mzb_arena: Maze Bank Arena full interior

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A complete, walkable interior for the Maze Bank Arena (Del Perro / La Puerta), built inside the vanilla exterior with no changes to the outside. The entire building is open:

• Seating bowl. Lower and upper tiers, about 18,650 seats, 11 vomitories, a cross aisle, stairs down to the floor, a four-sided centre-hung video board (16:9 screens, corner LED columns, a crown and a score ring, with its own content for every show), an LED ribbon, banners and EXIT signs. House lights are switchable (full / dimmed).
• Street-level concourse. Four glazed gateways with security (metal detectors, bag tables, ticket scanners, queue lines), a box office, guest services, concession stands, bars, a team store, men's and women's rest rooms (every toilet stall's door swings open as you walk in and closes behind you), vending, ATMs, a canopy with downlights, and murals.
• Event level. A service corridor runs round the back of the lower bowl at floor level, with a tunnel onto the event floor on every side: the event tunnel at the stage end, a team tunnel in the middle of each long side, and a 5 m vehicle tunnel at the far end. Along the corridor are the home and visitors' locker rooms, a training room (power rack on a lifting platform, dumbbell rack, benches, bikes, treatment tables), a players' lounge, the officials' room, first aid, staff toilets, a vehicle garage off the far-end tunnel (a hot-water fill station, the snow melt pit), the ice plant (compressors, chiller, receiver, control panels) and three stores. Behind the stage are the backstage hall, two more locker rooms (showers, WCs, lockers), medical, officials, a press conference room, catering, admin, offices and the security control room.
• Production control room. Off the arena offices, behind a keypad door with an ON AIR light: a 10 x 3 video wall of multiviewers with the program and preview monitors in the middle (red / green tally) and studio clocks, a front row of consoles (vision mixer with its T-bar, graphics, two replay positions with jog-wheel controllers) and a back row on a riser (director and producer, the audio console with its meter bridge), acoustic wall panels, and an equipment annex with a row of 19" racks under a cable tray, the engineering bench and the UPS.
• Loading dock. Three working roller doors on the NW loading street, each an industrial shutter with its guide channels, coil hood, gear motor, hand chain, push-button station, beacon, bay sign and bollards: walk or drive up to one and press E to open or close it (inside or outside). Inside: heavy pallet racking loaded with stock, the day's delivery on pallets, a waste corner (baler with a finished bale, dumpster, cardboard cages, bins) by the doors, the dock office, the house staging decks, crowd barriers, cable trunks and power distro staged by the backstage opening, and LED high-bays under the plaza deck.
• Switchable shows. Each one is a set of interior entity sets, switched live for every player:

Show	What you get
wrestling	A 20 ft wrestling ring (round posts, turnbuckles, ropes, printed skirt, steel steps), entrance stage with titantron, ramp, pyro, a walk-through entrance curtain that moves when peds pass, the Gorilla position, commentary and timekeeper desks, ~1,200 floor chairs, a lighting rig and PA
concert	End stage with an LED wall, a full band backline (a detailed drum kit on a skirted riser, two guitar stacks, an 8x10 bass rig, a 2x12 combo, pedalboards, boom mics, a guitar vault and flight cases in the wings), a ground-support roof with moving heads, PA hangs, side screens, a general-admission floor with a photo pit barricade and a FOH mix riser
hockey	A 56 x 26 m ice rink (slippery: vehicles slide and players glide on it, see below): printed ice with the Maze Bank centre logo, dasher boards with a kick plate and GTA sponsor ads, glass on stanchions (taller at the ends), protective netting over the end glass, goals with nets, open player benches with doors onto the ice and glass behind them, the penalty and timekeeper boxes, the resurfacer's gate at the far end, and the board's hockey score
basketball	A printed hardwood court with its run-off, portable basket stanchions (padded base, glass backboard, rim and net, shot clock), team benches, the scorer's table with an LED front, about 1,150 floor seats (courtside rows on both sides, the ends seated to the walls) and the board's basketball score
tennis	A hard court with its run-off, the net and posts, the umpire's chair, players' chairs, line judges, sponsor boards behind the baselines, about 1,300 floor seats along both sides and at both ends, and the board's tennis score
mma	Fight night: a UFC-size octagon (9.1 m, the canvas 1.2 m up, a 1.8 m black chain-link fence, padded posts, two gates with steps and handrails, a printed canvas), the end stage with an LED wall and a walkway, a ring of cageside press and officials' tables with monitors, about 1,450 floor seats in rows out to the floor's edges, a lighting rig with moving heads and four line-array PA hangs over the cage, and the house dimmed
house	The empty arena with the house lights up
monster	Monster trucks, on the bigger floor: clay over the whole floor with the trucks' wheel tracks in it, a chalked oval lane, a jump of clay in the middle (two long ramps and two short ones up to a deck, their ridden faces painted) on the line from the event tunnel to the vehicle tunnel, the game's own traffic drums and half-buried marker tyres at the turns, tyre walls at the tunnel mouths, hay bales in the corners, the safety crew's kit, a sponsor wall round the floor, tarps over the first rows left out - and six real cars on the deck to be flattened (see Cars to crush). Nothing stands in a lane. Bring your own trucks
motocross	Arenacross, on the bigger floor: 257 m of dirt over the whole floor in four lanes joined by bermed 180-degree turns - a start straight with a gate, a triple and a tabletop, a whoops section and a double, a big tabletop and rollers, the finish table under a gantry - with the bikes' ruts in it, hay bales on the corners, marker drums, tyre walls at the tunnel mouths and a banner wall of sponsors (two of the boards are for a mud club from out of state)
karting	Kart circuit: the Grand Prix, on the bigger floor: 266 m of asphalt with a flyover bridge, rubber on the line, kerbs, red and white barrier blocks, a start gantry and grid, a paddock out of the game's own props (gazebos over the bays, rolling tool chests, trolley jacks, compressors, fuel cans, extinguishers), a pit lane, Arena War's podium with a sponsors' backdrop, race control, a timing board on a scaffold, marshal posts. No karts are part of it: bring your own
sprint	Kart circuit: the Sprint: 201 m, flat, blue and white barrier blocks, five paddock bays and a pit lane in the corner the stadium section turns round, the grid on the back straight, the podium, race control and the timing board on the infield
oval	Kart circuit: the Oval: 154 m with banked ends, an outer wall, and the pits on the infield - seven bays under gazebos along a pit road, marker tyres and chevron bales round both ends
skatepark	Skate park, on the bigger floor: a walled park course with bowled corners (a start wall, a vert wall with a wall ride, box jumps, a spine, a pyramid, a stair plaza with a hand rail and hubbas, ledges and rails) and a 4.1 m vert ramp beside it with railed decks and stairs, a judges' tower between the two
floor	The open floor: the bigger floor with nothing on it and the house lights up, for an event of your own (a car show, a drift night)

The end-stage shows (wrestling, concert, MMA) mask off the seats behind the stage with black drapes and close the vomitories behind them; the LED-wall stages (concert, MMA) are framed by legs and a border on a flown masking truss. The stage end's five lower sections are telescopic: for those shows they are stowed into riser stacks, and the space becomes a real backstage area behind the masking, reached from the event tunnel. It has wardrobe rails, a video village with monitors, catering, work lights and road cases. For the other shows the sections are seated as usual.

The lower tier's front seven rows fold back on all four sides for the shows that need room (monster, motocross, the three kart circuits, skatepark, floor): the event floor grows from 60 x 30 m to 70.6 x 40.6 m, the rows stand as a stack against row 8's riser with a guard rail along the top, and all four tunnels open straight onto the floor. The stage end's telescopic sections then have rows 8 to 20 out. Every other show has the rows out and seated. No vehicles are part of any show: the trucks, the bikes and the karts are yours to bring (or sign up for the race at the event desk, which puts every racer in one: Racing, below), and the cars to be crushed are the game's own.

All brands are GTA V's own, with the sponsor logos taken from the game's textures (Maze Bank, Sprunk, eCola, Pisswasser, Cluckin' Bell, Fame or Shame, Burger Shot). The acts, teams and events are made up ("San Andreas Pro Wrestling", "Sirens of San Andreas", the Los Santos Blizzard, SAFC, the Maze Bank Open, and so on).

From the nosebleeds

Every show from the same seat, the back row of the upper tier.

Wrestling	Concert
Fight night	Hockey
Basketball	Tennis

The bigger floor

The front seven rows folded back all round, and what goes on the floor then.

The open floor	Monster trucks
Kart circuit: Grand Prix (a flyover)	Kart circuit: Sprint
Kart circuit: Oval (banked ends)	Skate park (park course and vert ramp)
Arenacross (jumps, whoops, berms)	Arenacross: down on the dirt

Down on the floor: the dressing is the game's own props.

Monster trucks: the run up the long ramp	Grand Prix: the paddock
Sprint: the paddock and its pit lane	Oval: race control and the timing board

The merch stand

In the main lobby, dressed for whichever show is up: its own tables, backdrop and shirts. Every tee on the racks can be tried on and bought (see "Trying on and buying the tees").

Wrestling	A rack of the night's tees
Monster trucks	Arenacross

Requirements

• Game build 2060 or newer (sv_enforceGameBuild 2060). The interior uses vanilla props from the Diamond Casino Heist, After Hours and other DLC packs, and on older builds those props are missing.
• No framework or other resources. If your server runs ox_lib, the arena uses it for a staff menu and its notifications (below); without it, everything works from chat. The event desk and the merch stand likewise use ox_target or qb-target when one runs (else an E prompt), and qbx_core, qb-core, es_extended or ox_inventory for money and items when one runs (else see Merch, below). None of them is a dependency.

Install

1. Put the mzb_arena folder in your resources folder.
2. Add it to server.cfg:

   ensure mzb_arena
   

3. Allow your staff to run the arena command:

   add_ace group.admin command.arena allow
   

The shirts are a separate, optional resource. The merch stands' tees can be tried on, bought and worn only with the clothing pack, mzb_arena_clothes (a second zip on the release page). It is not part of mzb_arena because a server that already runs several clothing packs can crash every player by adding one more: read The clothing pack, below, before you ensure it. Updating from 1.3.0 - 1.3.3: delete mzb_arena/stream/clothes.

Other map packs. This resource streams its own sp1_occl_01.ymap: Rockstar's occlusion for the area, with the occluders that would hide the interior through the glass removed. If another resource streams the same file (for example cfx-gabz-mapdata), ensure mzb_arena after it. Otherwise the arena's interior can vanish when you look at it from outside. Our file keeps everything else in it as Rockstar shipped it.

The resource also replaces a handful of vanilla sp1_10 files: the painted fake interior (blanked), the four pieces of the building's own window wall (sp1_10_wind01 .. 04: its glass, mullions and transoms are gone at concourse level, because the arena's own glazed wall stands just inside it; its kerb is rebuilt in to that glass and runs flush across the doors; a soffit and the concrete panels' inner faces close the rest), the loading street's roller-door panels, and their collision. Any other resource that replaces these exact files will conflict with it.

bob74_ipl is fine: the arena removes Rockstar's Fame or Shame lobby IPL, which stood where the concourse is now.

Lighting. The interior ships its own time-cycle modifiers (data/mzb_timecycle.xml: mzb_arena_int, mzb_arena_concourse), so the bowl and the back-of-house rooms look the same at any hour or weather. The glazed concourse keeps its daylight, without the outdoor fog.

