Garage Manager
Create and manage garages, the brand and the settings in game.
The Garage Manager is where you build and look after your garages. There is no garage list in config.lua: every garage is created in game and saved instantly, no restart needed.
Open it with /evgarage. You need the ACE permission set in Garage.ManageAce:
add_ace group.admin evolent.garage.manage allowThe start screen lists Your Garages and gives you three buttons: Add new garage, Brand and Settings.
Create a Garage
Garage Details
- Display name: the name players see on the terminal and the map blip (2 to 60 characters).
- Vehicle storage: which stored vehicles the terminal shows. See Vehicle Storage below.
- Impound garage: tick this to turn the garage into an impound. See Impound Garages below.
Place in the World
Press Place lift, then Place terminal. A free camera opens so you can put each part exactly where you want it, with a live preview.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
W A S D | Move camera |
Q / E | Camera down / up |
Mouse | Look around |
Shift | Move faster |
Mouse Wheel | Rotate preview |
Alt | Fine rotation |
PgUp / PgDn | Preview height |
Enter | Confirm position |
Esc | Cancel |
Keep the blue exit arrow clear when placing the lift. That is the way the car drives out, so point it at an open parking area and aim at level ground.
Below the placement you can also switch on:
- Rear lift door: adds a second shutter at the back. Both doors open and close together.
- Map blip: show this garage on the map.
Who Can Use It
- With no jobs in the list, the garage is public and everyone can use it.
- Press Add job to restrict it. Each job has its own minimum grade, and a garage can list up to 12 jobs.
- Tick On duty only to require players to be on duty for one of the listed jobs.
Save
Press Save garage. The lift and terminal appear for every player straight away.
Placement Rules
A garage is refused when it breaks one of these rules. The manager tells you which one.
- The terminal must be 2.5 to 20 metres from the lift centre, and outside the lift footprint and its safety margin.
- Lift centres must be at least 9 metres apart.
- The ground under the lift must be level. The allowed difference can be raised under Settings > Advanced, see Configuration.
- A server can have up to 50 garages.
- A garage can't be edited or deleted while its lift is running a cycle.
Vehicle Storage
Every garage stores its vehicles under a storage name, which is written to the garage column of your framework's vehicle table.
- Leave it empty to give the garage its own dedicated storage (
evolent:<garage id>). - Pick an existing garage from the suggestions to share its vehicles. The lift then shows every car parked in, for example,
pillboxgarageof your current garage script, and cars stored at the lift show up there too. - Use the same name on several lifts to let them share one storage.
Suggestions come from qbx_garages on Qbox and from QBCore.Shared.Garages on QBCore. On ESX and ox_core you can type any storage name yourself.
Impound Garages
Tick Impound garage and set a Release fee to turn a garage into an impound.
- An impound hands vehicles back for a fee and takes none in. The Store vehicle option is not offered at an impound terminal.
- The fee is taken from the player's bank, and from their cash when the bank can't cover it. On ox_core it is taken as the
moneyitem. The car only leaves once the fee is paid. - An impound gets its own map blip (
Blips.ImpoundSprite/Blips.ImpoundColour). - When
LostVehicles.Garageis'impound', lost vehicles are sent here. With more than one impound garage, the first one by garage ID is used.
Vehicles your own impound or police script has impounded (state 2 on QB / Qbox) are never touched by this script.
Brand
Press Brand to change the look of every terminal and of the manager itself. Saving applies it to all players at once.
- Colour: the accent colour of the terminal and manager.
- Lights in the garage and on the terminal: a separate colour for the cabin light and the terminal strips, or Same as the brand colour.
- Logo: upload a picture or use an
https://link. Use the default logo puts the original back. - Text next to the logo: your garage brand name. Select letters and pick a weight (Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold), italic or underline.
Reset to config.lua throws the in-game brand away and uses the Brand section of config.lua again.
Settings
Press Settings to change how the garages behave. Values are grouped in Terminal, Lift, Vehicles, Map & sound, Lights, Messages and Advanced, and every row explains what it does.
- Save settings applies the changes to every player straight away. Only the language needs a restart.
- Reset on a single row, or Reset everything to config.lua, puts the
config.luavalue back.
The meaning, default and limits of each value are listed on the Configuration page.