GTA: Dubai Islands [Add-on Map] V2.1

Grand Theft Auto: Dubai Islands brings some of the most recognizable buildings from the Middle East and beyond to the game Grand Theft Auto V! This mod contains multiple islands including a Palm Jumeirah replica, an airport and even the Yas Marina Formula 1 circuit from Abu Dhabi!

CRASHES SHOULD NOW BE FIXED 99% WITH THE LATEST 2.0 CRASH FIX UPDATE

Changes in V2.0:

– Added more random props, and bridges between the islands.
– Dubai International Airport replica added.
– Minimap is now included, but will be only compatible with 4K Satellite View Map by Designerappz
– Some new buildings: London One Canada Square (not really Middle East but still good looking), a random large building.
– The 1$ VIP version will have an added Abraj Al Bait Meccah Royal Clock Tower (interior with Kaaba) and the planned Dubai Creek Tower (height 1300 meter).
– Deleted unnecessary collision files for better performance and reducing crashes.
– Reducing some unnessecarily large 4K textures and replaced them by 2K textures without ingame visible quality loss.
– Re-importing Bahrain World Trade Center without z-fighting faces, with reduced polygons for better performance and less irritating ‘flashing textures’.
– Editing and improving shaders and textures on some buildings for less problems with strange colored glass glitches.
– Editing normal directions on some buildings for a visible better quality, without strange lines and shadow glitches.
– Added lights in Luzhniki Moscow World Cup 2018 stadium, which will light up at night.
– Added a Freddie Mercury Statue inspired on the one in Montreux, Switzerland. Located near Dubai Emirates Towers and Rose Tower.
– Some buildings now have LOD versions, which will reduce possible lag and the game will have less chance to suffer from random crashes.

Possible future changes in a next version:

– Adding more traffic paths and correcting existing traffic if possible.
– Adding more details, more mansions, more props…
– Making LOD versions on more buildings to reduce crashes for some users.
– More buidlings or statues, towers…
– Whatever comes up on my mind or on yours: you can always leave a (realistic) suggestion! 

IF YOU WANT THE TRAFFIC PATHS TO WORK BETTER, YOU MAY NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE ‘NO BOUNDARY LIMITS’ MOD.
BELOW ARE 2 DOWNLOADS, CHOOSE ONE OF THE TWO. I THINK THEY DO EXACTLY THE SAME…

Download this one: no boundary limits
Or this one: No Boundary Limits

For a new complete minimap by LorenVidican, download this: GTA 5 Style Map with Radar for Dubai Islands

If you want the old incomplete minimap to work,
first download Designerappz’ 4K Satellite view map radar mod: 4K Satellite View Map bundled with radar mod & zoom script

Installations instructions below.

This map mod now contains:
United Arab Emirates: Burj Khalifa, Aldar Headquarters, Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Rose Tower, Atlantis Hotel, Dubai Airport replica, Dubai Media Centre, Yas Marina F1 Circuit ABU DHABI (Converted from F1 2017). VIP VERSION: Dubai Creek Tower (planned for completion in 2020 in real life).
(Burj al-Arab can be downloaded here: Burj Al Arab Hotel Dubai ) Thanks to Z@gor
Kingdom Saudi-Arabia: Kingdom Centre. VIP VERSION: Abraj Al Bait Meccah Royal Clock Tower
Kingdom of Bahrain: Bahrain World Trade Center
State of Kuwait: Kuwait Towers
Russia: Luzhniki World Cup 2018 Stadium (Converted from FIFA 18)
China: Shanghai Pearl Tower
Turkey: Istanbul Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmet.
Europe, UK: London One Canada Square
Europe, Switzerland: Montreux Freddie Mercury Statue
A random building, random houses, a mosque, 2 small bridges, 2 large bridges and 2 yachts.

I know Russia and China and of course the UK and Switzerland are not really Persian/Arabian,
and neither is Turkey in fact. But I think it’s all a great addition to this mod, with an extra touch!

Burj Khalifa is converted from a GTA IV mod by ‘Metalwarz’. Many many thanks to him for the GTA IV version!
I only converted that one to GTA V.

IF YOU WANT THE TRAFFIC PATHS TO WORK BETTER, YOU MAY NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE ‘NO BOUNDARY LIMITS’ MOD.

INSTALLATION:
Install the files with OpenIV.
If you can’t work with OpenIV, search for tutorials on youtube,
there are a lot of good tutorials.

– Extract everything from the .zip file
– In update/x64/dlcpacks create the folder ‘dubai’ and paste the dlc.rpf (located in this download: dubai folder)
– In update/update.rpf-common-data edit the file dlclist.xml:
Search for the last ‘dlcpacks:\…\’ and paste this new dlc code line after it:
dlcpacks:\dubai\
– In update/update.rpf-x64-levels-gta5-paths.rpf add the 2 files in the ‘traffic paths’ folder in this download.
‘nodes393.ynd’ and ‘nodes395.ynd’.
– For the new minimap, download this mod by LorenVidican: Atlas / GTA 5 Style Map with Radar for Dubai Islands
– For my original incomplete minimap, first download Designerappz’ 4K Satellite view map radar mod
Install it, then replace 2 times 2 tiles:
‘minimap_1_0.ytd’
‘minimap_2_0.ytd’
‘minimap_sea_1_0.ytd’
‘minimap_sea_2_0.ytd’
Those are included in the folder ‘minimap for Designerappz’ 4K Satellite view map’ in my .zip file you extracted.
Again, many thanks to Designerappz for letting me edit 2 tiles!

WARNING: The minimap is NOT complete because a large part of the Dubai Islands map is out of GTA 5 standard bounds.

READY!

For Z@gor’s Burj Al-Arab, you need to install it as an addonprops.
Therefore you will need addonprops mod by Meth0d and quechus13.

PLEASE KNOW THAT A GOOD PC IS REQUIRED, AND FPS DROP IS POSSIBLE USING THIS MOD.
THE FILES ARE PRETTY LARGE (THOUGH I REDUCED IT)
AND IT’S VERY POSSIBLE A ‘NORMAL DECENT’ PC WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO RUN THIS.

Credits:

GTA Belgium

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File	File size
GTA_Dubai_Islands_StandardVersion_V2.1	376 MB