Commands (ACE command.arena)

The quick switch, for staff on the spot:

/mzb wrestling        switch the show for everyone (late joiners get it too)
/mzb basketball       ... wrestling concert mma hockey basketball tennis house
/mzb monster          ... and the bigger floor's: floor monster motocross karting sprint oval skatepark
/mzb list             the shows, the current one in [brackets]
/mzb status           the current show and the dock doors
/mzb dock a open      the loading street's roller doors (a | b | c | all, open | close | toggle)

/mzb also takes the aliases in Config.ShowAliases (/mzb fight is MMA, /mzb empty is the empty house, /mzb open the open floor, /mzb trucks the monster trucks, /mzb mx arenacross, /mzb gp the kart Grand Prix, /mzb skate the skate park, and so on), suggests the show names in chat as you type, and uses the same permission as /arena: one ACE line covers both. The long form still works:

/arena show <name>
/arena dock <a|b|c|all> <open|close|toggle>
/arena status

With ox_lib (Config.OxLib = 'auto'): /mzb or /arena with nothing after it opens an ox_lib menu instead: pick the show (the one that is up is marked), open and shut the loading dock's doors, or open the light desk. What the commands answer comes as an ox_lib notification rather than a chat line. The typed forms above work as before, and the menu's picks are checked on the server with the same ACE. ox_lib is not a dependency: without it (or with Config.OxLib = false) nothing changes. Config.ShowLabels has the menu's names and icons for the shows.

Every switch is logged in the server console with the player's name. A short cooldown (Config.SwitchCooldown) stops a switch being spammed, since each one reloads the interior for everyone inside.

/arenainfo (everyone, client side) prints where you stand: the position, the room, the interior, the show and how many of its sets your own game has switched on, which helps when reporting issues. /arenareset (everyone, your own screen only) takes the show's pieces down and sets them up again.

Exports (server)

exports.mzb_arena:SetShow('concert')        -- true / false (unknown show; aliases work too)
exports.mzb_arena:GetShow()                 -- the current show's name
exports.mzb_arena:GetShows()                -- every show's name, sorted
exports.mzb_arena:SetDock('a', 'open')      -- 'a' | 'b' | 'c' | 'all', 'open' | 'close' | 'toggle'
exports.mzb_arena:SetLights({ on = true, mode = 'strobe', colors = { 'red', 'white' }, bpm = 150, house = 'off' })
exports.mzb_arena:LightPreset('goal')       -- a Config.LightPresets name (a goal horn script can call it)
exports.mzb_arena:FadeLights(3)             -- the show lights fade out over 3 s, then off
exports.mzb_arena:GetLights()               -- the desk's current state
exports.mzb_arena:HideSets({ 'mzb_set_wwe_ring', 'mzb_set_wwe_stage' })   -- leave these pieces out, whatever the show
exports.mzb_arena:HideSets({})              -- ... and have them back

HideSets is for a resource that brings a ring, a stage or a floor of its own: the arena's pieces named (entity sets from Config.Shows) are not switched on while they are in the list.

The current state is public in GlobalState.mzbShow, GlobalState.mzbDock and GlobalState.mzbLights, so a job script or an ox_target panel can read it.

Light desk (ACE command.arena)

The arena has its own light show on top of the interior's lighting: coloured spot lights from each show's rig (the moving heads, beams and washes of the wrestling, concert and MMA rigs) and from the house lights up in the roof (every show, and the only ones for hockey, basketball, tennis, the bigger floor's shows and the empty house). Every player in the bowl sees the same show at the same moment.

/arenalights opens the desk (or a key: bind "Maze Bank Arena: open the desk" in the game's Key Bindings > FiveM, or set Config.LightDeskKey). Its head stays put: show lights on / off, the ring lights, blackout, and what is on the screens and in the speakers with a Fade and an Off / Stop beside each. Under it, four tabs (keys 1-4, the last one used is remembered):

• Show: the presets, the pyro, the truck show's cars, the crowd - what gets pressed during a show.
• Lights: the effect, the movement, up to three colours from a palette or a colour picker, the speed in BPM (with a tap button), intensity, the aim, follow the music, the house lights (the show's setting, full, dimmed, off), the ring lights' colour and level, the followspot.
• Screens & music: the screens' and the music player's sections (below).
• Fights: the card.

A section's title still folds it away, and the desk remembers. A look is built from independent parts, as on a lighting console:

• Effect (the colour and level of each fixture): static, chase, strobe, pulse, rainbow, fade (a slow crossfade through the colours), wave (a band of light rolling round the rig), flash (the whole rig hits on the beat and dies away), alternate (every other fixture, swapping on the beat), bounce (a block of light running end to end), twinkle, random, lightning (dark, with ragged white flickers), fire (warm flicker) and police.
• Movement (where the beams go, with any effect): still, sweep, ballyhoo, fan (the spots open out and close in), nod (tilting out to the stands and back) and cross (pairs swinging across each other).
• Aim: floor, stage, crowd - or several at once (the fixtures take turns), e.g. floor and crowd.
• Ring lights: the ring truss's, the cage truss's and the concert rig's own lights (they light the ring, the cage and the stage, with the show lights on or off - TV lighting for the match while the rest of the rig runs the show), and the glow off the video wall onto the stage. They are on by default, each in the colour the build gave it; the desk turns them off, gives them all one colour, or sets their level.
• The stage's trusses (wrestling): their thirteen moving heads are show lights like the rest of the rig - the desk's colours, effects and movement, dark while the show lights are off. (Until 1.1.2 they were part of the stage model: always on, in red, white and blue.)
• Presets: walk-in, entrance, goal, concert, party, fight, police, TV ring, storm, inferno, hype, house up, blackout, reset.

It also runs from chat:

/arenalights on | off | blackout | status
/arenalights fade 3                   (the show lights fade out over 3 s, then off; no number: 2 s)
/arenalights mode wave                (the effect)
/arenalights move fan                 (none | sweep | ballyhoo | fan | nod | cross)
/arenalights color red white          (names from Config.LightColors, or #rrggbb; up to three)
/arenalights focus floor crowd        (one to three of floor, stage, crowd)
/arenalights ring on | off
/arenalights ring color red           (one colour for all of them; ring own = each its own colour again)
/arenalights ring level 60            (0-100)
/arenalights bpm 128 | intensity 80 | house dim
/arenalights follow on                (off | on | tempo | colour: the lights follow the music)
/arenalights preset storm

The interior's own (baked) lights can't change colour in GTA; the house buttons switch them between full, dimmed and off, and the desk's colour comes from the spot lights it draws. That is why the rigs' ring lights are drawn by the script (shared/rig_lights.lua, taken from the rig models, which no longer carry them). Players with photosensitivity: Config.LightMaxStrobeHz caps the strobe (0 turns it into a pulse).

Follow the music (the Lights tab, /arenalights follow <off|on|tempo|colour>): the effects run on the beat of what the music player is playing and in the colours of its video, instead of the Speed slider and the colour slots. Each player's own game listens to the track (the kick drum's hits make the beat; the rig dips between them) and looks at the video's picture five times a second for its two or three main colours - a YouTube track's video, or the screens' video while its sound comes from the speakers. A file has no picture and a pause no beat: the desk's own colours and speed stay for whatever is not there. Config.LightFollow has how hard the rig hits the beat (punch), how far quiet passages dim it, and how soft a hit still counts (sensitivity).

The crowd (ACE command.arena)

Staff can fill the house: people in the bowl's seats, in the floor chairs of the shows that have them (wrestling, MMA, basketball, tennis) and on the concert's standing floor, a row of them on the barricade. The stage end is only seated for the shows that seat it: the end-stage shows kill the seats behind their masking, as real ones do. The bigger floor's shows (floor, monster, motocross, karting, sprint, oval, skatepark) have the lower tier's front seven rows folded back all round, so nobody sits in them, and the truck show keeps the three rows behind those closed as well, under their tarps (Config.Crowd.ClosedDepth: how deep in the stands a show's closed rows go, in metres from the floor's edge).

/arenacrowd on | off | toggle         bring the crowd in / send it home (for everyone)
/arenacrowd mood show                 doors | show | peak | cheer
/arenacrowd staff on | off | toggle   the staff and the press who come in with the crowd
/arenacrowd litter some               clean | some | trashed: what the crowd leaves in the rows and on the floor
/arenacrowd                           what the crowd is doing
/arenacrowd mine 80                   how many crowd peds YOU see: anyone may set it, it is saved on your PC

The desk (/arenalights) has the same controls in its Crowd section, with a slider for your own count.

• Moods: doors (in their seats, on their phones, a few standing about), show (watching: most sit, some clap and film), peak (the whole house on its feet) and cheer (applause). Config.CrowdMoods sets what each one does and how much of the house sits. The light desk's presets carry a mood too (mood in Config.LightPresets: Goal! brings the house to its feet cheering, Walk-in sits it down); Config.CrowdPresetMoods = false leaves the crowd to you.
• How many: the game has room for 256 peds of every kind at once, and the arena has more than seventeen thousand seats. Each player sees up to Config.Crowd.MaxPeds people (210; /arenacrowd mine goes up to MaxPedsLimit, 240): half of them are the house, the same for everyone, filling ringside and the lower rows first with people all round the bowl; the other half fill the seats round wherever you are. They sit in parties of one to four, the way a house fills. Lower it on a busy server: other players and the street's peds count against the same 256.
• Round the building: with the crowd come the concourse's people (Config.Concourse, 163 spots from the build): vendors and bartenders behind the tills with fans queueing, cooks, the shops' clerks, guards at the detectors and in the security office, medics, cleaners, people at the lobbies' high tables. The nearest 36 are made (8 while you are in the bowl, so the seats get the rest).
• Cost: the crowd is made of local peds, so nothing is synced but its on / off and its mood, and each player only makes it while inside the arena. It stops making people while the game is close to its ped limit (Config.Crowd.PoolLimit), and Config.Crowd.Collision = false lets players walk through it. People fade in rather than pop up (FadeMs), and a show can have its own mix of peds (Config.Crowd.ShowModels).
• Staff and press come in with the crowd, 9 to 18 per show, on top of your own count: security inside the barricades with their backs to the action, ringside / cageside / pit photographers (their cameras flash), camera operators with a shoulder camera or behind a tripod camera, the concert's crew at the mixing desk, ball kids kneeling at the tennis net and the back corners, and officials who sit at the basketball scorer's table, in the tennis umpire's chair, on the line judges' chairs and at the hockey timekeeper's desk. Every spot is the build's and checked like the seats: a floor under it, nothing in the way, clear of the chairs, the props and the tunnels' mouths. Who stands there is Config.CrowdRoles (their peds, what they do, the camera they hold or stand behind); Config.CrowdStaffEnabled = false turns them off for good.
• Litter: cups, cans, wrappers, food bags and bottles at the crowd's feet, in the rows and on the floor, at the level staff set (clean, some, trashed); it stays when the crowd goes home. Each piece is picked from its spot, so everyone sees the same mess, and only the nearest 260 within 60 m of you are put down (Config.Litter).

exports.mzb_arena:SetCrowd({ on = true, mood = 'peak' })   -- any of on, mood, staff, litter
exports.mzb_arena:GetCrowd()                               -- { on, mood, staff, litter }; also GlobalState.mzbCrowd

The spots come from the build (client/crowd_slots.lua): the seats and chairs of the interior itself, each one checked against its collision.

