Carcols.meta does not work

FiveM Resource Development & Modding Discussion
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I’m trying to change the colors of the game cards, in normal GTA V (History Mode) this works very well! But moving to FiveM looks broken. Does anyone know how to help me in what is missing, or doing wrong?

CARCOLS.META

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CVehicleModelInfoVarGlobal>
	<VehiclePlates>
	 <Textures>
      <Item>
        <TextureSetName>Standard White</TextureSetName>
        <DiffuseMapName>plate01</DiffuseMapName>
        <NormalMapName>plate01_n</NormalMapName>
        <FontExtents x="0.08000000" y="0.35500000" z="0.92000000" w="0.81600000"/>
        <MaxLettersOnPlate x="7.00000000" y="1.00000000"/>
        <FontColor value="0xFF080808"/>
        <FontOutlineColor value="0x00FFFFFF"/>
        <IsFontOutlineEnabled value="false"/>
        <FontOutlineMinMaxDepth x="0.47500000" y="0.50000000"/>
      </Item>
      <Item>
        <TextureSetName>Yellow Plate</TextureSetName>
        <DiffuseMapName>plate02</DiffuseMapName>
        <NormalMapName>plate02_n</NormalMapName>
        <FontExtents x="0.08000000" y="0.35500000" z="0.92000000" w="0.81600000"/>
        <MaxLettersOnPlate x="7.00000000" y="1.00000000"/>
        <FontColor value="0xFF8A0B00"/>
        <FontOutlineColor value="0x00FFFFFF"/>
        <IsFontOutlineEnabled value="false"/>
        <FontOutlineMinMaxDepth x="0.47500000" y="0.50000000"/>
      </Item>
      <Item>
        <TextureSetName>Blue Plate</TextureSetName>
        <DiffuseMapName>plate03</DiffuseMapName>
        <NormalMapName>plate03_n</NormalMapName>
        <FontExtents x="0.08000000" y="0.35500000" z="0.92000000" w="0.81600000"/>
        <MaxLettersOnPlate x="7.00000000" y="1.00000000"/>
        <FontColor value="0xFF47783C"/>
        <FontOutlineColor value="0x00FFFFFF"/>
        <IsFontOutlineEnabled value="false"/>
        <FontOutlineMinMaxDepth x="0.47500000" y="0.50000000"/>
      </Item>
      <Item>
        <TextureSetName>White Plate 2</TextureSetName>
        <DiffuseMapName>plate04</DiffuseMapName>
        <NormalMapName>plate04_n</NormalMapName>
        <FontExtents x="0.08000000" y="0.35500000" z="0.92000000" w="0.81600000"/>
        <MaxLettersOnPlate x="7.00000000" y="1.00000000"/>
        <FontColor value="0xFF221918"/>
        <FontOutlineColor value="0xFFFF0000"/>
        <IsFontOutlineEnabled value="false"/>
        <FontOutlineMinMaxDepth x="0.10000000" y="0.50000000"/>
      </Item>
      <Item>
        <TextureSetName>Police guv plate</TextureSetName>
        <DiffuseMapName>plate05</DiffuseMapName>
        <NormalMapName>plate05_n</NormalMapName>
        <FontExtents x="0.08000000" y="0.35500000" z="0.92000000" w="0.81600000"/>
        <MaxLettersOnPlate x="7.00000000" y="1.00000000"/>
        <FontColor value="0xFF0055C4"/>
        <FontOutlineColor value="0x00FFFFFF"/>
        <IsFontOutlineEnabled value="false"/>
        <FontOutlineMinMaxDepth x="0.47500000" y="0.50000000"/>
      </Item>
      <Item>
        <TextureSetName>yankton plate</TextureSetName>
        <DiffuseMapName>yankton_plate</DiffuseMapName>
        <NormalMapName>yankton_plate_n</NormalMapName>
        <FontExtents x="0.08000000" y="0.35500000" z="0.92000000" w="0.81600000"/>
        <MaxLettersOnPlate x="7.00000000" y="1.00000000"/>
        <FontColor value="0xFF000000"/>
        <FontOutlineColor value="0xFF2BFF05"/>
        <IsFontOutlineEnabled value="false"/>
        <FontOutlineMinMaxDepth x="0.47500000" y="0.50000000"/>
      </Item>
	 </Textures>
     <DefaultTexureIndex value="4"/>
     <NumericOffset value="0"/>
     <AlphabeticOffset value="10"/>
     <SpaceOffset value="63"/>
     <RandomCharOffset value="36"/>
     <NumRandomChar value="4"/>
	</VehiclePlates>
</CVehicleModelInfoVarGlobal>
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This isn’t my area of expertise, but unless you show an error or what happens, ie a screenshot - just looking at the xml/.meta noone can provide you with a solution. So screenshot what it looks like or an error that may spit out.

3

This is the problem, there is no error, the file loads normally, but there is no change on the license plates.

4

Okay so according to the code, the user is trying to have license plates in FiveM spawn with 7 characters, instead of the default 8 characters. If he showed you a screenshot, it would just be the normal ingame license plates with 8 characters. Anyways, I can post a picture so you can better visualize the problem, because I am also experiencing the same issue:

I am attempting to use Lundy’s Carcols & License Plates mod. In there, he has the SA Exempt plate replaced with a Blue 1970s CA Exempt plate with Yellow lettering.

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To achieve this, he provides a carcols.ymt file, with this code (I removed all the other plates):

<VehiclePlates>
    <Textures>
      <Item>
        <TextureSetName>Police guv plate</TextureSetName>
        <DiffuseMapName>plate05</DiffuseMapName>
        <NormalMapName>plate05_n</NormalMapName>
        <FontExtents x="0.28000000" y="0.35500000" z="0.92000000" w="0.81600000"/>
        <MaxLettersOnPlate x="6.00000000" y="1.00000000"/>
        <FontColor value="0xFFBD7121"/>
        <FontOutlineColor value="0x00FFFFFF"/>
        <IsFontOutlineEnabled value="false"/>
        <FontOutlineMinMaxDepth x="0.47500000" y="0.50000000"/>
      </Item>
    </Textures>
    <DefaultTexureIndex value="4"/>
    <NumericOffset value="0"/>
    <AlphabeticOffset value="10"/>
    <SpaceOffset value="63"/>
    <RandomCharOffset value="36"/>
    <NumRandomChar value="4"/>
  </VehiclePlates>

As you can see, the max letters on plate is set to 6, and the color code is set to yellow. However, this does not show up correctly in my game. I can get the texture of the plate to show, but not the 6-letter adjustment or the color adjustment:

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According to this thread on GTA5-Mods, editing the MaxLettersOnPlate tag does nothing. Everything else in my carcols.meta file works normally, and other parts in the tag. I’ve even tested it out by giving the plate a new name “70sguvplate” and set some vehicles in carvariations.meta to spawn with “70sguvplate.” They’ll spawn with the plate, but again, the 8 characters still show up, and the font still being blue.

5

legit same… you’d think streaming carcols like a normal car would work.

6

has anyone found a solution for this? I’m trying to change positions of plate’s text in carcols.meta, but nothing happens with plate in-game, text remains on it’s default position.