LosSantos City

Los Santos: city levels

Los Santos for ReSkate: 16 city levels of 1.4 km (2 x 2 squares), with 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.

Rows A to D run north to south, columns 1 to 4 west to east (see the map picture in this folder). Each level is a 1200 m square plus a 100 m rim, so neighbours overlap by 200 m. Bus stops named to LS-.. stand at the edge towards each neighbour; the other stops are the districts inside the level. In the densest levels the least visible textures (well under 1 % of what is on screen) are flat colours.

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-A1 — Richman — 1400 x 1400 m — 403 MB

LS-A2 — Rockford Hills — 1400 x 1400 m — 800 MB

LS-A3 — Vinewood — 1400 x 1400 m — 571 MB

LS-A4 — Racetrack — 800 x 1400 m — 199 MB

LS-B1 — Del Perro — 1400 x 1400 m — 592 MB

LS-B2 — Little Seoul — 1400 x 1400 m — 967 MB

LS-B3 — Legion Square — 1400 x 1400 m — 854 MB

LS-B4 — Murrieta Heights — 800 x 1400 m — 270 MB

LS-C1 — Vespucci Beach — 1400 x 1400 m — 180 MB

LS-C2 — La Puerta — 1400 x 1400 m — 700 MB

LS-C3 — Strawberry — 1400 x 1400 m — 791 MB

LS-C4 — El Burro Heights — 800 x 1400 m — 300 MB

LS-D1 — Airport West — 1400 x 1400 m — 125 MB

LS-D2 — Airport East — 1400 x 1400 m — 318 MB

LS-D3 — Elysian Island — 1400 x 1400 m — 470 MB

LS-D4 — Terminal — 800 x 1400 m — 197 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