Fights

Bouts in the wrestling ring and the MMA cage: watch two NPCs fight, put a card of bouts on, take on an NPC yourself, or fight another player. The server runs every bout: it makes the NPC fighters (networked, so everyone sees the same fight), rings the rounds and calls the result from what it sees itself, never from what a client says.

/arenafight                              the bout on and the card (anyone)
/arenafight challenge                    an NPC takes you on (anyone in the arena; Config.Fights.challenge)
/arenafight challenge <id>               challenge a player, who answers /arenafight accept within 30 s
/arenafight npc [in <minutes>]           staff: an NPC bout on the card (now, or at a time)
/arenafight vs <id> [in <minutes>]       staff: a player against an NPC
/arenafight pvp <id> <id> [in <minutes>] staff: player against player
/arenafight stop | clear                 staff: stop the bout on / empty the card

The desk has a Fights section: pick the red and blue corners (an NPC or any player in the arena), when (next, or in 1, 5 or 15 minutes), add the bout; stop it; clear the card.

• A bout: a walk-out (the names on the screen, the fighters to their corners: a player who is not in the ring at the bell forfeits), then three rounds of a minute with breaks between them (Config.Fights.rounds, roundSeconds, breakSeconds). A fighter whose health falls to koHealth (125 of 200) is knocked out; one out of the ring for ten seconds loses on a count-out; one who leaves the server forfeits; after the last round the one with more health left wins on points. Nobody dies: the fighters are held above the line during the rounds and the loser is helped up healed. Players fight with their fists only.
• The show goes with it: everyone in the arena gets the fight bar at the top of the screen (the names, how much each has left, the round and its clock, the result, the next bout on the card), the bell and the knockout. The light desk's presets and the crowd's mood follow the bout (Config.Fights.presets / moods: entrance for the walk-out, fight for the rounds, goal for the result), and a followspot that is on follows the player fighters.
• The card: bouts go in the order they were added; one with a time waits for it; 20 seconds between bouts (gap). Switching to another show stops the bout on (no contest) and holds the card until the ring or the cage is back.
• Fighting another player needs the server to let players hurt each other (most do). The building has no ped navmesh yet, so the NPC fighters start face to face in the ring and are held inside it.

Exports (server): AddBout(red, blue, inMinutes) (red / blue = 'npc' or a server id), StopBout(), GetBout(); the state is GlobalState.mzbFight (and mzbFightCard).

The event desk

An event official with a clipboard stands at the floor end of the event tunnel (Config.EventDesk.ped: the model, the place, the scenario). Walk up and talk to him: through ox_target or qb-target if your server runs one, else an E prompt within distance. He is a local ped, there while you are within 60 m. What he offers goes by the show that is up:

• A show with a track (karting, sprint, oval, monster, motocross): the race. Join it, leave it, start it now if you were first on the list, and see who has signed up (Racing, below).
• A show with a ring or a cage (wrestling, mma): set up a fight. Take on an NPC, challenge a player near you, accept a challenge, ask for the card: /arenafight challenge and accept behind a menu, with the same rules (Fights, above). Config.EventDesk.fights = 'staff' keeps them to the fight card's staff.
• Any other show: nothing to sign up for.

The menu is an ox_lib context menu when the server runs ox_lib; without it, a numbered list on the left of the screen (the number keys pick, Backspace shuts it). Every pick is checked by the server: that you are at the desk, that the show has what you asked for, that you may.

Racing

Each show with a track has a race on it, signed up for at the event desk:

Show	Race	Laps	A lap	Grid	Vehicle (the first your game build has)
karting	Grand Prix	5	266 m	8	veto2, veto, else blazer
sprint	Sprint	6	201 m	8	veto2, veto, else blazer
oval	Oval	8	154 m	10	veto2, veto, else blazer
monster	Monster Mayhem	3	134 m	4	monster, else sandking
motocross	Arenacross	4	257 m	8	sanchez2, bf400, manchez, sanchez

• Sign-up: the first player to join opens it for 45 seconds (Config.Race.signup) and may start it early at the desk; everyone in or at the arena is told. Grid slots go in the order of joining, as many as the track has.
• The start: every racer is put on their slot in the track's vehicle, held there through the countdown, and let go together.
• The race: the next checkpoint is a marker on the track and a blip (the line is the chequered one); position, lap and time are at the bottom of the screen. The server counts a checkpoint only when it is the next one in order and it sees the racer near it, so nothing a client says wins a race. The Grand Prix's flyover counts at its own height only: driving under it does not.
• The end: the winner is announced to the arena, and whoever has not finished 240 seconds later (dnf) is classified DNF. Out of the vehicle for 15 seconds, dead, or gone from the server: retired. The vehicles are taken away and the racers stand at the desk again (Config.Race.returnTo for somewhere else).
• Switching to another show calls the race off (an entry fee goes back).

/arenarace                 the race on, or the last result (anyone)
/arenarace start           staff: close the sign-up and go
/arenarace cancel          staff: call the race off

Config.Race has the times, minPlayers, fee and prize (money through the bridge below, 0 = none), access (who may run the command: the light desk's ACE unless set) and enabled. The tracks themselves (grid, checkpoints, laps, vehicles) are Config.Races in shared/races.lua, made from the tracks' own centre lines: change laps or vehicles there if you like, leave the coordinates. The racers' vehicles are made by their own games (networked), so a server that blocks client-made entities has to let these through. A full tank is set for the usual fuel scripts and qb-vehiclekeys is handed the keys; for anything else the client event mzb_arena:raceVehicle (the vehicle, its plate) fires when a racer's vehicle is made. Exports (server): GetRace(), CancelRace(); the state is GlobalState.mzbRace.

Merch

The lobby's merch stand is dressed for the show that is up (an entity set per stand, mzb_set_merch_<style>, in Config.Shows) and has a seller (Config.Merch.ped): talk to her as to the event desk's official and she lists what that show's stand sells. The kart circuits share a stand; the empty house and the open floor have the arena's own. A purchase is the item's name sent to the server, which looks the item and its price up itself in Config.Merch.items, checks that you are standing at the stand, takes the money and hands the item over. The tees hanging on the stand's walls are a shop of their own, with a try-on: Trying on and buying the tees, below.

Money and items go through one small bridge (server/bridge.lua), which uses the first of these your server runs:

1. qbx_core (cash; items through ox_inventory)
2. qb-core (cash; the player's own inventory)
3. es_extended (cash; ox_inventory when it runs, else ESX's inventory)
4. ox_inventory on its own (its money item)
5. none of them: only a price of 0 can be "bought" and nothing is handed over, the player is just told they have it. Set the prices to 0 for a souvenir stand, or run one of the above.

An item your inventory does not know is not sold: the money goes straight back and the player is told which item is missing. So register the ones you want to sell, and take the others out of Config.Merch.items (names, labels and prices are yours to change there):

Stand (shows)	Items
SAPW (wrestling)	mzb_tee_sapw SAPW Tee ($35), mzb_cap_sapw SAPW Cap ($25), mzb_finger_sapw SAPW Foam Finger ($15), mzb_poster_sapw SAPW Poster ($12), mzb_programme_sapw SAPW Programme ($10), mzb_belt_sapw SAPW Replica Title Belt ($150)
Sirens of San Andreas - The Neon Coast Tour (concert)	mzb_tee_sirens Sirens of San Andreas Tour Tee ($40), mzb_hoodie_sirens Neon Coast Tour Hoodie ($70), mzb_cap_sirens Sirens of San Andreas Cap ($25), mzb_poster_sirens Neon Coast Tour Poster ($15), mzb_programme_sirens Neon Coast Tour Programme ($12), mzb_glowstick_sirens Neon Coast Glow Stick ($8)
SAFC - Vespucci Vengeance (mma)	mzb_tee_safc SAFC Tee ($35), mzb_cap_safc SAFC Cap ($25), mzb_gloves_safc SAFC Replica Gloves ($60), mzb_poster_safc Vespucci Vengeance Poster ($12), mzb_programme_safc Vespucci Vengeance Programme ($10)
Los Santos Blizzard (hockey)	mzb_jersey_blizzard Los Santos Blizzard Jersey ($90), mzb_tee_blizzard Los Santos Blizzard Tee ($35), mzb_cap_blizzard Los Santos Blizzard Cap ($25), mzb_finger_blizzard Los Santos Blizzard Foam Finger ($15), mzb_puck_blizzard Los Santos Blizzard Puck ($18), mzb_programme_blizzard Los Santos Blizzard Programme ($10)
LS Panic (basketball)	mzb_jersey_panic LS Panic Jersey ($85), mzb_tee_panic LS Panic Tee ($35), mzb_cap_panic LS Panic Cap ($25), mzb_finger_panic LS Panic Foam Finger ($15), mzb_ball_panic LS Panic Mini Basketball ($20), mzb_programme_panic LS Panic Programme ($10)
Maze Bank Open (tennis)	mzb_tee_mbopen Maze Bank Open Tee ($35), mzb_visor_mbopen Maze Bank Open Visor ($22), mzb_towel_mbopen Maze Bank Open Towel ($30), mzb_ball_mbopen Maze Bank Open Souvenir Ball ($15), mzb_programme_mbopen Maze Bank Open Programme ($10)
Monster Mayhem (monster)	mzb_tee_mayhem Monster Mayhem Tee ($35), mzb_cap_mayhem Monster Mayhem Cap ($25), mzb_finger_mayhem Monster Mayhem Foam Finger ($15), mzb_poster_mayhem Monster Mayhem Poster ($12), mzb_programme_mayhem Monster Mayhem Programme ($10), mzb_tee_mudflaps SHOW ME YOUR MUDFLAPS Tee ($35), mzb_tee_thrillbilly Thrillbilly Mud Club Tee ($35)
Maze Bank Grand Prix (karting, sprint, oval)	mzb_tee_gp Maze Bank Grand Prix Tee ($35), mzb_cap_gp Maze Bank Grand Prix Cap ($25), mzb_flag_gp Maze Bank Grand Prix Chequered Flag ($15), mzb_poster_gp Maze Bank Grand Prix Poster ($12), mzb_programme_gp Maze Bank Grand Prix Programme ($10), mzb_tee_mudflaps SHOW ME YOUR MUDFLAPS Tee ($35), mzb_tee_thrillbilly Thrillbilly Mud Club Tee ($35)
Arenacross (motocross)	mzb_tee_arenacross Arenacross Tee ($35), mzb_jersey_arenacross Arenacross Race Jersey ($60), mzb_cap_arenacross Arenacross Cap ($25), mzb_poster_arenacross Arenacross Poster ($12), mzb_programme_arenacross Arenacross Programme ($10), mzb_tee_mudflaps SHOW ME YOUR MUDFLAPS Tee ($35), mzb_tee_thrillbilly Thrillbilly Mud Club Tee ($35)
Los Santos Open (skatepark)	mzb_tee_lsopen Los Santos Open Tee ($35), mzb_hoodie_lsopen Los Santos Open Hoodie ($65), mzb_cap_lsopen Los Santos Open Cap ($25), mzb_deck_lsopen Los Santos Open Skate Deck ($80), mzb_stickers_lsopen Los Santos Open Sticker Pack ($8), mzb_poster_lsopen Los Santos Open Poster ($12)
Maze Bank Arena (house, floor)	mzb_tee_arena Maze Bank Arena Tee ($30), mzb_hoodie_arena Maze Bank Arena Hoodie ($60), mzb_cap_arena Maze Bank Arena Cap ($25), mzb_finger_arena Maze Bank Arena Foam Finger ($15), mzb_mug_arena Maze Bank Arena Mug ($14), mzb_keyring_arena Maze Bank Arena Keyring ($6)

