Disabling the weapon wheel on a FiveM server

#Disabling the wheel

SetWeaponsNoAutoswap(true)

CreateThread(function()
    while true do
        DisableControlAction(0, 37, true)   -- INPUT_SELECT_WEAPON (weapon wheel)
        HideHudComponentThisFrame(19)       -- weapon wheel
        HideHudComponentThisFrame(20)       -- weapon wheel stats
        Wait(0)
    end
end)

Disabling a control and hiding a HUD component only last one frame, which is why this is one of the legitimate permanent Wait(0) loops. The cost is three native calls per frame.

#ox_inventory does this for you

ox_inventory disables the weapon wheel and turns off auto-swap as part of its weapon handling, and players equip weapons from the inventory or the hotbar keys. Adding a second blocker is unnecessary and can fight its own logic. When a specific situation should allow the native wheel (a minigame, a vehicle mode), use the inventory’s own mechanism rather than re-enabling controls yourself.

#Why inventory servers remove it

• The wheel shows any weapon the ped has, including ones given by a cheat — a mismatch the inventory then has to fix.
• Instant switching skips holster animations and draw timing.
• Inventory rules (durability, ammo items, attachments) only apply when weapons go through the inventory.

Draw animations to go with inventory equipping are covered in holster and draw animations.

#Other HUD components you may want to hide

The reticle has its own guide: the crosshair.

#Keep the wheel but make it yours

Disabling is the right call for inventory-driven servers, but many PvP and freeroam servers keep the wheel because players expect TAB to work. The native wheel lives in hud.gfx and its textures in hud.ytd, so it can be restyled with no script running at all: streamed from a resource, it replaces the stock look for everyone on the server.

If you want that without editing scaleform files by hand, the custom weapon wheel studio builds a drop-in resource with your colours and your server logo in the centre, and you can try each design exactly like in game before you buy. The install walkthrough covers where the files go.