A FiveM minimap for PvP and competitive servers

What a combat minimap needs

Contrast between the road and the ground, so the escape route reads at speed. A ground that is dark and unsaturated, so that the red and orange the game uses for hostiles and the blue it uses for your team are the brightest things on the map. No numbered grid, because on a PvP server nobody calls a postal and every number is a place a blip disappears into. And a palette that does not share a hue with any blip colour — a crimson map under red enemy blips is the one combination to avoid, unless the server’s zones are red and the trade is deliberate.

• High road-to-ground contrast, tuned at radar size
• Dark neutral ground so enemy and team blips stand out
• No postals, no area names — nothing to hide a blip behind
• Accent kept away from red, orange and blue unless chosen on purpose

Redzone, 100k or die, and zone-based servers

Zone servers add one more requirement: the zone boundaries and the map palette have to agree. If the zones are drawn in red, a red map makes the boundary vanish; if the map is neutral, the zone reads as the brightest shape on the radar, which is what you want. The redzone page goes through the specific setups those servers run and which palettes work with them. The short version is graphite, obsidian or cobalt for a coloured-zone server, and the server’s own colour only when the zones are drawn in something else.

Your server logo in the corner of the map is common on these servers, because the map is on stream and in every clip. It is $1.00 in the studio and it is part of the texture, so it survives every HUD change.

Competitive servers and clip culture

Combat servers live on clips. A dark, sharp, branded minimap in the corner of every clip is the cheapest advertising the server will ever get — and a muddy stock map is the opposite. The maps here are rendered at the native sheet size with full mip chains, so they stay sharp when the clip is compressed for Twitter or TikTok, where the stock map turns into a brown smear. The streamer page covers what compression does to a minimap and which palettes survive it.

Install without touching your combat scripts

A minimap is a streamed texture. It has no code, it does not hook the HUD, and it cannot interact with your damage, zone or ranking scripts. Ensure it after the HUD, clear the client cache once, and it is done. If a server base you run already ships minimap files, remove those first — two resources streaming the same name is the one thing that can stop it showing.