Parachutes & Smoke Trails

Parachutes & Smoke Trails lists all 14 canopy tints and 8 smoke trail options with their indices, text labels and RGB values. Click a canopy, pick a smoke colour, and copy a snippet that gives the parachute and applies everything to the player.

What it is for

Skydiving events, BASE jumping jobs, or a store that sells parachute styles all need the tint indices and the natives to apply them. Six of the canopies also need a model swap that is easy to miss. The snippet handles that for you.

Quick start

1. Click a card under Canopy tints. With Same tint everywhere on (the default), the main canopy, reserve and pack all follow it.
2. Turn Smoke trail on or off and click a colour swatch, or use Custom to pick any colour.
3. Copy parachute.lua from under the Snippet builder.

Canopy tints

Each card also shows the description label (PD_TINT* or PSD_CAN_*), click to copy. Tints 8 to 13 are the San Andreas Flight School canopies and are marked model override: they only appear after you swap the canopy model to pil_p_para_pilot_sp_s.

Smoke trail colours

Click a swatch in the table to use it in the snippet (it also turns the smoke trail on). Smoke trails are not a tint index: you turn them on and pass any RGB you like. The Patriot trail is three colours, but the native takes one RGB per call, so pick one or cycle them yourself.

Snippet builder

Example

A Desert Chute (needs the model override) with an orange trail:

CreateThread(function()
    local player = PlayerId()
    local ped = PlayerPedId()

    GiveWeaponToPed(ped, `gadget_parachute`, 1, false, false)
    SetPlayerHasReserveParachute(player)

    -- tints 8 to 13 only exist on the flight school canopy
    local model = `pil_p_para_pilot_sp_s`
    RequestModel(model)
    while not HasModelLoaded(model) do Wait(0) end
    SetPlayerParachuteModelOverride(player, model)
    SetPlayerReserveParachuteModelOverride(player, model)

    SetPlayerParachuteTintIndex(player, 9) -- Desert Chute
    SetPlayerReserveParachuteTintIndex(player, 9) -- Desert Chute
    SetPlayerParachutePackTintIndex(player, 9) -- Desert Chute

    SetPlayerCanLeaveParachuteSmokeTrail(player, true)
    SetPlayerParachuteSmokeTrailColor(player, 255, 165, 0)
end)

Natives

Click a native name in the tool to copy it.

Tips

• These natives take the player id (PlayerId()), not the ped.
• The labels are text entries. Use GetLabelText("PM_TINT7") to show the localised name in a menu.
• Setting an index from 8 to 13 without the model override shows the wrong canopy.

Limitations

The canopy previews are approximate drawings from the in-game descriptions, not renders. Everything runs in the browser.

Data: Vespura (vespura.com).

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