz we're going to be exporting a few files and

importing and exporting from blender so it's best if you can organize it from the beginning so that you don't have

have to you know try to figure out which file is which and get overwhelmed and confused cuz we ain't trying to do that

we're not trying to be overwhelmed we're not trying to be confused uh but you can let you can name

it whatever you want to name it okay and you can put it wherever you want to put it there's no set place that you have to

put it all right so that's where I am saving it and if I pull up the file boom here it is this is the ydr XML

this is the file that we will bring into blender and this I'm assuming has textures yes

um let's see go back to the RPF Explorer window and you're going to double click on it again just to bring it up um and

once you have this window open you are going to bring out this menu right here in the

left hand corner top left hand corner by clicking on the arrows to bring it out and then you're going to go over to

materials and once you've done that you go to save all textures um you can save it here in this

folder where the other textures are that's what I'm going to do this time sometimes I'll create a new folder and

call it textures or materials but just to keep down [Music]

on extra you know stuff keep it organized as organized as possible we're just going to put it in that folder that

was already created for you says 31 textures successfully exported and just GNA click okay and then you're going to

click X and you're going to exit out all this cuz that's all we're doing right now

okay and you can even exit out a cold Walker trying to keep I'm trying to simplify this as much as possible for

you all now we're going to open up blender we're going to get a new scene um we're going to go in blender

and delete our lights delete everything that's in your scene like we um did in like the first episode or so you're just

going to box select left click and drag to box select everything in the scene press X and

delete hopefully by this step in the tutorial the series you have already installed solemn's the solemn plug in to

your blender if you have not check the description box below for the L link to direct link to

the Solomon's Discord and it'll show you how to install it and and all of that if you haven't done it

yet but uh if you have hopefully let's keep moving forward we're going to import the building into blender now so

you go to file then import if you have solns install you will see down here at the

bottom of this of this list it'll say cold Walker XML this is what we want to select then once this menu I mean window

comes up go to where you saved your file and click on the XML ydr and that's what we are going to

import you see this is it and remember in blender you have to um move around with

middle Mouse button pan around with middle Mouse button

[Music] typically yeah um before we before I talk about that let's go on and let's go

over to the material view Port so we can see all the textures look like they are here not that it I mean it does matter

cuz eventually you know we I did say we would retexture some of this if not all of this um

if you don't see textures after clicking the material viewport

um if you press V hold down V the letter v as in Vine excuse me you would this uh radio menu will pop

up it's called the sols piie menu if you go up and you can do a lot of things here I don't typically only I I don't

typically use this menu but you know it is here um I only use this menu to find missing textures not to say that you

can't I just don't you know my workflow doesn't in my workflow I don't use it other than to find mixing textures but

once you press V go up to find missing textures it'll bring up this window again you'll go to your file and then

you'll go to where the textures are that you saved okay and then press find mixing

textures and it should bring up all of the textures once you've done that okay um let's save this now we're going to

call it wait we're going to save it in the same like area hacker Lounge um

uh I'll create a folder and just call it blender file um just so I'll know I don't just

not to have it just sitting outside of the folder it organization will help you a whole lot help us all a whole lot and

we're going to rename it to same thing hacker lounge and then click

save and there we have have it saved okay now that we've done that we're going to start um we're going to

do a few things what we're going to do is open up the building that's what we're going to do keep it

simple um not overwhelm anyone so if you would click click on the building it'll select it if you left left click on the

building doesn't matter whichever one cuz these are together they are joined together um

and then go over here to the top leftand corner and select edit mode you can also just press Tab and it'll take you back

and forth between edit mode and object mode we want to be in Ed edit mode right now though and then come up here next to

edit mode and click on face select cuz we're about to select faces and delete the doors door and the window on the

back all right so if you get get closer you can see we're going to select everything

that makes up the door um just the door we'll leave the little

step uh X and press X or you can right click yeah press X and then go down to delete faces and the doors open simple

as that it's there boom now we're going to pan around to the back and we are going to delete this whole window

including everything that you see we're deleting so you can drag and drop I mean drag and drop drag to select make sure

you don't select anything that you don't want to delete yes we are deleting the frame

everything um just hold shift to select um multiple faces at once if you didn't get

everything when you drag um if you didn't get everything um when you used box selected so X and

delete and you see there are a couple things still here we want to get rid of you can just

hold down shift and to select multiple faces and then X delete faces and we got two more here and then two more here x

delete faces I believe that's it that's all of them boom and then make sure you're

saving as we go um okay that's all we going to do for

now we are going to export this back out is there anything else we want to add or change I don't think there's anything

else um that I want to do so with that being said make sure you save it contrl s will save it without you having

to go up here and click save you can just do contrl s if you didn't know that already you're going to come over here

to this uh outliner right click and then go down to select hierarchy press in to bring out the this menu side toolbar

click go down to solemn's Tool you should see this if you have solemn's installed then go down to General

go down to General click on General and then go to export calker XML make sure you have this selected select hierarchy

right click select hierarchy and then um export Cod Walker XML um we are going to export it let's

go back let's go back um we're going to create a new folder cuz why not we're going to call

it blender export um yeah organization is

key boom export code Walker XML once you have selected your folder where you want to export it you're going

to export now we got a few more things to do we we're done with blender for now but we have to create the folder

for um your stream folder for your server because we're about to test test it out

in the server so you guys can see so let's just do

that um before we create the stream folder let's just minimize blender we're going to open cold Walker back

up we're going to open cold Walker I'm trying to figure out um not we're just going to open up

the cold Walker RPF Explorer um I created a converter RPF like you can do that with ease um cuz

you do have to convert the file back to just a regular ydr file cuz XML files will not just work in in in your stream

folder but what you can do if you want to make um if you if you don't have a converted

