[PAID] FiveM MLO Guide: YDR, Vehicles + Blender 5 GTA - Complete Asset Creation (No XML)

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After spending way too many hours jumping between outdated tutorials, broken workflows, and old XML methods, I decided to sit down and make a proper, up-to-date guide for anyone using Sollumz 2.9.0 with Blender.

If you’ve tried to get into building MLOs or custom models recently, you probably know the pain — a mix of half-correct YouTube videos, missing steps, and people still teaching Blender 4.2 workflows in 2026.

So I documented everything properly while building my own projects, and it’s now a full guide.

  • New (Aug 2026): I’ve written a full updated walkthrough for Sollumz 2.9.x covering the new native binary export, Blender 5.x compatibility, and server deployment.
    Github - Free Updated Version

What’s inside?

The short version:
Everything you need to go from “I’ve never touched Blender” to “I just built a working MLO with collisions, portals, room data, and proper exports.”

The guide covers:
• Creating YDRs (buildings, props)
• Setting up collisions correctly
• MLO interiors (rooms, portals, limbo, entities)
• Exporting straight to native formats (.ydr/.ytyp/.ybn)
• Blender 4.x/5.x workflows
• Updated 2.8.0 features (PyMateria, native support, shattermaps)
• Optimisation tips so your MLO doesn’t run at 3 FPS

No filler, no theory, just what you actually need to build clean, working assets.

Why I updated it

2.9.0 changed a lot - especially with native binary export.
Most tutorials haven’t caught up yet.

So this guide is written around the new system, not the old XML-only pipeline.

If you’re starting fresh or switching over, this will save you a stupid amount of time.

Price

£39.99 on Gumroad (Currently £10 off - £29.99)
The listing has screenshots, previews, and the full breakdown.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: Full Guide Here

Quick updates

• Requirements page added
• Doors / water / animated props section added
• Links updated for new builds of Sollumz + tools
• Everything rewritten around Blender 4/5, not the old UI

Support

If you get stuck on anything after buying, message AJTheDev on Discord.
I’m happy to help you fix things or walk you through a tricky part.

If you’ve been wanting a clean, modern guide for FiveM asset building - this is it.

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Where to learn MLO Creation?
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While I am probably not the intended target audience, you still got my curiosity…

It would maybe make sense to have some sort of preview for everyone that is properly interested :slight_smile:

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I appreciate the feedback!

I wanted to put up a more basic guide for free and link them together but wasn’t able to use my own website to host either of them which is why I went with Gumroad. I will edit the preview into the post asap as this has actually made me realise I’m able to probably upload it here in an edit to my main post.

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That doesnt mean you should recommend some paid guide with outdated tools… I am using Sollumz with Blender 4.4.2 and I have no problems except all them booby traps that are put into Sollumz to force people away and make them quit. Sollumz community is not really helpful but people like myself are… I offer much more things than you do with correct and up to date information that I have gathered by months and months of my own research and tests…

Soooo… You should be paying someone to learn instead of teaching people how to make things the wrong way mate.

So you may have over 300 hours of experience… But I have over a decade of Blender experience and over 2K hours of Codewalker/Sollumz experience… Still I wouldnt dare to charge this much for basic teaching.

So I do think in your best interest, take it down and start learning and do your own research. When you reach the point where you have enough experience to help with issues with ease, then that is the time where you can offer such services. 300 hours is just not nearly enough… That is like pre-pre amateur level of experience in 3D asset creation, and that applies even more to FiveM and GTA V in general cuz them assets need to be properly built and optimized for that game cuz its almost 12 years old and most modern stuff does not apply.

I have seen too many people try and fail only because they ignore the game engine limits and shove everything into the game thinking that “if it works for me, then it must be good” but then people on an actual server lagg, crash, stuff is despawning or is not properly set up and then people like me are called to fix the mess.

Also, there are quite a few small discord channels that are open to public and share all up to date information (yes some do it for a price but some dont). But I can tell you 1 think for sure, Blender 3.0 is indeed NOT the best for Sollumz… Maybe for Sollumz legacy which is severly outdated and unusable at this point.

