META

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
	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
	crimes.meta	Crime info manager	Unused?
	crimetasks.meta
	damages.meta
	defaulttaskdata.meta
	definitions.meta
	deformableobjects.meta
	dispatch.meta
	dispatchtuning.meta
	doortuning.meta
	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
	witnessinformation.meta

See also

• DAT