For ox_inventory, in data/items.lua (the pictures are up to you: web/images/<item name>.png); qb-core's shared/items.lua takes the same names:

    ['mzb_tee_sapw'] = { label = 'SAPW Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_cap_sapw'] = { label = 'SAPW Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_finger_sapw'] = { label = 'SAPW Foam Finger', weight = 150 },
    ['mzb_poster_sapw'] = { label = 'SAPW Poster', weight = 50 },
    ['mzb_programme_sapw'] = { label = 'SAPW Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_belt_sapw'] = { label = 'SAPW Replica Title Belt', weight = 2500 },
    ['mzb_tee_sirens'] = { label = 'Sirens of San Andreas Tour Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_hoodie_sirens'] = { label = 'Neon Coast Tour Hoodie', weight = 450 },
    ['mzb_cap_sirens'] = { label = 'Sirens of San Andreas Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_poster_sirens'] = { label = 'Neon Coast Tour Poster', weight = 50 },
    ['mzb_programme_sirens'] = { label = 'Neon Coast Tour Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_glowstick_sirens'] = { label = 'Neon Coast Glow Stick', weight = 50 },
    ['mzb_tee_safc'] = { label = 'SAFC Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_cap_safc'] = { label = 'SAFC Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_gloves_safc'] = { label = 'SAFC Replica Gloves', weight = 400 },
    ['mzb_poster_safc'] = { label = 'Vespucci Vengeance Poster', weight = 50 },
    ['mzb_programme_safc'] = { label = 'Vespucci Vengeance Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_jersey_blizzard'] = { label = 'Los Santos Blizzard Jersey', weight = 300 },
    ['mzb_tee_blizzard'] = { label = 'Los Santos Blizzard Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_cap_blizzard'] = { label = 'Los Santos Blizzard Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_finger_blizzard'] = { label = 'Los Santos Blizzard Foam Finger', weight = 150 },
    ['mzb_puck_blizzard'] = { label = 'Los Santos Blizzard Puck', weight = 170 },
    ['mzb_programme_blizzard'] = { label = 'Los Santos Blizzard Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_jersey_panic'] = { label = 'LS Panic Jersey', weight = 300 },
    ['mzb_tee_panic'] = { label = 'LS Panic Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_cap_panic'] = { label = 'LS Panic Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_finger_panic'] = { label = 'LS Panic Foam Finger', weight = 150 },
    ['mzb_ball_panic'] = { label = 'LS Panic Mini Basketball', weight = 300 },
    ['mzb_programme_panic'] = { label = 'LS Panic Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_tee_mbopen'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Open Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_visor_mbopen'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Open Visor', weight = 80 },
    ['mzb_towel_mbopen'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Open Towel', weight = 300 },
    ['mzb_ball_mbopen'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Open Souvenir Ball', weight = 60 },
    ['mzb_programme_mbopen'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Open Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_tee_mayhem'] = { label = 'Monster Mayhem Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_cap_mayhem'] = { label = 'Monster Mayhem Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_finger_mayhem'] = { label = 'Monster Mayhem Foam Finger', weight = 150 },
    ['mzb_poster_mayhem'] = { label = 'Monster Mayhem Poster', weight = 50 },
    ['mzb_programme_mayhem'] = { label = 'Monster Mayhem Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_tee_mudflaps'] = { label = 'SHOW ME YOUR MUDFLAPS Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_tee_thrillbilly'] = { label = 'Thrillbilly Mud Club Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_tee_gp'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Grand Prix Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_cap_gp'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Grand Prix Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_flag_gp'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Grand Prix Chequered Flag', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_poster_gp'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Grand Prix Poster', weight = 50 },
    ['mzb_programme_gp'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Grand Prix Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_tee_arenacross'] = { label = 'Arenacross Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_jersey_arenacross'] = { label = 'Arenacross Race Jersey', weight = 300 },
    ['mzb_cap_arenacross'] = { label = 'Arenacross Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_poster_arenacross'] = { label = 'Arenacross Poster', weight = 50 },
    ['mzb_programme_arenacross'] = { label = 'Arenacross Programme', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_tee_lsopen'] = { label = 'Los Santos Open Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_hoodie_lsopen'] = { label = 'Los Santos Open Hoodie', weight = 450 },
    ['mzb_cap_lsopen'] = { label = 'Los Santos Open Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_deck_lsopen'] = { label = 'Los Santos Open Skate Deck', weight = 1500 },
    ['mzb_stickers_lsopen'] = { label = 'Los Santos Open Sticker Pack', weight = 20 },
    ['mzb_poster_lsopen'] = { label = 'Los Santos Open Poster', weight = 50 },
    ['mzb_tee_arena'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Arena Tee', weight = 200 },
    ['mzb_hoodie_arena'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Arena Hoodie', weight = 450 },
    ['mzb_cap_arena'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Arena Cap', weight = 100 },
    ['mzb_finger_arena'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Arena Foam Finger', weight = 150 },
    ['mzb_mug_arena'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Arena Mug', weight = 350 },
    ['mzb_keyring_arena'] = { label = 'Maze Bank Arena Keyring', weight = 30 },

Trying on and buying the tees

Every tee hanging on the merch stand's walls can be tried on and bought, the way a clothes shop in the game works. Walk up to one: the nearest carries a white dot and the word TEES, and you pick it through ox_target or qb-target (a small zone on every hanging tee) when the server runs one, else by looking at it and pressing E. Your character turns its back to the wall, the camera cuts to its front, and the tee is on:

Key	What it does
Left / Right	show the stand's other tees (eight to a stand)
Enter	buy and wear it; wear it if you own it; take it off if you are wearing it
Up / Down	the same design as a T-shirt or as a tank top (when the stand's pack has both)
Backspace / Esc	leave

The screen shows what a shop shows: the store and the category top left, your cash top right (when the server has a framework to ask), bottom left the price, the tee's name and colour, a row of swatches (the one that is on framed, the ones you own ticked) and "Not owned" / "Owned" / "Wearing" - or "Not enough money" - the keys bottom right, and "Purchased" on the right when you buy. Leaving, you wear what you kept: a tee you bought or put on, else what you came in with. One you only tried is off again.

• The shirts are addon clothing for the two freemode characters: the top (component 11), a drawable per stand and cut and a texture per tee, in the collections mp_m_mzbmerch and mp_f_mzbmerch (Config.MerchShop.collection). They are not in this resource but in the optional mzb_arena_clothes (The clothing pack, below). Where the shirts are not there, the tees on the walls are the stand's dressing and nothing is offered at them. Any other ped model is told the shirts do not fit it. Config.MerchShop.fit is the arms and the undershirt that go on with a tee (check them in game against your characters); firstDrawable is only for a client build without the collection natives.
• The price is Config.MerchShop.price (35), or per stand with prices = { monster = 40 }; the money goes through the same bridge as the seller's (Merch, above). The server decides every purchase: the stand has to be the show's own, you have to be standing at it as a freemode character, and the price is never the client's.
• What you own is kept by the server per licence, in the resource's own KVP (mzb_tees:<licence>): no database and no inventory item, and it is still yours after a restart. Wearing a tee you own, and taking it off, cost nothing.
• Saving the look: after a purchase, a wear or a remove, the look is saved through illenium-appearance when the server runs it (Config.MerchShop.save). For any other clothing script, hook the client event mzb_arena:shop:worn (the style, the tee or false for taken off, and the top's drawable and texture as they are on the ped) and save from there.
• With vice_hud: a server that runs vice_hud has a HUD with a wallet and a shop panel of its own, so the try-on is drawn there instead (Config.MerchShop.hud = 'auto'): the HUD's shop panel (store and category, price, the tee, a swatch of each tee's cloth with its mark on the ones you do not own, "Not enough money"), its action prompts and its feed. This resource's page stays shut, so the only money on the screen is the HUD's own wallet, which shows the new total itself when you buy. hud = 'own' keeps this resource's page; it then leaves the cash off whenever vice_hud is running, so there are never two wallets. A vice_hud without the shop panel (ShowShopItem) is handled the same way.
• Which tees hang where, and what they are called, is Config.MerchTees in shared/merch_tees.lua, made with the stands (not edited by hand); the swatches are html/img/tees/<style>.jpg. Config.MerchShop.reach is how close you have to be to a tee, camera where the try-on camera stands.

The clothing pack (mzb_arena_clothes, optional)

The shirts are 22 tops for each freemode character (11 tees and 11 tank tops, eight looks a top), 27 MB, in a resource of their own: mzb_arena_clothes, a second zip on the release page (extras/mzb_arena_clothes in the repository). It is separate, and optional, for one reason: every clothing pack adds a metadata file (.ymt) to the freemode character it dresses, and the game has room for only a few of those. How many depends on the game build. The community's measurements (docs.gta.clothing), for each of the two characters: about 10 on build 3095, 8 on 3258, 6 on 3407, 5 on 3570, 4 on 3717 and 3 on 3889.

One collection too many and every player crashes as their character is made: the client's log ends with Error executing native 0x00a1cadd00108836 (that is SetPlayerModel) and a null pointer. The pack that goes over is not broken, and neither is the one before it: the server is out of places.

• Count before you add it. In all your resources' stream folders, count the files named mp_m_freemode_01_<something>.ymt, and the same for mp_f_freemode_01_. A plain mp_m_freemode_01.ymt replaces the game's own and does not count; an mp_creaturemetadata_<something>.ymt counts for both characters. This pack is one more for each.
• Room to spare: put mzb_arena_clothes beside mzb_arena and ensure mzb_arena_clothes. Nothing else to set.
• No room: leave it out - the arena, its stands and their seller work without it - or merge its files into a clothing pack you already run (the tools that merge packs renumber the drawables). Then set Config.MerchShop.collection to that pack's two collections, drawableOffset to the number of tops (jbib) that come before the arena's first in each, and pack = false.
• Updating from 1.3.0 - 1.3.3: those versions streamed the shirts from inside mzb_arena. Delete mzb_arena/stream/clothes (or the whole mzb_arena folder before you copy the new one in): left there, the files go on taking the place. The server's console says so at start when it finds them.

Slippery ice

While the hockey show is up, the rink's surface is GTA's ice: vehicles slide on it, and on foot you keep your momentum. You glide on when you let go, overshoot a stop and drift through turns, and a hard turn at a sprint can put you on the ice. Config.Ice sets how slippery it is, the top gliding speed, and whether players can fall and how often.

Video on the screens (pmms and other TV scripts)

Every show's screens are one object on one render target, mzb_screens, so a single media player drives them all: the titantron with its lower panels and wings (wrestling), the LED wall and the side screens (concert), the LED wall (MMA), and the centre-hung board's four faces (every show). The picture and sound come from one source. With nothing playing, the screens are clear and the show's own graphics show through.

