How to make custom clothes for FiveM

How GTA 5 clothing works

• The YDD holds the clothing mesh, rigged to the freemode ped.
• The YTD holds the texture the mesh wears. Recoloring or redesigning the texture changes the look without touching the mesh.
• Component slots (jbib for tops, lowr for pants, feet for shoes, and so on) decide where a piece goes on the ped.

Because the texture does most of the visual work, the fastest route to custom clothes is editing the YTD while previewing it live on the model.

Design the texture

1. 1Open the cloth customizer. It loads a default freemode clothing piece, or drop in your own .ydd and .ytd pair.
2. 2Paint directly on the texture with the brush, drop in logos or patterns as image layers, and adjust colors with the sliders.
3. 3Watch the 3D preview: every stroke shows up on the ped immediately, so seams and placement are never a surprise.
4. 4Export the edited texture as a .ytd, or the whole piece.

Working from a real clothing brand or design? Upload the artwork as an image layer and scale it into place instead of repainting it by hand.

Package it for your server

A texture alone is not installable; the server needs an addon clothing resource that registers the piece. The clothing pack builder takes your pieces and produces that resource, with the metadata GTA needs to show the clothes in the right component slot.

1. 1Add your clothing pieces (.ydd plus .ytd) to the builder.
2. 2Assign each piece to its component slot and set the texture variations.
3. 3Build the pack and drop the output on your server like any other resource.

Going further

Tattoos work the same way as clothes but overlay the skin: the tattoo creator previews them on the ped with game-accurate placement and packages a tattoo pack. And if a mesh needs LODs or the textures need mipmaps before going live, the YDD optimizer handles both in the browser.