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Try what exactly? You have very few hours to be teaching people and charging money for it. You are the one whom needs to try to actually learn stuff.

Unfortunately SAMP has nothing to do with FiveM and GTA V… You cant be whipping other games out cuz if we were at that point, I was making mods for Assetto Corsa, Fallout 4, Skyrim, Cyberpunk and Mafia 2 but despite all that, none of these games had anything to do with the way GTA V works.

I do not think you know more than an average modder because 300 hours is what I spent on YLD research on its own, and that is just one file… Hence I know what to do, how to do it, why to do it, what you cant do and what you shouldnt do, errors associated with yld issues, how to properly optimize the mesh to have yld work properly and .cloth bind onto the mesh the way its supposed to be… Plus with the yld, I had to edit Sollumz code to fix things they did wrong…

You need to understand that if you really want to teach people, you need to have very deep understanding of what you are working with. And that path is a very long path to take. If you deliver basic information that you yourself think is “deeper” then why over 90% of all creators do just basics such as using one and the same shader or doing only a single thing like clothing or just MLO’s or just make props and such. The reason why is because it takes thousands of hours to learn it on your own and since nobody is going to spend this much time with someone else, that is why people often just give up.

So if you really want to be a “teacher” I have nothing against it but you really need to up your game here and provide enough information, showcase your work or research you undertook in order to make people see and think “oh this dude is sick, I want him to teach me” and customers start rolling in.

So just to sum it up, provide actual links to actual proof just so people can see and know they aint gonna be scammed like some were with current “teachers” that charge money for things. But I can tell you this for sure, there aint no way with 300+ hours you achieve deep understanding of a game engine, the game, how all assets work, videogame optimization, blender and asset creation for videogames, all game file extensions, shaders and their properties for that specific game, skeletons/armatures for peds and props, the root of most error codes and issues people may encounter and much more…

I dont do stuff for CFX, I just fool around with things cuz it is what I like to do. I sometimes just help small servers (for free) cuz my real income is comming from work for V-Tubers, MMD and other things that are not relevant to FiveM in any way… So if your portfolio is purely SAMP and 300 hours in Blender + Sollums + FiveM combined, you need to 10x the amount of research.

Well anyways, imma wrap it up here cuz I feel like I type too much. I honestly want to see people that teach others how to do things the right way and if you can achieve the “master” level and teach them all you know then I have no issues with that and I bet that you will be endorsed by many cuz the word will spread fast. So I do wish you good luck but do keep in mind that within modding discords where people come for help, if they gonna pay for information they can find on YouTube (that is what most “teachers” do, they just rehearse stuff from YouTube tutorials and call it a day) then your name withing modding community wont be recognized. So if you do it right, the people will come naturally and you will be very busy.

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Here is a great resource you can use to learn about the filetypes, how to create and use them:

That site has helped me a lot in the past.

The guy has a youtube channel as well here:

https://www.youtube.com/@DEKURWINATOR

Good luck on your MLOs!

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Added a whole new section to the guide surrounding Doors, Water and Animated Props.
Will be adding more over the next few days covering:
Vehicles, Guns, Clothes.

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Bump still useful and looking for reviews.
Save 50% with code HALLOWEEN50

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Bump for some of you that missed out on the halloween sale and hit me up on discord,
here’s a 25% treat, use code “LRN2DAY” at checkout. Only available to the first 10.

Don’t forget to join the discord for more cool FiveM updates and whatever awaits us on GTA 6.
AJD Discord (FiveM)

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Updated for Sollumz 2.8.0
First Sollumz 2.8.0 (GTA Enhanced Pipeline Guide)

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Amazing detail!

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Yo I didn’t expect you to go that hard on PyMateria but I appreciate it, can’t believe they’ve added it as a feature. You are a life saver!

