Apex 3D Sign Creator (Apex Scripts)

Apex 3D Sign Creator by Apex Scripts is an in-game editor for FiveM that puts text or pictures on walls, floors and ceilings as 3D signs with adjustable thickness. Signs are drawn by the script rather than spawned as props, so there are no models to stream and no map files to edit.

What's included

• Sign Studio editor, opened with /signstudio: free-fly camera, click a surface to place a new sign that aligns to it, then move or rotate it with a gizmo in the sign's own axes.
• Text signs with up to 6 lines and 140 characters, 28 fonts with a search box, colour palette, alignment, letter spacing, depth and an optional backing plate.
• Solid, outline and neon styles, with an adjustable glow and an optional pulse.
• Image signs: upload a picture from your PC (it is shrunk and stored inside the sign), use a file shipped in html/img/, or a direct https image link; PNG transparency is kept.
• Placed-signs list with search, plus /signs3d so any player can hide or show signs on their own screen.
• Custom fonts: add Google fonts or your own font files in html/fonts/ through Config.fonts.
• English and Portuguese locales covering the script and the editor interface.

Requirements and setup

• Works standalone with ACE permissions; for the job whitelist mode it detects es_extended, qbx_core or qb-core.
• No database and no SQL: signs are saved to data/signs.json inside the resource.
• Needs FXServer artifact 5104 or newer.
• Access modes in Config.access: ACE permission, a job whitelist with minimum grades, or everyone (meant for testing only). Every save and delete is checked again on the server and rate-limited per player.
• Render distance, the number of signs drawn at once and the per-frame slice budget are set in Config.draw.
• Signs have no collision, because they are not world objects.
• Web fonts and editor icons load from Google Fonts and cdnjs; without internet on the client, signs fall back to system fonts, while font files you ship yourself always work.

Installation

• Copy apex_signs into your resources folder.
• Add ensure apex_signs and add_ace group.admin apex.signs allow to your server config.
• Before going live, open config.lua and set Config.access.mode to 'ace' and Config.debug to false: the config ships with mode 'everyone' and debug on, which lets any player place signs.
• Delete data/signs.json before first use; it holds the developer's test sign.
• Open the editor in game with /signstudio.