🎈 Poggy's Balloon: The Hot Air Balloon System RedM Deserves [VORP/QBCORE/RSG]

[PoggyScripts]

Poggy’s Balloon — The Hot Air Balloon System RedM Deserves

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NPC-Piloted Taxi Service

Set a waypoint anywhere on the map. Walk up to one of eight balloon stations scattered across the frontier. Talk to the operator. Climb aboard. Press B when you’re ready.

Then sit back and watch the world drift by beneath you.

Your AI pilot handles everything — smooth ascents, cruising altitude, terrain avoidance around mountains, and a gentle descent right to your destination. You’re not wrestling with controls. You’re a passenger. You’re enjoying the view. You’re immersed.

Terrain Avoidance Preview

In-Flight Controls

Key	Action
Q	Request early stop (land at current position)
R	Change destination (reroute to new waypoint)
A	“Step on it!” (toggle speed boost — 26 m/s → 42 m/s)
C	Change seat (cycle through seats 0-3)
F	Disembark safely

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Balloon Rental System

Sometimes you don’t want a chauffeur. You want the stick.

The rental system lets players grab a balloon for a full hour and take it anywhere. Timer warnings keep them informed. The balloon is theirs until time runs out.

Same stations. Same operators. Different experience.

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Animations That Actually Work

This was the part that bothered us most about existing balloon scripts. Passengers T-posing. Captains frozen in place. It broke the illusion.

For Captains: A realistic burner-pull animation with visible rope. You’re not just pressing buttons — you’re flying this thing.

For Passengers: Proper sitting animations in designated basket positions. Up to four players can ride together without anyone clipping through the floor or launching themselves into the stratosphere.

For AI Pilots: Idle burner animations during taxi flights. They look like they’re doing their job because, visually, they are.

An invisible safety floor prevents ragdolling inside the basket. Server-side synchronization means everyone sees the same thing. No desync. No weirdness.

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Intuitive Flight Controls

https://youtu.be/PczB2GiYVwY

Camera-relative movement makes flying intuitive. You push forward, the balloon goes forward relative to where you’re looking.

Control	Action
W/S	Move forward/backward
A/D	Move left/right
Space	Ascend
F	Boost (increase speed)
R	Brake (slow down)
Space	Toggle altitude lock

Altitude lock lets you hold a steady height for horizontal navigation. Boost and brake give you fine speed control when you need it. The prompt system keeps new players informed without cluttering the screen for veterans.

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Eight Locations Across the Map

Location	Rental Available
Strawberry
Rhodes
Valentine
Annesburg
Saint Denis
Blackwater
Armadillo
Tumbleweed

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Multi-Language Support

• English
• French
• Spanish
• German

Adding more languages takes minutes in a single config file.

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Fully Configurable

Config.BalloonTaxi = {
    Enabled = true,
    Price = 3,                    -- Cost for taxi ride
    CruisingAltitude = 80.0,      -- Flight altitude in meters
    TravelSpeed = 26.0,           -- Normal speed (m/s)
    TravelSpeedFast = 38.0,       -- "Step on it" speed (m/s)
    -- ... more settings
}

Config.BalloonRental = {
    Enabled = true,
    Price = 50,                   -- Rental cost
    RentalDuration = 3600000,     -- 1 hour in milliseconds
    WarningTime = 300000,         -- 5 minute warning
}

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What’s Included

• NPC-piloted taxi service with intelligent pathfinding
• Player-controlled rental system with timer warnings
• Complete captain and passenger animation systems
• Four-player basket capacity with synced positions
• Eight pre-configured balloon stations
• Four languages with easy expansion
• VORP menu and economy integration
• Terrain avoidance and smooth flight physics
• Full documentation and debug tools

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Installation

1. Extract the poggy-balloon folder into your server’s resources directory
2. Add ensure poggy-balloon to your server.cfg (after VORP dependencies)
3. Configure settings in config.lua
4. Set your preferred language in translations.lua
5. Restart your server

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Debug Commands

Command	Description
/balloon_debug_main [level|toggle|status]	Main module debug
/balloon_debug_anim [level|toggle]	Animation module debug
/balloon_debug_ctrl [level|toggle]	Controls module debug
/balloon_server_status	View balloon occupancy (admin)
/balloon_debug_ride	Show current taxi ride state

Debug levels: 0 (OFF) → 4 (DEBUG), default 3 (INFO)

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Requirements	vorp_core, vorp_menu, uiprompt
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[eduvasques]

Hello, thank you for sharing.
Does the script provide a location on the map where the balloon can be used or a command to spawn it?

[PoggyScripts]

No, that would be handled by another script, like a stable script where you buy the balloon as a “wagon” option. This script merely provides a control schema and system for passengers. I could add in a command if you wanted to spawn in a balloon, however. Reference also the original inspiration for this called “balloon crap”.

client/balloon.lua

Adding the command back to your balloon.lua should enable you to spawn one with the balloon command.

[Taran1]

Looks like you have it coded so that balloon-crap becomes a dependency for the exports

[PoggyScripts]

You’re right! This export failure is a result of me still using the original folder on my test server.

To fix this, there are four instances of “balloon-crap” that need to be changed to “poggy-balloon”.

In balloon_controls.lua change line 94, and 130

And in balloonanimations.lua change line 134, and 230.

I’ll publish an update soon.

Alternatively you could rename the folder to “balloon-crap”, and change the ensure in your server config.

Another option is use GetCurrentResourceName() in place of balloon-crap, which will get the current folder name, and is more reliable if you ever change the name of the folder.