Module 08 · Lesson 26

Vehicles: spawn, modify, clean up

Vehicles are the most common entity you will work with in FiveM. Garage scripts, dealerships, police cruisers, test commands -- they all start with spawning a car and putting the player in it. This lesson covers the full cycle: stream the model in, spawn the car, customize it, put the player inside, and delete it cleanly when the timer runs out.

You'll ship: A /testvehicle command that spawns a car, sets a custom plate and color, warps the player into the driver seat, and auto-deletes the car after 60 seconds.
Time: ~30 minutes
You'll learn: The model request-and-poll pattern, joaat hashes, CreateVehicle and its network ownership flags, TaskWarpPedIntoVehicle seat indexes, the vehicle color table, and SetTimeout closure cleanup.
Prereqs: Lesson 24 (spawning entities) and Lesson 25 (cleanup discipline).

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_vehicles_spawn_modify_store

Create the files

Every file named in the manifest exists.

Create this exact file layout:

Vehicles: spawn, modify, clean up

Build it

Make the resource folder

Create the files

Write fxmanifest.lua

Write the lesson code

Start and test it

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