Items & Images

The heist needs two items, and both are usable: ox_inventory calls one of the heist's exports when a player uses them. Item names are set in Config.Items in config/config.lua.

There is no crowbar or lockpick. Breaking into the car is a skill check, not a tool check.

Item reference

Item	Usable	Role
`signalbox`	✅ export	The Signal Repeater. Bought from the supplier ($2,500 by default). Used within range of a yard gate to open the frequency tuner. The heist removes it after a successful lock; a failed or abandoned attempt costs nothing.
`microcamera_impound`	✅ export	The Microcamera. Handed to every crew member who does not already carry one when the contract is taken, and also on the supplier's list ($500). A tool: it is never used up.

ox_inventory

Add these to ox_inventory/data/items.lua. The microcamera_impound entry is the one the config file itself gives; labels and weights are examples you can tune.

-- ox_inventory/data/items.lua
['signalbox'] = { label = 'Signal Repeater', weight = 500, stack = true, close = true,
    consume = 0, client = { export = 'vs-impound-heist.signalbox' } },

['microcamera_impound'] = { label = 'Microcamera', weight = 100, stack = false,
    close = true, consume = 0, client = { export = 'vs-impound-heist.camera' } },

Both items need consume = 0 and their client.export. The camera is a tool, so with consumption on the first photograph eats it. The signal box is removed by the heist itself, only after the frequency locks, so ox_inventory must not take one as well. Without the export, using either item does nothing.

The camera is deliberately its own item, not the Laundromat Heist's microcamera. An ox_inventory item carries one client export, so sharing the name would make one heist open the other's camera. Running both scripts, you register both items.

Usable-item exports

Export	Item	What it does
`vs-impound-heist.camera`	`microcamera_impound`	Raises the phone viewfinder to photograph the cars in the yard. Only works during preparation, before the right car has been photographed.
`vs-impound-heist.signalbox`	`signalbox`	Opens the frequency tuner. Only works once the job is live, within range of one of the yard's gates.

Renaming the items

Config.Items.signal and Config.Items.camera name the items. If you rename one, rename the ox_inventory entry to match and keep the export as it is (vs-impound-heist.signalbox and vs-impound-heist.camera). If you rename signalbox, also update the supplier's list, which sells it by name.

At boot the heist asks ox_inventory for every name in Config.Items and prints a warning for each one that does not exist:

[vs-impound-heist] The heist wants an item called "signalbox" and your inventory does not have one.
Add it, or change Config.Items -- until then the contract can never get past preparation.

Other items you may add

The supplier's stock. Anything on his list (Config.Shop.items, or the Creator's Supplier tab) must be an existing ox_inventory item. A row marked required becomes part of the preparation. See Configuration.
Safe loot. Config.Payout.safeLoot ships empty. Each line you add is rolled on its own and given to whoever opens the safe, so every item named there must exist in ox_inventory.

Item images

Give each item an image in ox_inventory/web/images/, named after the item:

ox_inventory/web/images/signalbox.png
ox_inventory/web/images/microcamera_impound.png

The supplier's shop uses the same images for its cards, so an item without one shows a blank card there as well as a blank box in the inventory.

Missing images are the most common "it looks broken" report: the items work but render as a blank box. Add one PNG per item name.

Impound Heist Items