RPF make sure you are in edit mode you can go to F wait hold on you can just right click I believe right click and

then you go to new and then you click on RPF archive and then you name it and then that's what this is all

right um I I have stuff that I've be working on or then you're going to go to let's see if we can put all of this on

the screen you want to go to let's just open up another one so I have cold Walker staying

[Music] there where you saved the blender export this one remember we created a

folder called blender exports and then you want to basically drag it back into cold Walker this will

convert it back to a ydr and it will no longer be an XML file here it is right here if you double click on it it will

bring it up and you will see that the door is no longer there and neither is the window this is not perfect like this

isn't it this is not the MLL y'all this is just the first this is the next step in the process

um all right so that we've done that now that we've done that we want to create a stream

folder So within this right here hacker Lounge just create a stream folder I feel like I want to I want to

make it separate but I I don't want to create obviously I don't want to create two of

the same uh folders let me just rename this one uh

creation that's just a name so I can create a new folder called hacker Lounge because this is what it's going to be

called called uh in the server in the re as a resource um when I started hacker Lounge that's all so this

is the creation folder and this is the where we're going to have our stream folder okay so now that we have our

stream folder created what we are going to do is drag this ydr file into hello drag this ydr file into our street

stream folder all right now that we have the file in our stream folder basically what we need to create next is the FX

manifest. I have one that I already have created but in order to create this all you have to do

is um click on new and it'll be a new text document and you would just name it FX

manifest. Lua and make sure you save the file extension as Lu okay this is and it'll make sure you say the file

extension make sure you save the file extension as Lua all right I'm not going to create this cuz I already have it

created I will have this uh file in Discord so if you don't feel like typing it

um you can just come to Discord and get it but this is what you would put in the the file you would type this this is

Visual Studio code um you can use you can use notepad um but I would strongly advise

you to just download visual studio code um to do this or you can just join the

Discord to get to get this file um but it's called FX umore version

space single quote Cerulean single quote games space curly brackets single quote GTA 5 single quote

space curly bracket this underscore isore a map aore map so there's an underscore in between every single one

of these um space single quote yes single quote okay hopefully that makes sense again if

you don't want to type this yourself you can get it get the file from Discord on it it'll be in the resource

section um of the student uh portion of the Discord that way you can look at the file yourself and see it um

okay so boom that's that's everything that you

need from here on out as we continue to you know add more things that we will be adding more things to this stream folder

it won't just be uh the exterior shed um of what we're creating we will be adding more things

to this folder but this is basic this is it this is the layout of when you're create

creating okay this does not need to be in the Stream folder now that I think about it REM take this FX manifest and

and get it outside of the stream folder um it should be stream and then FX

manifest um what was that saying and but this is the basic layout so you have the the name of your

resource which is your ml you name it uh and then you click on it you have

a stream folder and you have an F FX manifest file okay there will be more things that we put in this stream

folder but this is it for now what we are going to do next is uh if you have hopefully you have a server

if you don't have a server get one you can just pause the video and come back but we are going to put this into our

service um put this into our resource uh folder for our server hopefully if you are making an ml then you you know how

to do that uh okay so do that make sure you have it insured start the resource and then we're going to together walk or

fly over to um the building that we just removed the door and the window and I'm going to

talk and discuss a few things um with you concerning what we we're going to do next um for this series okay all right

so let me go on [Music] and add this to my

server I have a resource called cremore that's where I'm going to put it cuz this ain't no

non CR Resource uh and I have to ensure it make sure it starts up with the

server so let me do that let me pull this up so I can insure it for you so you can see I'm trying to walk through

it kind of but not really cuz I'm not really teaching how to install mls's not really teaching how

to install mls's but I did want to walk through it with you and then going to see save

it all right let's restart our server all right so we are in the server um I put my hard hat on cuz you

know we got to go see test it out and see if it is here and look at her it's

there wait stop playing let's just walk around first before we get

into the details that you're like well why is it you know for cuz you probably have

questions the window is gone you come around to the front um we actually cannot walk inside

just yet because we did not remove the collisions but I wanted you guys to see how you know well how easy that was to

do um obviously you know you can TP inside float inside and we are here um so the next video the next

series episode we will remove the collisions and we might remove go on and remove the occlusions too there

something if you know there something blocking me from moving we might do both of them I think we have time to do both

it should be simple hopefully I think we can do both um but let me just fly back out the side of the

building but as you see everything is as we we left it in blender the door is gone the window is gone

um we didn't do anything to this but you know it's happening um what I want to

say patience you guys just continue to be patient we are making it through

um just make sure y'all can see me up close we are making it through we'll be done with this before you know it um it

is my goal to show you guys how to do this um and then and make it the most

understandable for you and so that you can grasp every detail of this ml making process so I will be you know like you

know this is already a 30 minute video um so the I don't want to make the videos an hour long so my goal is to

make every episode under an hour so that you can digest what we are doing and when you can digest it you can

understand it and you can you can repeat it and continue to do it and continue to grow and so on on so so on and so forth

um so next video we will remove the collisions and if we have time we will remove the occlusions okay that way um

you won't face any weird uh glitching issues when you um create your Mone I want to you thank you for joining

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the giveaway all right thank you guys for joining me I hope this was helpful I will see y'all next time bye