Metadata File

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common.rpf/data/
File	Description	Notes
cargens.meta
common.meta
common_anim.meta
common_cutscene.meta
common_cutscene_fat.meta
defaulttaskdata.meta
deformableobjects.meta
dispatch.meta	Dispatch times and radii, emergency vehicle/ped sets, and hidden evasion time.
events.meta	Pedestrian responses and decision making for various events.
garages.meta	Contains info and coordinates for garages and vehicle save locations.
handling.meta	Contains the attributes of all vehicles in the game.	Newer version of handling.dat
missioncreatordata.meta
motiontaskdata.meta
navcapabilities.meta
networkshop.meta
ondemandpartitions.meta
pedalternatevariations.meta
pedbrawlingstyle.meta
pedcomponentcloth.meta
pedcomponentsets.meta		Whether a ped group has speech, ragdoll, a phone, a helmet, etc.
pedhealth.meta	Health and thresholds attributes for different AI type.
pediksettings.meta
pedperception.meta
pickups.meta	Pickup data manager.	Health packs, dropped weapons.
playerswitch.meta	Settings for different types of player switch sequences.
playerswitchestablishingshots.meta
shop_tattoo.meta
shop_vehicle.meta
shop_weapon.meta
taskdata.meta
tcinstbox_insts.meta
tcinstbox_types.meta
tunableobjects.meta
weaponarchetypes.meta

common.rpf/data/ai/
File	Description	Notes
agitatedpersonalities.meta
agitatedresponses.meta
agitatedtriggers.meta
ambientaudio.meta
ambientpedmodelsets.meta
combatbehaviour.meta
conditionalanims.meta
crimeinformation.meta	Witness requirements for crimes.
crimes.meta	Crime info manager.	Unused?
ladders.meta	General ladder attributes for different types of ladders.
loadouts.meta	Ped inventory load out manager.
motivations.meta
noisetuning.meta	Player footstep's volume by distance.
pedaccuracy.meta	AI and Player accuracy modifiers.
propsets.meta	Prop model grouping and probability.
scenarios.meta
scenariotriggers.meta
scriptedguntasks.meta
vehicleaihandlinginfo.meta
vehiclelayouts.meta
vehiclemodelsets.meta
weaponanimations.meta
weaponcomponents.meta
weapons.meta	Contains the attributes of all weapons in the game.
weapontargetsequences.meta
witnessinformation.meta	Settings for who can be a witness.

common.rpf/data/anim/pose_databases/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	nm_blend_out_sets.meta

common.rpf/data/control/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	alternate_accept_cancel.meta	Control input settings for scripted button inputs with the alternate profile.
	alternate_duck_handbrake.meta
	common.meta
	gestures.meta
	settings.meta	Control input settings.
	southpaw.meta	Control input settings for southpaw profile.
	southpaw_fps.meta
	southpaw_fps_alternate.meta
	southpaw_scripted.meta
	southpaw_tps.meta
	southpaw_trigger_swap.meta	Control input settings for southpaw trigger swap profile.
	southpaw_trigger_swap_fps.meta
	southpaw_trigger_swap_fps_alternate.meta
	southpaw_trigger_swap_scripted.meta
	southpaw_trigger_swap_tps.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_duck_handbrake.meta
	standard_fps.meta
	standard_fps_alternate.meta
	standard_scripted.meta	Control input settings for scripted button inputs with the standard profile.
	standard_tps.meta
	triggerswap.meta
	triggerswap_fps.meta
	triggerswap_fps_alternate.meta
	triggerswap_scripted.meta
	triggerswap_tps.meta

common.rpf/data/effects/peds
Game	File	Description	Notes
	facial_overlays.meta
	first_person_alternates.meta
	mp_first_person.meta
	ped_skin_tones.meta
	sp_first_person.meta

common.rpf/data/levels/gta5/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	doortuning.meta	Contains the attributes of all doors in the game.
	gta5.meta
	images.meta	Controls the images (files and textures) that are loaded in the game
	sp_manifest.meta
	vehicles.meta	Contains settings of all vehicles in the game.

common.rpf/data/levels/stripped/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	images.meta
	stripped.meta

common.rpf/data/materials/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	procedural.meta	Contains the attributes of all procedurally placed models.
	rumbleprofiles.meta

common.rpf/data/streaming/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	srllist.meta

x64a.rpf/data/control/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	calibration.meta
	default.meta
	dynamic.meta
	fixed.meta
	gamepad.meta
	inverted_mouse.meta
	inverted_mouse_vehicle_fly_centered.meta
	inverted_mouse_vehicle_fly_scaled.meta
	inverted_mouse_vehicle_sub_centered.meta
	inverted_mouse_vehicle_sub_scaled.meta
	mouse_vehicle_car_centered.meta
	mouse_vehicle_car_scaled.meta
	mouse_vehicle_fly_centered.meta
	mouse_vehicle_fly_scaled.meta
	mouse_vehicle_sub_centered.meta
	mouse_vehicle_sub_scaled.meta
	settings.meta
	standard_mouse.meta

x64a.rpf/data/control/keyboard layout/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	en-gb - united kingdom.meta
	en-us - united states.meta

x64a.rpf/data/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	carcols.ymt
	carmodcols.ymt
	carvariations.ymt
	credits.ymt
	default.ymt
	levels.ymt
	mapdatacullboxes.ymt
	peds.ymt
	playerspecialabilities.ymt	Contains attributes for the character's special abilities.
	startup.ymt
	streaming.ymt

x64a.rpf/data/anim/clip_sets/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	clip_sets.ymt

x64a.rpf/data/materials/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	procedural.ymt

x64a.rpf/data/metadata/ai
Game	File	Description	Notes
	firingpatterns.ymt

x64a.rpf/data/tune/
File	Description	Notes
combattasks.ymt
crimetasks.ymt	Police pursuit and vehicle theft tunable.
defaulttasks.ymt
dispatchtuning.ymt
generalevents.ymt
generaltasks.ymt
iksolvers.ymt
minimap.ymt
motiontasks.ymt
movementevents.ymt
movementtasks.ymt
pedtargetevaluator.ymt
physicstasks.ymt
playerinfo.ymt	Character tunables.	Also has world limit and world extent guard settings
playertargetting.ymt
randomevents.ymt	Settings for when/where peds will act criminally.	Jaywalking, car thefts, police chases, etc.
reactionevents.ymt	Distance peds hear explosions.
relationshiptuning.ymt		Unused?
responsetasks.ymt
scenariotasks.ymt
servicetasks.ymt
shockingevents.ymt
situationalclipsets.ymt
soundevents.ymt
tacticalanalysis.ymt
vehicleaitasks.ymt
vehicletasks.ymt
wantedtuning.ymt
weaponevents.ymt
weapontasks.ymt
wildlifemanager.ymt	Tunables for wildlife spawning and AI.

x64a.rpf/levels/generic/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	popgroups.ymt	Pedestrian model, and vehicle, grouping.	Unused?

x64a.rpf/levels/gta5/
Game	File	Description	Notes
	doortuning.ymt
	popgroups.ymt	Pedestrian model, and vehicle, grouping.
	slownesszones.ymt
	sp_manifest.ymt	This file controls SP scenarios
	startupreq.ymt
	zonebind.ymt

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