This tutorial will walk you through how to install and use vMenu. vMenu is one of the most popular custom menu systems for FiveM, and it will make both your life and the life of your players easier.
This tutorial is made using:
- A locally hosted server, but you can also use a server hosted by ZAP Hosting.
- vMenu.
- FileZilla - To easily install files on our FiveM server.
By the end of this tutorial, you will have installed a fantastic menu that easily allows you to manage the server, players, and spawn in custom cars and more. vMenu is one of the easiest ways of using custom content in FiveM and will be very useful for you as a FiveM server owner.
Installation Of FileZilla
Firstly, you should ensure that you have FileZilla installed. You won't be able to complete the rest of the steps to install vMenu without FileZilla installed, and you'll find that you will need to use this app frequently for your FiveM server.
You will be given two choices to download, either the Client or the Server Filezilla - we want the Client app so that we can connect to our FiveM server and upload custom files. When you choose client, you will be given various download options - we have selected the first option with the least options as this will simply do what we need.
With FileZilla installed, we now need to move on to vMenu installation.
Installation Of vMenu
Download the latest version of vMenu from Github. Extract the files from the zip folder, which contains a folder named vMenu.
Now head into your server files - to do this, open FileZilla and connect to your server. To find your server information so FileZilla can connect, go to your Zap-Hosting page, and scroll down to FTP-Browser. On this page, you'll find the FTP-Host, Port, username and password needed for FileZilla to connect to your server.
Once connected, you'll be able to browse the server files directly - this is where we need to make changes. Navigate to your /resources folder. Now, we upload the vMenu folder that we extracted earlier.
Now, go to the server.cfg and let's open it. At the top, we want to paste in 'exec resources/vMenu/config/permissions.cfg' - this tells our server to run this permission file as one of the first things when starting the server, meaning, these permissions will override other permissions.
Now, scroll down, where you will normally find a starting order for scripts and mods. Depending on your server, you may find this will state 'start' or 'ensure', whichever one your server uses, it's best to stick to one of them only. So if yours begin with 'start' you should also use start. Now, copy and paste 'start vMenu' or 'ensure vMenu' to the list of scripts to run on your server. Save the file, and you are now ready to start your server and head ingame.
Using vMenu Ingame
To bring up the menu ingame, the default key is 'M'. You can change this, but for this tutorial, we will be staying with 'M'.
vMenu is characterised by the colour blue and will allow you to navigate into categories using 'Enter' on your keyboard, and backwards using 'Backspace'.
Now, is a great time to test out using some of the admin tools available to you. If you have also followed our tutorial for installing custom cars (we used the fantastic cars from Essenity Modifications), then let's try to spawn a custom car. Open the menu with 'M' > 'Vehicle Related Options' > 'Vehicle Spawner' > Select a car. And the car is easily spawned!
The menu allows for very simple use of custom content that would otherwise be more difficult to spawn in the game. Take a look at this short video clip below to see how vMenu looks, and the various options you get access to (less than 1 minute long).
As you can see, vMenu is a smooth interface for you and your players to use. In our clip, we spawned in a custom car (from Essenity Modifications - the topic of a custom car tutorial) that was uploaded onto our server, but we were able to access it easily via the menu.
When using vMenu, it's good to know that there are some configurable options, but for the most part, the menu is very much plug-and-play unless you wish to customise it further. By default, regular players without admin will be restricted from various areas of the menu. However, as always, you should make sure that you are doing plenty of testing when it comes to installing third-party content and make sure you test the menu as an admin and as a regular player.
vMenu is one of several excellent ingame menus that you can use for your custom FiveM server! We hope you have found this tutorial useful, and hopefully, you now have vMenu installed and working on your FiveM server.
If you are looking for help with FiveM and Tebex, our blog has various tutorials that you may find useful, including how to make custom FiveM maps, FiveM ingame event ideas, how to write your product descriptions, and how to use the Tebex Wrapper for FiveM.
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