How to Mod GTA 5
- You can mod GTA 5 in two ways: With .ASI mods and with .DLL mods.
- Before installing any GTA 5 mods, you’ll also need to download some extra add-ons like Script Hook V.
- There are thousands of GTA 5 mods available to download online.
Like most popular PC games, Grand Theft Auto 5 has a massive modding community. In the decade since GTA 5 came out, players have designed and released thousands of mods, adding new weapons, new maps, new game modes, and even more.
If you’re bored of «vanilla» GTA 5, check out the mods. There are two major types of GTA 5 mods, along with a few extra apps you’ll need to get the mods working. And depending on what you download, you can completely reinvent the game — or just make it look even cooler than it already does.
Here’s how to mod GTA 5 on your PC.
Quick tip: There’s no restriction on using mods while playing GTA 5’s singleplayer modes. But using mods in GTA Online is against the rules, and almost guaranteed to get you banned.
What you’ll need to mod GTA 5
Before you can start downloading and installing mods, there are a few add-ons that you’ll need to set up. These add-ons will take the mod files and properly add them to GTA 5 for you, as well as let you manage the mods more easily.
Important: Whenever Grand Theft Auto 5 updates, you’ll likely need to re-install and update your add-ons and mods too.
The two most important add-ons to download are:
Script Hook V
Script Hook V is the main program you’ll be using to run Grand Theft Auto 5 mods. It lets you install and run .ASI mods — the most common type — and also includes a sample mod called Native Trainer.
Download Script Hook V from the official website and open its .
ZIP file. You’ll find a folder inside called bin. Copy the files inside of bin and move them to the folder on your computer where you installed Grand Theft Auto.
Quick tip: If you got GTA 5 from Steam, you’ll usually find the main Grand Theft Auto folder at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto V.
You’ll find all of Grand Theft Auto 5’s files in one folder.
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Community Script Hook V .NET
This is an update for Script Hook V that lets you run mods made with Microsoft’s .
NET framework. Some popular mods will require you to have this update installed before they’ll run.
To get Community Script Hook working, first make sure that you have both Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2019 (x64) installed. If you’re running Windows 10 you should already have both of these, but it doesn’t hurt to check.
You’ll also need to have the base Script Hook V add-on installed already.
Once you’re ready, download the Community Script Hook here. Copy ScriptHookVDotNet.asi, ScriptHookVDotNet2.dll, and ScriptHookVDotNet3.dll into your main GTA folder. Then make a new folder inside of the main GTA folder called scripts.
The .NET add-on allows for a lot more mods.
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Aside from these two, there are two more minor add-ons that you should download.
These will help cover all your bases, and make sure that you can really run any GTA 5 mod you want.
LUA Plugin for Script Hook
The LUA Plugin is another update for Script Hook V that lets it run more mods. This one gives you access to .LUA files.
Download the LUA Plugin here. Take everything in the LuaPlugin-GTAV-master folder and copy it into your main GTA folder. Then open the scripts folder we made earlier and add a new folder inside that called addins.
Map Editor
This app is required to install pretty much any mod that changes the geography in Los Santos. This includes adding new islands, new buildings, and more. It’ll also let you edit the map on your own, too.
You can download Map Editor here. To get it running, you’ll need to have the Community Script Hook V .NET add-on that we talked about above installed.
An example of the Grand Theft Auto 5 Map Editor mod.
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How to mod Grand Theft Auto 5
Now that you’ve got everything prepared, you can start adding mods.
The best place to find GTA mods is — fittingly — GTA5-mods.com. This website has been the most popular Grand Theft Auto modding site for years, and is where you’ll find all the best mods for your game.
You can sort the mods by what they do, how many times they’ve been downloaded, and more. There’s also a forum that you can use to chat with other players and get troubleshooting help.
To download a mod, open its information page and click the big green Download button in the top-left.
You’ll also get to see how many versions the mod has had, and when it was last updated.
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If a mod’s information page has instructions on how it should be installed, always follow those first. But otherwise, there are generally two ways to install mods.
Most mods come in one of two formats: .ASI or .DLL. Some mods will say which they are in their description, but you’ll always be able to tell by opening the file you download and checking what’s inside.
To install .ASI mods, copy the files to your main Grand Theft Auto 5 folder.
To install .DLL mods, copy their files to the scripts folder that the .NET plugin created.
Quick tip: If you’re downloading a .LUA file, move it into the addins folder that you created inside of the scripts folder.
But if your LUA mod comes with its own addins folder, just move everything to the scripts folder.
Whenever you download a mod, be sure to restart Grand Theft Auto 5 before trying it.
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Outside of Insider, his writing has appeared in publications like Polygon, The Outline, Kotaku, and more. He’s also a go-to source for tech analysis on channels like Newsy, Cheddar, and NewsNation.
