Detachable client-sided console

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My suggestion: Making the client sided F8 console detachable with the ability to move it outside of the FiveM window, similar to all other tools (Resource Monitor, Streaming Memory, etc.) in order to see the console while controlling the game.

I know that you can use a controller while the console is open and that might be useful in some scenarios, however constantly switching from keyboard & mouse to controller and back can be tedious after a while.

Using VConsole2 sadly doesn’t work for me. I made sure to start vconsole2.exe, created a new connection to localhost:29100 (it defaults to port 29000 so I made sure to connect to 29100 instead) and I can neither control the console nor see anything that was printed in it.

Looking for other alternatives didn’t bring up anything useful either.

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You can display the console during gameplay and even filter to just a single script.

Check out this command:
https://docs.fivem.net/docs/client-manual/console-commands/#con_miniconchannels

E.g. using con_miniconChannels * will display everything from the console to your screen.
And con_miniconChannels script:yourOwnScript will only display stuff from that script.

And using this command you can also add a (de)activate button to the F8 GUI at the top so you don’t need to remember the command everytime you want to enable/disable it:
https://docs.fivem.net/docs/client-manual/console-commands/#devgui_cmd-path-command

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