Carapace Weapon Wheel for FiveM
Layered chitin plates over a hex micro-weave, with bio seams that glow between them. An organic weapon wheel that looks grown rather than built.
Carapace · Layered chitin plates, hex micro-weave and lit bio seams
$15one-off, or $16 with your own logo in the centre
- 5 ready palettes — Chitin, Carapace red, Deep sea, Amberhive, Obsidian shell.
- 7 colours, 7 shape controls and 4 effects you can change before you pay.
- Streams as pityus_weaponwheel. The game’s own HUD element, rebuilt — no NUI page and no framework dependency.
- Built from your settings right after payment, and downloadable again from your account at any time.
Opens the studio with Carapace loaded. Try it live, then check out.
What you are paying for
Only our own work: our wheel artwork and designs, the wheel studio, packaging and support. GTA V, FiveM and all Take-Two / Rockstar Games names, map data and game assets are not for sale here and remain the property of Take-Two Interactive. Requires your own copy of GTA V and FiveM. Trademark & IP notice
GALLERY
Carapace in every palette
8 renders: the wheel at HUD size, an in-game capture, a close-up and each of the 5 palettes.
Carapace · default colours Carapace · in-game capture Carapace · close-up Carapace · Chitin Carapace · Carapace red Carapace · Deep sea Carapace · Amberhive Carapace · Obsidian shell
About the Carapace design
Carapace looks like the shell of something alive. Each slot is a curved chitin plate with raised ridges, layered over an underlayer covered in a fine hex micro-weave. Between the plates, the seams glow with a bio light in the accent color, and a spine runs through the center like the back of an insect. The shell plates have a subtle sheen, and the whole wheel has a slightly uneven, organic feel that sets it apart from the machined sci-fi designs. When you choose a weapon, its plate lights up along the seams so the selection reads through the glow rather than a flat fill. The weapon name and attachment sit in the middle above the 3D center mark.
Matching it to the rest of your HUD
Carapace works best next to a dark, moody minimap where one glowing color does the talking. The Chitin palette pairs with an acid green map for outbreak or alien invasion servers. Carapace red suits horror maps with blood-red routes, Deep sea matches teal and dark blue ocean themes, Amberhive fits warm orange maps, and Obsidian shell stays nearly black for a very low-key HUD. Match the seam light to your minimap's road color and the glowing lines on the map and wheel will feel like one creature.
Details
- Layered chitin plates form the eight slots.
- A hex micro-weave covers the underlayer beneath the plates.
- Bio seams glow in the accent color between plates.
- Plate ridges and a centre spine add an organic structure.
- The selected plate lights up along its seams.
Five palettes: Chitin, Carapace red, Deep sea, Amberhive and Obsidian shell.
THE DOWNLOAD
What you receive
One zip, 4 files, built from the exact settings you leave the studio with.
- pityus_weaponwheel/stream/hud.gfx
- The wheel itself: the game HUD scaleform, rebuilt with your artwork and colours baked in.
- pityus_weaponwheel/stream/hud.ytd
- The texture dictionary the scaleform pulls its bitmaps from, at the same format and mip count as the stock file.
- pityus_weaponwheel/fxmanifest.lua
- A plain cerulean manifest. No framework dependency, no exports, nothing to configure.
- pityus_weaponwheel/README.txt
- The three install lines and your licence reference.
- pityus_weaponwheel/client.lua
- Only present if you pick the 3D tilt selection motion: a single thread that pushes the tilt settings into HUD component 19.
- pityus_weaponwheel/wheel.json
- The tilt numbers that thread reads, so you can nudge them later without a rebuild.
Installing it
- Copy the pityus_weaponwheel folder into your server's resources directory. Anywhere in resources works. It is a streaming resource, so load order against your framework does not matter.
- Add ensure pityus_weaponwheel to server.cfg. Put it with your other streaming resources. Nothing else in the config has to change.
- Restart the server. The new wheel is served from that moment on.
- Each player restarts the game client once. The game caches HUD scaleforms for the length of a session, so a reconnect is not enough: the client has to be closed and opened again.
Step by step, with screenshots, in the setup guides.
QUESTIONS
Carapace weapon wheel FAQ
Can I reduce the hex weave texture?
Yes. Seam light, weave strength, plate ridges and the centre spine are separate controls. Lowering the weave gives smoother plates, which helps if your minimap already has a detailed texture and you want the HUD to stay readable.
Is Carapace a good fit for a zombie server?
Yes, especially in the Chitin or Carapace red palettes. The organic plates suit infection and mutation themes, and matching the seam glow to your minimap's danger color keeps the HUD consistent and easy to read at night.
How visible is the selection on such a dark design?
The selected plate lights up along its seams in the accent color, which stands out strongly against the dark shell. You can raise the seam light in the studio if you want the selection even brighter.
