Customize Ped Models

Add Drawables and Textures to Peds

In this tutorial you will learn, step by step, how to add drawables such as hairstyles or jackets or pants as well as different texture variations for those drawables. The process here applies to both normal and streaming peds, the most important difference being normal peds have drawables in one ydd file whereas streaming peds have individual drawables in their own ydr files.

Before you start this tutorial, we suggest you read this article:  Basic Ped YMT Editing

What you will need:

1. Solid understanding of working with Windows files

2. Open IV

3. YMT Editor

4. Code Walker RPF Explorer

5. A text editor (Notepad, Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, etc.)

6. Image Editor (Photoshop, GIMP, etc.)

What you won't need:

1. Knowledge of 3D Modeling (although it can't hurt)

2. 3D Modelling Software ( ZModeler3, Blender, 3ds Max, etc.) - this is optional

So the best part is all you need to know is how to edit text and of course an understanding of how components, drawables, and textures are the foundation of ped models. Read more here.

Step 1

The first step is to backup your ped files in case you make a mistake or want to restore them. We will be working with only 3 of the 4 files present for most Normal Peds, but backup all four. The ones we will work with are: ytd, ydd, and ymt. We will not preoccupy ourselves with yft. If you don't understand the role of these files, check out the Basic Ped YMT Editing before going further.

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