How to put arrows on GTA

GTA ( Grand Theft Auto ) series video games are your favorites. You’ve played them all and the most recent ones impressed you with their level of detail and realism, as well as the attention to the smallest details. Since the movement on the map often takes place with vehicles, you realized that something is still missing to make the game perfect: the ability to put the arrow while driving your vehicle.

Unfortunately this is one of the few details that Rockstar Games has not taken care of within its series. Or at least not completely. In reality, in fact, the functionality is present in GTA, but only for the vehicles of the NPCs (non-player characters), which use the direction indicators. At this point, it is natural to wonder how to put the arrows on GTA even with your character. Well, there are ways to do it and, if you want, today I will explain them to you in detail.

How do you say? Do not you believe it? Then take a look! All you have to do is make yourself comfortable and dedicate only a few minutes of your free time to me, so that you can carefully read the advice I will give you and therefore be able to put them into practice without any difficulty. That said, let’s not waste any more precious time! I wish you a good read and, above all, a lot of fun!

Index

• How to put arrows on GTA 5
  • Download the dependencies needed for the mods
  • Download and install the Car Controls mod
  • How to use the Car Controls mod

How to put arrows on GTA 5

If you want to put arrows on GTA 5 on PC, one of the newest chapters in the Grand Theft Auto series, what I recommend you do is to use mods .

Not sure what mods are? Don’t worry, I’ll explain it to you right away. Mods are nothing more than unofficial add-ons (usually scripts, but not only) that allow you to extend the functionality of a video game by integrating new features or improving existing ones.

The mods for GTA 5 can be used without any risk of being banned, if used in the Story mode , i.e. the offline one. The use of mods in GTA Online , on the other hand, involves the automatic ban, which can be temporary or permanent.

Although the procedures that I will describe to you in the next chapters will concern the installation of mods in the Story mode, which will automatically deactivate when you enter the online mode, it is always better to remove them, to avoid inconveniences. Removal consists in deleting the dependency and mod files from the root folder where GTA 5 is installed. All clear? Well, then I’d say we can proceed.

Download the dependencies needed for the mods

The first step is to download and install the necessary dependencies in order to be able to run the mods on GTA 5. Most of the mods are in .ASI format , ie script files that are executed during the game session.

To allow .ASI files to run , the ScriptHook V library must be installed . To do this, you need to reach the GTA5 website -mods.com at this link , in order to access the tab of this tool.

Now, press the button Download , and then again on Download , to download the .ZIP file containing the tool. After you have downloaded it, double-click on the obtained archive and extract its contents in the main folder where you installed GTA 5.

Among the files contained in the extracted archive, those you need are: ScriptHookV.dll , which is the library for supporting these scripts, and dinput8.dll , an essential file for running .ASI files . All the other files in the archive are not necessary, including the one called NativeTrainer.asi , which represents an example script for performing some “tricks” in GTA 5.

If you have followed to the letter all the instructions I have given you, you are ready to face the next chapter of my guide, in which I will explain how to install the mod that will allow you to activate the direction indicators in your vehicle.

Download and install the Car Controls mod

After downloading the ScriptHook V tool, it’s time to move on to download and install the Car Controls mod . This is a script for GTA 5 that allows you to activate and deactivate the turn signals, the hazard warning lights (four arrows), the interior lights and the alarm in your vehicle. It also allows you to open and close the windows and turn the engine on and off.

As you can understand, the Car Controls mod is the most suitable to be able to manage all those features in the vehicle that have not been entrusted to the direct management of the player. But now let’s get to the point, seeing in detail how to download and install the mod in question.

First, go to the GTA5 website -mods.com at this link , to access the section related to the Car Controls mod . Once this is done, press the Download button and you can again on the same, to start the download of the .ZIP file of the mod.

After the compressed archive has been downloaded to your computer, double-click on it and extract its contents in the main folder where you installed GTA 5. I warn you that among the files contained within the archive, the useful ones to extract are only CarControls.asi and carcontrols.ini .

Good! You don’t have to do any other operation! All that’s left for you to do is simply launch GTA 5, so you can start using the Car Controls mod . Like? I’ll tell you about it in the next chapter .

How to use the Car Controls mod

Now that you’ve installed the Car Controls mod , it’s time to see how it works. The first thing you need to do is launch GTA 5 , using its quick launch icon on the desktop. Once this is done, start the Story mode and wait for the upload to complete.

After you arrive in the game session, get on board a vehicle, to start using the mod in question. The control keys of the mod are equivalent to those of the numeric keypad . You can still modify them to your liking, simply by closing the game and editing the carcontrols.ini file , which you find in the GTA 5 installation folder.

First, the 0 button allows you to turn the engine on and off of the vehicle you have boarded. The keys 1 and 3 , however, manage respectively the direction of the vehicle detectors. Therefore, you just need to press key 1 to indicate the left turn or key 3 for the right one. You will then have to press the same button again to deactivate the beacon.

The 2 button instead allows you to turn on and off the hazard warning, that the four arrows. The buttons 4 and 6 open and close the windows in the rear doors respectively in right and left, while the buttons 7 and 9 operate as the front on both sides. Finally, key 5 turns on the interior lights or, if out of the vehicle, activates the alarm. It was simpler than I thought, am I right?