Coordinates, vectors, and distance

Almost every world feature in FiveM starts with one question: where is the player, and how far is that from something else. This lesson builds the two lines you will reuse forever. You read your own position as a vector3, then measure the gap to another point, and you learn why that single measurement is the gate that turns a marker, a shop, or a job into something a player can actually reach.

You'll build: qu_coords: a /here command that prints your live position, and a /near check that prints whether a fixed point is within range.
Time: ~26 minutes
You need: A working FXServer you can restart one resource on, and the ability to read F8 output.
You'll learn: vector3 -> GetEntityCoords(PlayerPedId()) -> GetEntityHeading -> #(a - b) distance -> GetDistanceBetweenCoords -> why distance gates interaction and performance

BEFORE YOU START

Build it

Make the resource folder

The server has one folder for this lesson.

Inside your server's resources folder, create this folder:

code

resources/qu_coords

Create the files

Every file named in the manifest exists.

Coordinates, vectors, and distance

Build it

Make the resource folder

Create the files

Write fxmanifest.lua

Write the lesson code

Start and test it

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