MLOArchitect 1.4: A Video Manual, the Map Page and Interiors That Look Built

MLOArchitect 1.4 is out, and the headline isn't a feature. It's a video. Every copy now ships with a 31-minute manual in a folder called Start Here, because, and I say this with love, nobody reads the README. I checked. It had been opened once, by me, looking for my own Discord link.

So the manual is now something you watch: every button, every key and every tick box in MLOArchitect, filmed in the real app, with captions and chapters. Then there's everything 1.4 actually adds, which is a lot.

What MLOArchitect is, if you're new

MLOArchitect is a FiveM MLO builder for GTA V. You draw rooms on a floor plan, click walls for doors and windows, furnish them with the game's own props, and press Export. It writes a streamable FiveM resource through CodeWalker, then reads the compiled files back and checks them: portals, collision, room IDs, props, lights, sound. If something would break in game, you find out in the app, not stood in a void on your server. No Blender required.

The 1.4 look

1.3 made interiors feel lived in. 1.4 makes them look expensive. Rooms use the game's own lighting moods, daylight only gets in where a room has a window or an exit door, and the downlights are spaced the way Rockstar lights its own interiors. Pick a preset, Modern warm, Gallery, Industrial or Classic, and one click sets the mood, the lights, the floors and walls, the skirting, the coves and the LED strips under the stair treads.

Under Details, every finishing touch is a tick box: skirting, coves, the shadow gap that makes architects nod at each other, soft contact shadows so furniture doesn't float, LED strips, and balustrades in bars, glass or solid.

Outsides that look built

Exteriors got the biggest glow-up. There are six styles: Spanish stucco, mid-century, modern render, shopfront, industrial and brick townhouse. One click sets the walls, roof, window frames with glazing bars, gutters, canopies, paving, and a bit of grime so the place looks lived in rather than delivered this morning in bubble wrap. It also dresses the outside with the game's own lamps, planters and bins, placed only where they fit.

New in 1.4 too: porches, balconies and pavilions. A porch can carry a balcony on top as a walkable deck, a balcony can wrap round a corner, and a pavilion stands on its own with whatever roof you like.

Walk-in: interiors inside real GTA buildings

This is the bit most FiveM servers actually want. MLOArchitect loads the real building from your own copy of GTA as a grey ghost, so you draw your rooms inside its walls instead of guessing from screenshots. Square up to the building, find its doorways, align your exit door, and if the doors are painted on or the glass is modelled into the wall, MLOArchitect cuts the doorway out of the building's model and collision for you.

The Map page: MapArchitect is now part of MLOArchitect

MLOArchitect and MapArchitect are now one app. Top left, there's Interiors and Map. The Map page opens the real GTA map from your own game, textured, and lets you change it: cut buildings open, move, delete or add props, mark spawn points, zones, doors and parking for your scripts, and send ambient peds where you want them with scenario points chained into routes. Place your interiors on the map, and the whole lot exports as one FiveM resource. Either product's licence key unlocks everything.

Building with AI, and a helper called Clappy

MLOArchitect has an MCP server with 108 tools: 67 for interiors and 41 for the map. Claude, or any AI agent that speaks MCP, can build rooms, stairs, furniture, exteriors, walk-ins and map edits, and you watch every step land live in the window while a feed says what it did. My job is now watching, pointing and taking the credit.

There's also Clappy, an optional helper you install from Setup. He runs offline on your own graphics card, answers questions, points at the button he's talking about, and makes edits when you ask, each one a single undo. He's labelled Experimental, because he sometimes gets things wrong. So do I, and I've had a lot more updates.

Help everywhere

Every button and field has a tooltip with its key. F1 opens a searchable Help panel, there's a first-launch tour, and the app speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German.

How the manual got made

The manual was built the way I build everything now: with a lot of automation and me checking it. The narration is my cloned voice running locally, and a headless browser drove the real MLOArchitect window line by line, with a visible cursor and key captions so you can follow along. Then it was all put together in my own video engine with the captions as a separate file. It's real footage of the shipping app, not mock-ups. It does say "peeds" instead of peds once near the end. I've decided that's character.

Get it

MLOArchitect is £59.99 for Personal (your own servers) or £129.99 for Commercial (sell the MLOs you make). Updates are free, and 1.4 is on the download page now for everyone who already owns it.

Get MLOArchitect on Gumroad or read more at mloarchitect.com.

Got questions? Hit me up on Discord.

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