Installing a texture or livery

A livery is the paint and markings on a vehicle. It is a texture stored in the vehicle's texture dictionary, a .ytd file. Installing one means putting the new image into that file under the right name.

What you download

A livery download is one of two things:

• A finished .ytd file, named after the vehicle. You replace the vehicle's existing .ytd with it.
• Loose images, usually .png or .dds. You import them into the vehicle's existing .ytd.

The readme says which vehicle model the livery was made for. A livery fits one model's template and will look scrambled on any other.

Find the vehicle's ytd

For a replace vehicle, search OpenIV for the file name, such as police.ytd, and use the copy inside your mods folder with the highest patchday number.

For an add-on, the file is inside the pack, on a path like:

mods\update\x64\dlcpacks\packname\dlc.rpf\x64\vehicles.rpf\

The path inside dlc.rpf differs from pack to pack. Look for the .rpf that holds the .yft model files.

Replace the whole ytd

1. Close the game and open OpenIV.
2. Turn on edit mode.
3. Go to the folder that holds the vehicle's .ytd.
4. Drag the new .ytd into the OpenIV window. It overwrites the old one.

Keep a copy of the old file first if you might want it back.

Import images into the ytd

1. Turn on edit mode and double-click the vehicle's .ytd to open it.
2. Find the livery textures. They are usually named after the vehicle with _sign_1, _sign_2 and so on, or _livery_1.
3. Select the one to replace and click Replace, then pick your image. To add a livery in a new slot, click Import.
4. Click Save.

The texture name must match what the model expects. If the model has four livery slots named police_sign_1 to police_sign_4, an image imported as mylivery is never shown.

Livery slots

A model has a fixed number of livery slots, set by whoever made it. You can change what is in a slot, but you can't add a slot by adding a texture. In the game, switch between them with a trainer's livery option, or let LSPDFR or the server pick.

On FiveM

Vehicle textures are in the resource's stream folder:

resources\[cars]\policecar\stream\policecar.ytd

Replace that .ytd with the new one, or open it in OpenIV, import the images and save. OpenIV can open a loose .ytd from any folder. Then restart the resource or the server. Players may need to rejoin to get the new file.

Keep textures a sensible size. FiveM warns about oversized stream files, and a very large .ytd can fail to load on players' games, leaving the car untextured.

If the livery looks wrong

• White or blank body. The texture name doesn't match the slot. See A vehicle has no textures or spawns invisible.
• Markings in the wrong places. The livery was made for a different model, or a different version of it.
• Old livery still showing. You edited a copy the game doesn't load. Look for another copy in a higher patchday.