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Looking back to 2005 and the Hot Coffee Mod in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
San Andreas is one of those rare games which can be attributed to the category of a cultural phenomenon. It’s a game so impactful that it transcends time and any current definition of “cool”. And no matter how much you love Grand Theft Auto 3 or Vice City, some of your fondest memories likely stem from playing San Andreas. At least that’s how it is for me.
It’s been over 15 years and I still remember events from San Andreas so vividly as if they happened a week ago. I don’t necessarily remember specific missions or narrative paths, but certain scenes and phrases occasionally pop into my mind. Phrases like: “I’m blind, Carl, not stupid” or “I’ll have two number 9s…”. These phrases don’t mean much when taken out of context, but if you remember the scenes they’re part of, you can’t help but chuckle.
It’s a game that doesn’t cease to amaze even now, and deserves an honorary place in the video game hall of fame.
Let’s go back to 2005 and take a look at the revolutionary sandbox wonder that is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Lean, Mean and Green
Enter the story of Carl “CJ” Johnson, who comes out of prison to attend the funeral of his mother, only to find out that his family is in utter disarray. His neighbourhood is under the threat of a rival gang and two corrupt cops want nothing more than to get him back behind the bars. It’s now up to CJ to restore Grove Street Families back to its former glory.
It starts out with relatively mundane tasks: change your hairstyle, get new clothes, spray paint over a rival gang’s graffiti. At most you might get into a fistfight with a random taxi driver. But as the story ramps up, CJ must work with dangerous and even unusual individuals, including the Triads, the FBI and a hippie by the name of The Truth. One of these relationships leads CJ into burning down a cannabis farm in order to get rid of evidence. I reckon you can guess which one.
While you don’t necessarily play GTA for the plot, San Andreas is among the best in the series. Some characters from previous GTA games make surprising cameos, like Claude, the main protagonist of GTA 3. But the beauty of any GTA game lies in the fact that everyone’s experience is different. Stepping out onto the streets of San Andreas, you never knew what you’re going to get involved with.
That’s the mindset I got into whenever I booted up the game. While I could carry on with the story and complete missions, I was also prepared for any random activity to divert my attention. And that came as a side effect of how big the new environment was.
Bigger is Better
I loved every inch of Liberty City and especially Vice City. But as beautiful and enticing as they were, both exhausted their options fairly quickly. By the time I completed the main storyline, I was already familiar with most of the city’s layout. With San Andreas, however, I felt like I was only just getting started.
San Andreas was bigger than both of the previous GTA maps combined, and was absolutely packed with content. It featured three distinctly different cities along with vast countryside and desert environments.
Starting out in CJ’s neighbourhood, we have Los Santos. This area takes after the real-world Los Angeles and many of its landmarks are later expanded upon in GTA 5. Based on San Francisco with its steep slopes, we have San Fierro to the west. And finally, Las Venturas up north is a beautifully recreated version of the sin city – Las Vegas – which featured a number of casinos and even the pyramid-shaped hotel – that same pyramid from which people were sliding down in Fear Factor.
Next to Las Venturas, there’s a desert area with various landmarks and a ghost town. Dividing the cities of Los Santos and San Fierro is an expansive countryside, home to the Bigfoot legend. And just south of San Fierro is the equally humongous Mount Chiliad.
No matter which part of San Andreas you were in, something would distract you from the main plot.
One of my favourite activities was to parachute onto the peak of Mount Chiliad and then rush down its entwining roads on a mountain bike. In the desert, it was almost mandatory to jetpack into the army base and steal one of their vehicles. Who would say no to a personal tank or assault aircraft?
I’m a Player, Not a Payer
If you were in Las Venturas, a visit to one of the casinos was a must. I used to frequent The Four Dragons and bet $1M on roulette, on a specific number. Winning, as unlikely as it was, would multiply the sum by the total amount of numbers, which meant I could walk away with $35M on a good day. If I lost too much, I would simply reload the game and try again. Alas, as hard as I tried to convince them, none of my friends believed that I wasn’t using cheats to amass a fortune of over $500M.
During another sinful visit to Las Venturas, a small plane suddenly crashed into the ground from out of nowhere. It crashed into a taxi, prompting both vehicles to explode.
Unfortunately I was right next to the explosion, and while the explosion itself didn’t get to me, the charred carcass of the plane began rolling toward me. Holding the camera button to see what was going on behind me, I began sprinting away as fast as I could. Let me tell you, those hours spent at the gym and doing triathlon certainly paid off.
I managed to outrun the plane and hide behind a corner. As ridiculous as it was, from my perspective this looked like a scene from an action movie. And best of all, any escapade into San Andreas could turn into your own adventure. Even if it’s just running from a plane.
Remember, Nice Guys Finish Last
Grand Theft Auto as a series was notorious for featuring violent and otherwise mature content. Every new entry pushed the envelope further and San Andreas was no exception. With the newest entry, Rockstar Games introduced a dating system into the series. Throughout the city, you could meet and date girls, and if you impressed them enough, you had the chance of getting invited for a steamy cup of coffee.
