When creating skins, is it possible to direct the car to use default, randomized GTA plates, or is that something that is coded into the vehicle model itself? If the latter, how hard is it to edit that in?

Thanks in advance!

Vehicle model itself. Some authors have it mapped to the skin, others have it mapped to the random plate generator function. I don't exactly know what you mean by "how hard is it to edit that in". Are you asking how hard it is for the author to edit that in? Or asking how hard it is for someone else to edit that in? For the author it's very easy. For someone who doesn't have the unlocked file and program for it, it's impossible.

17 minutes ago, BlackJesus1 said:

Vehicle model itself. Some authors have it mapped to the skin, others have it mapped to the random plate generator function. I don't exactly know what you mean by "how hard is it to edit that in". Are you asking how hard it is for the author to edit that in? Or asking how hard it is for someone else to edit that in? For the author it's very easy. For someone who doesn't have the unlocked file and program for it, it's impossible.

 

Both, honestly - but thank you. That answers my question.

I noticed that some mod cars have the dynamic plates, even though the templates have spaces to designate front and back plates - while other cars have the plates in the template, but only spawn exactly what you put in there, no dynamic plates at all. Guess I'm back to creating individual plates for each skin on those cars......

52 minutes ago, Scottvdken said:

I noticed that some mod cars have the dynamic plates, even though the templates have spaces to designate front and back plates

Probably a model and template originally made for GTAIV in that case.