Exporting Your Changes
Copy handling changes from the editor into your vehicle resource or JG Mechanic tuning config
The editor lets you test handling changes in game. It does not edit files inside your server.
Use the Export page in the editor to copy your changes when you're ready to keep them.
Exporting a handling.meta
Use this method to change a vehicle's base handling in its resource.
Test the handling
Sit in the vehicle and open the editor with /editor. Make your changes, then use Preview to test them.
Copy the XML
Select Export in the left sidebar, then select handling.meta (XML) under Export to.
Click Copy to Clipboard above the generated XML.
Find the vehicle's handling.meta
Open the resource that contains the vehicle and find its handling.meta file. Make a backup of the file before changing it.
The editor cannot locate or update this file for you. The XML is copied to your clipboard so you can add it to the correct vehicle resource.
Replace the handling data
If the handling.meta only contains the vehicle you edited, replace the file's contents with the copied XML.
If the file contains more than one vehicle, do not replace the whole file. Find the existing <Item type="CHandlingData"> block with the same <handlingName> as the exported data. Replace that block with the exported <Item type="CHandlingData"> block and leave the other entries unchanged.
Save the file when you're done.
Restart and test
Restart the vehicle resource, delete the old vehicle and spawn it again. Confirm that the vehicle loads and the new handling is active.
Applied handling and file changes
Apply Handling can apply changes temporarily or store them against a plate or vehicle model in the database. None of these options update the vehicle resource's handling.meta.
Export and replace the handling.meta when you want the changes to become part of the vehicle's base handling. This also avoids storing a model-wide handling override in the database.
JG Mechanic tuning configs
Select JG Mechanic Tuning Config under Export to when you're creating a custom tuning option for JG Mechanic.
Choose Overwrite to set the listed handling values exactly. Choose Modify to generate the difference from the vehicle's base handling. Copy the generated Lua into the correct tuning option in jg-mechanic/config/config.tuning.lua.
See Tuning for the available JG Mechanic tuning options.
Files outside the editor
JG Handling does not export or update vehicles.meta or carvariations.meta. Keep those files from the original vehicle resource and edit them separately if needed.
Last updated 4 August 2026