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Outcome

The map opens in game on the toggle key and shows the markers your other resources create.

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Prerequisites

  • element_sdk installed and starting before this resource. See Install a product.
  • The element_map archive from the CFX portal.
The map stores nothing, so no database resource is required. A framework is optional: with es_extended, qb-core or qbx_core running, the player card shows the framework’s character name; without one, the map shows the FiveM account name and reads whether the player is alive from the game itself.

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Steps

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1. Extract the archive

fxmanifest.lua must be directly inside that directory.

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2. Add it to server.cfg, after the SDK

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3. Restart the server

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4. Install the integration

The map shows markers created by your other resources, and reaching them needs one script, shipped with the release, to be installed into those resources:
What it changes, and when to run it again, is described in Product integrations. Restart the server afterwards. This step can wait: the map opens without it and shows the markers it can see on its own. Markers created by other resources before the integration is installed stay invisible.

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5. Open the map in game

The map is bound to ESCAPE by default. Players rebind it for themselves in the FiveM key-mapping menu, under the label Toggle 3D Map. To change the default for players who have not chosen their own, see Controls.

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Verification

Three checks:
  1. The console reports a clean start for element_map, with no [ERROR] or [WARN ] line naming it. If it does not start at all, see A product does not start.
  2. The key opens the map, the camera rises above your character, and the interface appears.
  3. Markers created by your other resources are visible and listed in the legend. If they are not, the integration is missing. See Markers do not appear.
If the key does nothing, see The map does not open.

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Next steps