When an officer impounds a car, oxide-police doesn't talk to your impound system directly. It calls one bridge function in o-link:
vehicles.ImpoundVehicle(plate, fee, lot)
Whatever code is behind that function is where the car goes. So to use your own system, you just replace what that one function does. You do this in o-link (you have the full code for o-link), not in oxide-police.
A car is looked up before your code runs. By default (Config.FieldTools.Impound.registeredVehiclesOnly = true) only player-owned vehicles can be impounded; impounding an unowned vehicle shows the officer a "not registered" message and your code never runs. Set registeredVehiclesOnly = false to also allow unowned vehicles — those are simply removed from the world (your ImpoundVehicle function still runs for owned vehicles). This guide changes where impounds go, not which cars can be impounded.
The folder name must start with zzz-. That's not a typo — it makes your file load last so your version wins over the built-in one. Don't rename it to something else.
Open the file you just made and paste this exactly:
-- Sends police impounds to a custom impound system.olink._register('vehicles', { ImpoundVehicle = function(plate, fee, lot) -- You are given three things to work with: -- plate : text the car's number plate example: "ABC 123" -- fee : number price the owner pays to get it example: 500 -- lot : text which impound lot example: "main" -- =================================================================== -- PUT YOUR CODE HERE. -- Call your own impound resource however it expects to be called. -- Replace the line below with the real call to your system. -- =================================================================== exports['my-impound-resource']:Impound(plate, fee, lot) -- Return true if it worked, false if it didn't. return true end,}, 'zzz-custom-impound')print('^2[o-link]^0 Custom impound adapter loaded.')
Replace it with the real call to your impound system. A few examples of what that might look like (use whatever your impound resource's documentation tells you):
-- if your resource has an export:exports['cool-garages']:ImpoundCar(plate, fee)-- if your resource uses an event instead:TriggerEvent('cool-garages:impound', plate, fee, lot)
That's the only line you change. Leave the rest as-is.
You don't remove the car from the world. oxide-police already deletes the vehicle after a successful impound. Your code only needs to record/store it in your system.
You don't touch oxide-police. All of this happens in o-link.
You don't reimplement anything else. You're only swapping the impound step. Searching plates, the MDT, etc. keep working normally.
How owners get their car back is handled by your impound resource and its own UI/menu — oxide-police is not involved in giving cars back. Set that up the way your resource documents it.
