Direct-rendered UI

In FiveM, you can also render NUI to a runtime texture, which is called DUI for ‘direct NUI’. The following natives help with this:

• CREATE_DUI
• CREATE_RUNTIME_TEXTURE_FROM_DUI_HANDLE
• DESTROY_DUI
• GET_DUI_HANDLE
• IS_DUI_AVAILABLE
• SEND_DUI_MESSAGE
• SEND_DUI_MOUSE_DOWN
• SEND_DUI_MOUSE_MOVE
• SEND_DUI_MOUSE_UP
• SEND_DUI_MOUSE_WHEEL
• SET_DUI_URL

The native documentation contains information for each of these, but here are some creative use cases for this:

• Rendering in 2D space using DRAW_SPRITE
• Rendering to a game render target object using similar natives.
• Rendering arbitrarily in world space using a specialized Scaleform, like in this forum topic.

This can be used to make cinema screens, asynchronous in-game hint overlays, etc. fairly trivially.