Hello together !

I have some questions about isntalling vehicles. I tried out many things the last day and learned a lot of modding GTA V.
What I did not really find our, and its because it seems a bit confusing to me, is if u can just rename a mod-vehicle-fileyou
downloaded so it will replace another vanilla vehicle.

FOR EXAMPLE:

I downloaded a mod that will replace police vehicle 2 so I have those four files:

police2.yft
police2.ytd
police2_hi.yft
police2+hi.ytd

Can I now just rename them to:

sheriff.yft
sheriff.ytd
sheriff_hi.yft
sheriff+hi.ytd

- would it work ?

Also I am a bit confused by the different ways of installing vehicles.

Some have included file like

visualsettings.dat
handling.meta
vehicles.meta
carvariations.met

- what exactly are those files for ?
- If I rename the yft and ytd file do I have to change those meta files too ?
- Or will it not work to rename mod vehicles including such files ?

Then I discovered that lot of mod-vehicles use different installation paths
in the readme files like:

mods\update\x64\dlcpacks\patchday3ng\dlc.rpf\x64\levels\gta5\vehicles.rpf
mods\Update\x64\dlcpacks\patchday4ng\dlc\x64\levels\gta5\vehicles
mods\x64e\levels\gta5\vehicles.rpf

- Is it important to put the mod-vehicle in exactly that folder ?
- Or can I just put them all into one (correct) folder ?

After I installed all of the mod-vehicles like in the readme files I experienced
that only some of them replaced the vanilla vehicles being used in LSPDFR

- Which folder do I have to use to replace the LSPDFR vanilla vehicles ?

 

I would be very thankful for your help and I continue learning.
Rob !

Review this handy guide; 

 

Wow, very interesting and helpfull guide... It all makes sense now :)  Thank you for the link  !