The object sits at the centre of the arena floor. There is one model per show:

Show	Model
wrestling	mzb_screens_wrestling
concert	mzb_screens_concert
mma	mzb_screens_mma
hockey, basketball, tennis, house, and every other show (floor, monster, motocross, karting, sprint, oval, skatepark, a show of your own)	mzb_screens_board

pmms: add these to Config.models in pmms' config.lua, then stand in the bowl, open pmms and pick the arena screens:

[`mzb_screens_wrestling`] = { label = "Maze Bank Arena screens", renderTarget = "mzb_screens" },
[`mzb_screens_concert`]   = { label = "Maze Bank Arena screens", renderTarget = "mzb_screens" },
[`mzb_screens_mma`]       = { label = "Maze Bank Arena screens", renderTarget = "mzb_screens" },
[`mzb_screens_board`]     = { label = "Maze Bank Arena screens", renderTarget = "mzb_screens" },

Any other TV or cinema script that plays on a model through a named render target works the same way: register the model(s) above with the render target mzb_screens. Switching the show swaps the screen object, so start the video again after a switch.

Built-in screen player (ACE command.arena)

The arena can play on its own screens without another resource: a YouTube video, a cycle of pictures or one picture, on every screen of the show at once, the same moment for every player (late joiners too). Run it from the light desk's Screens section (paste a link, play / pause / off, loop, volume, picture sets) or from chat:

Command	What it does
/arenascreen <youtube link or id>	play a video (watch, youtu.be, shorts, embed and live links all work)
/arenascreen <picture url> [more ...]	one picture, or a cycle of several (https only)
/arenascreen images [set]	a picture set from Config.Media.imageSets (no name: the show's own set)
/arenascreen look	a camera feed: your own view of the game, live on the screens (below)
/arenascreen look <player id>	that player's view; /arenascreen look off ends a feed
/arenascreen look <name>	an LED-wall look drawn in step with the lights: show, pulse, colour, bars, stripes, waves
/arenascreen pause / resume
/arenascreen loop [on|off]	loop the video that is on: at its end it starts again (nothing after it: the other way)
/arenascreen off	the screens go dark
/arenascreen own	the show's own graphics again (nothing of ours on the screens)
/arenascreen fade [seconds]	fade to black (3 s unless said), then off; a video's sound from the speakers fades with it
/arenascreen volume <0-100> / interval <s>	the browser's own volume (only with Config.Media.sound = 'screen'); seconds per picture
/arenascreen status	what is on
/arenascreeninfo	for you only: whether the screens' page loaded and is being drawn (to report a dark screen)

A video starts a moment after the Play (Config.Media.leadIn, 2.5 s): every player's game has it loaded by then, so it starts at its start for everyone at once instead of a second in. The screens are dark for that moment.

Off is dark. The desk's Off (and a Blackout while the screens show a look or nothing) puts a black picture over the show's own graphics, so the titantron is really off; Own graphics lets go of the screens again, which is how the arena starts. Config.Media.offBlack = false makes Off the show's own graphics, as it was.

A video that stops takes the show lights with it (Config.Media.lightsOut): they fade out with the picture (Fade out), or over lightsFade seconds (2) when the video is switched off or comes to its end. A video that has ended is switched off - the screens go to Off instead of sitting on its last frame. Pictures, looks and camera feeds leave the lights alone.

Loop (the desk's LOOP beside Play, /arenascreen loop [on|off]): a looped video that comes to its end starts again from its beginning, for every player together and after the same lead-in as a new video (the screens are dark for that moment), its sound from the speakers in step with it. Nothing that goes with a video's end happens between two rounds: the screens stay on and the show lights stay as they are. Take Loop off and the round that is running is the last; switch the video off or fade it out and the lights go with it as ever. A new video starts with Config.Media.loop (off). Only a video is looped: a picture cycle goes round anyway, and a look or a camera feed has no end. The server learns how long the video is from the screens' page of whoever put it on (or of staff near the arena); until one of them has played it, /arenascreen status says the loop is waiting for that.

A video's sound comes from the arena's speakers, through the music player (below): the same video plays there for its sound, started at the same moment, and the two pause, fade and stop together. Its level is the music's (/arenamusic volume, and each player's mine). Config.Media.sound = 'screen' gives the browser's own sound back, which is not placed in the room (the same in both ears wherever you stand); 'off' makes videos silent.

Picture sets ship for every show (html/img/, from the arena's own boards: the house's welcome and sponsor cards, SAPW for wrestling, the Sirens for the concert, SAFC for MMA, and a live card each for hockey, basketball and tennis). Your own pictures go in html/img/ and into a set in Config.Media.imageSets as img/<file>; restart the resource.

Looks are drawn by the page itself from the light desk's colours, effect and speed, with the show's name or logo over them (show breathes the show's artwork). The desk's presets bring one up with the lights (screen in Config.LightPresets) while the screens show a look or nothing; Config.Media.presetLooks = false leaves the screens to you.

A camera feed puts a player's own view of the game on the screens, live: someone walks the floor as the camera operator and the house watches the titantron. /arenascreen look (or the desk's My camera) makes you the camera; /arenascreen look <player id> puts another player's view on - they are told, and they may take it off themselves with /arenascreen look off, staff or not. The camera sees a red ON AIR tally with the number of screens connected; their radar and HUD are hidden while they are live (hideHud), because the picture is the game's own: the 3D view as the camera sees it, and nothing of the chat, a phone or any menu. First or third person, a vehicle, a scripted camera of another resource - whatever is on their screen.

• The picture goes from the camera's PC straight to each watcher's (WebRTC, the way the phone resources' video calls work); the server only introduces them. It costs the server nothing, and it costs the camera's PC and upload one small stream per watcher: width 640, fps 24, bitrate 700 kbit/s each, maxViewers 16 (players beyond that see the show's artwork). Raise or lower them in Config.Media.feed.
• Peer to peer means the two PCs see each other's IP address - not on screen, but a player who goes looking in the browser tools can read it. That is how every peer-to-peer call works; if your community minds, set a TURN server in Config.Media.feed.ice and relayOnly = true (the picture then goes through that server and nobody learns anybody's address), or enabled = false.
• ice starts with a public STUN server, which only tells a PC its own public address. Some routers still refuse a direct connection; those players see the show's artwork until there is a TURN server to fall back on.
• /arenascreeninfo, typed by the camera, says whether the picture is being taken and how many screens have it. flip = true if it comes out upside down.

How it is drawn: the page is loaded from the resource's own https address and drawn over the screens' texture (Config.Media.method = 'replace'). 'rendertarget' is the older way, kept for servers where another script owns the texture.

Living with pmms and TV scripts: the built-in player only touches the screens while it is playing something or holding them dark. Give them back (/arenascreen own, the desk's Own graphics) before starting pmms on the screens - a script that registers the mzb_screens render target takes them from the dark by itself - or set Config.Media.enabled = false to leave the screens to the other script for good.

YouTube: some videos refuse to play embedded (the owner turned embedding off, or age / region limits); the screens then stay dark, and a picture cycle or a look still works.

Exports (server): SetScreenMedia(urlOrListOfPictureUrls), ScreenImageSet(name), ScreenCamera(playerId), ScreenOff(), ScreenPause(on), ScreenLoop(on, seconds) (seconds: the video's length, if your script knows it, so no page has to say it), ScreenVolume(0-100), GetScreenMedia(). Client: IsScreenMediaOn().

Music player (ACE command.arena)

Music off the light desk, heard from the arena's speakers and in no other way, with no sound resource needed (no xsound). Paste a link in the desk's Music section or use chat; every player hears the same moment of the track (late joiners too):

Command	What it does
/arenamusic <url>	play a YouTube link, or a direct audio file or stream (mp3, ogg, opus, wav, flac, an icecast stream)
/arenamusic pause / resume / stop
/arenamusic loop [on|off]	loop the track that is playing: at its end it starts again (nothing after it: the other way)
/arenamusic fade [seconds]	fade out (3 s unless said), then stop
/arenamusic volume <0-100>	the level for everyone
/arenamusic status	what is playing, and what your own game is doing with it (anyone may ask)
/arenamusic mine <0-100>	your own level, for you only, kept between sessions (anyone; also the desk's "Mine" slider)

How it sounds. Every speaker of the show that is up is its own source in the world (Config.Music.speakers): the line arrays under the ring truss for wrestling and MMA; the two PA hangs, the subs under the stage's lip and the band's backline for the concert; the centre-hung board otherwise; and in every show the production control room's monitors, heard in that room. You hear each one from where it is: louder as you walk up to it, from the side it is on as you turn, behind you when it is behind you. On top comes the arena: a reverb and an echo off the far end (reverbSeconds, preDelay, echo, and rooms.<zone>.wet for how much), more of it the farther you are from the speakers. In the rooms that open onto the bowl (concourse, tunnel, backstage, stairs) it comes through the walls, muffled and quieter but still from where the speakers are; fainter elsewhere in the building; nothing outside. Far from the arena (Config.Music.range) the track is not even loaded.

How loud. Config.Music.boost turns the whole of it up after the speakers, the walls, the reverb and the echo, so their balance stays as it is: 1 is the level of v1.1.1, 2 (the default) twice that (+6 dB), 3 is +9.5 dB. A limiter behind it holds the loudest peaks. The screens' video sound goes the same way. Each player still sets their own share with /arenamusic mine <0-100>.

Nothing is played "flat", and nothing else is needed. For a YouTube link the page runs a hidden YouTube player and takes that player's sound into its own sound graph, where the speakers, the walls and the arena are (the player stays muted until it is in there); a file or stream goes in the same way. No sound resource, no helper program, no server setting. A track whose sound cannot be taken in (a video that may not be embedded, a dead link, a format the game's browser lacks) stays silent, and whoever started it is told why.

The server's own fetcher (optional, off). Config.Music.relay.enabled = true has the server fetch every track itself and hand it to the players from its own HTTP port (server/relay.js): a fallback should a game update ever stop the page reaching the YouTube player. It then needs yt-dlp and Deno on the server machine for YouTube (in this resource's bin folder or installed; Windows: winget install yt-dlp.yt-dlp DenoLand.Deno), and on newer server builds, which do not let a resource start a program by itself, this line in server.cfg above the one that starts the arena: add_unsafe_child_process_permission "mzb_arena". Config.Music.relay has its limits (size, length, time).

Loop (the desk's LOOP beside Play, /arenamusic loop [on|off]): a looped track that comes to its end starts again from its beginning, for every player together, after the same lead-in as a new track (about three seconds of quiet between two rounds). A new track starts with Config.Music.loop (off); a stream has no end to start again from, and the sound of a video on the screens is looped with its picture (/arenascreen loop). The server learns how long the track is from the page of whoever started it (or of staff near the arena), or from its own fetcher; until then /arenamusic status says the loop is waiting for that.

/arenamusic status ends with a line about your own game, for checking it in the building: here: in the world from 4 speakers (bowl), reverb on.

Exports (server): PlayMusic(url), StopMusic(), PauseMusic(on), LoopMusic(on, seconds) (seconds: the track's length, if your script knows it, so no page has to say it), MusicVolume(0-100), GetMusic().

Footsteps and reverb

Footsteps are the game's quiet ones inside the building (Config.QuietFootsteps), and the rooms' reverb is shorter than before (audio/mzb_arena_game.dat151.rel): steps no longer ring round the hall. The arena makes no room tone and no crowd noise of its own: play what you like through the music player, which puts it in the room.

