DECAL5 adds persistent graffiti and vehicle vinyl tools to GTA V Enhanced

DECAL5 changed the job from placing decals to managing a living paint layer across Los Santos. For screenshotters, livery makers, and machinima builders, the biggest shift was persistence: map graffiti was saved and loaded at each game launch, so a mural or street tag no longer vanished when the session ended. The mod also let players insert their own textures, place art almost anywhere on the map, and build multiple vehicle outfits through an in-game menu.

The workflow gains were practical, not cosmetic. The graffiti menu included teleport-to-item and delete options for each entry, which cut down the usual cleanup loop when testing placements or moving a piece across a build. On the vehicle side, DECAL5 let players delete or modify individual decals, adjust color and alpha, and use mirroring options to tune symmetry on a livery instead of rebuilding the whole outfit from scratch. Search bars in both the Draw menu and the Outfit menu mattered just as much, especially once a project ballooned into hundreds of textures or placements.

The Enhanced release, uploaded on May 29, 2026 by Teamhimes and credited to stillhere, was built for the modern GTA V Enhanced setup and also supported NVE. Its requirements included OpenRPF, Script Hook V, and ScriptHookVDotNet Enhanced, which made the setup feel closer to current Enhanced mod workflows than older Legacy-only habits. That also came with a limitation creators had to plan around: enhanced YTD files could not be opened in OpenIV, so anyone changing existing graffiti textures had to use CodeWalker RPF Explorer instead.

DECAL5 was not a new idea for the scene. The original script had already been published in 2017 as a graffiti and vehicle vinyl editor for Grand Theft Auto V, with the same core promise of custom textures, map placement, vehicle outfits, and an in-game interface. stillhere’s wider mod history showed why the name carried weight in the community, with 162 uploads, 301,764 downloads, and 897 files liked on the creator profile.

That long runway helps explain why the 2026 Enhanced version landed the way it did. DECAL5 did more than add decal slots, it turned GTA V Enhanced into a persistent canvas, which is exactly the kind of control creators have been asking for when a scene needs to look authored, not temporary.