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Glad you liked it, really glad we’ve got a visual way to represent textures in the viewport now rather than all that DDS conversion we were having to do before, obviously if you want to use custom textures there’s still levels to it but made a heck of a lot simpler by PyMateria

Edit:
Update I’m also now offering Server Theme Songs, Gang Songs and More.
High Quality Personalised Server/User Specific Music.
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Side note for anyone working in 2.8.0, if your interior flickers like a dodgy nightclub light at 30m distance, it’s because your LOD chain is still using the old XML-era assumptions. PyMateria lets you build the whole LOD stack natively now. No CodeWalker shuffle dance needed.
I covered the exact order and naming in the checklist but even knowing this alone saves half a day of screaming into the void.

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Whomever says “mapping” instead of “Asset Creation” should immediately be discredited because if you dont know what the word “mapping” means, then you should not be allowed to charge people for anything. Also I doubt that you offer complete guide xD

What is mapping?

  • Geographical Mapping (Cartography): The relationship between a real-world location and its 2D visual representation (a map).
  • Mathematical Mapping (Function): A rule that assigns each element of a domain to exactly one element of a codomain (e.g., $f(x) = y$).
  • Data Mapping: Defining how data elements in a source system correspond to data elements in a target system for migration or integration.
  • Texture Mapping: Applying Detail. A 2D image (texture) is mapped onto the surface of a 3D digital model.|
  • Memory Mapping: Linking Data Access. A disk file is mapped directly into a computer program’s virtual memory address space.
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I can assure you with 18 sales and a 5 star review no one is complaining.
I have people in my discord that trust what I say because they know the guide has value,
If you don’t want to buy it that is completely fine. Your ChatGPT posted line about what mapping is means nothing to anyone but yourself.

and incase you haven’t realised you are mapping Textures in GTA. The YDR is not seen, the textures are. The collisions are also not seen.

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Ah so you offer only UV mapping and texture alignment in Blender so you teach people how to position texture at the correct angle to achieve desired result?

Man just dont. This whole thing is just sad. People keep coming back and forth, selling unoptimized stuff they learned from people that claim to know things, they keep calling the wrong things with the wrong word all the time and most of them dont even know the basics of how the game works…

I will not argue with you, that aint why I am here. I just came here to correct what mapping actually is because no such thing like “FiveM mapping” exists and ask any modder, any REAL modder that mods other games too (such as myself) and they will never call an MLO or an interior a “mapping”.

You made 18 sales… I mod videogames for over a decade (in total I mod about 9 games but only 7 of them I know very well), I made models for a few V-Tubers, I was fixing cars, clothes, maps, animations, weapons for FiveM as a support dev, I have made hair physics work in FiveM through cloth meshes (which is what Rockstar themselves tried and was unable to figure out how to do it so they scrapped it completely and finished it in RDR2), and now I am also working on my own videogame… So I dunno whom is more qualified to talk about such things.

People in FiveM community need to know asset optimization. That is the main issue people have… I gave up on being server support dev a year ago cuz the sheer amount of unoptimized stuff was unbearable… 4K textures on weapons, clothing, walls, 900K vert vehicles and so on… Crazy… This is what you should teach to already existing creators cuz that is what Rockstar is going to care about when they open applications for GTA 6 creator program (in a few years ofcorse, we are nowhere near that date nor have exact requirements)…

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You’re arguing a semantic purity test, not the reality of the FiveM ecosystem.

In FiveM, “mapping” has colloquially meant world/interior creation for years, MLOs, interiors, placements, collisions, YTYPs. That’s not my invention, that’s community usage. Language follows practice, not credentials.

The guide doesn’t teach “UV-only texture alignment”, it covers the full Sollumz → GTA pipeline: drawables, collisions, interiors, export, server loading. Optimization is discussed, but it’s not positioned as an advanced performance bible for senior creators, it’s a practical guide for people trying to stop breaking their servers on day one.

You’re clearly experienced, and you’re right about optimization being a massive problem in the scene. That doesn’t invalidate beginner-to-intermediate material, nor does it require redefining a term the community already uses.

We’re aiming at different audiences. That’s fine.

I’m not here to litigate terminology or measure résumés, I’m here to help people ship working assets instead of quitting in frustration.