Hiding the FiveM minimap (and showing it only when it makes sense)

#Hiding and showing the radar

DisplayRadar(false) -- hide
DisplayRadar(true)  -- show

-- Check the current state
print(IsRadarHidden())

DisplayRadar hides the minimap and everything drawn in it: the map texture, blips and the north indicator. The pause map is unaffected.

#Minimap only in vehicles

local shown = nil

CreateThread(function()
    while true do
        local inVehicle = IsPedInAnyVehicle(PlayerPedId(), false)
        if inVehicle ~= shown then
            DisplayRadar(inVehicle)
            shown = inVehicle
        end
        Wait(300)
    end
end)

• The loop runs about three times a second, which is instant to a player and nearly free for the client.
• It only calls DisplayRadar when the state flips, so other scripts are not fought every frame.
• Bikes count as vehicles. To exclude them, check IsPedOnAnyBike(ped) as well.

#Hiding the health and armour bars

The green and blue bars under the minimap belong to the minimap scaleform. HUD resources that draw their own health hide them with the scaleform method SETUP_HEALTH_ARMOUR. The widely used snippet:

CreateThread(function()
    local minimap = RequestScaleformMovie('minimap')
    while not HasScaleformMovieLoaded(minimap) do Wait(0) end

    -- re-initialise the minimap so the setting sticks
    SetBigmapActive(true, false)
    Wait(0)
    SetBigmapActive(false, false)

    while true do
        BeginScaleformMovieMethod(minimap, 'SETUP_HEALTH_ARMOUR')
        ScaleformMovieMethodAddParamInt(3)
        EndScaleformMovieMethod()
        Wait(500)
    end
end)

The game can re-show the bars in some situations, which is why the call is repeated on a slow timer rather than made once.

#Menus, cutscenes and phones

Some interfaces look better with the radar hidden: a character creator, a clothing menu, a full-screen phone. The clean pattern is to hide it when the UI opens and restore the previous state when it closes — never assume it should be shown afterwards, because the player might be on foot on a vehicle-only server.

local wasHidden

local function openMenu()
    wasHidden = IsRadarHidden()
    DisplayRadar(false)
    -- open your UI
end

local function closeMenu()
    DisplayRadar(not wasHidden)
end

#When two resources fight over the radar

If the minimap flickers or reappears, two scripts are toggling it — often a HUD with its own vehicle-only option plus a separate script like the one above. Pick one owner. Search your resources for DisplayRadar to find them. Custom minimap textures are not affected by any of this; hiding the radar does not unload them, and install problems are a different story.