🔽 Find this version of the durty cloth tool in the attached zip at the end of this post.
👚 Check out Pleb Masters: Forge if you are interested in retrieving file paths for modding GTA V clothes: https://forge.plebmasters.de/clothes/
🛟 Join our discord for support: https://discord.plebmasters.de
📄 Documentation: https://docs.gta.clothing
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✅ Also visit our website for more information: https://gta.clothing
✨Update highlights
This update focuses on many quality-of-life improvements, empowering teams to collaborate on Durty Cloth Projects effortlessly and introducing powerful features for addon tattoo creation, making it accessible to everyone. Here's what's new:
🖊️ 3D Tattoo Editor Support
With Pleb Masters: Forge 3D Tattoo Editor integration, creating addon tattoos has never been easier! Position, scale, and rotate tattoos in 3D and import them directly into DCT for a streamlined workflow.
✨Try it out and use for free now @ https://forge.plebmasters.de/tattoo3d/
See our documentation for a how to get started: https://docs.gta.clothing/getting-started/first-addon-tattoo
🕺 Custom Animations in 3D Preview
Load and preview custom animation files (.ycd) in the 3D Previewer. Simply drop animations into the designated folder or load them via the file selector in our 3D preview and use them instantly. (Docs @ https://docs.gta.clothing/basics/essential-knowledge/3d-preview-clothes#custom-animations-loading)
🛠️ Sharing and Collaboration on Projects
New Sharing and Collaboration settings allow teams to seamlessly work together on cloth projects using version control systems like Git. Share your projects easily with relative paths and independent build output folders for each team member.
See our documentation to get started: https://docs.gta.clothing/getting-started/working-together
📂 File Format Linking
DCT now supports file associations for .dctproj, .dctpackage, and .dctexport formats. Open files directly from your file explorer for added convenience.
🛍️ Shop Meta File Generation
Easily generate shop meta files for your clothing, fine-tuning metadata like target shops and restriction tags directly within DCT. (Docs @ https://docs.gta.clothing/game-mechanics/shop-meta-file)
🤖 Smart Behaviour Project Settings
New settings make managing dummy placeholders easier than ever, ensuring drawable ID consistency while preventing ID shifts. (Docs @ https://docs.gta.clothing/basics/good-to-know/app-and-project-settings#project-settings)
🔍 Enhanced Integrated Search
Experience fuzzy matching, token matching, and result scoring for more precise search results. Effortlessly combine parameters like position and type for targeted searches. (Docs @ https://docs.gta.clothing/basics/good-to-know/integrated-search)
🏷️ Creator Info
Add metadata like creator name, website, and support details for each item. Export this information in the .dctpackage format to credit authors or provide troubleshooting info. (Docs @ https://docs.gta.clothing/basics/useful-to-know/creator-info)
⚡ Minor QoL Improvements
- Added mesh physics support in the 3D Preview.
- New analyze and remove duplicates project action.
- Option to auto-skip adding duplicates during app sessions.
- Added author and version metadata to project settings and output files.
- New texture preview size adjustment option.
- Context menu option to clone clothes for other genders.
- Added gender change support for clothes and tattoos.
- Improved Logs Window with search and text copy options.
This update ensures an even smoother cloth & tattoo modding experience and paves the way for efficient collaboration. Ready to take your projects to the next level? 🚀
📜Full Changelog:
Added
- Add support to load and preview clothes using custom anims in 3D preview
- Add support for version control (Git) hosted/shared cloth projects (See new Project Sharing Settings)
- Add DCT Launcher with support to open DCT file formats from file explorer directly
- Add support for Pleb Masters: Forge 3D Tattoo Editor to easily position and add tattoos
- Add proper generation of cloth shop meta file with configurable options to define RestrictionTags + Target Shop, per cloth
- Add new behaviour project setting: Replace dummys with real cloth on adding automatically
- Add new behaviour project setting: Instead of removing items ask to replace with dummy
- Add "Replace with Dummy" context menu options for cloth drawables + textures
- Add support to replace dummy cloth textures with real ones via context menu
- Add context menu option to create cloth clone to other gender
- Add gender change option for clothes + tattoos
- Add Search/Filtering to Logs Window + Option to select and copy text
- Add app option to change Texture Preview Popup Size
- Add displaying of size of files that will be cleaned when optimizing cloth project data folder
- Add option to auto skip adding duplicates for app session in duplicate confirmation dialog
- Add Project Author & Version to project settings, saved into cloth build output meta files
- Add DCT Version mentioning in the cloth build output meta files
- Add Creator Info fields that can be defined per Item and locked on export
- Add support for 3D previewing mesh physic based clothes
- Add project action to analyze for duplicates in project and easily remove them
- Add new validation check for total props game limit
- Add new documentation links and update some related links
Fixed
- Fix transparent texture images wrongly previewed (as black instead)
- Fix drag and drop textures reordering
- Fix possible crash when selecting appearance item thru error list
- Fix for 'Invalid Slice Pitch' error when exporting or optimizing textures (experimental)
Improved
- Improve project cache validation to fix some project loading issues
- Improve search to allow for searching by various other cloth / data parameters like game name, file name, ids, position etc.
- Improve Auto Data resolving for more cases
- Improve confirmation dialogs opening behaviour
- Improve various UI dialogs to better support all themes + better overview
- Improve Rename Texture Hotkey (Changed to F2) for consistency v3.1.0.1
- Fixed 3D previewer crash on startup
- Fixed possible crash on project loading
- Improved DCT Launcher Pipes Listener Handling, previously causing some issues
- Properly handle some "File in use by another process" casesv3.1.0.2
- Added new Dynamic Config Builders for rcore-tattoos and illenium-appearance
- Added support to paste UV Pos/Scale/Rot from Pleb Masters 3D Tattoo Editor via right click context menu on tattoos
- Improved Project Build output folder pre-checks to handle more cases
- Improved setup process of URL Protocol Handler & File Association (Formats) Setup
- Improved user settings upgrading process to handle more edge cases
- Improved overall error logging (More detailed logs in all sorts of corners)
- Fixed Singleplayer dlc.rpf Output not properly loading
- Fixed various 3D Preview Crash Issues
- Fixed using ' in some project meta fields could cause FiveM parsing errors
- Fixed some edge cases of failed project saving actions
- Fixed some possible crash issues when opening file dialog in some edge casesv3.1.0.3
- Added option to Optimize selected tattoos textures
- Improved tattoo rotation input to allow for 3 digit values
- Fixed various things related to possible drag and drop issues, should be more robust and log more information
- Fixed some rare case first startup crash scenariosVirus Total: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/02acd6db46fbad76b4ae1680402efad268261ef08db4cdaa3b6f92236a8b3e36
This version is a limited free version of the next generation premium version of our known cloth tool.
Visit the Pleb Masters: Forge licenses page to download your license
Find a detailed article on how to download and use your license at our Documentation or learn how to activate your license by watching a short video