[Release] [Tutorial] Add DLC and Custom Overlays (Tattoos, Shirt Badges, Hairstyles)

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This post extends:

The original author did not post a list of DLC tattoos, shirt badges, and hairstyles nor did they include enough information on how to create custom tattoos. I saw many replies from users struggling with the same issue of not being able to create new tattoos. There are specific steps you must do in order to have a valid .ytd that the original author did not detail. These steps took me a good deal of time to work out on my own and I did not find them elsewhere. The repository contains a README detailing all of these steps to create a new overlay with ease.

The repository contains:

  • OverlayManager
    • Handles applying and removing overlays
  • Overlays.xlsx
    • All DLC / SP tattoos parsed into an excel workbook.
  • OverlaysTable
    • Overlay collection storage
  • README
    • Detailed instructions on creating new custom overlays
  • blazingtattoo_overlays.xml
    • Example overlay.xml for adding new custom overlays (tattoo location)
  • shop_tattoo.meta
    • Example tattoo.meta file for adding new custom overlays

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Disclaimer:
These files will not work as standalone items. To use you will need to remove our project member functions (mostly logging) and create a .dll. If you are unable to do this, I suggest using the source code as a guide to create your own implementation.

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I like the posts like yours, a release, and a lot of documentation/informations. Thx for your work, your time and this kind of post. :clap: :dizzy:

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Big thanks for this kind of post that is super well explain it helps people a lot

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Would love how to add the biker mp stuff to esx.
We have a biker club now. But still cant use all the great stuff from the biker dlc. Also the Biker Vests would be nice if someone has an idea maybe.

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cool of you to release man! Thanks

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This is absolutely great, thank you!

I’m struggling getting badges to work.
Are there any working examples for it?

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Can you give us an exemple for the hairstyle ?
Because we can only use type tattoo and badge ?

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Yes, they are the exact same as tattoos with the only difference being the [type] field. Search the overlays.xml for badge and that should help you.

Never did a hairstyle. I recommend opening the excel book of all the DLC tattoos and sorting by “IsHair” column. The hairstyles are still [type] = tattoo. Look at an existing one in OpenIV and it should be a breeze.

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I can’t see anything about hairstyles as the topic title implies? I’m very interested in learning that :smiley:

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They are all the same thing - the only difference between the 3 are the <type.> tag in the XML.

  1. Use the excel workbook and sort by IsHair column.
  2. Copy the overlay name of a DLC hairstyle
  3. Extract the overlay using OpenIV
  4. Follow the instructions, rename/replace/etc.
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Excel workbook? You lost me at step 1 :smiley:

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I’m just stuck on the badge thing.
Does anyone have a working minimal example of a completely custom badge? Preferably with the .ytd included so I can match ytd/texture names against the XML data.

Sorry for being a bit slow, but I’d really love to be able to give the biker president “PRESIDENT” on his chest (…and similar for the other teams, obviously)

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@Demonen
Can you describe what issue you’re having in particular?

If you’re able to do a tattoo then you should be able to create a badge as the only difference is changing TYPE_TATTOO to TYPE_BADGE. Let me know what issues you’re having and I’ll try to help you the best that I can.

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I try to apply it to the MP ped, and … nothing.
Obviously I’m doing something wrong in my process here, and I’d love to have some complete example with a working patch to compare to.

Right now I don’t even have a non-working example isolated, but I’ll try to come up with one.
Thank you kindly for offering to help.

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I can’t think off the top of my head what you’re doing wrong. If you’re successfully applying tattoos then the badges should only be a changing the the type like I mentioned in the previous reply.

What are you looking for in a working example? Here is the .xml and .meta data for a working badge.

.xml

    <Item>
      <uvPos x="0.235000" y="0.750000" />
      <scale x="0.150000" y="0.100000" />
      <rotation value="0.000000" />
      <nameHash>blazingtattoo_50_M</nameHash><!-- Vinewood M Back -->
      <txdHash>blazingtattoo_50</txdHash>
      <txtHash>blazingtattoo_50</txtHash>
      <zone>ZONE_TORSO</zone>
      <type>TYPE_BADGE</type>
      <faction>FM</faction>
      <garment>All</garment>
      <gender>GENDER_MALE</gender>
      <award />
      <awardLevel />
    </Item>

.meta

	<Item>
	    <id value="92642"/>
	    <cost value="50"/>
	    <textLabel>BLAZINGTATTOO_TAT_050</textLabel>
	    <collection>blazingtattoo_overlays</collection>
	    <preset>blazingtattoo_50_M</preset>
	    <zone>PDZ_HEAD</zone>
	    <eFacing>TATTOO_RIGHT</eFacing>
	    <updateGroup>ARM_RIGHT_LOWER_SLEEVE</updateGroup>
	    <eFaction>TATTOO_MP_FM_F</eFaction>
	    <lockHash>CUSTOM_TATTOOS</lockHash>
	</Item>

Code and everything else to apply it is the same as tattoos and is in the git repo. Let me know if you have any more questions.

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I’ll give it another twirl and get back to you.
Thanks.

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is there any way to use this with esx_tattooshops?

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I’m aware that female model make-up is an overlay. I’m currently trying my hand at adding custom make-up however I’m uncertain on how I can figure out which flags are required to make this run in FiveM.

Anyone got any ideas?
Is there a way I could perhaps rip a make-up file from OpenIV and figure out how to get tags from there?

Apparently what I’m looking for according to VMenu source is a “Headoverlay”. If anyone finds anything helpful I’d appreciate it.

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hey im stupid can someone make a video on how the fuck to do this?

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