DPS Parking

Overview

DPS Parking makes parking part of city life. Park your car on the street and it stays in the world, frozen in place with its owner, plate and name floating above it, until you come back. Around that sits a full parking economy: meters you pay by the minute, tickets and late fees, police impound, an NPC valet, delivery of your parked car to wherever you are, reserved spots, and parking lots that players can buy and run as a business.

It is built for Qbox servers, and the code also detects QBCore and ESX. It hooks into the insurance, garage, dispatch, billing, phone, fuel and key scripts you already run, using whichever one it finds.

DPS Parking started from mh-parking by MaDHouSe79 and has been rebuilt into separate modules, each with its own client and server code.

Features

• Park where you stop: the car stays in the world, frozen, with optional floating text.
• A parking limit per player (5 by default); VIP players get more slots.
• Auto-park: with the engine off, press E in the driver seat.
• Timed parking: a car left longer than the maximum (3 days by default) is charged and impounded.
• Eight default parking lots and a list of no-parking zones, with job exceptions such as police at the MRPD back gate.
• Lot business: players buy a lot, earn a share of the fees and pay city tax.
• Parking meters: pay by the minute, premium price zones, free hours, grace time, then an automatic ticket and tow.
• Seven ticket types with late fees; players can pay or contest, and police can issue tickets.
• Impound with fees by reason, daily fee growth, insurance discounts, police impound and admin release.
• NPC valet that parks and fetches cars, with tips for faster service.
• Delivery of your parked car, with a rush option, VIP tiers, an NPC driver for higher tiers and job discounts.
• Reserved spots for VIPs, jobs, businesses and renters.
• Police dispatch alerts for expired meters and zone violations.
• A phone app for your parked cars on lb-phone.
• Optional Discord audit log.
• Pre-hooks, post-hooks and exports so other resources can react to or block parking actions.

How it works

1. A player stops, turns the engine off and presses F5 (or E for auto-park). The car is saved and stays where it is.
2. If they parked in a metered spot, they pay for time; once the meter runs out and the grace time passes, a ticket is issued and police can be alerted.
3. Left too long, the car is towed to impound. Getting it back costs a fee that grows daily, reduced if the car is insured.
4. Police jobs, by grade, can issue tickets, check meters, boot or impound cars and dismiss tickets.
5. Players can hand their car to the valet NPC, have it delivered, rent a reserved spot, or buy a lot and collect its fees.

Requirements

• oxmysql
• ox_lib
• qbx_core (QBCore and ESX are detected too)
• A vehicle table with parking columns; on Qbox this is player_vehicles
• Optional, detected when started: ox_target or qb-target (valet and impound NPCs), an insurance script (including dps-insurance), a garage script, a dispatch script, a billing script, a society banking script, lb-phone, a fuel script, a vehicle key script, and dps-vehiclepersistence

Installation

1. Copy the dps-parking folder into your resources folder.
2. Import database/schema.sql. It adds parking columns to player_vehicles and creates the VIP, business, meter, delivery and audit tables. The script does not create tables by itself.
3. Add ensure dps-parking to server.cfg, after your framework, oxmysql, ox_lib and any optional scripts, so they are detected.
4. Give admins an ace (group.admin, admin or command) for the admin commands.
5. Edit config/config.lua and the job tables in integrations/permissions.lua.
6. Restart the server.

Configuration

Most options are in config/config.lua; the README lists every one, including which are not yet read by the code.

Ticket fines, impound fees, valet prices, rental prices and delivery tiers are set at the top of their module files. Enforcement powers per job and grade live in integrations/permissions.lua.

Commands

Meters, delivery and the valet have no chat command: they open through the phone app, exports, or the valet NPC.

Credits

• Original script: mh-parking by MaDHouSe79.
• Rebuilt and extended by DaemonAlex for Del Perro Sands.
• GPL-3.0 licence.