Hey, I downloaded a few mods but im unsure where to put them file-wise. I first put them in the plugins folder in the GTA folder, but after looking around I found out they needed to be just in the GTA folder. Yet they still arent showing up in game. Do I have to activate them somehow? Does it vary between mods?

Are they ASI scripts by any chance? Make sure you are using ScriptHookV for those, that can be found here: http://www.dev-c.com/gtav/scripthookv/

How do I find out if they are ASI scripts?

If it is something like "ELS.asi" that would be an ASI script, try with ScriptHookV and see if they load for you.

Only one of them says ELS

I didn't say all ASI scripts say "ELS", I gave an example.
As I said, Install OpenIV and see if that helps.

I downloaded 7 different scripts/mods. Only one of them says anything about ELS.

Like I said, I never said that they are all ELS, that is one script I used as an example.
Download and install SHV and see if that works.

Where do I put the SHV download file?

Wait nevermind. But what about the other ones?

Copied directly from the provided readme:
Installation:
1. Copy ScriptHookV.dll to the game's main folder, i.e. where GTA5.exe
   is located.
2. In order to load asi plugins you need to have asi loader installed,
   you can download it separately or use the latest version that comes
   with this distrib (dinput8.dll).
   You must delete old dsound.dll asiloader if you have one installed.
3. This distrib also includes a sample asi plugin - native trainer,
   if you need a trainer then copy NativeTrainer.asi as well.

What about the other ones?

What other ones?

I have 6 other mods that arent showing up

They should work through ScriptHookV, if they go in a scripts folder put them in there and download this: https://www.gta5-mods.com/tools/scripthookv-net

If they are LSPDFR plugins put them in GTAV/Plugins/LSPDFR

Does SHV go in the plugins folder?

Do I move all the downloaded mods folders to the plugin folder?

SHV goes in the main directory. I do not know where to install the mods, I'd have to know each one and download each of them myself to know. read the readme that came with each one, if they didn't come with one check the download page for instructions.

Okay thanks