First Cloth Resource

Introduction

Durty Cloth Tool is an extensive tool allowing users to create add-on clothing packs for alt:V, FiveM, Singleplayer and RageMP.

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1. Creating your first Cloth Project

The first screen you should see is the tool running with a newly created, empty, clothes project. Before we start to add clothes to your cloth project, we will need to finish setting up the project and save it somewhere.

Open the Project Settings by clicking on "⚙️Settings" in the bottom right of the application. This will open the Project Settings window where we will have to define the following required fields:

• Project Name Enter a simple desired name for this cloth project

• DLC Name Setting Project Name will automatically set the DLC Name too, you can keep it that way in most cases

• Project Output / Save Folder This is the folder where your Cloth Project with all its data will be stored, choose wisely

If you have done setting up your Cloth Project, you can go ahead and quickly save it in order to be able to continue working on it at some later point.

Congratulations, you have finished setting up your first Cloth Project 🥳. In the next steps we will continue by adding our first clothes to it 👕

2. Adding Clothes to your Cloth Project

Before adding clothes to your Cloth Project, we will quickly have to cover what exactly we consider a Cloth:

• YDD File (Drawable) is the game file format that holds cloth model information, basically an untextured model of the cloth you are adding.

• YTD File (Texture) is the game file format that holds texture information, basically a texture variation of the cloth you are adding.

Durty Cloth Tool offers many options for adding either male or female clothes to your cloth project. We will quickly cover them:

• 🗃️ Import package, the most easy way to get clothes added. Imports *.dctpackage files which contain all information related to one or multiple clothes. See Import & Export Formats for more details.

• ⚧ Add, offers various methods to add clothes where the target gender will be automatically resolved.

• 👨 Add Male, offers various methods to add specifically male clothes. Useful in cases where Add method is not able to determine the target gender automatically.

• 👩 Add Female, offers various methods to add specifically female clothes. Useful in cases where Add method is not able to determine the target gender automatically.

In our test we will continue by downloading a simple female dress by Quixotic on Forge Hub: https://forge.plebmasters.de/hub/Cloth/1680/dione_dress

When downloaded and extracted it should contain a bunch of YDD and YTD files like this.

As you can see these file names don't contain any gender / ped name, this is why we have to select any of the options from the "👩 Add Female" dropdown. In this case we will choose "👩 Add Female > 📂 Add from folder(s)".

3. Building your Cloth Project to a Cloth Resource

If you have finished adding clothes and made sure you are happy with the options, you can open the build window to generate your desired GTA 5 addon cloth resource output.

Select your target resource type / platform, give your cloth pack collection a unique (short)name and select the output directory of your addon pack.

Pressing "Build" should end up creating your addon cloth resource at the selected output location. From here on you can take these files and copy it to your desired server resources folder.

4. Profit

You just created your first GTA 5 addon cloth resource yaaayyy!

Lets continue by testing your newly created GTA 5 addon cloth resource! Click on one of the cards below to continue. See you there 🚀

Alternatively we can recommend this (meanwhile a little bit outdated) In Depth Guide to Durty Cloth Tool by Onslaught