RedM Witness System Witnesses

A RedM witness system for VORP Core, RSG Core and QBCore RedM: when a player commits a crime in town, a nearby NPC sees it, runs, and reports it to on-duty law with a blip and a waypoint, unless the player stops the witness first. Nine crimes, duty read from your law script, and an optional NPC posse.

What players notice

• An NPC near the crime becomes a witness. They flinch, point and shout, or put their hands up if you are armed, then run.
• The player who was seen gets the witness on their map. The blip turns from green to yellow, orange and red as the witness gets closer to reporting.
• Catch the witness before they get far enough away and nobody hears about it.
• Players can call for help themselves with /callpolice, /calldoctor, /undertaker and /calltrain.

Crimes witnesses notice

• On by default: shooting or aiming a gun, stealing a horse or wagon, and riding with a hogtied hostage.
• Off by default: threatening with a weapon, fist fights and melee, lassoing, trampling, looting a body and poaching.
• Each crime has its own on/off switch and chance in Config.Checks.
• Crimes against players count too. Witnesses are always NPCs.

What law players get

• An alert that says what happened, where ("In Valentine") and when, with a blip, an area circle and a waypoint.
• Alerts only reach the law jobs and grades you list, and only while on duty.
• The same crime by the same player alerts at most once a minute.

What owners get

• Duty presets for outsider_policeman, vorp_police, rsg-lawman, qbr-policejob and bcc-law, picked automatically, plus your framework's own duty and a custom option.
• 11 towns ship as witness zones, and Sisika, Van Horn and Wapiti are blacklisted. Set Config.EnforceTownLimits = false to watch everywhere.
• An optional NPC posse (off by default): when no lawman is on duty, NPC lawmen ride in from out of sight for the crimes you choose, call out and hold the player at gunpoint, fight only that player, and let them surrender.
• A PoliceAlert export, so robbery and dispatch scripts can alert on-duty law too.
• Every setting can be changed in game in /poggy. English, Spanish and French ship.

Commands

Settings you will change first

• Config.PoliceJobList and Config.PoliceJobRanks: your law jobs (police, sheriff, marshal) and the grades that get alerts (0 to 5).
• Config.Checks: which crimes count, and the chance for each.
• Config.Towns and Config.BlacklistedTowns: where witnesses watch.
• Config.LawResponse.Enabled in config/npc.lua: the NPC posse.

What you need to run it

• VORP Core, RSG Core or QBCore RedM (QBR).
• poggy_core 0.14.0 or newer (free). Witnesses never talks to your framework directly.
• PolyZone, for the town zones.
• Optional: a duty script. No database tables.
• config/config.lua, config/npc.lua, translations.lua and shared/api.lua are open. The rest is protected by Cfx escrow.

Updates

poggy_core installs each new version for you and merges your config and translation files: new settings arrive with their defaults and every value you changed stays.

More on law roleplay: How to set up law enforcement on a RedM server.