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Getting Started on GTA RP
So you wanna tell your GTA character’s story on TRP? You’ve chosen the right place! TRP has been the home of serious roleplaying with a large community telling stories since 2015. Our servers are allowlisted with the application wait time averaging around a week - give or take, your application could take a day, up to a week or more depending on how quick our volunteer-based team are able to process applications.
Brush up on the TRP GTA Server and TRP Community Rules and in time, you’ll be able to use the server to tell your many characters stories. You can stay up-to-date with server announcements and changes on both #gta-announcements and #gta-devlog sections on the TRP Discord. Have a great time!
Get allowlisted first
Before you can get onto TRP servers, you’ll need to first put in an allowlist application. For our GTA server, we’re looking for your answers to these two questions in your application:
- What is it that made you interested in roleplay and why?
- Why do you want to roleplay on TRP and what can you bring to our community?
In Question 1, we’re looking to see what itched your scratch for roleplay, what got you started to telling stories and why you like to roleplay. In Question 2, let us know why you want to come to roleplay with FiveM on TRP and what specialities or contributions you can bring to the wider TRP community. Whilst we have a large community-base that loves to do content creating on TRP, focus more on other attributes as well as avoid adding a character bio or using AI to write your application. They are manually reviewed by TRP staff. We’re more invested in what interests you to roleplay and what brings you to TRP as well as what you can offer to the community as a fellow community member.
Regardless of your application outcome, you will receive an email notification either let you know if your application was approved or if it was denied.
Allowlist application approved, what next
Before you connect to servers, it’s a good idea to grasp the basic controls and features of the TRP server so you’re not having to figure it out while in a scene on the server. You’ll be able to see our dedicated wiki page on [The Basics] on all things controls, default keybinds and everything in between.
Go to the #steam-64-ids channel and enter your Steam ID into the channel only if your application has been approved.
Allowlist application denied, what do I do
Applications are manually processed by our TRP staff and denied application feedback is sent through email to the address that our system received during your application process. You'll be given feedback on how you can improve the next application that you can submit through our Application form.
As a thumb of advice, avoid using the fields to enter a character bio as we're looking to hear about your roleplayng experience and what you think you can bring to our GTA server on TRP.
How to connect to the GTA server
Make sure that your Steam account connected with your allowlist application is logged into the Steam desktop app and left open in the background before you open up FiveM. Then use F8 console menu and use the connect TRP_CONNECT_ADDRESS command, replacing TRP_CONNECT_ADDRESS with the connect address found in #gta-guides on the TRP Discord.
Creating your first character
How exciting! Your allowlist application for the GTA server has been approved, you’ve taken a look at our GTA Server and Community Rules and caught up with [the basics]. Now it’s onto logging into the server and starting off your first character. You’ll be presented with the character select screen with one generic character on your screen to start off your first character.
Left-click onto the generic character on your select screen and then select Create from the menu that appears on screen. This will take you to the character skin creator menu. Work through the sliders as well as tabs to customise what you’d like your character to look like. Click onto the eye icon to get a preview of what each item would look like before you move the sliders or double-click onto the number if you know exactly what you’re looking for.
When you’ve settled on a shirt and jacket, check that the Arms you select doesn’t clip through (holes in your shirt/jacket) your clothing before you click onto Finish creation.
* ADD A GIF OF STARTING THE CHARACTER CREATION PROCESS *
Default keybinds, VOIP and chat commands
TIP: Most keybinds are rebindable in Settings > FiveM > Keybinds
PLAYER CONFIGURATION
[F1] - Bring up/put away your phone
- You must have a phone in your character's inventory.
[F2] - Open your tablet (the TRP UI - shows character skills and organizations/jobs)
[I] - Open inventory
[Z] - Push to talk
[B] - Point/Stop pointing
[X] - Hands up/hands down
[E] - Interact
- This works with talking to locals (NPCs), looking at dropped bags, interacting with select furniture/objects and access menus
[R] - Punch
[M] - Flop (Ragdoll)
[Y] - Carry a player over your shoulder
[Q] - Take cover
[L CTRL] - Crouch
[T] - Open chat box
- The primary function is to run command such as /me, /scene and /report.
[TAB] + [LeftMouse button] - Interact with players and cash registers
- On players, you can carry the person you're looking at
- At cash registers, you will be able to access the til. Make sure to look at the right til and click on the object
[L ALT] - Broadcast to civilian radio
- Also the key to broadcast on police radio (if on duty PD/Medical character)
[HOME] - Bring up radio and dispatch (if on duty PD/Medical character)
[END] - Toggle GUI at the bottom left
- The GUI contains different colored rings - your health (red), armor (green), hunger (yellow) and hydration (blue). Stamina will fill up on top of your health ring.
[G] - Player menu
- This houses the character, interactions, vehicle, housing, inventory options and link to Tebex (the TRP logo).
