IV Released Restored Trees Position

[Attramet]

Perhaps you sometimes noticed that on some sidewalks there are holes, or slabs on which there should be trees, but there are no trees themselves.
This was not always like that, as an example I can show one such place where there was a tree starting from an early beta, then this tree appears in late beta, but in a different look, and in the final this tree is missing.

  

Reasons for removing could be various, like they was affected on performance, or they just accidentally being removed, like a couple of trees on Hove Beach in TBoGT.
Anyway, here is a map with the places I was able to find and restore trees there.

White dots with a red outline indicate the specific location where tree was restored, while red stripes mean that the whole area has been changed, park in the Steinway has received a big changes.
Since the mod heavily relied on game's beta content, it would be very unfair to ignore the many other trees that were featured in pre-release materials, but were removed from the final version of the game, so this mod will include such content as well.

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if you are interested to see difference between vanilla game and the mod, here's a quick comparison with trees from Console Visuals mod

Special thanks to @iriedreadlock23 for creating ingame wpl tool.

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Edited October 17, 2025 by Attramet

[internet_rob]

Amazing, I actually didn't know about this issue. It's time to become a tree hugger.

[Ash_735]

It's nice seeing more IV deep dives these days to enhance the experience of the base game.

[T-ru]

This's great, it's amazing that you want to mod and fix this game! The vegetation system of IV is quite outdated and uniforms, my opinion is that there is a trees that need to be removed on some streets. Actually the vegetation system of IV is the almost only outdated thing, if this game has present vegetation system would be like remastered and another thing, the draw distance of the trees is too poor, not so much in the far they looks like ugly (imposters) tents, can you do something about that?

[Attramet]

3 hours ago, T-ru said:

This's great, it's amazing that you want to mod and fix this game! The vegetation system of IV is quite outdated and uniforms, my opinion is that there is a trees that need to be removed on some streets. Actually the vegetation system of IV is the almost only outdated thing, if this game has present vegetation system would be like remastered and another thing, the draw distance of the trees is too poor, not so much in the far they looks like ugly (imposters) tents, can you do something about that?

Thanks. I already work on removing some weird and misplaced trees in my fixes mod. As for the LODs of trees, they need a complete rework, but all this is better left to more experienced people, I'm just interested in beta content.

[Attramet]

Small update:
Added tree in Algonquin next to the car dealership.

[Attramet]

Update:
Restored 4 more trees, they are marked with yellow outline.


Added option, which removes several trees that located on the way of scripted vehicles in couple missions.

[Toasterry]

Can you tell me how install this mod? I've been trying to install it, but after I installed it, the game always crashing during loading screen.

[Attramet]

On 10/30/2022 at 1:36 PM, Toasterry said:

Can you tell me how install this mod? I've been trying to install it, but after I installed it, the game always crashing during loading screen.

I have no idea what you did wrong, there is like 3 files which needs to drag and drop with replacement.

[Toasterry]

The file should rename it first then drag to the GTA 4 folder? Or just simply drag all of the file to the GTA 4 folder?

[Chunk Norris]

2 minutes ago, Toasterry said:

The file should rename it first then drag to the GTA 4 folder? Or just simply drag all of the file to the GTA 4 folder?

you will need OpenIV and you need to navigate to  gtaiv/pc/data/maps , open up the .img files according to the file names in the mod and drop the files in there.

[Toasterry]

The file on mods folder has different name. Should I rename it?

[Attramet]

Another update, probably the last one, because I don't think there is anything left to do, until more information about beta becomes known.
Restored more trees, like in previous post they are marked with yellow outline.


Replaced tree model from the second option (which should match to late beta). Thanks to a better screenshot, I managed to determine tree model and restore everything as it should be.
Edit: added EFLC compatibility.

Edited April 12, 2023 by Attramet

[MiesThies]

Niceeee update! 

[cyv233]

I really love this mod, it gives the game so much atmosphere with all the trees around the map.

