How would I be able to change the license plate on a stock vehicle like the one pictured below if at all possible? Thanks.

In the vehicles.img file there is a file called vehshare.wtd and the licence plate texture is in the bottom left. There you can put whatever whatever texture over the plate.

Edited November 8, 201312 yr by Chippy

You would need an unlocked model, and some texturing knowledge. That's where my modeling knowledge train leaves and I am still on the station lol.

Thanks for the help, guys! Worked perfectly fine in-game when I modified the vehshare and I now have a New York plate on the vehicle ;)

If you pull the texture out of the vehshare.wtd and add to any specific vehicle's .wtd texture file you should also be able to get it so it's unique to that vehicle. 

If you pull the texture out of the vehshare.wtd and add to any specific vehicle's .wtd texture file you should also be able to get it so it's unique to that vehicle. 

Oh is that so? That actually sounds a lot better than having the same NY plate for every stock vehicle. I'll have to try this out now. Thanks!

I'm pretty sure it works... 

Yes it works as Ekalb said cos the game loads first textures from main file then for the vehshare.

If you pull the texture out of the vehshare.wtd and add to any specific vehicle's .wtd texture file you should also be able to get it so it's unique to that vehicle. 

 

I just tried it and it works, thank you Ekalb.

 

Cheers.

I wonder, can you set multiple textures out and place it into the vechile's .wtd, PER livery? So for instance, 4 plates for 4 liveries within the (albiet large) .wtd?

I wonder, can you set multiple textures out and place it into the vechile's .wtd, PER livery? So for instance, 4 plates for 4 liveries within the (albiet large) .wtd?

 

Only if the car is multi livery.

Only if the car is multi livery.

Just add "+livery"?

Just add "+livery"?

 

Lol it doesn't work if the car is not multi-livery mapped.

Cars don't have to be mapped to all 4, just the first one, but yes, it does have to be templated to have 4 liveries.

So, with a multi-livery mapped model, you can have vehshare_skin1-4? or something? Might mess around with to get around models with unique livery plates but no mapped plate itself. Get what I'm sayin?

Well I believe the specific material for the surface you want to have multiple textures would need to be setup in such a way to support liveries. I think there's just that extra step to it than just adding the +livery flag.