Keybinds

Keys are registered with the game and appear in its own key bindings screen. Nothing is hard-bound.

The keys

No keys are bound on install. Defaults are set in /hud → Admin → Controls.

Eleven actions are registered. The label is what the game’s key bindings screen shows:

Label in the game	Registered as	Category
Open menu	aurora_openhud	Interface & Utility
Cinematic mode	aurora_cinematic	Interface & Utility
Speedometer showcase	aurora_speedoshowcase	Interface & Utility
Status showcase	aurora_statusshowcase	Interface & Utility
Seatbelt	aurora_seatbelt	Vehicles & Driving
Left turn signal	aurora_signal_left	Vehicles & Driving
Right turn signal	aurora_signal_right	Vehicles & Driving
Hazard lights	aurora_signal_hazard	Vehicles & Driving
Cruise control	aurora_cruise	Vehicles & Driving
Cruise speed +	aurora_cruise_up	Vehicles & Driving
Cruise speed -	aurora_cruise_down	Vehicles & Driving

Three also have a chat command: /hud, /hudshowcase and /hudshowcasestatus. Leaving an action unbound is a valid configuration.

The speedometer showcase

In a vehicle it walks through every speedometer style for that class, returns to the one the player uses, and runs its colours round the wheel. Nothing is saved. It ends on its own, or when the player leaves the vehicle, changes class, or opens the menu. Outside a vehicle it does nothing.

Setting the defaults

/hud → Controls, in the admin zone. Click a row, press a key, then save at the bottom. Esc, the Windows keys and Print Screen are refused, because the system reserves them.

The first assignment is the one that sticks

FiveM stores bindings in the player’s own profile. A default only reaches a player whose game has never seen that binding, so changing a key later applies to new players only. Existing players must reset their bindings in Esc → Settings → Key Bindings, or rebind by hand.

Saving applies immediately to players who are online and still unbound, so the scheme can be set on a full server without reconnects.

Where players change them

Esc → Settings → Key Bindings → FiveM, listed by label among every other resource’s bindings. That screen is the only place a key can be changed; the Controls tab in /hud sets the server defaults, not a player’s binding.

Bindings belong to the player, not the server

Keys are stored by the game client per player, and that store is global to the game rather than per server. They are not part of the layout the HUD saves to the database and they do not travel in a share code.

A key that seems to do nothing

Every driving key is tied to the feature behind it. Turning a feature off in /hud → Admin turns off its key with it: seatbelt, turn signals and cruise control alike. See The /hud menu.