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PedForge

Install on your server

Exporting as FiveM resource gives you a finished resource. You put the folder on the server, add a line to server.cfg and restart. The examples are for a ped called dillen.

Add the resource

  1. Unzip the ZIP file, or take the folder you saved, and put the dillen folder in your server’s resources folder.

  2. Open server.cfg and add the line below, with the folder’s name after ensure.

  3. Restart the server. The ped can then be used in the game with the model name dillen.

server.cfg
ensure dillen

What the resource holds

resources
resources/└── dillen/    ├── fxmanifest.lua    ├── peds.meta    └── stream/

fxmanifest.lua is the same for every ped PedForge exports. It is taken word for word from a resource that works in FiveM, and says the resource is for GTA V and that peds.meta is a file of ped data:

fxmanifest.lua
fx_version 'cerulean'games { 'gta5' }
this_is_a_map "yes"
files {    'peds.meta'}
data_file 'PED_METADATA_FILE' 'peds.meta'

peds.meta makes the ped known to the game by the name dillen and sets how it moves, its expressions and its size, with the values for Male or Female as you chose in the export. A ZIP also holds a README.txt with the same instructions as here.

Stream files only

  1. If your server already has a resource for the ped, you can export Stream files only and put the files in that resource’s stream folder, in place of the old files with the same names.

  2. Restart the server.

Good to know

With the stream files alone, PedForge does not touch your fxmanifest.lua or peds.meta; they stay as they are.

If something does not work

Warning

Never start two resources for the same ped. If the server already has one, replace its stream files or use the new folder instead, not both.

  • If the server cannot find the resource, check that the folder sits right in resources, or in a subfolder in square brackets such as [peds], and that the name after ensure is the folder’s name.

  • If nothing has changed in the game, restart the server fully and connect again, so the new files are downloaded.

  • If a garment looks wrong in the game, open the ped in PedForge again and look at the validation list. The guide Fix problems explains what the warnings mean.

  • If a female ped moves oddly, remember that the female values are GTA V’s defaults and have not been tested in the game. Use a peds.meta you know works.