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# Liveries as .yft with CodeWalker

I'll show you the easiest and fastest way to change the lovery in an existing .yft file.\
To edit a .yft file tou must have a program called CodeWalker.

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I advise you download the last version from their [discord](https://discord.gg/BxfKHkk), not from gta5mods.
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### 1. We are going to start by opening the application called CodeWalker RPF Explorer, located in your ColdeWalker folder

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### 2. Next, drag the livery.yft file into the RPF Explorer (in this example, nkstanier\_livery\_lspd)-

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DO NOT FORGET TO ENABLE ***EDIT MODE***!
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You can rename the file to whatever you want, just don't forget step 5, or you can simply leave it as it is, your choice.
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### 3. Open the .yft file inside the RPF Explorer, click the » icon, then select the second icon called ***Texture Editor.***

**After that, you should see two windows.**

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#### **3.1. Click&#x20;*****Replace*****&#x20;and select your livery .dds file.** (Alternatively, tou can *Remove* the existing one and *Add* a new texture).

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#### **3.2. That's it, you new livery should be visible now!** You might notice the ***Save*** button in the top-left corner, but you don't need to use it here. You can simply close the window, as changes are saved automatically.

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The **texture name** does not matter at this stage.
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The ***Save*** button is only needed if you want to manually save the textures currently in the file.
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### 4. Now it's time to save!

After closing the Texture Editor, click the ***Save*** button in RPF Explorer.\
And, that's it, your updated livery .yft file is now ready yo use.\
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Place your .yft file inside the vehicle liveries folder, in this case ***nkstanier\_livery\_lspd.***

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### 5. Now, open the carcols.meta file and update it as shown below.

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Make sure that the **modelName** matches the exact **name of your livery** .yft file that you just added.
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### 6. Open your vehiclenames.lua file and add the entry as shown in the screenshot below.

The name must match the name used in your carcols.meta file under **modShopLabel**. In this case **\["NKSTAN\_LIVLSPD"] = LSPD LIVERY.**

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**What this does?** It ensure that when you change your livery using a mechanic or extras script, the label appears as **LSPD Livery** instead if showing **NULL**.

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### *<mark style="color:green;">**After all these steps, your liveries should work without any problems.**</mark>*

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I used [Noisiak](https://store.noisiak.com/) / [Lorewave](https://lorewave.com/) cars in this example, and, did this for him/his community.&#x20;
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