setWorldSpecialPropertyEnabled: "weapontracers" & "bloodsplatters"

[sacr1ficez]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

As in title, currently there's no way to gracefully disable those effects.

It is partially achievable using shader and transparent texture, however:

• for weapon tracers it won't work, because it's not a texture (doesn't show up in shader_tex_names)
• for blood splatters it will work, but these textures are also used in other places, such as wood bullet impact and probably few more extra things ("bloodpool_64", "carsplash_03", "carsplash_04", "carsplash_05", "kaplc")

A good reason to disable them would be:

• creating own weapon tracer effect
• creating own blood splatter effect upon hitting player/ped which will clearly indicate that player/ped got hit, unlike by default which isn't necessarily always true

Describe the solution you'd like

setWorldSpecialPropertyEnabled("weapontracers", false) -- toggle weapon tracers (by default: true)
setWorldSpecialPropertyEnabled("bloodsplatters", false) -- toggle blood splatters when hitting ped/player (by default: true)

Describe alternatives you've considered

Shader & transparent texture, but it will have unintended side effects, and will work only for blood splatters.

Additional context

Code for hiding blood splatters:

local shaderRaw = [[
	texture gTexture;
	technique replace {
		pass P0 {
			Texture[0] = gTexture;
		}
	}
]]

local alphaTexture = dxCreateTexture("alpha.png")
local texturesToReplace = {
	"bloodpool_64",
	"carsplash_03",
	"carsplash_04",
	"carsplash_05",
	"kaplc",
}

for _, textureName in pairs(texturesToReplace) do
	local shaderMacros = {}
	local shaderPriority = 0
	local shaderMaxDistance = 0
	local shaderLayered = false
	local shaderElementTypes = "world"
	local shaderReplace = dxCreateShader(shaderRaw, shaderMacros, shaderPriority, shaderMaxDistance, shaderLayered, shaderElementTypes)

	if (shaderReplace) then
		local shaderTargetElement = nil
		local shaderAppendLayers = true

		dxSetShaderValue(shaderReplace, "gTexture", alphaTexture)
		engineApplyShaderToWorldTexture(shaderReplace, textureName, shaderTargetElement, shaderAppendLayers)
	end
end

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