FiveM electric effects: tasers, sparks and arcs

Electricity for roleplay and action: a taser hit, a broken power line in a storm, an electric fence around a lab, an EMP that kills a car. Each effect below exports as its own .ypt.

Taser ZapTesla Chain GunLive severed cableElectric fenceCrackling SparkEMP BlastTransformer Blowout

Keep the arcs sharp

Arcs and sparks change shape every frame. Blending one frame into the next, as the export does for smoke, would leave a soft double image, so for fast effects with no fluid layer Frame blending on Auto picks Sharp: each frame shows as drawn. If an arc looks soft in game, set it to Sharp yourself.

Settings that hold up in GTA V

• Size. About 1 m for a taser hit or crackling spark, 2 to 4 m for a cable or fence section, 6 m and more for an EMP.
• Glow on. Electricity is light, so it should keep its own brightness at night. Auto turns it on for effects whose layers add light.
• Play it often. A spark that fires every few seconds reads better than one long loop: play the _once effect on a timer.

Export one

1. Open Taser Zap in the studio, or any effect from the library. Change colours, size or timing first if you like.
2. Press Export, choose FiveM under Export for and turn on GTA file (.ypt).
3. Set Size, the effect's widest side in metres (from the sizes above), and Origin to Centre, so the coordinate you pass is its middle. Glow, lighting and frame blending pick sensible values from the effect.
4. Set Package to .ypt file for your own resource, or Resource for a ready one with a test command.
5. Press Export, put the .ypt in your resource's stream folder and play it with the natives on the FiveM setup page.

A free account gets 3 exports a day, and the ready .ypt counts as one, alone or in a resource with fxmanifest.lua and a test command. The frames as one 6 x 6 or 7 x 7 sheet PNG are free the same way. Any plan, from $7.99 a month, has no daily limit, for a whole server's set of effects at once.

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