Your first asset: a command in the game

You printed a line to the server console already. Now build your first real asset, a resource you join the game and trigger yourself. You will type /bananas in-game and watch Bananas are cool appear in the F8 console on your own screen. Same RegisterCommand you already met, but this time the code runs on the client, so the proof shows up in a different place. That difference is the whole point of this lesson.

You'll build: Your first real asset: a /bananas command that prints "Bananas are cool" to the F8 console while you are in the game.
Time: ~12 minutes
You need: A local FiveM server you can join and restart, the FiveM client installed, and a text editor (VS Code is free).
You'll learn: What an asset is, how a client_script differs from a server_script, and why a client command prints to F8 in-game and not the server console

BEFORE YOU START

Build it

Make the resource folder

The server has one folder for this asset.

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

Symptom	Fix
`Nothing prints in F8 when I type bananas`	Confirm you are actually connected in-game (the F8 console only shows client output once your ped is in the world), and that the manifest line reads client_script 'client.lua' exactly. A server_script would print to the server console instead.
`could not find resource qu_bananas`	You added the folder while the server was running and did not rescan. Run refresh in the Live Console, then ensure qu_bananas.
`attempt to call a nil value (global 'RegisterCommand')`	Misspelled native. It is RegisterCommand, capital R and C. Lua is case sensitive.
`The line prints in the server console, not F8`	Your manifest declares the file as a server_script (or you put the code in server.lua). Make it a client_script so it runs on the player and prints to F8.

Your first asset: a command in the game

Build it

Make the resource folder

Create the files

Write fxmanifest.lua

Write the command

Start it, join, and run it

How it works

Why this prints in F8, not the server console

The command, and the restricted flag

If something went wrong

What you can do now

Try it yourself