LosSantos Big

Los Santos: big levels

Los Santos for ReSkate: 2 big levels of 2 km, without props. By petergowild, built from their own GTA V with the Los Santos for ReSkate tools.

The real GTA V map at 1:1, read from the owner's own game: buildings, roads, terrain, interiors, collision with the game's own surfaces, bus stops for fast travel, a pause-menu map and a loading picture per level.

Street furniture and most plants are left out so a level this large fits the game's limits; buildings, roads and interiors are all there. The heaviest of the four mods.

Why there are four kinds of level

All of Los Santos does not fit in one skate. level. The game has a fixed number of texture slots (20,480, with about 8,000 already used by the game itself) and a fixed amount of memory for meshes; a single 2 km level of downtown with everything in it needed about 15,000 more textures and simply hung on loading. So the city is cut into levels that each stay inside those limits, in four flavours, and you install the ones that suit your PC and how you skate:

Mod — Level size — Props — For

LosSantos_Sections — 800 m — yes — the lightest: fastest loading and the best frame rate, at the cost of switching level more often

LosSantos_City — 1.4 km — yes — the same streets in fewer, larger levels: four of the small squares in one

LosSantos_Landmarks — 800 m to 1 km — yes — one famous place in the middle of a level, so a spot is never cut in half by a level edge

LosSantos_Big — 2 km — no — the longest lines without a loading screen

Larger levels cost more: more textures and geometry in memory at once and a longer far view to draw. In the four densest city levels and in the big north level the least visible textures (well under 1 % of what is on screen) are plain colours; that is what lets them load at all.

Props or no props

Props are the loose street-level objects of GTA V: lamp posts, benches, bins, bollards, fences, signs, planters and most trees and plants.

• With props (Sections, City, Landmarks): the streets as they really are. Made for realistic skating: the spots

are the ones the map gives you, with everything standing where Rockstar put it.

• Without props (Big): a clean canvas. Every building, road, plaza, ledge and staircase is still there, but the

clutter is gone, which is also what makes a 2 km level fit. Made for dropping your own rails, ramps and objects with the game's builder, for planning trick lines, and for just messing around over a long distance.

Level — Area — Size — Before merging

LS-X1 — North 2 km — 2000 x 2000 m — 982 MB

LS-X2 — South 2 km — 2000 x 2000 m — 477 MB

Built for one exact game version (the mod is stamped with it): rebuild after a game update.

Credits

Made by petergowild over several days, partly with the help of Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant), which wrote much of the code. Made for the love of skate. and GTA. The tools: Los Santos for ReSkate.

• Discord: petergowild
• GitHub: peter-w07