[How-To] Replace Car to Addon!

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Hello guys, today I wanna show you how to make a replace car to addon.
I know that there are some tutorials out there but I want you to learn gta 5 modding as easy as you can. So I make a simple How-To, Tutorial for you guys.

  1. Download your Replace Car Example Website

  2. Create a folder (Doesn’t matter where you create the folder) Picture

  3. Drag and drop the files you downloaded into your folder. (for example: dubsta.yft, dubsta.ydt, dubsta_hi_yft)

  4. Start OpenIV and search for “handling”, click search XXX in all archives

  5. Right click on the first handling.meta and select open Picture

  6. In my case I want to make my “dubsta” to addon. So in the handling.meta I search for “Dubsta” Pic

  7. Copy everything from
    Item type=“CHandlingData”
    handlingName>YOUVEHICLENAME</handlingName

  8. Until

 </SubHandlingData>
    </Item>

and paste it into the handling.meta Download put the handling.meta you just downloaded into your car folder)

  1. After that, search “vehicles.meta”, open again and search for your vehicle name. (For me it’s the dubsta again)

  2. Copy from the Item Line

    <Item>
      <modelName>YOURMODELNAME</modelName>

to the other Item Line

      </firstPersonDrivebyData>
    </Item>

and paste it into your downloaded vehicles.meta Download

  1. Now we come to the end. (There are the carcols and the carvariations left, but in this case we want to leave it as simple as possible)

  2. Now you have to open the fxmanifest.lua you also downloaded and delete for example carcols.meta, and data_file ‘CARCOLS_FILE’ ‘carcols.meta’ as well as ‘carvariations.meta’, data_file ‘VEHICLE_VARIATION_FILE’ 'carvariations.meta’
    You may ask yourself why we have to delete those lines? Your server would look for a carcols.meta and if there is no carcols.meta the server will give you errors.

  3. Before we edit the metas, we will rename the carnames: “dubsta.yft” -> “g63.yft” “dubsta_hi.yft” -> “g63_hi.yft” and do that with all the other ytd, yft… make sure to not delete for example “_hi” you have to keep that in the name.

  4. Now you have to edit the handling and vehicles.meta

  5. First of all open your vehicles.meta, i prefare notepad++ and vsc

  6. Now you have to replace the ModelName, txdName… Just put the vehicle’s name in there.

      <modelName>CARNAME</modelName>
      <txdName>CARNAME</txdName>
      <handlingId>CARNAME</handlingId>
      <gameName>CARNAME</gameName>

should look like this:

      <modelName>G63</modelName>
      <txdName>G63</txdName>
      <handlingId>G63</handlingId>
      <gameName>G63</gameName>

you can change the car’s name by editing the line:

<audioNameHash>casco</audioNameHash>

there are a lot of car sounds you can put in there. Just put a car’s spawnname in there to make the Audio work. ( Needs a Server restart to work )

  1. Now open the handling.meta

<handlingName>CARNAME</handlingName>

Put your car’s name in that again

<handlingName>G63</handlingName>

There are a lot of things you can change in the handling.meta. This should help

Note: Please also delete ‘vehiclelayouts.meta’, in the fxmanifest
I forgot to delete this by myself

Let me know if I did a mistake. Thank you for reading this and I hope that you know how to make a replace car to addon now!

Links:

OpenIV: https://openiv.com/
Notepad++: Downloads | Notepad++

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Followed it all to a T but still not working
My files look like this
bmwpolice>stream> bmwpolice, bmwpolice.ytd, bmwpolice_,bmwpolice+hi.ytd
data>handling,vehicles
fxmanifest

within the handling & vehicle i have changed the names accordingly
does the fx_version matter with a replace car being changed to an addon, should we also have any dlc file?

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