Red FiveM-compatible minimap — google style

Dark ground with a glowing crimson coastline and blood-red freeways. Built for redzone and combat servers that want the map to feel dangerous. A Google-Maps-style street map as the source: road classes, water, parks and beaches are segmented from its own colours, then re-lit with the elevation relief of the base map — the densest, most detailed style in the shop.

Which servers run this one

Redzone, 100k, gang war and combat servers. Also popular with horror and apocalypse servers, where the palette does half the atmosphere work on its own.

The google style base map, explained

A Google-Maps-style colour street map is used as the source. Road classes, water, parks, beaches and built-up blocks are segmented out of its own colours, then re-lit with the elevation data of the base map so it gets the same hillshade, bathymetric depth and glowing coastline as the other two builds.

The same red palette is also built on postal codes and no postals, so you can switch base map without changing the look of your server.

Crimson as a street map

The Google-style source adds the full city fabric, which turns Crimson from a dramatic outline into a usable street map for turf and territory roleplay, where blocks and named streets matter.

It is a lot of red detail in Los Santos. Servers that want the drama mostly outside the city usually settle on the no-postal build instead.

The red palette at a glance

Freeways in #FF6161, coastline in #FF5555, deep water in #070304 and labels in #DDC9CA. Every layer value, and the same palette on all three base maps side by side, is on the Red CRIMSON palette page.

How this map is rendered

The red build is rendered from a 12288 × 18432 master and resampled to the 6144 × 9216 texture the game streams, with water depth, coastline, relief, three road tiers and labels coloured as separate layers. How the game cuts that texture into radar tiles is covered in the guide to FiveM map tiles and radar textures.

What is in the download

One folder named pityus_minimap_red_google, 78 stream files, roughly 113 MB of VRAM in game — identical to the stock GTA V map, so there is no performance cost to switching.

Cayo Perico in the same palette — optional, $1.00

Cayo Perico uses its own texture, so a new Los Santos minimap leaves the island on the stock art. The red add-on renders the island in the same CRIMSON palette and ships as a second folder, pityus_minimap_cayo_red_google, with a ready-to-run island loader in script.lua. The Cayo Perico minimap guide explains how the island radar is loaded.

How to install the red minimap on a FiveM server

resources/
└─ [standalone]/
   └─ pityus_minimap_red_google/

server.cfg:  ensure pityus_minimap_red_google

1. Unzip pityus_minimap_red_google into your resources folder and keep the folder name.
2. Add ensure pityus_minimap_red_google to server.cfg, above your HUD resources.
3. Stop any other minimap resource, clear the client cache and reconnect.

The full installation guide covers txAdmin and replacing an existing map, and minimap not showing lists the usual causes in order.

Framework and map compatibility

The resource only replaces textures and radar zoom data, so it has no framework dependency: it runs unchanged on QBCore, QBox, ESX Legacy, vRP and standalone servers. MLOs and map add-ons are untouched, which is covered in minimaps for servers with MLOs; if you are editing the world itself, see interiors and IPLs, removing map props and map editing in CodeWalker.

Brand it with your own logo

Open this map in the studio to add a logo or server name before you download, or read how the minimap editor works.

What people come here looking for

Most people arrive at this page after deciding one of three things. They want a custom FiveM-compatible minimap instead of the stock one and are picking a colour; they already know the colour and are choosing between a map with postal codes baked in and one with street names only; or they are comparing this against the Google-style street map, which segments its roads from a real street map rather than the game's own art.

The rest is usually practical. The red palette on all three base maps is worth a look before you commit, the readability question for streamers comes up constantly, and if your server runs the island, the Cayo Perico map is the matching add-on for $1.00. If the map is already installed and not appearing, the causes are known and in order.