Hi @MiiTins ,
Do you think it would be possible to create a mod similar to this one, but one that adds animals to GTA 5—like sperm whales, narwhals, sturgeons, whale sharks, and more? I already have the 3D models if needed. If you're up for it, we could discuss this on Discord; it would be easier.
My Discord is .hydrosky

@MiiTins Really amazing mod and great mesh quality, thank you so much 🥳🐳🌊 I'm also hoping for the legacy version as well 😍 Gave you a follow for your new uploads 🎉

@CRASH213 @phucduongdaonhan @MissySnowie Thank you all kindly for the ratings! My legacy version should be getting approved in the next day or so. Unfortunately I can't test it, so please let me know how it goes! I'll do my best to fix any possible issues ASAP!

@HydroSky While I'd love to have all that in the game, anything beyond texture painting and basic remeshing is way over my skill level. Sorry! I'm also not planning to do much more for the ocean beyond whales and sharks.

@MiiTins I'm not talking about remeshing; I'm just talking about taking a 3D model, converting it for GTA, and applying a standard GTA V skeleton (for a dolphin, hammerhead shark, humpback whale, orca, ray, fish, or tiger shark). The only difference is that instead of using the "replace" method, you use the "add-on" method, it's exactly the same work you did here, just repeated for multiple models. If it's not too difficult, I might even be able to learn how to do it myself, provided you'd be willing to show me the basics of conversion and rigging the skeleton to the 3D model.

@MiiTins I truly believe there is potential in my idea ; that is why I am taking the liberty of insisting. (Sorry for english, this is google translator)

@HydroSky definitely potential! Even rigging is over for my head honestly. I've had ChatGPT talk me through basic Blender use, maybe that could help you? Adding new wildlife without replacing is another layer of difficulty that I haven't gotten into yet.

@MiiTins Why do you think creating marine wildlife without replacing existing elements adds another layer of difficulty ?
What will your future plans be, then ?

@HydroSky it's hard to explain but from what I can see, there's no easy way to just add new NPCs to the world. Addonpeds might the most likely route here but I'm not sure how it works for wildlife or marine wildlife. For now I'm working on remastering a good chunk of the land animals, giving them new coats, etc. if I do learn this addonped stuff, I'd love to work on wolves, foxes, and bears.

@MiiTins Okay, I totally get what you mean. On average, how long does it take you to make a mod like the Blue Whale? Have you been doing this for a while, or is this your first mod? Anyway, I had a simpler idea for my "project" : making a whale shark, basking shark, southern right whale, sperm whale, and so on, but as replacements for the humpback whale. I’d swap them out between play sessions to choose which animal appears in the water. I know it’s a pretty crude way of doing things, but it’s simpler.

PS : Good luck for your wildlife projects !

@HydroSky We could create anything you can imagine, but copyright restrictions regarding the 3D models prevent us from sharing them here; therefore, we will limit ourselves to the mods already available on this site.

@MiiTins legacy version ydd work, but ytd cannot open, If you haven't been able to fix it yet, just upload the data file; others will know how to import it into YTD.

@phucduongdaonhan thank you, I'll take another look and throw in the raw dds files

@phucduongdaonhan I think I see where I went wrong. The next version just has the .ytd as a folder with the .dds files for manual replacement. Just awaiting approval! I'm also downloading Legacy so I can streamline this for future uploads.

@HydroSky Oh I'm brand new to GTA modding haha. This was my first upload. Some of what I know comes from Skyrim modding, as far as texturing. and thanks! It's taking me a couple weeks to get some of these out, between the creation, testing, correcting, and just generally finding the time.
And I do like your ideas! Another caveat to GTA animals is anything new may have to fit within the parameters of a vanilla animal. Like sperm whales and whale sharks may have to just use the humpback skeleton because nothing else really fits their behaviors and speed. This would make the whale shark have a sideways tail but the ambient behavior would be close enough.
Another example of this is that the few bear mods I've were actually using the cow skeleton haha

@MiiTins OK, all working now

@phucduongdaonhan thank you 🙏🏻

What the helly? 😭 I never expected to see BLUE WHALES in GTA 5

@MiiTins Thank you so so so much for the Legacy version 😊 Just tested and it works amazingly https://i.imgur.com/6zDLkR7.png 😇🐳🐳🌊🥳🎉 My favorite marine mod 😍😍

Finally the legacy edition.