carcols.meta files do not override the carcols.ymt file (or any other DLC carcols.meta files)
cannot add new license plate formats/edit base game ones
cannot edit carcols entries for base game and DLC cars - mods like SP Carcols do literally nothing when put into a resource.
Possible Solutions?
Make the overriding of carcols possible by streaming a carcols.meta file
Pro:
Would allow for the most customisation since car color list is defined there as well
Con:
Possibly (?) hard to implement due to inner workings of the engine/platform which i’m not familiar with (judging by the fact that replacing vehshare.ytd is not possible as of now)
A scripting method to add/set/remove license plate properties at a specific index
Pros:
If the license plates updated live - when this method would be called, it could speed up creating new entries
Nicely complements the SetDefaultVehicleNumberPlateTextPattern method.
Cons:
Only would solve the problem with license plates - no addon car colors and no mods like SP Carcols
Probably even harder to implement than the first solution since the method would be called after everything else has loaded.
Using either solution creates another problem… Since replacing vehshare texture dict is not possible, how would addon plate textures be handled? With a native, a previously requested custom texture dict name could be specified in a param, but no solution comes to my mind in case of the first method.
Yeah this is something similar I asked bubble to look at after I requested the license plate pattern native. I didn’t make a thread so it would’ve been lost in the void like a lot of other ideas haha. My bad.
This topic is very relevant to me. Have you written bubble any more on this subject?
Maybe there is a way to replace carcols.ymt on the client side? I’ve tried, but no success. Then I decided to write an .asi script which would change the values. However, I got an automatic 14 day ban while I was researching the memory. In the end I managed to implement it for single player, but fivem crashes (probably a different offset). Can I get a second ban for memory scanning with CE without a debugger attached?
Bump this topic, no word yet? Been looking for a while, nothing I’ve tried (not all that much admittedly) has worked. I’d love to see this implemented into FiveM.
I’ve tried adding custom addon plates but without any luck. Found this topic and bumping it since guess there isn’t any update yet. It’ll be great to add some addon plates for eg. imported vehicles or just add some more variacy of plates, not only LS ones.
Lets hope there will be a support for replaced carcols . R* added a lot of new plates now, but its sharing the bumpmap of “yankton_plate_n”. And it would be good to change the font colors too.
It seems they just replaced the carcols.ymt file in the update.rpf, so probably nothing’s gonna change anytime soon as you still can’t add new plates from carcols.meta files last time i checked
Would be nice to see this as a feature! Sorry for the bump but was about to make a suggestion but found this old thread so didn’t want to clog the forums with a new one for the same feature request.
Yes, graphics mods such as NVE stream them but it wouldn’t be ideal to have different players seeing different things and the custom shops within servers wouldn’t have those plates within them rendering it useless. I remember a really long time ago it was possible to do it server-sided but I’m not sure when the change happened.
Edit: Just found this old message where NTA mentioned why you can’t stream them anymore.
Soon it’s going to be 2 years since this post was created and we still aren’t able to stream carcols.ymt or have any alternative to edit values such as FontExtents, FontColor and similiar… and with what’s happening behind the scenes my hopes of this becoming a thing are getting lower day by day.
anyone remaining at Cfx willing to prove me wrong? please?
