Why Use Car Packs?

As your FiveM server grows, you'll want to add more and more vehicles. If you have 100 individual folders for 100 cars, your server will suffer from slow loading times and resource overhead.

A Car Pack combines multiple vehicles into a single resource folder. This is cleaner, faster, and much easier to manage.

Step 1: Convert Your Vehicles

Before you can make a pack, you need the individual FiveM resources.

Find the cars you want on GTA5-Mods.com.

Use GTA5 Mods Convertor to convert each one.

Download and extract them to your desktop.

Step 2: Create the Pack Structure

Create a new folder named [my-car-pack]. Inside it, create:

A folder named stream

A folder named data

A file named fxmanifest.lua

Step 3: Move the Streaming Files

Take all the .yft and .ytd files from every individual car you converted and move them into your new pack's single stream/ folder.

Pro Tip:

If you have 20+ cars, use [Glory Optimizer](https://gta5modsconvertor.com/glory-optimizer) on this stream folder first to ensure your pack isn't 5GB in size.

Step 4: Merge the Meta Files

This is the most important step. You cannot just copy-paste the files. You must merge them.

merging vehicles.meta

Open the vehicles.meta of every car. Copy the content between <Item type="CVehicleModelInfo"> and its closing </Item>. Paste these items one after another into your pack's data/vehicles.meta.

merging handling.meta

Do the same for handling.meta. Copy everything inside the <HandlingData> section for each car and paste it into your pack's handling file.

Step 5: Configure the Manifest

Your fxmanifest.lua should look like this:

lua

fx_version 'cerulean'
game 'gta5'

files {
    'data/**/*.meta'
}

data_file 'HANDLING_FILE' 'data/handling.meta'
data_file 'VEHICLE_METADATA_FILE' 'data/vehicles.meta'
data_file 'CARVARIATIONS_FILE' 'data/carvariations.meta'

Step 6: Test and Optimize

Add ensure [my-car-pack] to your server.cfg.

Restart the server.

Try spawning each car.

Common Issue: "Invalid Model" after merging. This usually means you missed a closing tag (</Item>) when copy-pasting your meta data.

Conclusion

Car packs are the professional way to handle vehicle mods on FiveM. While merging meta files manually takes some time, using an automated converter for the initial extraction saves you from the hardest part of the job.

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