Improved Ped Spawn

You may have noticed the same: The spawning system of GTA SA is a mess.
There are places where a bunch of pedestrians spawn at once, and the rest of the area stays empty.
This mod helps to fill the map with peds in a sophisticated, more consistently spreaded and natural way.
You can also increase the spawning distance, which works even better in combination with Mixsets.

---- Update v.26.08.25:

- Improved compatibility with other mods, such as "Rusty Brown's Ring Donuts Overhaul"
- Added my personal Mixsets settings for pedestrians in the optional folder
- Minor fixes


---- REQUIREMENTS:

- Essentials Pack
- CLEO+ v1.2.0 or newer (a plugin for Cleo)
- Open Limit Adjuster


---- INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Place the folder "Improved Ped Spawn" in your modloader directory.
2. If you want to customize some settings, you can open and edit "ImprovedPedSpawn.ini" in the "cleo" subfolder.
3. Cheat codes: 'IPSRELOAD' = reload the ini settings. 'IPSDEBUG' = Debug mode. 'WOODSTOCK' = crowded mode.
4. In the "optional" folder, there's my personal popcycle.dat. It is pretty similar to the game's original popcycle but it will decrease the amount of peds at night at some places. You can simply put it in the folder "Improved Ped Spawn" if you want.


---- IMPORTANT NOTES:

- This mod doesn't affect the vanilla ped spawning system. It doesn't change anything in game memory.
- It works in 2 different ways:
- 1. It searches for places where peds can spawn and creates them at those coordinates.
- 2. If a pedestrian is about to being created (also the ones spawned by the vanilla system), it will check the amount of peds around him.
If there are too many, it will delete this ped before it gets rendered.
- But this is not applied on gangs and cops. This mod won't spawn or delete any of them. It also won't delete peds from Urbanize.
- It was designed to work as fast as possible. I didn't notice any fps impact. But of course playing with a lot of peds in general can decrease your fps.


---- RECOMMENDED ADDITIONAL MODS:

- MixSets (almost necessary to really notice the effects because it increases the actual viewing distance of peds)
- Proper Fixes
- RoSA Evolved
- Urbanize
- Busy Pedestrians
- TweaksSA


---- PERMISSIONS

- You are allowed to share and edit this mod. Keep my name mentioned.



Author: CatchyKetchup


Screenshot: ShineOnPiper1975

Special Thanks to SimBoRRis for testing