Grand Theft Auto VI
Getting ready for GTA 6
No one outside Rockstar has opened a single GTA 6 file, so nothing on this page is a promise about them. What it is: what we already ship for GTA 5, which parts of that survive a new game, and the order we plan to work in once the files can be read.
Where this actually stands
GTA 6 is set for 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Both are closed platforms, so that date changes nothing for modders on its own. Rockstar has not announced a PC version: no date, no window, no specifications. For reference, GTA 5 took roughly eighteen months to reach PC and Red Dead Redemption 2 took roughly thirteen.
Until then, no one outside Rockstar has the files. Not the archive layout, not the model format, not the texture container. Anyone advertising a working GTA 6 mod tool today is selling something that does not exist.
What does exist is the machinery underneath. gtax.dev already opens, reads, converts, and rebuilds GTA 5 assets, and most of the effort in a toolkit like this goes into the parts that are not tied to any one format: the 3D viewer, the texture pipeline, the conversion flows, and keeping your files on your own device instead of uploading them somewhere. That work is not thrown away when a new game arrives.
So the honest position is this. We do not know what GTA 6 files look like. We do know how to build tools for a Rockstar game, because we did it for GTA 5 and then did part of it again for Red Dead Redemption 2. When the files can be read, we intend to be early. We are not interested in being first at the cost of shipping something that breaks people's installs.
Leonida, as Rockstar has shown it
Official screenshots published by Rockstar Games. They are here to show the setting. To be clear, we have no early access, no build, and no files.
Official Rockstar Games screenshots, shown for illustration.
What we already know how to do
Every item below ships today, for GTA 5 and FiveM, and runs right in your browser.
Open and rebuild archives
- RPF archives open with the full file tree, nested archives included.
- Files can be replaced and packed back into a working archive.
- A new game means a new archive reader. Everything sitting on top of it stays.
Put a model on screen
- YDR, YDD, and YFT open in a 3D viewer with textures, LOD switching, and UV wireframes.
- Skeletons, bone names, and attachment points are all visible.
- The viewer is not tied to one format. It draws whatever the reader hands it.
Turn models into game assets
- Standard 3D models in, game-ready assets out, for props, peds, and weapons.
- Collision, LODs, and YTYP archetypes are generated as part of the flow.
- Nothing installs. It all runs right in your browser.
Textures, start to finish
- YTD dictionaries open, unpack, and repack with mipmaps intact.
- A Photoshop and Photopea plugin pulls assets into your editor and pushes the result back.
- The image side of that pipeline does not care which game the file came from.
The workflows people open daily
- Clothing packs, liveries painted on a live 3D vehicle, ped add-ons, vehicle sirens.
- Animation clips play on a ped, and new clips can be built from motion capture.
- These are the tools we would move first, because they are the ones people actually use.
A second Rockstar game, already
- Red Dead Redemption 2 files already preview here, in beta and read-only.
- That work is the closest thing we have to a rehearsal for a new Rockstar title.
- It also showed where a new game gets hard, and it was not the models.
What carries over and what does not
Every row is GTA 5. None of it is a claim about GTA 6. The point is the right-hand column.
| Area | Where we are on GTA 5 | What a new game would need |
|---|---|---|
| RPF archives | Browse, extract, and pack back, nested archives included | A new archive reader, plus whatever protection the new game wraps around it |
| YDR and YDD models | 3D preview, conversion, LOD generation, collision editing | A new model reader. The viewer and the converters above it are untouched |
| YFT fragments | Preview, livery painting, vehicle tuning and optimization | A new reader. The livery and vehicle tools do not care what read the file |
| YTD textures | Open, edit, repack, plus the editor plugin | A new texture container reader. The image pipeline is unchanged |
| YCD animations | Play clips on a ped, build new clips from motion capture | A new clip reader. Retargeting is not tied to any one game |
| YMAP and YTYP | Open map data as readable XML, generate archetypes for props | A new map reader. The readable side is already ours |
| AWC audio | Pack audio into game containers with the metadata around it | A new audio container writer |
The pattern repeats on every row. What changes is the piece that understands the file. What does not change is most of the product. That is the reason this page exists instead of a countdown clock.
The order we plan to work in
No dates. Each phase only starts when the one before it is actually possible.
Now
Keep shipping for GTA 5
Nothing about GTA 6 changes what people need this week. GTA 5 and FiveM stay the priority, and every improvement to the viewer, the converters, and the plugin is work a future game inherits for free.
Phase 1
When a PC version is announced
We start collecting what the community publishes and set up somewhere to keep it. No code yet, because there is nothing to write it against.
Phase 2
When the files can be opened
Archive reading first. An honest file tree so people can see what they have. Until you can get files out of the game, nothing else is possible.
Phase 3
Look, do not touch
Read-only previews: models in 3D, textures on screen, map data as readable text. Read-only is deliberate. Writing a file you do not fully understand is how people break their install.
Phase 4
When writing is safe
Round trips first, then the conversion and editing tools we already ship for GTA 5, pointed at the new formats. This is the phase everything above exists to reach.
If a phase turns out to be impossible, or off limits for legal reasons, we will say so here rather than quietly leave it sitting on a roadmap.
In the meantime, these already run
Every one of these works today, on GTA 5, with nothing to install.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have GTA 6 files?
No. Nothing from the game has been released to the public and we have no early access. This page is about preparation, not about files we are sitting on.
When will GTA 6 tools be here?
We are not giving a date. It depends on when the game reaches PC, on what its files turn out to look like, and on whether the community can read them. Anyone giving you a date right now is guessing.
Does GTA 6 run on PC?
Not yet. GTA 6 is set for 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Rockstar has not announced a PC version, a window, or any specifications. Modding needs a PC build.
Will my GTA 5 mods work with GTA 6?
Almost certainly not directly. Different game, different files. What carries over is knowledge and tooling, not the assets themselves.
Have you done this for a new game before?
Once, partly. Red Dead Redemption 2 previews already run here, in beta and read-only. That work showed which parts of the stack survive a game change and which parts have to be rebuilt.
What is likely to be the hardest part?
On Red Dead 2 it was not the models. It was the compression wrapped around every file. Reading that is a solved problem across the modding scene. Writing it back is not. Expect viewing to arrive well before editing.
Will the GTA 5 tools keep getting updates?
Yes. GTA 5 and FiveM are what we work on every day, and that does not stop when a new game arrives.
Is this connected to Rockstar Games?
No. gtax.dev is an independent project. It is not approved, sponsored, or endorsed by Rockstar Games, and the screenshots on this page are Rockstar promotional images.
Be there when the files open
No newsletter and no waitlist. The Discord is where the work gets posted as it happens, and where it gets posted if it stalls.
Screenshots on this page are official Grand Theft Auto VI promotional images published by Rockstar Games, reproduced here for illustration only. Grand Theft Auto and Rockstar Games are trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. gtax.dev is an independent project with no affiliation to, and no endorsement from, Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive.