GTA V MAP - LITTLE ITALY - Lore Friendly Block Rework

Little Italy - A fusion of an old industrial American district and an Italian neighborhood. A place where an opportunist looking to open a start-up business, someone looking for housing in a classic New York styled neighborhood or a mobster looking for a safe haven for his illegal operation hidden in the heart of a residential area can retreat. All design is based on real-life Brooklyn architecture, real Little Italy in Manhattan, and New Jersey. ᴛᴇʙᴇx - https://yukonvisuals.tebex.io/package... discord -   / discord   cfx forum - https://forum.cfx.re/t/gta-v-map-litt... 🏘️ 3 MLOS (2 walk-in warehouses and 1 port-in shell of LOFT apartment) for V1.0 ⚙️ Optimized for undisturbed performance in the form of; Low-poly models (minimal virtual memory load) High quality LOD & SLOD system that seamlessly swaps between HD version Optimized collisions (separated for peds & cars vs gun decals (hi@col including low-poly meshes)) Custom Occlusion map Complete Navmesh The project went through several phases and its original idea was to create residential complexes in the La Mesa district that would adhere to the architectural style and palette of materials that the district offers. A few months later, a new idea came - to introduce architecture from New York / Liberty City using the palette of materials from Los Santos and expand the current districts with Italian. During my time in the roleplaying community, I have come across dozens, if not hundreds, of cases where players resort to adapting the mafia or syndicates of the East Coast of America. And so a representation of the Italian community was created in the forgotten side of the Los Santos Canal - Little Italy. A place where the Italian wave of migration encountered the old American industrial revolution. The neighborhood itself is made up of unique buildings that were modeled based on real properties that I came across either directly in Brooklyn or New Jersey (traveling in Google Earth is an underrated tourist activity). None of the building models are taken from the current GTA 5 or GTA 4 map and only share a texture palette. The neighborhood itself is divided into three sections. Industrial - formed by an old factory whose architecture dates back to the Victorian Industrial Revolution (inspired by the Imperial Oil Opera in Toronto). This represents the rest of the industrial part of the city. But to avoid depressing darkness of industrial vibe, this part of the block is also expanded with long park strip on east side, where you can land the best views. The second section is commercial-residential and forms the middle strip stretching from the railroad tracks in the west to the asphalt of Popular Street - the main drag of the La Mesa neighborhood. The buildings are made up of residential townhouses specific to the real Little Italy, NYC. Next to them is the old Clemente Hotel, again inspired by New York architecture. The second half-block of the central lane is made up of lower residential buildings, one of which contains the interior of a typical New York loft, a closed Italian restaurant and a pawnshop "Offer you can't refuse". The third and final section at the lowest point of the new block is a purely residential area, made up of classic single-family homes. Here, the architecture of the buildings is based purely on New Jersey. The eastern side of this section contains a few businesses such as Peter & Paulie's Real Estate Office, massage and nail studios, but mainly there is a remnant of the original inhabitants of the La Mesa neighborhood - the Irish Darnell families. After them, on the ground floor of the white corner building, Darnell Bros Pub and Darnell Bistro remain. The southern tip of Little Italy is separated from the warehouses of La Mesa by a narrow natural strip filled with vegetation, the paths of which lead you either to Popular Street or to the park on the eastern part of the block.