Shame it isn't compatible with EFLC Map updates, otherwise it is perfect for me.

The only thing that is bothering me about the game is how there is less variety of trees on the pc version and how on console there are far more differently colored trees.

Here is an example: 

 

[Attramet]

18 hours ago, cyv233 said:

I really love this mod, it gives the game so much atmosphere with all the trees around the map.

Shame it isn't compatible with EFLC Map updates, otherwise it is perfect for me.

The only thing that is bothering me about the game is how there is less variety of trees on the pc version and how on console there are far more differently colored trees.

Here is an example: 

 

I never thought about compatibility with EFLC, gonna make it in a few hours, check the main page, if it is edited, then compatibility is done.
As for console trees, sure, they look more diverse, despite the fact that the quality is worse than on PC, I'm still waiting when someone find a way to port them from there.

Edited December 10, 2022 by Attramet

[cyv233]

Also will Restored Trees Position mod be compatible with this mod ?

 

[Attramet]

14 hours ago, cyv233 said:

Also will Restored Trees Position mod be compatible with this mod ?

 

no, at least not for now

[cyv233]

Since EFLC is supported, maybe you could restore the trees in TBoGT on Hove Beach ?

[Attramet]

6 hours ago, cyv233 said:

Since EFLC is supported, maybe you could restore the trees in TBoGT on Hove Beach ?

This is planned for various fixes, sure I can include it here, but I'm not going to update this mod until I find more info about removed trees.

[rippi]

Thanks for the mod, but could you make the folder installation by drag and drop only without option?

[Attramet]

55 minutes ago, rippi said:

Thanks for the mod, but could you make the folder installation by drag and drop only without option?

Ain't there already drag and drop installation? I don't see what's the problem with options

[MC_Queen]

Does it require a new game? and is it compatible with Various Fixes?

[Attramet]

29 minutes ago, FloraMoon said:

Does it require a new game? and is it compatible with Various Fixes?

It does not require a new game, and it's compatible with Various Fixes

[Ash_735]

Just a heads up @Attramet there's one faulty file in TLAD, one of the Manhat files is an addition, not a replacement and adding it to the archive causes the game to glitch out, the rest of the game works fine though if you ignore that one file. (Complete Edition on Steam here).

[Attramet]

3 hours ago, Ash_735 said:

Just a heads up @Attramet there's one faulty file in TLAD, one of the Manhat files is an addition, not a replacement and adding it to the archive causes the game to glitch out, the rest of the game works fine though if you ignore that one file. (Complete Edition on Steam here).

Oh, ok, thanks for letting me know, for my game this file does not causes any issues, whether it is in the archive or not, but I will try to find a solution to the problem in next update, which is almost ready

[Attramet]

and here is the update
Restored more trees, like always they are marked on map with yellow outline.

Removed a problematic file in TLAD that could cause problems in game. It didn't have any important changes, just a few trees on Algonquin were moved in it.

[KevinFromHP]

EDIT: Completely different question.

Which files are incompatible with the main game / episodes? I'm asking since I can toggle different files off for each episode with IV Tweaker, but I'm not sure if I can run all of the files on at once, can I?

Edited September 10, 2023 by KevinFromHP

[Attramet]

15 hours ago, KevinFromHP said:

EDIT: Completely different question.

Which files are incompatible with the main game / episodes? I'm asking since I can toggle different files off for each episode with IV Tweaker, but I'm not sure if I can run all of the files on at once, can I?

Those that have the same name? I don’t know what the result will be if you try to launch IV with EFLC files, and vice versa, most likely the game will simply crash.

[KevinFromHP]

3 hours ago, Attramet said:

Those that have the same name? I don’t know what the result will be if you try to launch IV with EFLC files, and vice versa, most likely the game will simply crash.

Yeah, it seems like so. I think the files as a whole don't work with IV tweaker because all of them make the game crash, even if I only load IV ones with IV and EFLC ones with EFLC.

I'll try through UAL or direct installation eventually.