How a FiveM hoverboard works without a script

There are two ways to put a hoverboard on a server. One is a script that attaches a board prop to the player and moves them around. The other is an add-on vehicle that happens to be a board. The second kind is what this page describes.

	Hoverboard as a vehicle	Hoverboard as a script
What flies	A vehicle, with the game's own flight physics	Whatever the script moves each frame
Other players see it	Through the game's normal vehicle sync	Depends on how the script syncs
Code running while riding	None	The script
Getting on and off	The vehicle enter and exit action, with animations from the vehicle layout	A command or key the script handles
Tuning speed	handling.meta	Script config
Garages, keys, shops	Works like any other vehicle model	Needs its own integration

Each behaviour comes from one data file. Nothing here is specific to boards; it is the same system every add-on vehicle uses.

Behaviour	Where it comes from	Guide
It exists and can be spawned	An entry in vehicles.meta	vehicles.meta explained
It hovers and flies	The handling entry, including its special flight block	handling.meta explained
The rider stands on the deck	A vehicle layout of its own, with its own seat animation	vehiclelayouts.meta explained
Stepping on from the left or right	Entry points and entry clips in the same layout
Thruster jets under the board	The vehicle's effects data, attached to bones in the model
It gets lighter with distance	LOD meshes inside the model	Optimising a FiveM vehicle

Because the layout has its own name, only the board uses the standing pose. Other bikes on the server keep their normal animations.

One detail from building them: the effects file has to be declared before vehicles.meta in the manifest, because the vehicle entry looks up its effects by name at the moment it loads. Load order is covered in fxmanifest.lua and data_file for vehicles.

Board	Look	Spawn name
Airglider	The classic pink Dinka board.	airglider
Girlboard	A longer 1.43 m board with a spinning turbine and green neon.	girlboard
Neonboard	Slim deck with neon across the whole board.	neonboard

All three share the same features: a custom stand-up animation with feet on the deck, entry and exit on both sides, a purple thruster effect with its own engine sound, and four LODs from High to Very Low. Each one is sold on its own as a self-contained resource, and the three together are the Hoverboard Pack.

1. After buying, download the resource from Granted Assets in the Cfx.re Portal. The steps are in how to install a FiveM resource from Cfx.re Escrow.
2. Put the folder in the server resources folder without renaming it.
3. Add ensure to server.cfg. A single board is one line. With the pack, start airglider first:

   ensure airglider
   ensure neonboard
   ensure girlboard

4. Restart the server and spawn the board by name with your vehicle spawn command.

The boards have no framework code, so the install is the same on ESX, QBCore, QBox or a standalone server. To sell one in a dealership, add its spawn name to your framework's vehicle list: see adding a custom vehicle to ESX, QBCore or QBox.

The boards use the handling of the Oppressor Mk II, so they control like that vehicle: they hover, climb and glide, and the rocket boost is kept. The weapons are removed. Since the flight comes from the handling file, it behaves the same for every player and needs nothing running in the background.