Followspot (ACE command.arena)

One or two followspots high on the bowl's long sides (Config.FollowSpot.fixtures), run by an operator from the desk's Followspot section or chat:

Command	What it does
/arenaspot on / off
/arenaspot follow <id | me | look>	lock onto a player: a server id, yourself, or whoever is under your crosshair
/arenaspot free or the key F7	grab free aim: the spot follows your camera; again to let go (it stays put)
/arenaspot color <name | #rrggbb> / size <2-15> / intensity <0-100>
/arenaspot status

Locked onto a player, every client follows that player itself, so it is smooth and sends nothing over the network. Free aim sends the operator's aim point at most 8 times a second (Config.FollowSpot.sendRate); the server keeps it inside the arena and only one operator aims at a time. Players can rebind the key under Settings > Key Bindings > FiveM ("Arena followspot").

Exports (server): SetFollowSpot(patch), FollowPlayer(serverId), GetFollowSpot().

More stage lights (Config.LightRigExtra)

The light desk runs fixtures of your own on top of the build's rig: Config.LightRigExtra[show] is a list of { x, y, z, dx, dy, dz, g } (world position, the direction it points at rest, the group: 1 moving head, 2 wash, 3 house light, 4 floor beam). Floor beams keep their own aim whatever the desk's aim is, and take the desk's colour and effect. Out of the box it adds, at the stage end: moving heads half way between the build's heads on the wrestling stage trusses, washes on the concert's wash bar, and four floor beams along the back of the stage end (wrestling, concert, MMA), either side of the middle, shooting up and out over the floor. Config.LightMaxFixtures is 40: the roof's house lights are the ones left out when a rig has more. Move or remove any of them to taste.

Ramp lights (Config.RampLights): twelve small fixtures along the wrestling ramp's two top edges, each aimed across the ramp and a little down, so its beam lands on the ramp and whoever walks it, in the desk's colours and effects (a chase runs from the stage to the ring), their lenses glowing so the edges read as two rows of lights. With the show lights off they rest in Config.RampLightIdle (a dim blue; false = dark). They do not count against Config.LightMaxFixtures.

Pyro (ACE command.arena)

The pyro of the shows with a stage - wrestling, the concert, MMA - fired from the desk's Pyro section (Show tab) or chat; every player in the arena sees a cue at the same moment. The desk has a size (Small / Normal / Big) and a colour for the next cue; the colour goes to the effects that take one (sparks, comets, bursts).

Command	What it does
/arenapyro <cue> [small|big] [colour]	fire a cue; the colour is a name from Config.LightColors, #rrggbb, or lights (the show lights' first colour)
/arenapyro list	the cues the show that is up can fire (anyone may ask)

Group	Cues
Stage	flames, firewall (flames along the whole lip), blueflames, longburn, gerbs (spark fountains), chase (comets from the outside in), sweep (comets from one end to the other), smoke
Ramp and ring	ramp (sparks down both edges), rampfire, posts (sparks on the ring or cage posts), postfire, sparklers
Overhead	burst, shells (fireworks), crackle, waterfall (sparks falling from a line over the stage), sparkrain (over the ring), puffs (smoke), confetti, money
Sequences	entrance, bighit, rapid, winner, inferno, finale

A show is offered only the cues it has the places for (the concert has no ramp and no posts). They are the game's own particle effects, each name checked against the game's files: nothing burns and nobody is hurt. Config.Pyro has the units' places per show, the effects (asset, name, scale: the sizes are first guesses, tune them there) and the cues, which are lists of steps you can rewrite or add to. A bout fires entrance at its walk-out and finale at its end (Config.Fights.pyro, false for none). Exports (server): Pyro(cue, { size, colour }), PyroCues().

Cars to crush (ACE command.arena)

The truck show comes with six real cars, side by side on the deck between the jump's two lips: the game's own vehicles (Config.ShowCars: a model per spot picked at random from a list of everyday cars), made by the server, so every player sees the same cars in the same state, and locked, because they are there to be driven over. They are put down a few seconds after monster comes up, once a player is in or at the building, and taken away when another show does or the resource stops.

Command	What it does
/arenacars reset	take them away and put six fresh ones down (after the trucks have flattened them)
/arenacars clear	take them away; they come back with reset, or the next time the show comes up
/arenacars	how many are down

The desk has the same two buttons in a Cars section on its Show tab, there only while the show that is up has cars. Config.ShowCars[show] is { models, spots, locked } (spots are vector4(x, y, z, heading), z about half a metre over the surface the car stands on: it is where the car's middle goes, and the car settles from there), with range (how near a player must be before the cars are made, 80 m from the arena's middle) and delay (seconds after the show comes up, 4) if you want other values; give another show an entry to stand cars on its floor too, or set Config.ShowCars = false for none. Config.CarsAccess is who may reset and clear them (the light desk's ACE unless set). Exports (server): ResetCars(), ClearCars(), GetCars() (their entity handles); the state is GlobalState.mzbCars ({ show, n }). Needs OneSync, as the fights' NPCs do.

Props of your own (Config.ShowProps)

Vanilla props put down for a show without CodeWalker: Config.ShowProps[show] is a list of { model, x, y, z, heading, ground = true, room = 'backstage' } (local props, frozen, made while you are in the arena; ground drops the prop onto the floor under it, room is the interior room it stands in when that is not the bowl; /arenainfo prints where you stand). Out of the box:

• The interview set (wrestling, MMA): a green screen in the backstage hall, off the east wall north of the tunnel, with a TV camera on it and two studio lights. The screen is the arena's own prop (mzb_bh_green_screen, 3.5 m wide and 2.4 m high, its cloth swept out over the floor), yours to put anywhere else too.
• A camera crane on the wrestling stage deck beside the titantron, its arm up over the stage's lip towards the ring.

Take a line out of the list to remove a prop, or move it.

Configuration (shared/config.lua)

• Config.DefaultShow: the show the server starts with.
• Config.Shows: which entity sets each show turns on. You can remove a show, or make your own mix from the sets listed there. Since 1.2.0 the lower tier's front seven rows are a set of their own: a show names mzb_set_low_front_seated, or mzb_set_low_front_stowed (with mzb_set_low_nw_back) for the bigger floor. A show that names neither (one you made before, a config you kept) is given the seated rows by itself, so it stands as it did. What the scripts look up per show (the screens' model, the light rig, the speakers, the screens' artwork) comes from the empty house for a show that has no entry of its own.
• Config.ShutterSeconds: how long the roller doors take to open or close.
• Config.DockButtons: the E prompt at each roller door (false = staff commands only).
• Config.DockAccess: who may use it: false for everyone, or an ACE such as 'command.arena' for staff only.
• Config.DockReach / Config.DockReachVehicle: how close you must be, on foot and at the wheel (metres).
• Config.Command: the name of the admin command.
• Config.QuickCommand: the quick switch's name (mzb), or false to turn it off.
• Config.ShowAliases: other words the quick switch accepts for a show.
• Config.SwitchCooldown: seconds between two switches.
• Config.AnnounceSwitch: true tells every player in chat when the show changes.
• Config.LightCommand / Config.LightAccess: the light desk's command and who may use it (an ACE, or false for everyone).
• Config.LightPresets / Config.LightColors: the desk's presets and named colours: add your own.
• Config.LightBrightness, Config.LightCone, Config.LightSpread, Config.LightMaxFixtures, Config.LightLensGlow: how the show lights look and how many are drawn.
• Config.LightMaxStrobeHz: the fastest strobe (0 = no strobing).
• Config.RingLightScale: how bright the rigs' own ring lights are drawn (shared/rig_lights.lua has each one's place, colour and strength). Config.RingLightGroup, Config.RingLightColor, Config.RingLightBrightness: for a show without lights of its own, which of the rig's fixtures stand in (2 = the washes), their colour and brightness.
• Config.QuietFootsteps: the quiet footsteps inside. Config.Concourse: the people round the building.
• Config.LightRooms: the rooms the light show is drawn in.
• Config.HouseSets: the interior's house light sets the desk switches.
• Config.Ice: the hockey ice (on / off, the shows it is down for, how slippery, falls).
• Config.CrowdCommand / Config.CrowdAccess: the crowd's command and who may bring it in (an ACE, or false for everyone).
• Config.Crowd: how many people a player sees, the share that fills the seats near them, the ped models, whether they collide; FrontStowedSet, BackSet, FrontDepth and ClosedDepth: the rows nobody sits in when the front rows are folded back, and the rows a show keeps closed. Config.CrowdMoods / Config.CrowdAnims: what the crowd does in each mood.
• Config.CrowdRoles / Config.CrowdStaffEnabled: the staff and the press (their peds, what they do, their cameras).
• Config.Litter: the litter (how much, how near, the props).
• Config.Fights: the bouts (rounds, times, the knockout line, the count-out, who may challenge, the NPC fighters' models and names, the rings, the cues for the lights and the crowd).
• Config.RampLights: the wrestling ramp's lights. Config.ShowProps: props of your own per show.
• Config.Pyro: the pyro's units per show, effects, cues and sizes.
• Config.LightFollow: the lights following the music.
• Config.Music.loop / Config.Media.loop: whether a new track / a new video starts looped.
• Config.ShowCars / Config.CarsCommand / Config.CarsAccess: the real cars a show has on its floor (the truck show's), their command and who may run it.
• Config.EventDesk: the event desk's official (model, place, scenario), how close to talk, and who may set up a fight there.
• Config.Race: the race's sign-up time, countdown, fewest racers, DNF time, fee and prize, where racers are put afterwards, its command and who may run it. Config.Races (shared/races.lua): the tracks.
• Config.Merch: the merch seller, which stand a show has (styleOf), and each stand's items and prices.
• Config.MerchShop: the tees on the stand's walls: the price, the clothing collections, what goes on with a tee, how close to stand, the try-on camera, whether the look is saved, who draws the try-on (hud), and where the shirts come from (pack, drawableOffset: The clothing pack).

Notes

• There is no ped navmesh inside the building yet. Players can go everywhere, but ambient NPCs will not walk it (the crowd and the staff stand where they are put; the NPC fighters start face to face).
• Framework independent: plain FiveM natives only, with no ESX / QBCore / Qbox requirement.

