Metadata File

META is the extension used for many of the data files for GTA V. They are Extensible Markup Language (XML) text files.

List of data files

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Game	File	Description	Notes
	action_table.meta
	agitatedpersonalities.meta
	agitatedresponses.meta
	agitatedtriggers.meta
	alternate_accept_cancel.meta	Control input settings for scripted button inputs with the alternate profile.
	ambientaudio.meta
	ambientpedmodelsets.meta
	animpostfx.meta
	branches.meta
	cargens.meta
	combattasks.meta
	common.meta
	common_anim.meta
	common_cutscene.meta
	common_cutscene_fat.meta
	conditionalanims.meta
	crimeinformation.meta	Witness requirements for crimes.
	crimes.meta	Crime info manager.	Unused?
	crimetasks.meta	Police pursuit and vehicle theft tunable.
	damages.meta
	defaulttaskdata.meta
	definitions.meta
	deformableobjects.meta
	dispatch.meta	Dispatch times and radii, emergency vehicle/ped sets, and hidden evasion time.
	dispatchtuning.meta
	doortuning.meta	Contains the attributes of all doors in the game.
	events.meta	Pedestrian responses and decision making for various events.
	explosion.meta	Contains info on the different types of explosions.
	extratitleupdatedata.meta
	facial_anim_sets.meta
	firingpatterns.meta
	garages.meta	Contains info and coordinates for garages and vehicle save locations.
	generalevents.meta
	generaltasks.meta
	gestures.meta
	gta5.meta
	handling.meta	Contains the attributes of all vehicles in the game.	Newer version of handling.dat
	homings.meta
	iksolvers.meta
	impulses.meta
	installpartitions.meta
	interrelations.meta
	ladders.meta	General ladder attributes for different types of ladders.
	loadouts.meta	Ped inventory load out manager.
	motiontaskdata.meta
	motivations.meta
	movementevents.meta
	movementtasks.meta
	navcapabilities.meta
	nm_blend_out_sets.meta
	noisetuning.meta
	ondemandpartitions.meta
	pedaccuracy.meta
	pedalternatevariations.meta
	pedbrawlingstyle.meta
	pedcomponentcloth.meta
	pedcomponentsets.meta
	pedhealth.meta
	pediksettings.meta
	pedperception.meta
	pedpersonality.meta	Pedestrian movement, personality, bravery and criminality settings.
	pedtargetevaluator.meta
	physicstasks.meta
	pickups.meta	Pickup data manager.	Health packs, dropped weapons.
	playerinfo.meta	Character tunables.	Also has world limit and world extent guard settings
	playerspecialabilities.meta
	pedperception.meta	General FOV and visual/hearing range of different creatures.
	playerswitch.meta	Settings for different types of switch sequences.
	playertargetting.meta
	popgroups.meta
	procedural.meta	Contains the attributes of all procedurally placed models.
	propsets.meta
	randomevents.meta
	reactionevents.meta
	relationshiptuning.meta
	responsetasks.meta
	results.meta
	rumbleprofiles.meta
	rumbles.meta
	scenarios.meta
	scenariotasks.meta
	scenariotriggers.meta
	scriptedguntasks.meta
	servicetasks.meta
	settings.meta	Control input settings.
	shockingevents.meta
	situationalclipsets.meta
	slownesszones.meta
	southpaw.meta	Control input settings for southpaw profile.
	southpaw_trigger_swap.meta	Control input settings for southpaw trigger swap profile.
	sp_manifest.meta
	standard.meta	Control input settings for standard profile.
	standard_accept_cancel.meta	Control input settings for accept and cancel button with the standard profile.
	standard_scripted.meta	Control input settings for scripted button inputs with the standard profile.
	statsmgr.meta
	stealth_kills.meta
	streaming.meta
	strike_bones.meta
	tacticalanalysis.meta
	taskdata.meta
	tcinstbox_insts.meta
	tcinstbox_types.meta
	textpatch.meta
	tunableobjects.meta
	vehicleaihandlinginfo.meta
	vehicleaitasks.meta
	vehiclelayouts.meta
	vehiclemodelsets.meta
	vehicles.meta	Contains settings of all vehicles in the game.
	vfx.meta
	vfxregioninfo.meta
	wantedtuning.meta
	weaponanimations.meta
	weaponarchetypes.meta
	weaponcomponents.meta
	weapons.meta	Contains the attributes of all weapons in the game.
	weapontargetsequences.meta
	weapontasks.meta
	wildlifemanager.meta	Tunables for wildlife spawning and AI.
	witnessinformation.meta	Settings for who can be a witness.

See also

• DAT