LOADING SCREEN For RedM Fully Standalone

A cinematic frontier experience. A better first impression.

Your players' journey begins before they even enter your world.

Westbound is a standalone RedM Loading Screen created by Progressive Code, featuring a cinematic western atmosphere, elegant interface design, immersive ambient music and customizable server information.

Designed to give your community a distinctive first impression, Westbound combines visual presentation with practical features to make the connection experience more enjoyable.

And the best part?

It's completely FREE.

✦ FEATURES & HIGHLIGHTS

🎬 Cinematic Western Design

• Custom-made cinematic western background artwork.

• Atmospheric frontier-inspired visual design.

• Elegant typography, animations and interface elements.

• Responsive layout for different screen resolutions.

• Optional background video support, with image fallback.

• Customizable accent color and server branding.

• Optional server logo or initials-based branding.

🎵 Integrated Music Player

An ambient music experience with a built-in playlist and playback controls.

• 3 included ambient soundtracks.

• Direct track selection through a playlist dropdown.

• Previous and next track controls.

• Play and pause functionality.

• Adjustable volume slider.

• Configurable automatic looping.

• Optional autoplay setting.

• Remembers the player's last selected track and volume locally when browser storage is available.

Included Soundtracks:

1. Western Theme

2. Western Ride

3. Country Music

📜 Customizable Story Chapters

Give your players something to explore while they connect.

• Multiple configurable story chapters.

• Automatic chapter rotation.

• Manual previous and next navigation.

• Custom chapter titles, descriptions and labels.

• Adjustable chapter rotation interval.

• Option to disable automatic rotation.

🎫 Personal Connection Ticket

A dedicated connection information section that can display:

• Connecting player's name.

• Server population.

• Maximum server capacity.

• Personalized server destination and branding.

Player information and population are configurable through the connection handover system. Population is displayed as a connection-time snapshot.

📖 Information Panels

Keep important server information available directly inside the loading screen.

Three configurable information sections are included:

• Field Guide — Introduce players to your world and provide useful information.

• County Code — Display your server rules and guidelines.

• The Team — Present staff and support information.

All panel content can be edited through the configuration file. Empty sections automatically hide their navigation buttons.

🌐 Community Links

Connect your players with your community.

• Configurable Discord link.

• Configurable Website link.

• Customizable link labels.

• HTTPS-only external link validation.

📊 Real Loading Progress

The loading screen uses actual Cfx loading progress messages.

• Real loading progress percentage.

• Animated progress bar.

• Dynamic loading status messages.

• Connection status information.

• Elapsed connection time.

• Additional waiting information when loading takes longer.

No artificially generated gameplay progress.

The displayed loading percentage follows the progress data received from Cfx.

⚙️ Loading Lifecycle & Configuration

Control how and when your loading screen closes.

• Automatic loading screen shutdown.

• Configurable fade-out duration.

• Adjustable delay after the network session becomes ready.

• Additional playerSpawned shutdown signal.

• Configurable safety timeout.

• Manual shutdown mode for custom character selection and spawn systems.

• Custom status messages through an export.

• Cleanup of audio, video and UI timers during shutdown.

Included Client Exports:

-- Close the loading screen.
exports.pc_loadingscreen:Close()

-- Update the loading status.
exports.pc_loadingscreen:SetStatus('Preparing your character...')

♿ Motion & Interface Preferences

• Built-in Reduce Motion control.

• Respects the operating system's reduced-motion preference.

• Remembers the selected motion preference locally when storage is available.

• Keyboard-friendly information panels.

• Accessible interface controls and labels.

⚙️ EASY CONFIGURATION

Customize your loading screen without complicated installation procedures or build tools.

Shared/Main.lua

Configure:

• Debug mode.

• Automatic or manual shutdown.

• Fade duration.

• Session-ready delay.

• Safety timeout.

• Connection handover information.

• Status message length.

Html/Js/Config.js

Configure:

• Server name, initials and branding.

• Subtitle and destination.

• Optional server logo.

• Main accent color.

• Welcome headline and introduction.

• Background image and optional video.

• Music playlist and playback preferences.

• Story chapters and rotation.

• Field Guide, County Code and Team information.

• Discord and Website links.

• Loading status messages and interface labels.

Your server, your identity. Make it your own.

The resource uses local assets and does not require an external package manager, framework or database.

📦 WHAT'S INCLUDED

• Complete Progressive Code Loading Screen resource.

• Cinematic western background artwork.

• 3 included ambient soundtracks.

• HTML, CSS and JavaScript source files.

• Lua client and server scripts.

• Shared configuration file.

• Visual configuration file.

• Installation documentation.

• English installation guides.

Westbound is the first release after a long time for Progressive Code.

After a period of inactivity, we're returning to development with a fresh approach and more projects ahead.

We prefer delivering quality work over making promises.