🚧 VMS System - Variable message signs

💬 Introduction

Are you looking for a “non-criminal” innovative way for your players to make money? Look no further!

As a server owner VMS System gives you the ability to setup Variable Message Signs your players can maintain and take care of. With assigned missions from the VMS headquarters, your players can move to the city and perform tasks from their missions in an interactive way, all this presented with a clean and pleasant user interface.

✔️ Features

• Variable message signs (VMS)
• Cool 3D model
• Signs/message display on 3D UI
• Platform reachable from the ladder
• Control box (used for missions)
• Particles/sounds

• Modular mission types:
• Define different settings for your custom mission types:
• Type name
• Type min/max delay
• Type min/max reward
• Type tasks list (check bellow)

• Tasks system (minigames):
• Cable inspection
• Cable repair
• Display repair
• Reboot

• Computer:
• Monitor all VMS of the city from the computer
• Edit the sign and the message of a selected VMS
• Kick players who camp out the computer for too long

• Mission screen:
• User friendly 3D interface
• Available mission list
• Mission rating
• Accept/cancel missions
• Show details about your mission, such as:
• Mission name
• Board name
• Board distance
• Mission delay
• Reward
• Tasks

• Mission HUD:
• Toggle key to hide/show (default: F9)
• Show details about your mission, such as:
• Mission name
• Board name
• Board location
• Board distance
• Mission delay
• Reward
• Tasks
• Tips

• Navigation to screen popup:
• A box that will appear on the top right corner of the screen once a mission is finished
• Click "Yes" to navigate to the last known mission screen, "No" to close

• VMS Admin tool:
• Save/.remove map entities
• Name/rename VMS
• PMV Editor:
• Add/remove messages (name)
• Add remove signs (name, URL)

• Other:
• Boards signs/messages can be saved between server restarts
• Admin chat command to generate a new mission (default: /vms_gen)
• Configurable cooldowns for:
• VMS edition
• Mission fail
• Mission success
• Mission start
• Mission stop
• Enable/disable mission fail on death
• Configurable render distances
• Hide/show claimer name on mission screen
• Mission HUD position can be changed
• Configurable times for mission end HUD (success/fail) and navigation popup

📑 VMS System is/has

• Easy to use, install and config
• DRM-Free
• Optimized
• Custom model
• A clean & user-friendly 3D UI
• Cool sounds
• Support for:
• Billy's Logs
• DarkRP
• NutScript
• Helix

Sterling Pierce : Billboard 3D Model

|DC| Drewbie and Drew's Community : Testing, feedback

Raynhor™ : Testing, feedback

Venatuss, Slawer : Feedback

Installation

• Unzip vms_system.zip and drag/drop vms_system folder into your server's addons
• Ensure that you have the workshop assets added to your workshop collection
• Configure the script to your liking (vms_system/lua/vms_system/config.lua)
• Restart your server

Admin tool

• Watch the video dedicated to the admin tool for more details on how to use it

You now have VMS System installed onto your server.

Each entry is detailed in the actual configuration file. Some indications have been removed due to the 1000 character limit.

VMSSys.Cfg.Language = "en"

VMSSys.Cfg.NotifPrefix = "[VMS System]"

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionGenCmd = "/vms_gen"

VMSSys.Cfg.AdminRanks = {

[ "superadmin" ] = true,

[ "admin" ] = true

}

VMSSys.Cfg.AllowedTeams = {

[ "Citizen" ] = true,

[ "CP" ] = true

}

-- Entities config

VMSSys.Cfg.SaveBoardMeta = true

VMSSys.Cfg.BoardEditCooldown = 2

VMSSys.Cfg.ComputerKickDelay = 30

-- Missions config

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionLimit = 24

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionGenerationTime = 120

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionFailOnDeath = true

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionFailCooldown = 120

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionSuccessCooldown = 0

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionStopCooldown = 10

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionStartCooldown = 5

--[[

VMSSys:CreateMissionType( "Inspect box", { -- Mission name (must be unique, 24 characters max)

delayMin = 60, -- Mission minimum delay [optionnal, default: 60]

delayMax = 600, -- Mission maximum delay [optionnal, default: 600]

rewardMin = 50, -- Mission minimum reward [optionnal, default: 50]

rewardMax = 400, -- Mission maximum reward [optionnal, default: 500]

tasks = { 1, 2, 3, 4 } -- Tasks to complete to achieve the mission (check "Tasks list" bellow)

} )

- Tasks list:

1 | Inspect cables

2 | Repair cables

3 | Repair display

4 | Reboot system

]]--

VMSSys:CreateMissionType( "Cable/Display", {

delayMin = 60,

delayMax = 600,

rewardMin = 300,

rewardMax = 2500,

tasks = { 1, 2, 3, 4 }

} )

-- Client config

if not CLIENT then return end

VMSSys.Cfg.ScreenDrawDistance = 220

VMSSys.Cfg.BoardDrawDistance = 3000

VMSSys.Cfg.ShowClaimerName = true

VMSSys.Cfg.BoardTextColor = Color( 255, 140, 0 )

VMSSys.Cfg.MissionHUDPosY = 0.2

VMSSys.Cfg.HUDToggleKey = 100

VMSSys.Cfg.PopupDisplayTime = 30

VMSSys.Cfg.RewardHUDTime = 6

-- UI colors

VMSSys.Cfg.Colors = {

[ 0 ] = Color( 22, 23, 27 ), -- Background

[ 1 ] = Color( 29, 30, 34 ), -- Container

[ 2 ] = Color( 72, 73, 77 ), -- Highlight

[ 3 ] = Color( 46, 204, 113 ), -- Positive

[ 4 ] = Color( 255, 65, 67 ), -- Negative

[ 5 ] = Color( 255, 255, 255 ), -- Text

[ 6 ] = Color( 46, 204, 113 ), -- Main

}