Changes

• 1.4.0: one glazed wall instead of two, and the building's shell closed round the interior. Rockstar's own window wall stood 0.3 - 1 m outside the arena's: doubled mullions, its dark glass and reflections over ours on three sides, its kerb across the doors, and between the two walls a ring with no floor in it (10 cm wide at the main doors, almost a metre on the long sides) and no head over it. Now the old wall's glass, mullions and transoms are gone at concourse level all round; its stone piers stay. Its kerb is rebuilt as one piece - the same face and height outside, its top running in to the arena's glass, flush across all four door groups - so the ring has a floor; a soffit closes it above; and the four stretches where the wall is concrete panels, which were modelled from outside only, have an inside face (one used to look straight through them from the concourse). All of it is in the four replaced sp1_10_wind models - exterior geometry, in Rockstar's own materials. From far off the game's low-detail model still shows the old dark glazing. Updating from 1.3.4: stream files only (stream/vanilla_edits); restart the server. From 1.3.3 or older, read 1.3.4 below first: delete mzb_arena/stream/clothes.
• 1.3.4: the shirts are a resource of their own, and optional. A clothing pack takes one of the few places the game has for them on each freemode character (about 6 on build 3407, fewer on newer builds). With the shirts inside mzb_arena, a server that was already out of places crashed every player as they spawned (Error executing native 0x00a1cadd00108836: SetPlayerModel). mzb_arena adds no clothing now; the shirts are mzb_arena_clothes (The clothing pack), and the tees are offered only where they are installed. Config.MerchShop gained pack and drawableOffset. Updating from 1.3.0 - 1.3.3: delete mzb_arena/stream/clothes (or the whole folder before you copy the new one in). Left there it still streams; the server's console warns when it finds it.
• 1.3.3: the try-on and the HUD's wallet. On a server with vice_hud the merch stand's try-on is drawn by the HUD itself - its shop panel, its prompts, its feed - and the only money on the screen is the HUD's own wallet; this resource's page no longer puts a second cash figure in the same corner (Config.MerchShop.hud, store). Without vice_hud nothing changes but two details: the store's name stands over the category, and a tee you cannot pay for says "Not enough money". Config.MerchTees gained each tee's cloth colour (hex). Updating from 1.3.2: scripts and the page only (no stream files); Config.MerchShop gained hud and store.
• 1.3.2: the main lobby laid out again. A clear way from the security check to section 100's entrance, with nothing standing in it; guest services is a desk beside that way, not across it; the box office stands further from the doors and clear of the glass; the check's flanks are belt posts, not beer-branded barriers; four high tables on the concessions' side instead of eight all over; planters and benches along the glass. The crowd's four pop-up merch tables are gone from the lobby: the merch stand is a real one now. Updating from 1.3.1: stream files, the interior's definition and collision changed (restart the server).
• 1.3.1: what the first walk round 1.3.0 in game turned up.
  • Tank tops: every tee at the merch stands also comes as a tank top. In the try-on, up and down switch between the two cuts (Config.MerchShop.cuts: each cut has its own price and the arms that go with it). The clothing pack has 22 tops a character now (11 tees, 11 tanks), 176 looks each way.
  • The city no longer vanishes through the lobby doors. The four gateways' portals were set to close with their doors, and the doors are glass: with them shut, nothing outside was drawn through the doorway (and nothing inside, from the street).
  • The concourse's glass is clearer. It was three times as opaque as the game's own door glass, so the sun's patches and the mullions' shadows lay on it like shards.
  • Skate park: the vert ramp is solid (one deck and its back wall could be walked through), and the sponsors' boards on it are gone.
  • The arenacross stand has real helmets on its table, not hollow masks.
  • Updating from 1.3.0: stream files and the interior's definition changed (restart the server). In your own shared/config.lua, Config.MerchShop gained cuts.
• 1.3.0: arenacross, races to join, a merch stand to shop at - and the truck show and the circuits done properly.
  • Arenacross (/mzb motocross): a 257 m dirt track on the bigger floor - a start gate, a triple, a tabletop, whoops, a double, a big table, rollers, bermed turns, a finish gantry - with ruts, bales, marker drums and a banner wall.
  • The event desk: an official at the floor end of the tunnel. Talk to them to join the race of the show that is up, or to set up a fight on a wrestling or fight night (the ring and the cage's own fights, behind a menu).
  • Races: the three kart circuits, the truck show and arenacross each have a grid, checkpoints and laps made from the track itself. Sign up at the desk; everyone is put on the grid in a kart (a truck, a dirt bike), the server counts the checkpoints and keeps the positions, and the vehicles are taken away afterwards. /arenarace start | cancel | status for staff.
  • The merch stand: an island in the main lobby, dressed for each show (eleven of them: its own tables, backdrop, piles of folded tees and two racks of hanging ones) with a seller who has that show's merchandise (money and items through qbx_core, qb-core, ESX or ox_inventory, whichever the server runs).
  • Tees you can try on and buy: walk up to any tee on a rack, and the camera turns to you wearing it - its name, its price, the stand's other tees to flick through, buy and wear. 88 of them, eight a show: each event's own, and the kind of shirt a merch stand in this state would sell. They are real clothing for the freemode characters (stream/clothes); what you own is kept per licence.
  • The folded front rows of the bigger floor now look like rows that folded: each row's black front with its seats folded on it, yellow only on the aisles' steps, and the ring tunnels' mouths lined to match.
  • Two of arenacross's boards, and two tees at the dirt shows' stands, are for a mud club from out of state.
  • The show alias monsterjam is now monstertrucks.
  • The truck show and the three circuits, done properly:
  • The dressing is the game's own. The hand-made tents, tool chests, tyre stacks, pylon and timing tower are gone; in their place Rockstar's props, as entities of each show's set: gazebos, rolling tool chests, job boxes, trolley jacks, compressors, fuel cans, extinguishers, plastic chairs and tables in the paddocks; marker tyres, tyre walls with chevrons, hay bales, cones and traffic drums round the floors; Arena War's podium, a scaffold for the timing board, speaker stacks, a generator and work lights. About 270 of them over the four shows, none newer than game build 2060. The ones the game makes loose (cones, chairs, tyre stacks, gazebos) can be knocked about and are back in place when the show is next switched on.
  • The truck show's jump is clay: rounded lips, steep back faces down to the cars' deck, flanks that slump out to the floor; only the faces that are ridden are painted. Wheel tracks run the main lane - event tunnel, long ramp, cars, long ramp, vehicle tunnel - and round the oval lane; torn-up and damp patches lie where they would.
  • The circuits' barriers are moulded plastic blocks, a joint every metre, with a block's panel and fork pockets; rubber lies on the line and into every corner, oil under the tents.
  • Nothing stands in a lane. Every prop is beside the runs to the ramps, off the oval lane, off the asphalt, out of the pit lanes and clear of the tunnel mouths.
  • Updating from 1.2.0: stream files and the interior's definition changed (restart the server, not only the resource). shared/config.lua has a new show (motocross), a merch set in every show's list, and four new blocks - Config.EventDesk, Config.Race, Config.Merch, Config.MerchShop: take the new file, or copy those over into yours. To sell the stand's items, register them in your inventory ("Merch" has the list).
• 1.2.0: a bigger floor and six shows on it (monster trucks, three kart circuits, a skate park, the open floor), cars for the trucks to crush, a loop for the music and the screens.
  • The bigger floor: the lower tier's front seven rows fold back on all four sides, as the stage end's stands already do for a stage. The event floor grows from 60 x 30 m to 70.6 x 40.6 m; the rows stand as a stack against row 8's riser with a guard rail along the top, and all four tunnels open straight onto the floor. Every show there was before keeps the rows out.
  • Monster trucks (monster): clay over the whole floor, a chalked oval lane, a painted jump in the middle with two long ramps and two short ones up to a deck, pylons, tyres, a sponsor wall, tarps over the first rows left out.
  • Three kart circuits: the Grand Prix (karting, 266 m, a flyover bridge), the Sprint (sprint, 201 m) and the Oval (oval, 154 m, banked ends, the pits on the infield), each with kerbs, barriers, a start gantry and grid, paddock bays, a podium and a timing tower.
  • Skate park (skatepark): a walled park course with bowled corners and a 4.1 m vert ramp beside it.
  • No vehicles are part of any of them: the trucks and the karts are yours to bring.
  • Loop for the music and for a video on the screens (the desk's LOOP beside each Play, /arenamusic loop, /arenascreen loop, the LoopMusic and ScreenLoop exports): at its end the track or the video starts again from its beginning, for every player together and after the same lead-in as a new one. A looped video's sound from the speakers starts again in step with it, and between two rounds the screens stay on and the show lights stay as they are (the lights still go out with a video that is switched off, faded out, or ends with Loop off). Config.Music.loop and Config.Media.loop are what a new track / video starts with (off).
  • Six shows on the scripts' side: floor (the open floor: the big floor with nothing on it, for an event of your own), monster, karting, sprint, oval, skatepark (/mzb open, /mzb trucks, /mzb gp, /mzb skate and more in Config.ShowAliases; names and icons for the ox_lib menu). They have no stage, ring, floor chairs, fights or pyro, and what the scripts look up per show - the screens' model, the light rig, the speakers, the screens' artwork and picture set - they take from the empty house: the centre-hung board and the roof's house lights. A show of your own gets the same.
  • The front rows are a set of their own: every show names mzb_set_low_front_seated, or mzb_set_low_front_stowed and mzb_set_low_nw_back for the bigger floor. A show that names neither - one you added to Config.Shows before, a config you kept - is given the seated rows by itself, so it stands as it did.
  • The crowd keeps out of the folded rows: nobody sits in the lower tier's front seven rows while a show has them folded back, the stage end's telescopic sections fill from row 8, and the truck show's three tarped rows stay empty too (Config.Crowd.ClosedDepth). The litter follows.
  • Real cars for the truck show: six of the game's own vehicles on the deck between the jump's lips, made by the server and locked, there while monster is up; /arenacars reset (the desk's FRESH CARS) puts six fresh ones down after the trucks have flattened them, /arenacars clear takes them away (Config.ShowCars; the ResetCars / ClearCars exports).
• 1.1.3: music only from the speakers (and louder), pyro, a camera feed on the screens, the desk in tabs.
  • The music player plays in the world and nowhere else: every speaker of the show is a source of its own (the concert's subs and backline and the control room's monitors too), with the arena's reverb and an echo on top, through the walls outside the bowl. The plain "level only" playback is gone: the YouTube player's sound and every file's go through the same sound graph; what cannot be taken into it stays silent and is reported. (Config.Music.relay: an optional server-side fetcher, off by default.)
  • A video on the screens is heard from the speakers too (Config.Media.sound).
  • Pyro on the wrestling stage: flames, spark fountains, comets, bursts and confetti from the stage, the ramp and the ring posts, as cues on the desk and /arenapyro; a bout fires them at its walk-out and its end.
  • The interview set's green screen is the arena's own prop (mzb_bh_green_screen).
  • The lights follow the music: its beat and its video's colours drive the rig (the desk's Follow the music, Config.LightFollow).
  • Nothing loses its first second: a new track or video starts 2.5 s after the Play, loaded by then on every player's side (leadIn in Config.Music and Config.Media).
  • Fade out for the music and the screens (the desk's Fade buttons, /arenamusic fade, /arenascreen fade).
  • Off turns the titantron off: the screens go dark; /arenascreen own (Own graphics) brings the show's own graphics back; a Blackout darkens the screens too. ScreenOff (export) is dark as well: ScreenOwn is the old behaviour.
  • More pyro: 27 cues in four groups, a size and a colour for each press, and pyro for the concert and MMA.
  • The desk in tabs (Show / Lights / Screens & music / Fights) under a head that stays put, with what is playing and its Fade / Off always there; a key can open it (Config.LightDeskKey).
