Stream Vehicles

Explanatory template to stream vehicles on alt:V.

Disclaimer

alt:V introduced a "simple way" of streaming vehicles with v15, if you have the vehicle as a dlc.rpf. If this is the case, you can just put that file inside a folder under the resources folder, name that folder and mention it in the server.toml as a resource.

We are not sure if this streams all of the files this template includes or just the files included inside the official documentation's "long way". Additionally to the officially documented files, this template includes the two meta files caraddoncontentunlocks.meta and vehiclelayouts_NAME.meta.

How to use

1. Copy the vehicle folder into your resources folder (eg. .../altv-server/resources/vehicle).
2. Rename it to anything you want (eg. manufacturer_modelname or group_pack).
3. Just replace every file which exists in the modded vehicle you want to include.
4. Every file which was not included in your vehicle has to be removed manually by yourself.
5. Remove every mentioned file (meta and audio files) on the stream.toml which was not included in this add-on vehicle.
6. Rename the audio files in the stream.toml.
7. Add the folder name to the server.toml as a resource.

Now the vehicle should work on your server.

Additional Notes

• Any NAME, VARIANT and MOD inside the file names needs to be replaced respectively.
• The dlctext.meta is never mentioned in the stream.toml.
• The meta files are mentioned as them.
• The audio sfx files are mentioned as their respective folder.
• The other audio files are mentioned grouped as .dat for every different type of them. They are most likely named with _amp, _game & _sounds.
• The folder structure and the file names are just examples and could be different although this is almost the same structure as suggested by the official docs.
• This template includes some files that aren't officially documented by alt:V, but seem to have worked in the past (to find out which these are see "Disclaimer").

Usage as a template

A good advice might be to have a template folder. Therefore just do step 1, but then name it something like _vehicle. If helpful, you could remove all files under the /stream directory and only adjust the .toml files. The underscore will list it at the top of your folder making it easier for you to add more vehicles.

Contributions

Pull requests are welcome. For explicit changes, please open an issue first. As this is a template, we'd like to keep this as simple and polished as possible.

Credits

• Rockstar Games (Grand Theft Auto V)
• multiplayer plattform alt:V
• Extra: alt:V's official tutorial for streaming vehicles