New guide about how to change a vehicle skin on fivem. This process is kinda easy, the problem is having the skin of the vehicle or the template of it.
Requirements
In order to change the skin of a vehicle on fivem you need OpenIV, you can find a guide here which covers the installation and how to find the path of GTAV. Another important thing is having the vehicle itself with the .ytd file, which contains all the vehicle skins and 3 stuff.
Changing the skin
Now with OpenIV click on the button labeled: “Edit Mode” in the top right corner. This will allow you to modify each ytd file and replace each texture. Now inside the ytd file search for a file containing: “sign” and if the vehicle doesn’t have one just cycle thru all the skins and find the image you need to replace. Here right-click with your mouse on the right skin and select the voice “replace”. A file explorer will open up, and here you have to basically select the skin file. Click open and the image will be imported. If you are asked to change some strange property you don’t know what they do just leave it to default.
Checking if the skin is applied correctly
You can check if the skin is applied correctly by opening with OpenIV the .ytf of the vehicle. If it doesn’t try deleting all the skins that the vehicle has. Once you think that the car is ok, just put it into your fivem server and start the vehicle. Once you are in-game spawn the vehicle and see if you like the skin and if it’s applied correctly
And that’s it, you have your own vehicle skin. If you want to learn more about reskinning check this guide out. Remember to join our discord here and have fun while creating your own skin.
