New Rigged Add-On Ped Felixs Brings Optimized NPC to GTA V

Modder r3t4rd3d uploaded the Felixs add-on ped pack to GTA5-Mods.com on April 4, 2026, delivering a single-player NPC built with a fully optimized mesh, a complete LOD chain, BloodMap support, and facial rigging that extends down to the fingers. The model's spawn name is ig_felixs, and the pack slots directly into machinima pipelines, roleplay server setups, and immersion-focused NPC collections without the instability common in rushed model conversions.

Getting it running requires Leo's AddonPeds tool, credited under the handle Meth0d, which handles ped injection by adding new models without touching any base RPF archives. AddonPeds 3.0.1 is the current stable release and pulls in three dependencies before it will load: Script Hook V by Alexander Blade, ScriptHookVDotNet, and NativeUI. Once those are in place, drop ig_felixs into your AddonPeds folder, launch the game, and hit L to open the Ped Selector Menu. AddonPeds has cleared roughly 2.57 million downloads on GTA5-Mods.com, making it one of the platform's most embedded utilities, but there is a caveat worth flagging: as of January 16, 2025, the original AddonPeds listing was pinned as deprecated. r3t4rd3d's install notes still reference that legacy branding, so new users should navigate directly to the current standalone addon-pedselector page rather than the old listing to avoid a dead end on arrival.

Three failure points account for most broken installs. First, a mismatched game build: Script Hook V must match your GTA V executable version exactly, and Rockstar's periodic forced updates are the most common reason an otherwise clean setup stops working overnight. Second, missing or outdated dependencies: if ScriptHookVDotNet or NativeUI are running older versions, AddonPeds will either fail silently or crash on menu open. Third, conflicting ped packs: large NPC collections push against streaming limits, and if you have already loaded a dense pack, ig_felixs may trigger the peds-limit crash that affects both GTA 5 Legacy and GTA 5 Enhanced. JulioNIB documented a direct fix for this on March 5, 2025, requiring the HeapAdjuster ASI, the Packfile Limit Adjuster ASI, and a manual gameconfig.xml edit via OpenIV that raises the ClothStore PoolSize from 60 to 600. A community-built Expanded and Enhanced Gameconfig mod for GTA 5 Enhanced handles those pool increases without manual edits, though Enhanced modding overall remains less documented than the Legacy build, so isolated testing there is non-negotiable before bundling.

Before committing ig_felixs to a scene or server rotation, run a quick quality check. Spawn the ped and trigger an animation to confirm finger rigging is intact; collapsed hands regardless of the animation called is the clearest sign of a broken rig. Step back and watch LOD transitions at distance: a clean build degrades without mesh popping or floating texture planes. Finally, test the BloodMap by putting the ped in a damage state; if it does not fire, a broken texture path during install is the likely cause. AddonPeds ships with Quechus13's Superman and JotaPXModz's Vito Scaletta as bundled reference peds specifically for this kind of baseline check. If those two load and animate correctly but ig_felixs does not, the fault is in the Felixs files rather than your tool chain, which narrows the troubleshooting considerably.

The rigging depth and LOD construction put ig_felixs above most quick-convert uploads in terms of scene utility, and the modest file footprint makes it easy to carry across multiple setups without touching streaming budgets.