FiveM fire and smoke effects

Fire for scenes and props (a burning car, a bin fire, a campsite), smoke for the aftermath, and the two together for a bigger blaze. Each effect below exports as its own .ypt and loops seamlessly, so a fire can burn for as long as the scene needs.

Fires

Ground Fire HazardFire PillarCozy CampfireOil slick fireSpreading Wildfire

Smoke

Rising Smoke PlumeCampfire with Rolling SmokeEngine OverheatSmoke Screen Grenade

Settings that hold up in GTA V

• Origin: Ground. Fires and smoke start at the floor, so the coordinate you pass is where they stand.
• Size. About 1 to 1.5 m for a campfire, 3 to 4 m for a burning car, 5 to 8 m for a smoke plume over a building.
• Glow on Auto. Flames keep some of their own light at night; smoke takes the light of the scene, so it looks grey by day and dark at night, as real smoke does.
• Frame blending: Smooth. Each frame blends into the next, which keeps slow smoke from stepping.
• A fire and its smoke as two effects. Play the smoke a little above the fire at the same spot: you can stop the flames and leave the smoke drifting.
• Vary the scale. The natives’ scale argument multiplies the size, so one fire export covers a small and a large blaze.

Export one

1. Open Ground Fire Hazard 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 Ground, so it stands on the floor at the coordinate you pass. 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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