[jonrb]

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Originally Posted by Y_Less TBH I wouldn’t be surprised if you were the first person to try this. Neither this system nor SA were designed for large crowds. Yes, people slowly push the features as far as they can until they start hitting fundamental engine limits, but this takes a while. Actors were intended for standing around on their own, for example in shops or street corners, and most uses of them conform to that. I’m neither surprised nor upset that someone is trying something bigger. I’m also not surprised that it took this long, or that the engine can’t take it. And if there’s no mention of a limit on the wiki, it just means no-one found or documented it yet, not that it doesn’t exist. As for why its 51 not 50, that could be a number of things. An OBOE somewhere, or during development a mapper wanted to place more actors somewhere, couldn’t, and they pushed the limit to exactly what was needed for that scene. A disturbing number of things in games are hard-coded to exactly what’s needed at that moment.

Great reply, and never seen OBOE acronym-ised before!

If it's not some sort of trade secret, how do the actors work under the hood? I just tried loading in NPCs and they render alongside the actors just as well as I do. Are there different kinds of entities in GTA SA, or are we all just people?

Lastly, how do I get the wiki updated?