How to Add Custom Liveries to a FiveM Vehicle

To add a livery to a FiveM car, paint your design on the car's livery template, save it as the next numbered texture in the vehicle's .ytd (for example modelname_sign_2), restart the server and pick the livery in a mod shop or livery menu. This only works on a model built with livery support. Done right, one car covers a whole fleet: police variants, racing teams or sponsor wraps.

How do liveries work in FiveM?

• Built-in livery slots — numbered textures inside the car's own .ytd, usually named like modelname_sign_1, modelname_sign_2 and so on. Scripts and menus switch between them.
• Mod-kit liveries — livery parts defined in the car's tuning kit, which show up under "Livery" in a mod shop.

1. Check what the car supports

Open the car's .ytd in OpenIV or CodeWalker and count the livery textures. The model also has to be built for liveries: its body needs a livery material mapped to a template. If it wasn't, no amount of meta editing will add one, so check the listing says the car has livery support before you plan a fleet around it. A ready-made template saves the most time: our Police Fleet Pack ships its 17 units with liveries and a livery template.

2. Add or replace the livery texture

Each livery is a texture in the vehicle's texture dictionary. Paint your design over the car's livery template, save it at the same size and format as the existing ones, and either replace a slot or add the next number in the sequence. Keep an eye on file size: a few uncompressed 4K liveries will push a .ytd past FiveM's 16 MiB warning.

3. How do you put the livery on the car in game?

Built-in liveries appear in the mod shop's livery category. Script-driven skins are applied by an emergency/livery menu — common on police fleets so one cruiser covers multiple departments.

Why is the livery blank or missing?

• Livery slot empty or white → texture missing/misnamed; see fixing vehicle errors.
• Only one livery shows → the model only supports one slot.

Liveries shine on service fleets — build yours on our police vehicles and emergency units. The police and EMS packs guide notes how many liveries the main units carry.