How to make a FiveM car livery online

What a FiveM livery is (and the usual problem)

A livery is a custom paint/design on a car — police markings, an EMS scheme, a racing wrap, a gang logo. The classic way to add one is the game's livery system (SetVehicleLivery), but that only works if the car model was built with a livery slot. Most addon cars aren't, so people give up or pay a designer.

How the FIVEFORGE approach works on any car

Instead of relying on a livery slot, the editor bakes your design straight into the car's body texture. That means it works on any unlocked car — livery slot or not. It reads the car's UV layout so you can see where the hood, doors and roof land, you place your design on that, and it exports a resource where the car wears the livery by default.

Make a livery in 4 steps

1. Load the car. Drop the unlocked addon in — the .yft + .ytd, or the whole resource .zip. Escrow (.fxap) files can't be edited.
2. Design on the UV. The faint wireframe is the car's UV — add images, text and shapes, then move, scale and rotate them so they land on the right panels.
3. Preview in 3D. The car updates live in the 3D pane as you edit, so you see the livery on the actual body before exporting.
4. Export. Accept the terms, hit Build livery, and your <model>_livery.zip downloads. Drop it into your server's resources and restart.

Alignment tips

Design on the flat UV template, not the 3D view — the 3D is a live preview only. Logos land cleanest on flat panels (doors, hood, roof); curved areas and UV seams distort more. Keep text large and central on a panel for readability in-game.

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