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How to Create Help Text

Help text is the little box that appears in the upper left corner of your game.

You cannot change the position of this text.

Example

alt.onServer('showHelpText', showHelpText);

export function showHelpText(text, milliseconds) {
    native.beginTextCommandDisplayHelp('STRING');
    native.addTextComponentScaleform(text);
    native.endTextCommandDisplayHelp(0, 0, 0, milliseconds);
}

Real World Example

Server Side

alt.on('playerConnect', (player) => {
    alt.emitClient(player, 'showHelpText', 'Press ~INPUT_MOVE_UP_ONLY~ to move forward.', 5000);
});

Client Side

showHelpText('Press ~INPUT_MOVE_UP_ONLY~ to move forward.', 5000);