  • HideSets (server export): another resource can have pieces of a show left out while its own stand there.
  • The show's pieces look after themselves: once a second each player's game compares the interior's sets with the show and puts right what is missing or left over, and the interior a player stands in counts as the arena even when the game answers with another one at the arena's centre. (Seen once: the arena stood bare - no ring, no stage, no chairs - for a player who joined again after a server restart with the game left open.) /arenareset does it by hand, /arenainfo counts the sets that are on.
  • Config.Music.hangs is Config.Music.speakers (the old name still works); new: relay, preDelay, echo, farWet. /arenamusic status says what your own game is doing with the track.
  • A camera feed on the screens: /arenascreen look puts your own view of the game on the titantron, live (/arenascreen look <player id> another player's), so someone can work the floor as the camera operator (Config.Media.feed; see the screen player's section for what peer to peer means).
  • The wrestling stage's lights are the desk's: the thirteen moving heads on its trusses were part of the stage model, always on in red, white and blue; they are show lights now. The red glow off the video wall (wrestling, concert, MMA) goes with the ring lights.
  • The lights go out with a video: faded with it, or over two seconds when it is switched off or ends; a video that has ended is switched off. /arenalights fade [seconds] and the FadeLights export do it by hand.
  • New basket units: modelled after the portable units arenas roll out - a base with cushions strapped on, a mast leaning up to an elbow, a level boom with a padded end, stays and a gas strut, a framed glass board with its border, target and edge cushion, a breakaway rim and a knotted net, the shot clock on top.
  • The basket units in the store room: while another show is up the two units stand folded down in the east store (mzb_bb_hoop_stowed, Config.StowedProps); the basketball court takes them out.
  • Louder: Config.Music.boost (2 = twice the level) turns the music and the screens' sound up after the speakers, the walls, the reverb and the echo, so their balance is the same; a limiter holds the peaks.
  • Sprunk's own logo ("The Essence of Life") wherever Sprunk is a sponsor: the board's screens, the LED ribbon, the dasher boards, the cage's canvas, the interview backdrop, a concourse mural.
• 1.1.1: the ring to size, a ramp without steps.
  • The ring is 20 ft x 20 ft (it was 24 ft), on round posts. The fights' corners and ring-out line (Config.Fights.venues.wrestling) follow it.
  • The ramp is one flat slope from the stage's lip to the floor at the barricade: the two steps at its foot are gone. The ramp lights (Config.RampLights) follow it.
  • A camera crane on the wrestling stage and an interview set (green screen, camera, lights) in the backstage hall, both from Config.ShowProps.
  • The synthesised room tone and crowd noise are gone, with /arenaambience, the desk's "Room" slider and Config.Ambience. The quiet footsteps stay (Config.QuietFootsteps), and so does the shorter reverb.
• 1.1.0: the house fills up, and the desk runs the whole show.
  • The crowd: people in the bowl's seats, in the shows' floor chairs and on the concert's standing floor, brought in and sent home from the desk or /arenacrowd, in four moods (doors, show, peak, cheer). They are local peds: each player sees up to 210 (their own setting), half of them the house's fixed order, half in the seats round them. The light desk's presets set the mood with the look. Round the building: vendors, queues, cooks, clerks, guards, medics, cleaners and people at the lobbies' tables.
  • Built-in screen player: YouTube videos, picture cycles and single pictures on every video screen of the show, the same moment for every player (/arenascreen, the desk's Screens section), a picture set for every show, and LED-wall looks that follow the lights. It draws on the screens only while it plays, so pmms and TV scripts still work.
  • Music player: /arenamusic <url> or the desk's Music section, heard from the show's PA hangs, each one a source in the world: the room's filter and an arena echo, muffled next door, nothing outside. Files, streams and YouTube; every player has their own level (/arenamusic mine).
  • The arena's own sound: a room tone and the crowd's murmur (/arenaambience), quieter footsteps and a shorter reverb.
  • Ring lights you can run: the rigs' own lights over the ring, the cage and the stage are drawn by the desk now (they were always on): off, one colour, a level.
  • Walls that stay: about four thousand faces of the interior belonged to the room next door, and the game leaves another room's faces out unless you are looking through a doorway to it. From the seats that was the vomitories' side walls and the ad panels on the cross aisle; in the rest rooms and stairs off the lobbies a wedge of the dark wall over the doorway; inside the two stairs, parts of their walls; under the stands, the ring corridors' ceilings; from the floor, patches of the stage end's masking drape. Every face now belongs to the room that sees it. The corner vomitories' corridor walls are closed to the bowl's (you looked down a gap behind them).
  • Floor gaps: fourteen thin gaps where a floor stopped short of a wall's foot in the event level's ring corridors (you could see out under the building) are closed.
  • Locker rooms: the stretches of the two big locker rooms' walls that were the neighbouring rooms' plaster are tiled like the rest.
  • ox_lib (optional): /mzb or /arena alone opens an ox_lib menu of the shows, the dock doors and the light desk, and the answers are ox_lib notifications, when the server runs ox_lib. Not a dependency.
  • Followspot: one or two operator-run followspots (/arenaspot, the desk's Followspot section), locked onto a player or aimed by hand from the operator's camera (F7).
  • More stage lights: Config.LightRigExtra adds fixtures to a show's rig. Out of the box: six more heads on the wrestling stage trusses, five washes on the concert's wash bar and four floor beams at the back of the stage end. Config.LightMaxFixtures is 40.
  • Staff and press with the crowd: security, photographers with flashes, shoulder and tripod camera crews, the concert's crew, ball kids, and officials seated at the scorer's table, in the umpire's chair, on the line judges' chairs and at the timekeeper's desk, in every show but the empty house (/arenacrowd staff).
  • Litter: clean, some or trashed, the same for everyone (/arenacrowd litter, the desk).
  • Fights in the ring and the cage: NPC bouts, a card with times, challenge an NPC or another player; the server calls knockouts, count-outs, forfeits and points; a fight bar for everyone in the arena (/arenafight, the desk's Fights section).
  • Ramp lights: twelve fixtures along the wrestling ramp's edges, run by the desk.
  • Props of your own per show (Config.ShowProps).
  • The desk's sections fold away (click a title); it remembers which.
  • New exports: SetCrowd, GetCrowd, SetScreenMedia, ScreenImageSet, ScreenOff, ScreenPause, ScreenVolume, GetScreenMedia, PlayMusic, StopMusic, PauseMusic, MusicVolume, GetMusic, SetFollowSpot, FollowPlayer, GetFollowSpot, AddBout, StopBout, GetBout.
• 1.1.0 (continued): the light desk grows up.
  • Eight new effects (fade, wave, flash, alternate, bounce, twinkle, lightning, fire) and the movement is its own control (still, sweep, ballyhoo, fan, nod, cross), so any effect runs with any movement. Sweep and ballyhoo as modes still work (from chat, exports and old presets).
  • Aims combine: floor, stage and crowd in any mix, the fixtures taking turns.
  • New presets: TV ring, storm, inferno, hype. Blackout also kills the ring lights.
• 1.1.0 (continued): the event level, backstage and the gateways reworked.
  • The Gorilla position is rebuilt as a proper room between the event tunnel and the stage: the producers' desks (two seats each) along the back wall, the timekeeper's and match producer's desk at the top, the ARENA exit straight onto the stage stairs, and a BACKSTAGE opening on each side into the backstage areas behind the masking (they were walled off). Same look as before (dark wood, LED dado, the show's screens), now with a solid panel ceiling. All four openings (the walk-out, the entrance from the tunnel and the two BACKSTAGE ones) have the walk-through curtain, each wider than its opening and hung just under its head, instead of doors.
  • Walls popping in and out: faces that ran across two rooms (the media room's tiled wall, the locker rooms' walls, the reveals of every door, tunnel and vomitory, and many more) are cut at the dividing walls and doorways, and each piece belongs to the room it faces. The floor collision now changes room exactly at each doorway and inside the vomitories: standing just past a door could make the game hide the room you were standing in.
  • The event-level ring corridor is 3.4 m wide all the way round: the west arcs (2.0 m) are widened outwards, the backstage's east wall moved back to make room (on the south arc, by the locker rooms, it narrows to 2.6 m for a few metres). Four side hallways off the west arcs end in fixed double doors (ELECTRICAL, SECURITY, COMMS ROOM, PLANT ROOM); the new signs are in mzb_tx_event.
  • Box office windows: the 20 ticket windows in the facade's diagonal sections looked straight into the concourse through the arena's own glass and its mullions. They now have closed roller shutters (placed outside the interior, in mzb_arena_milo.ymap, so they always draw from the street).
  • The Gorilla's openings are signed (ARENA to the stage, BACKSTAGE either side).
  • Stair landings: the top landings of the NW and SE stairs (concourse level) were open over the flight below for about 1.5 m (a 4.5 m drop). A concrete parapet, 1 m high with collision, now continues the dividing wall.
  • Bowl exits: the floors of the passages from the bowl into the ring corridor were black matting; they are the corridor's concrete now.
  • Flickering walls (z-fighting): wherever two surfaces lay in exactly the same plane they flickered in a sawtooth against each other - the black fascia band round the front of the upper tier over the concrete, the stowed seating's fascia, stair and seat nosings over the treads, the PA speakers' grilles, the Gorilla's LED dado, finishes in the toilets, locker rooms and backstage, the locker-room mirror over its tiles, the flight cases' trims and corners. The surface that belongs on top now sits 3-6 mm proud of the one under it (the mirror's reflection plane moved with it). The side hallways' door details and signs are spaced off the door and back plate the same way.
  • A 13 cm slot along one riser row of the lower seats (over the rooms under them, both sides and the east end) is closed: the rooms' ceilings showed through it, and from the bowl it was a black line.
  • The security control room's north wall and parts of the SE stair's shaft belonged to the neighbouring rooms.
  • The roof deck and trusses over the middle of the bowl belonged to the concourse: looking up from the floor showed holes to the sky. A strip of the corridor floor along the east store and the garage belonged to those rooms (a gap along the wall).
  • The backstage door into the NW stair is rebuilt square to the stair's angled wall (the wall ran through its frame).
  • The cream panel sticking out of the wall by the locker-room door in the backstage hall is gone, with the 1 cm ceiling and floor stripes along that wall.
  • Toilet stall doors no longer swing into the partitions and walls (each door has its own stops).
  • Gateway doors: the north, west and south entrances could not be walked through - the building's collision still had the facade glass across them (only the east one was open). All four are open now.
  • Mirrors: the concourse rest rooms' mirrors are reflective glass (only one live mirror per room works in GTA); the single-mirror rooms keep live mirrors, fixed.
  • Outside sounds: the street, the wind and the rain are no longer heard inside (audio/mzb_arena_game.dat151.rel and portal audio occlusion).
  • The interior's exit-portal count includes its mirrors, as in 1.0.2: 48 for the rebuilt interior (44 openings and 4 mirrors).
• 1.0.2: the interior's exit-portal count now includes its mirrors, the way Rockstar's own interiors count them (62 instead of 44). Preventive: no arena fault was reported, but the same miscount was involved in a client crash in another interior. Only stream/interior/mzb_arena_milo.ymap changed.
• 1.0.1: fixed players sinking through the floor on the four corners of the bowl (the walkway between the lower and upper seats and the mouths of the upper-deck entrances). The collision on the curved parts was built inside out. Basketball is now the Los Santos Panic (purple and gold court with the team's crest) vs the Vice City Narcos, hockey the Los Santos Dust Devils vs the Los Santos Kings. The Arena War banners on the outside of the building (xs_arena_banners_ipl) are removed while the resource runs.

Discord

Questions, bug reports (a screenshot and /arenainfo help most), requests for shows and props, and news of updates: discord.gg/C7gE5SHEzH.

License

Free to use on your own servers, but not open source. You may not sell, re-upload or redistribute this resource, or reuse any part of it (models, textures, collision, maps, scripts) in another resource, free or paid. See LICENSE.