[Z] - Adjust VOIP levels
- Indicator of your mic is at the bottom-left. White mic: Whispering / Green mic: Normal / Red: Yelling
[DEL] - Cancel progress bar
- Where possible, this will stop you from hacking, robbing, crafting, eating
[F3] - Job menu (only for government characters)
[F8] - FiveM console
[F9] - Housing/Housing garage menu
- At a front door of a player property, you can knock on the door, access the garage (if you have a key or broke into the property) and valet a vehicle.
- While inside a property, you can unlock/lock the door and access the furniture menu.
VEHICLE KEYBINDS
[F] - Enter/exit vehicle
[B] - Seatbelt
- You can still fall out of the vehicle if you put your seatbelt on and accidentally exit the vehicle
[H] - Climb into/out of the vehicle trunk
[H] - As the driver, toggle high beam and lights
[E] - Horn (if applicable)
[K] - Start/stop the engine
[U] - Lock/unlock vehicle doors
[C] - Look behind yourself
[Y] - Open trunk from outside of vehicle
[I] - Open glove box
[J] - Open/Close garage doors (if on duty PD/Med characters)
[E] - Cycle emergency lights
[9] - Cycle emergency sirens
[0] - Play/stop sound of sirens
EMOTE KEYBINDS
[F5] - Previous emote in binded emotes
[F6] - Play emote in current position of binded emotes
[F7] - Next emote in binded emotes
[F9] - Cancel emote
CHAT COMMANDS
General
/me - Used for describing what your character is doing (actions that can't be seen) and how they're reacting (emotions can be tough without a mechanic)
- Example: /me picks up glasses on the ground and /me looks nervous
- Also used for medical RP when you (the player) are speaking as “the local doctor”
/mu - An accessibility tool to allow speech for mute characters
- /mu w – text presents a text box above the character labeled as whisper
- /mu s – say
- /mu t – talk
- /mu sh – shout
- /mu y – yell
/e [emote] – Initiate emote.
- Example: /e think3
/e clear – Cancel current emote.
/scene [color] [scene text] – Scenes can help leave items that you wouldn't be able to see physically, describing the state of an area or object
- Use the E key to place the scene
- Example: /scene green Smashed window with a smile face drawn in marker on the remainder of glass - This would create a scene with green text
/scenedel [distance] – Cancel current emote.
/rolldice [sides] [count] - Random dice roll appears on your character
- Replace [sides] with the amount of sided dice. For example: d20 would be /rolldice 20 1
- Replace [count] with how many dice to roll. For example: roll 3 d6 would be /rolldice 6 3
Crime
/hack - Hack a nearby register or ATM to earn cash and XP (datapad required)
/drill - Drill a bank door
/pry - Pry a safe
Clothing
/hat - Put on/take off hat
/shoes - Put on/take off shoes
/glasses - Put on/take off glasses
/vest - Put on/take off vest
/chain - Put on/take off chain
System
/colorblind_hud - Toggle color blind for the HUD
- For accessibility, we have a color blind mode for the HUD at the bottom left
- Using this command can help fix any icons that look out of shape in the HUD
/fixnui - Helps with UI lag such as inventory not loading
/fixvoip - When the server VOIP sounds like it's about to give up, try this command to reset the VOIP on your end
/position - Only needed if TRP staff request this information
/report - Report rulebreak in your radius. This tags all nearby people and adds them to your report
- Example: /report vdm and then shot
- You need to follow up with a web ticket through the report page
/duty - Switch organization/job
- This command may be removed at some point. The other way to clock on is through the tablet (TRP UI)
Emotes
/ebind [emote] - Binds the [emote] to your binded emotes list
/eclear - Clears all emotes in your binded emotes list
/eremove [emote] - Remove specific emote from binded emotes list
SCENES
Colors
~r~ - Red text
~g~ - Green text
~b~ - Blue text
~y~ - Yellow text
~o~ - Orange text
~p~ - Purple text
~q~ - Pink text
~b~ - Black text
Formatting
~n~ - A line break (basically hitting enter but in the scene box)
~h~ - Bold text
Learning The HUD
On the left you can see the [G] Player Menu, you can see the radial dial where you can access the basic menus.
On the right we have the status rings, red bar being health, green is armor, yellow is hunger, blue is hydration and the two arrows outside the rings are a directional compass.
When you open the Inventory [I] you can right click items to give an item to another player or drop on the ground. TIP: If you lose your debit card/don’t see one in your inventory you can go to any bank and pick up a new one.
Getting your first job
Landing your first job is the start of your character's journey of making money to survive, pay the bills and save up for a treat. We have businesses scattered across San Andreas that are player run and managed to drive and enhance your roleplay experience. At most businesses, they may be looking for a new hire. Go ahead and ask, start the RP and your character could be the next employee of the month!
GARBAGE COLLECTION
TAXI
DELIVERY
MECHANIC
Allowlisted careers
POLICE
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MEDICAL
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LAW/DOJ
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