i have a bunch of vehicles on my server that are replacing default vehicles, they only have stream files and im not sure if theres some base template to download and use for all the .meta files… how do i go about making all of these files?
‘vehicles.meta’,
‘carvariations.meta’,
‘carcols.meta’,
‘handling.meta’,
‘vehiclelayouts.meta’,
can i go in openiv and just grab some random cars .mets files and edit it to the new car?
Yes you can get all the standard gta cars .meta files in openiv
Hey there!
Yes you can grap the files from open IV and edit them, but I recommend for beginners to just download an addon vehcile an use the meta files. The most important file is vehcil.mete there you have to edit the name matching with your ytd and ydd files (I recommend addon vehicles). The handling.meta is at the beginning just like trial and error there are documentations out there for every .meta file if you have problems.
For further inforation I am willin to help 
sry for my english I am not english
awsome thank you! and for addon cars what can i do if ive lost the meta files? had some old cars from 3 years ago
You can just use other files, all are the same, you just hae to edit them for your car.
Like the vehicle.meta you need to replace all the names with your new car name and the handling.meta is important for the vehicle handling (like its sais) if you are new to this stuff just use these two and forget the other ones! And dont forget to edit the fxmanifest.lua!
Thank you and yeah I’ll end up using the other files I have a few cars that have alot of mods with them so I’ll need car variations and charcols for the police police I have
U r welcome!