05 · Casino · Solo table game

Roulette — European Table

European roulette at an admin-placed table, the solo game of the set. Walk up, aim at the table, take one of the prop's real stools and bet at your own pace; by the time you hit Spin, the server has already drawn the number, validated every chip and settled the payout. The wheel on screen is pure theatre catching up.

Role: Lua (client + server), NUI
Server: Skyland
Framework: ESX
Stack: Lua, ox_target, NUI (HTML/JS/CSS)
Players: Solo, 4 stools per table
Status: Live on Skyland

Outside bets on the roulette board: chips on red, the second dozen and a column — Outside bets down: chips on red, the second dozen and a 2:1 column, each one debited server-side the moment it lands 1 / 2

17 hits on the roulette board and the wins settle — Outside bets down: chips on red, the second dozen and a 2:1 column, each one debited server-side the moment it lands 1 / 2

37 pockets with a single green zero
2.70% house edge, the classic European figure
25,000 $ total cap per spin

How it works

Start to finish

Outside bets down: chips on red, the second dozen and a 2:1 column, each one debited server-side the moment it lands 1 / 2
01 — The bets

Solo and self-paced
- European rules: 37 pockets with a single green zero, the classic 2.70% house edge.
- Outside bets in v1: red / black, even / odd, low / high at 1:1, dozens and columns at 2:1.
- Pick a chip, click zones to stack bets (cash debited immediately), clear and refund in one click, spin when ready. No croupier needed.
17 hits: the number was drawn server-side before the wheel started turning; the animation just catches up, then the wins settle 2 / 2
02 — The spin

Theatre catching up
- The winning number, every bet validation and every payout happen server-side; the NUI wheel only animates toward a result that is already final.
- Guard rails in config: 10 to 5,000 $ per zone, a 25,000 $ total cap per spin, fixed chip denominations, and per-player action throttling.
- Players sit on the prop's actual stools; stool positions are read from the table model's skeleton bones at runtime.

Under the hood

What keeps it solid

Money

House-banked with a full money trail: every movement logged.
KVP snapshots and an owed-money ledger mean a disconnect, a resource stop or a crash always ends in a refund, at worst on next login.

Engine

The wheel core is pure Lua with zero ESX or networking, unit-tested under a standalone interpreter.
Tables are admin-placed props, persisted in KVP and surviving restarts.

Animation

Official casino animations tailored per seat: Rockstar's roulette clips ship in _SEAT1 to _SEAT4 variants, so every player's idle, betting lean and reactions are the ones filmed for their exact stool.

Tech