BUPA Chat

BUPA Chat is a premium, drop-in replacement for the default FiveM chat. It ships a fully themeable React interface and replaces the standard chat resource, so every script that already talks to the game chat keeps working — no migration required.

Instead of a single input box, BUPA Chat gives players a tabbed input with chat categories (Commands, OOC, admin, job/gang channels, private messages), an emoji picker, live command suggestions, /me and /do style emotes rendered above the player's head, optional player ID / name badges, Discord logging, and a per-player language that can be switched at runtime.

Key features

• Chat categories / tabs — a built-in command tab plus fully configurable categories: OOC global, OOC local (proximity), admin, police/EMS job channels, gang channels, and any custom category you define. Each category has its own colors, tags, permissions and message rules.
• Private messages — /pm (and /dm) with separate styling for the sender and receiver.
• Emotes — /me, /do, /dice and /rps out of the box, shown as head text above the ped and optionally mirrored into chat. Add your own with animations, distance limits and custom parameters.
• Emoji picker — a customizable, categorized emoji panel (smileys, gestures, symbols, objects) with searchable shortcodes.
• Command suggestions — auto-populated from registered commands the player has ACE access to, plus anything you push through the standard chat:addSuggestion(s) API.
• Player identity badges — optional per-category name, server ID, job (label/grade) and Discord role tags, with mask-aware name hiding and a proximity ID display above heads.
• Discord integration — webhook logging of chat/emote/PM messages, and an optional Discord → in-game channel bridge that relays Discord messages into chat.
• Multi-language — translations via ox_lib locales, selectable globally, per-resource, or live per session.
• Themeable React UI — visibility modes (show-when-active / always-show / hide), typing sounds, click-outside-to-close and configurable open/visibility keys.

Framework

BUPA Chat is built for QB-Core and is listed as a qb-core dependency. The shared framework bridge also detects Qbox (qbx_core) and ESX (es_extended) automatically at runtime, and the framework can be forced or disabled through the bupa-chat:framework convar.

The resource provides the standard chat resource (provide 'chat'), so it is a full replacement for FiveM's default chat rather than an add-on.

Dependencies

Dependency	Purpose
ox_lib	Locales, keybinds, notifications, callbacks and UI helpers. Loaded as @ox_lib/init.lua and via ox_lib 'locale'.
qb-core	Framework core (player data, jobs, gangs). Listed as a hard dependency.
assetpacks	Declared with dependency '/assetpacks' — required by the packaged UI assets.