# Overview

**Cloth Tool** is a standalone Windows app for building GTA V clothing packs for FiveM and singleplayer. Import your `.ydd` / `.ytd` files or a whole FiveM resource, preview them on a real freemode ped, fix what the checks find, and build a ready‑to‑drop resource — for GTA V Legacy, GTA V Enhanced, or both — all from one window.

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New here? Jump straight to [**Installation**](/cloth-tool/start-here/installation), then follow the [**First Project**](/cloth-tool/start-here/first-project) walkthrough. You'll have a working clothing pack in about ten minutes.
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## What it does

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![KOJA Cloth Tool main window: the item list on the left, a garment on the freemode ped in the 3D preview, and the item editor on the right](https://pub-57d6558d0e204696b4cdeee5d172e561.r2.dev/cloth-tool/media/hero-slide.d01e3d454a.webp)
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* **Live 3D preview** — see your garment on an actual `mp_m` / `mp_f` freemode ped, with your own textures, in GTA's light at any hour, walking, running and jumping. See [3D Preview](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/3d-preview).
* **One‑click building** — a clean FiveM `stream` resource with correct GTA naming and a generated `fxmanifest.lua`, a singleplayer `dlc.rpf`, or both. Packs too big for one collection are split for you. See [Building](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/building).
* **GTA V Enhanced** — build for Legacy, Enhanced, or Legacy + Enhanced, without Cfx.re's Alchemist. See [GTA V Enhanced](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/gta-v-enhanced).
* **Problems panel** — checks catch broken naming, missing textures, limit overflows and rig problems *before* they reach your server, most with a one‑click fix. See [Validation](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/validation) and [Logs and Problems](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/logs-and-problems).
* **Import anything** — loose files, folders, whole FiveM resources (`.zip` or folder), Durty Cloth Tool projects and `dlc.rpf` packs. See [Importing](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/importing).
* **Live Link** (Premium) — edit textures in Photoshop, GIMP or Substance 3D Painter and meshes in Blender, and watch the change on the ped. See [Live Link](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool/live-link).
* **Creative tools** — Model Studio, Texture Creator, Tattoo Creator, Ped Creator, Photo Studio, Scene Creator and more for Premium users.

## Free and Premium

The download is free. Every project can be opened and previewed, and the free plan includes **8 builds in total**. Premium is one licence that unlocks unlimited builds and every paid tool.

### Free

- 3D preview, Look (wet, muddy, worn, shiny, dyed), skin tones and hair colours, body presets, the Appearance menu's Ped and Look tabs
- Built-in move presets (idle, walk, run, jump) and the cloth physics preview
- Building for FiveM and `dlc.rpf`, add-on or replace, Legacy and Enhanced, automatic split — **8 builds in total**
- The Problems panel, Findings, ignored findings and one-click fixes, and the Logs panel
- Importing FiveM resources; escrowed resources kept in a project
- Installing the Live Link plugins from the plugin manager
- Check a FiveM server, Find duplicates, Mass edit
- YLD XML cloth, GLB and CodeWalker XML export, `.kct` packages
- The Inspect window, item list layouts, 18 interface languages and the themes

### Premium

- **Unlimited builds**
- Model Studio (edit, sculpt and fit, weight paint, vertex colours, auto-rig, Repairs, Cloth Rigging Tool, Fit to ped) and New garment from a 3D model
- Material Editor and the normal and spec map generator
- Texture Creator (with the Recolour layer and colourways) and Texture Optimization
- Ped Library, preview on library peds, Target ped, outfits and ped clothing builds
- Ped Creator
- Shop metadata and shop export
- Photo Studio, Scene Creator, Mesh Optimizer, Tattoo Creator, Animation Creator and your own animation clips
- Team collaboration (parties and version history) and Friends
- Live Link: "Edit in", live updates from Photoshop, GIMP, Substance 3D Painter and Blender, and the Blender add-on's commits

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A fix in the Problems panel that opens a Premium tool needs Premium. Everything else on the Free list works on the free plan, within the 8 builds in total.
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## How this documentation is organised

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Install the tool and build your first pack.
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Every window, tool and option, one page each.
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FAQ, common errors, GTA's limits and naming rules.
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## Related pages

- [Start Here](/cloth-tool/start-here) — Welcome!
- [About the Tool](/cloth-tool/about-the-tool) — every tool in the Cloth Tool, one page each
- [Information and Errors](/cloth-tool/information-and-errors) — FAQ, Common Errors, Limits and Naming for Information and Errors.
- [Cloth Tool](/cloth-tool) — back to the section overview