

#GTA V OIV MODS MOD#
Open up assembly.xml in your favourite text editor (Notepad or Visual Studio will work)Ĭopy and paste the below: (If you aren't familiar with XML, you can learn more here) įind your mod files, for the sake of this tutorial, I will be providing examples of a replacement adder (Bugatti) and an add on ninef (Audi R8 PPI). Step Two Setting up your assembly.xml file

#GTA V OIV MODS INSTALL#
Step One Creating the required filesĬreate a folder which will contain your installer files, I named mine "Install." Inside the folder, make a file called assembly.xmlIf you want your installer to have an icon, get an image that is exactly 128x128px, name it icon.png and place it in the Install folder Last but not least, create a folder called content within the main folder (Install in my case) Your folder will (hopefully) end up looking like this: Additionally, OpenIV installers are very easy to update once you have them created, I will go more in depth later on in the post. OpenIV installers, on the other hand, append data to the end of the dlclist file and do not affect previous entries in the file. In doing so, the user also removes in game access to all their other add-on vehicles. For starters, OpenIV installers are much cleaner than the manual installations, especially for add-on vehicles, the reason being most manual install mods come with dlclist.xml and instruct the user to replace the original dlclist.xml with the provided one in the mod. oiv files appear to be more work than they're worth on the surface, however in my opinion the pros of OpenIV installers outweigh the cons.

oiv route and get you more downloads because they don't want to do the work of manually installing another mod.įrom a developers perspective. As a result, users will more likely choose the easier. oiv installer for your mod.oiv installers make it easier for the users to install mods, rather than users attempting to follow the readme file which can involve editing handling files and replacing dlclist.xml constantly, OpenIV installers allow the user to click install and have everything done without them doing much of anything.
#GTA V OIV MODS HOW TO#
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make a. Note: Throughout the post I will refer to OpenIV installers and. Hello all, this is my second post here so I figure I'll make it count.
