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# Blips Creator

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## About Blips Creator

Blips Creator gives your staff an in-game map editor to create, edit, and remove server blips without restarting or editing JSON by hand. Players can also maintain their own personal markers, and optionally share them with nearby friends. Visibility groups let you show blips only to the right jobs or permission holders.

## Features

* **In-map editor** - Open the creator from the expanded map or pause-menu map and manage blips without leaving the game.
* **Live preview** - See icon, colour, scale, and zone changes on the map before you save.
* **Pick on map** - Click the map to place a blip, or use your current GPS waypoint as the location.
* **Visibility groups** - Restrict server blips to everyone, police, EMS, or custom groups using ACE, ESX, QBCore, QBX, or vRP checks.
* **Zone circles** - Optional coloured area markers around server blips (for example patrol areas or event zones).
* **Personal blips** - Per-player markers stored separately from server blips, with configurable limits.
* **Share personal blips** - Send a personal marker to a nearby player; they accept or reject it in the **My Blips** panel.
* **Identify on map** - Staff can drop a short GPS route to a blip location while editing.
* **Permission support** - Separate permissions for managing server blips and using personal blips (ACE, ESX, QBCore, QBX, vRP).
* **Framework notifications** - Optional ESX, QBCore, QBX, vRP, or okokNotify integration; otherwise GTA feed notifications are used.
* **Fully translatable** - All player-facing text is editable in `config.lua`.

## Getting started

1. Download Blips Creator from your [Cfx Portal](https://portal.cfx.re/assets/granted-assets) account and extract the folder into your server `resources` directory.
2. Add the resource to `server.cfg` (use the folder name from your download):

```cfg
ensure ls_blipscreator
```

3. Open `config.lua` and set [manage permissions](/london-studios-documentation/resources/blips-creator/configuring-the-resource.md#manage-permissions) before going live on a public server.
4. Restart the server, open the map in-game, and press **SPACEBAR** (default) to open the creator.

For general installation steps, see [Installing Resources](/london-studios-documentation/general/installing-resources.md).