getElementPosition

Type: Shared

Pair: setElementPosition

This function allows you to retrieve the position coordinates of an element. This can be any real world element, including:

• player
• vehicle
• object
• pickup
• marker
• [collision shapes](/collision shapes)
• blip
• [radar areas](/radar areas)

This example will print the player position to chat using /pos command.

getElementPosition-1.lua

function whatsMyPosition()
    -- get the position of local player
    local fX, fY, fZ = getElementPosition(localPlayer);

    -- output it to chat
    outputChatBox("My current position is X: "..fX.." Y: "..fY.." Z: "..fZ);
end
addCommandHandler("pos", whatsMyPosition);