A really, really hot cup of coffee, as it resulted in moaning and the camera shaking, possibly simulating CJ wiping the beverage off his shirt. Jokes aside, developers introduced heavily censored sexual intercourse. But when has censorship ever stopped PC players?
Mods came along with the PC release of San Andreas and among them was the Hot Coffee mod. It didn’t do much apart from unlocking a minigame that was already part of the game’s code. Interestingly enough, it was also part of the PS2 and Xbox versions. This minigame portrayed the sexual act in more detail, stirring controversy from news outlets and attention-hungry politicians. And for no good reason, as even in their uncensored state these scenes were no more graphic than those later portrayed in Mass Effect.
Nonetheless, much like with Manhunt, this prompted San Andreas to receive an “Adults Only” rating, temporarily removing it from store shelves. Understandably, it led developers to reprogram the game, preventing anyone from accessing this particular content.
To this day, I don’t know of many games with a world so densely packed with content. Beyond the main story and the obvious side activities, you never knew what else might distract you. Would you partake in illegal street races or awaken your inner entrepreneur by purchasing various properties? Perhaps you would hunt for collectable underwater oysters? San Andreas had it all. It also formed my music playlist by introducing my teenage self to artists like Faith No More and Rage Against the Machine.
I’m happy with how much time I managed to invest in it. And one of these days, I’ll find an excuse to invest a few hundred more hours. That said, I’ve probably missed a lot, so feel free to share your favourite San Andreas memory in the comments below.
«Hot Coffee» at minimum wages — mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 allows you to «fun» with women, but there are restrictions
Many fans of the Grand Theft Auto series are well aware of the Hot Coffee scandal.
Many fans of the Grand Theft Auto series are well aware of the Hot Coffee scandal. Shortly after the release of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, enthusiasts using a mod called Hot Coffee (Hot coffee) managed to unlock mini-games in which the main character had sex with girls. This then led to the fact that the age rating of the game was increased, and Rockstar had to release an updated edition of the PC version without such explicit content. nine0003
Enthusiasts Unlosing and Jedijosh920 recently released the Hot Coffee Remake mod for Red Dead Redemption 2. The mod allows Arthur Morgan to have sex with women in a number of saloons (Valentine Saloon, Saint Denis Saloon and Strawberry Hotel/Welcome Center).
However, during the «entertainment» participants in the process do not take off their clothes.
So while the remake of «Hot Coffee» is far from the original.
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Refueling for cars and gasoline in GTA
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At the moment in GTA 5 and GTA Online there is no such problem or joy as refueling cars in the game. No matter how much you drive on the roads of Los Santos and Blaine County, gasoline in the car will not run out. There is simply no such indicator as the fullness of the tank in GTA .
From time to time this makes different players think about whether it is good or bad to have a working system with auto refueling in GTA. Fans of realism and racing have previously released mods with a speedometer and a limited amount of gasoline for vehicles in the GTA San Andreas game. There are similar solutions for Grand Theft Auto V, but are they needed? nine0003
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If such a system is introduced into the conditional GTA 6, then it will not be possible to turn on or off unlimited fuel tanks only through the menu and the entire gameplay can turn into a kind of gas station simulator, and the Grand Theft Auto series of games from Rockstar Games is not about this at all. nine0003
Pros:
Another entertainment.
When you just ride around the city, and not complete the story missions, this is certainly fun, as it adds at least some variety and even an element of surprise to the game. You never know exactly how much gas will be in a stolen car or what awaits you at the nearest gas station.
Hot coffee from the machine will also add atmosphere, and several tens of dollars debited from a bank card will not particularly affect our financial situation. Admit it, because everyone now has several million dollars in GTA. nine0003
Video with the modification of gas stations in GTA 5
Cons:
Waste of time.
Do you want to stall in the middle of the desert or avoid the police with 5 stars? A dubious pleasure, considering that in most cases it will end with a visit to the hospital. Although, nothing will stop true professionals from jumping out of the car and quickly getting into a police car, dodging bullets along the way and putting on a bulletproof vest.
Gas stations themselves with shops and dispensers are in GTA V even now, but you can’t refuel vehicles there, but you can visit shops at gas stations. In them you can buy chocolate bars and sweets to restore health, as well as beer and cigarettes to reduce it.
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Buildings with famous fast food in the fifth part of GTA, by the way, also do not work, although back in GTA 4 and San Andreas you could satisfy your hunger with a burger or a bite to eat a slice of pizza. At the same time, in San Andreas there was a separate scale for the indicator of satiety, and in fast food establishments it was possible to choose sets of products from different menus. If you want, eat chicken wings or salad. The main thing is not to overeat, otherwise the food will be asked back.
Car wash
All supporters of functioning gas stations would like to be reminded that in GTA IV and GTA V it is possible to drive into a car wash and wash your car. There is an effect of dirt sticking in the game, so the difference between a dirty and clean car in the game is clearly visible. So, how often do you stop by to wash your iron horse? In GTA Online, it is generally possible to take a shower in your apartment. nine0003
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