FiveM vehicle effects: nitro, backfire, drift smoke and sparks

Car scripts are where custom effects show most: a nitro flame that matches your server’s style, a backfire on downshift, smoke and sparks for drift and street racing servers. Each effect below exports as its own .ypt.

Nitro BoostExhaust BackfireTyre Drift SmokeDrift SparksCar Scrape SparksVehicle CrashEngine Overheat

Play it on a car

The test command in the export plays at a coordinate. To follow a car, start the loop on the vehicle with StartParticleFxLoopedOnEntity, or on a bone with StartParticleFxLoopedOnEntityBone and GetEntityBoneIndexByName(vehicle, "exhaust"), and stop it with StopParticleFxLooped. We test exports at a coordinate, so check how an effect on a moving car looks at speed before you ship it.

Settings that hold up in GTA V

• Size. About 0.5 to 1 m for a nitro flame or backfire at the exhaust, 2 to 4 m for drift smoke behind the car.
• Origin: Centre for flames and sparks at a bone, Ground for smoke that rolls along the road.
• Frame blending on Auto. Sparks and flames that play fast stay sharp; smoke blends smoothly.
• Short cycles. A backfire or a crash impact is a one-shot of under a second; play the _once effect each time it happens.

Export one

1. Open Nitro Boost in the studio, or any effect from the library. Change colours, size or timing first if you like.
2. Press Export, choose FiveM under Export for and turn on GTA file (.ypt).
3. Set Size, the effect's widest side in metres (from the sizes above), and Origin to Centre, so the coordinate you pass is its middle. Glow, lighting and frame blending pick sensible values from the effect.
4. Set Package to .ypt file for your own resource, or Resource for a ready one with a test command.
5. Press Export, put the .ypt in your resource's stream folder and play it with the natives on the FiveM setup page.

A free account gets 3 exports a day, and the ready .ypt counts as one, alone or in a resource with fxmanifest.lua and a test command. The frames as one 6 x 6 or 7 x 7 sheet PNG are free the same way. Any plan, from $7.99 a month, has no daily limit, for a whole server's set of effects at once.

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