Clothing IDs & Outfit Shifts

Quick answer

Saved outfits break because global drawable indexes moved — a new pack, a changed ensure order, or a Rockstar DLC pushed everything along. The clothes are fine; the numbers your scripts stored are pointing somewhere else.

Difficulty: Intermediate · Affects: both · Collection natives CONFIRMED

INFO

Search: ids changed, outfits broken, wrong clothes, drawable id, shifted, saved outfit.

Why it happens

Custom collections are placed after vanilla and DLC content. That means:

• A new Rockstar DLC inserts items before yours, shifting your global indexes.
• Adding or removing a clothing resource shifts everything after it.
• Changing ensure order rearranges the collections.
• Repacking rebuilds collections entirely.

Collection-local IDs stay stable through all of this. Global IDs do not.

The durable fix

Store outfits by collection name plus local index, not by global index. FiveM exposes natives for exactly this:

SetPedCollectionComponentVariation
GetPedDrawableVariationCollectionName
GetPedDrawableVariationCollectionLocalIndex

A framework that saves ("zaiders_streetwear", 12) survives DLC updates, pack additions and load-order changes. A framework that saves 487 does not.

This is a script change, so it needs your framework developer. It is the only approach that stops the problem recurring.

The operational fix

If you cannot change the framework:

1. Lock ensure order for clothing resources and never reorder it.
2. Treat adding or removing a clothing pack as a scheduled event, not a routine one.
3. Reserve drawable headroom at build time so future additions append rather than insert. Build tooling supports reserving slots per component for this purpose — it costs capacity up front and buys stability later.
4. Announce a wardrobe reset when a shift is unavoidable.

What this is not

WARNING

ensure order is not a crash fix. Reordering resources does not change how many YMT slots they consume. If your server crashes, the cause is capacity or a broken file, and reordering will only change which wrong clothes appear.

Related

• Using Multiple Packs
• Drawables, Components & Props
• Repacking & Merging