Configuration

Every setting in Police Breathalyzer, in shared/config.lua.

On this page

All the settings are in shared/config.lua. The text players see is in locales/ (English and Swedish); the language is set in tr_core's configuration.

Items

Setting	Default	What it does
`item`	`'breathalyzer'`	The device's item
`mouthpiece`	`'breathalyzer_mouthpiece'`	One is used up by each test. `false`: tests need none
`slip`	`'breathalyzer_slip'`	The printed record of a test; its values are kept in the item's metadata

Who may use it

Setting	Default	What it does
`jobs`	`{ 'police' }`	Job names (any grade), `{ police = 2 }` for a lowest grade, or `false` for anyone who has the item
`onDuty`	`false`	Only while on duty, on frameworks that have duty
`consent`	`true`	The player is asked first and may refuse. `false`: the officer just starts the test
`consentSeconds`	`20`	How long they have to answer

The reading

Setting	Default	What it does
`unit`	`'percent'`	What the screen shows: `'percent'` (0.084 % BAC, as US devices), `'permille'` (0.84 ‰) or `'mgl'` (0.42 mg/L of breath, as EU devices)
`limits`	`{ percent = 0.08, permille = 0.5, mgl = 0.25 }`	The legal limit in each unit: at or over it the screen shows OVER LIMIT

The test

Setting	Default	What it does
`distance`	`2.0`	Metres the officer may be from the player to start a test
`tries`	`3`	Breaths too short before the device says TEST FAILED
`blowSeconds`	`4.0`	How long a full breath is (holding the blow key)
`analyzeSeconds`	`2.5`	How long it analyzes before the reading
`volume`	`0.3`	How loud the device and the slip are, 0 to 1
`keys`	`{ blow = 'E', cancel = 'X', accept = 'Y', refuse = 'N' }`	The default keys. Players change theirs in Settings > Key Bindings > FiveM

Blood alcohol

Setting	Default	What it does
`perDrink`	`0.02`	% BAC one standard drink adds
`absorbMinutes`	`20`	How long a drink takes to be taken up
`burnPerHour`	`0.015`	% BAC the body clears in a real hour
`deviceError`	`0.003`	How far a reading can be off
`drinks`	beer, wine, whiskey, vodka...	Your server's drink items, in standard drinks per use
`esxDrunkPerDrink`	`250000`	ESX's drunk status points that make one standard drink
`esxMostPerUse`	`2.0`	The most one use can count as, in standard drinks

See Blood alcohol for how these work together.

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