Getting started

A FiveM car is a handful of GTA files. ModFiveM opens them in your browser, lets you change them with simple cards, and never uploads them.

The files of a car

Most cars you download come as a FiveM resource: a folder with an fxmanifest.lua, a stream folder and a few meta files. These are the files ModFiveM reads:

polcruiser.yft is the model: the body, the wheels, the windows, the seats, and the collision the game uses for bullets and crashes.
polcruiser_hi.yft is the same car in more detail, for when it is close. ModFiveM changes both models together.
polcruiser.ytd holds the textures, the pictures painted on the model. Some cars have a second one, such as polcruiser+hi.ytd.
The meta files: vehicles.meta (name, seat layout, flags), carcols.meta (sirens and mod kits), carvariations.meta (colours, and which siren setting the car uses), handling.meta (how it drives), and sometimes vehiclelayouts.meta (seats).

The file names follow the car’s spawn name, the name you type to spawn it. In these guides the car is called polcruiser.

Open a car

Open the editor. It runs in this browser tab, and there is nothing to install.
Drop the car’s resource folder anywhere on the page, or press Choose folder. You can also press Choose files and pick the .yft, _hi.yft and .ytd files together with the meta files.
ModFiveM lists what it found and what is missing, then opens the car in 3D. Without the meta files it can still open the model, but the cards that change meta files, such as sirens and handling, need them.

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Drop the whole resource folder rather than single files when you can. ModFiveM then finds every file it needs, including meta files tucked away in a data folder.

Everything stays in your browser

Opening a car does not upload it. Your browser reads and writes the files on this computer, and builds the finished resource there too. No server ever sees your car.

ModFiveM works in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Chrome and Edge can open a whole folder with Choose folder. In the others, drop the folder or choose the files.

Gut zu wissen

ModFiveM never changes the files you opened. It works on a copy, and your changes only leave the editor when you export.

Edit with cards

Each thing you can change has a card of its own: Seats, Wheels, Windows, Badges & parts, Sirens, Extras, Handling and Textures. A card names the car’s parts in plain words, such as Driver, with the game’s own name beside it in small letters.

Every change shows in the 3D view at once, and every change can be undone with Ctrl+Z. When you are done, Exporting to FiveM shows how to put the car on your server.