Game trainers are a kind of game modification that changes its behavior using addresses and values. Trainers are used to gain unfair advantage in games and cheating, but they are also used by players to “train” themselves under different game conditions. In GTA V a trainer mod is very useful for creative practices, as it allows players to modify many aspects of the game that extend the possibilities offered by the official Scene Director and Rockstar Editor. They do not require scripting and offer control of the game world through a more intuitive graphic interface.

Menyoo is one of many available mod trainers for GTA V. It’s the most popular trainer because of its incredibly wide range of features, controlling NPCs, vehicles, props and scenes, and allowing players to generate custom interiors and objects from GTA V’s database of entities, dynamic scenarios, and entire sets and scenes for machinima and photographic projects.

Installation and setup

Menyoo requires Scripthook V and Scripthook V Dot Net which you already installed in order to enable your scripts.

• In order to install the Menyoo Single Player Trainer go to github.com/MAFINS/MenyooSP/releases and download the MenyooSP.zip file in the Assets section of the page. Open its content and select the menyooStuff folder and Menyoo.asi file. Copy and paste these in your GTA V directory.

• Run GTA V and press F8 to launch Menyoo. You will hear a ringtone confirming that the mod has been initialised. Press F8 again to toggle the Menyoo Trainer menu on and off.

• Use the Arrow keys to navigate through the menu option. Press the Enter key to select an entry or the Backspace key to go back to the previous directory.

• Navigate to Misc Option and press Enter.

• Select FreeCam (No-Clip) and press Enter to turn it on. Press F8 to hide the Menyoo menu.

• Press F3 to toggle the FreeCam on/off.

• When in FreeCam mode, your character will be turned invisible and you will be able to move the game camera freely. Use W, A, S and D to move around like you would do to control the character in the game. Additionally, you can use Q and E to descend/ascend vertically in space.

Menyoo contains many more options to control characters and vehicles, assign animations, spawning props, teleporting to different locations and other very useful possibilities that go beyond the scope of this introductory manual. Take some time to explore the menu and experiment with its capabilities. Scripting will always give you more accurate control of what you can achieve, but a trainer mod is very useful in showing what’s possible and it’s a much more accessible tool for those who are less inclined to code.

Finally, all of the tools in this guide are not mutually exclusive, but can be combined together: Menyoo can be used with custom scripts, ReShade, screenshotting, Scene Director and Rockstar Editor, allowing the player to have complete control of the game and its world. In the example below you can see the code used to spawn five clown NPCs and to position the game camera, the weather manipulated in Menyoo to create a meteor shower, and a shallow depth of field lens and colour grading in ReShade.