Surveillance
Spy gear for your city: hidden cameras you can watch from the tablet, GPS trackers, motion sensors, tactical binoculars, and a detector to find it all.
Surveillance items work for everyone, not just gang members. If the owner is in a gang, their gang-mates can see their devices too.
📷 Hidden Camera
Placing:
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Use a Hidden Camera.
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Aim where you want it:
Control Action E Place Mouse wheel Rotate ↑ / ↓ Tilt Backspace / right-click Cancel -
Give it a name.
Watching: open Tablet → Surveillance and press View on a camera:
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| Mouse / arrow keys | Look around |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom |
| H | Night vision |
| G | Thermal vision |
| E / Q | Next / previous camera |
| Backspace | Exit |
- You can view cameras within 250 metres.
- Taking damage kicks you out of the feed.
📡 Motion Sensor
- Place it the same way as a camera.
- When someone walks within 15 metres, you get a beep, a notification, and a flashing blip on your map.
- It ignores you, your gang-mates and dead players.
📍 GPS Tracker
- Stand next to a vehicle (or sit inside it) and use the GPS Tracker.
- Give it a name (defaults to the plate).
- After a short crouch animation, the vehicle shows up live on your map with a direction arrow.
Server owners can switch trackers to show a rough area instead of the exact position.
🔭 Tactical Binoculars
- Use them to zoom in (mouse wheel). Backspace exits.
- Aim at a player within 50 metres to see which gang they're in.
- With pma-voice, you can hear players you're looking at through a radio filter.
📶 Signal Detector
- Use it to switch the scanner on or off.
- Signal bars and beeps speed up as you get closer to a hidden device.
- Aim at the device and press E to destroy it. The owner is told their device was found.
📱 Tablet
Tablet → Surveillance lists your devices and your gang-mates':
- Filter by cameras, GPS or sensors, and see how many you've placed out of the limit.
- Rename a device, Remove it remotely (the item is lost), View a camera, or set a waypoint.
- Sensors flash on the page when triggered.
- Managing a gang-mate's device needs the Management permission.
Each player can own 5 cameras, 5 sensors and 5 GPS trackers.
🛠️ Admin
Staff can see every device on the server and delete any of them.
⚙️ Settings
In shared/surveillance.lua:
| Setting | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Gang only | Off | Only gang members can use surveillance items |
| Share with gang | On | Gang-mates see each other's devices |
| Limits | 5 / 5 / 5 | Cameras / sensors / GPS per player |
| Camera range | 250 m | How far away you can watch a camera |
| Night vision / thermal | On | Camera vision modes |
| GPS mode | Exact | exact position or a rough radius |
| Sensor radius | 15 m | Motion sensor range |
| Binoculars gang tag | On | Show gang names through binoculars |
| Binoculars voice | On | Listen to players you look at |
| Detector range | 8 m | How far the detector picks up devices |
| Detector can remove others | On | Destroy other players' devices |