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Take the megaphone out, or switch the PA on from the front seat, and your normal push to talk goes through it. No extra talk key. Listeners hear you through a band-pass filter, at full volume close in and fading out at the edge of your reach.
| 80 m HANDHELD | 160 m VEHICLE PA | 3 REACH STEPS | 9 LANGUAGES |
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/// FEATURES
BUILT TO BE HEARD
| No talk key While the megaphone is out or the PA is on, your own push to talk or voice activity goes through it. | Vehicle PA From the driver or front passenger seat. On Qbox or qb-core: any emergency vehicle, add-on cars included, for police, sheriff, EMS and fire on duty, or anyone you give the ACE. Standalone: the vehicle models listed in config.lua. The [ key switches it on and off, and it goes off when you leave the seat. | |
| Reach steps 15 / 40 / 80 m handheld and 30 / 80 / 160 m on the PA, on the mouse wheel or D-pad, remembered per player. Editable up to 200 m. | Sounds like a megaphone A band-pass filter on pma-voice native audio. Volume is set by distance: full through the inner half, fading to a quarter at the edge. | |
| Plays nicely with voice The radio, phone calls and recordings take over while they last, and the megaphone picks up again after. pma-voice mutes are left alone. | Its own model The Cortex megaphone in your hand and on other players', streamed with the resource, with the game's megaphone as a stand-in. | |
| Recordings Add your own licensed clips and play them to everyone in range with /megaphone announce. Late arrivals join partway through. None ship with the script. | Staff tools megaphone_list, megaphone_stop with an optional mute that survives reconnects, and megaphone_unmute. Audit log to the console and an optional Discord webhook. | |
/// SETUP / COMPATIBILITY
BEFORE YOU INSTALL
| REQUIRES | Cortex Library (free, tested on 3.6.0), OneSync and pma-voice (tested on 7.0.1). The filter needs setr voice_useNativeAudio true, voice_enableSubmix on (its default) and a pma-voice with registerCustomSubmix (upstream v7); without them the extra reach still works, unfiltered. |
| INSTALL | Add ensure cortex-megaphone after cortex-lib and pma-voice. The README has the ox_inventory item entry and icon. |
| FRAMEWORKS | Tested on Qbox. qb-core runs through the same bridge for jobs, duty and item use. Standalone: no item needed, and the PA works for anyone in the vehicle models listed in config.lua. To limit it, make its access rule ACE only ({ ace = '...' } with no jobs). |
| INVENTORY | ox_inventory or the qb-core inventory. The item check can be switched on or off. |
| CONTROLS | /megaphone or the item to take it out, the [ key for the PA, mouse wheel for reach, Backspace to put it away, with controller bindings for each. Every key is rebindable under Settings > Key Bindings > FiveM. |
| LANGUAGES | English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish. |
| CONFIGURATION | config.lua stays open: reach steps, PA vehicles, seats and access, loudness, filter, keys and recordings. A bad value is reported at start by name. |
| DEVELOPERS | Client exports toggle, putAway, isHolding and isTransmitting. Server export useItem for ox_inventory without a framework. |
/// WHAT'S INCLUDED
IN THE BOX
| ■ | The escrowed resource, free, delivered to your Cfx.re account (portal.cfx.re > Granted Assets). |
| ■ | An open config.lua and locale files. |
| ■ | The Cortex megaphone model and an item icon, with a ready-to-paste ox_inventory item entry. |
| ■ | A README with install steps, controls, configuration, staff commands and exports. |
| ■ | Updates through portal.cfx.re, announced on our Discord. |
Free. Licensed for use on servers you own or administer, under the license that ships with the resource. No resale or redistribution.