This mod has been on a prolonged hiatus since I've recently joined University, however full work has resumed on it, and here is a resume of progress so far:
Era buildings and objects: I am currently attempting to port some buildings from Mafia II into the game, and since I've got considerable sucess in porting some items from the Dipton apparel store, I believe we might see success in this area really soon, as I am porting the Jewelry from Mafia II's mission Murphy's law into the game( Not the entire mall yet lol, but I do plan to depending on how it will behave in-game/If it would crash too much or the game would open at all, still might learn how to do alpha channel textures in order to get buildings with transparent windows in it, for era realism I am replacing many objects such as computers and phones to their era counteparts.
I've also been looking at many tutorials on how to port cars to the game and completely switched my modding environment from 3DSMAX to Blender, that's how I was able to improve the quality of one of the skyscrappers, and it is also far easier to work with.
I've found some interesting piece of voice cloning software that might make the characters sound more "convincing", that means if it goes smoothly, I could actually have Carlo Falcone, Joe Barbaro, and other character voices ingame.
Many "too modernist" buildings might be replaced:
We all know modern architecture exists since the very late 19th century, however the 1930-40s were the era of Art deco, while we had some modernist buildings
the former style was far more popular still, some modernist buildings that might have matched this style such as the house in Vinewood will be kept
Mod exclusive peds: Since I've been playing around with rigging characters since around 2019, I might create some era like peds and port some from Mafia II
Some famous figures/personalities!
In the 1940s we had some famous figures such as Clark Gable, Carmen Miranda, Doris Day, and others, so some of them might be included ingame!
