Pair: setBlipVisibleDistance

This function will tell you what visible distance a blip has.

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• Method: blip:getVisibleDistance(...)
• Variable: .visibleDistance

Syntax

float|false getBlipVisibleDistance ( blip theBlip )

Required Arguments

• theBlip: The blip whose visible distance you wish to get.

Returns

• float|false: visibleDistance

Returns one float with the blips visible distance, false if the blip is invalid.

Code Examples

Example 1 Example 2 (OOP)

shared

This example will combine the total visible distances of all blips.

-- Retrieve a table containing all the blips that exist
local blips = getElementsByType("blip")
local distance = 0
-- Loop through the list, storing the blips visible distance with the rest.
for index, blip in ipairs(blips) do
  -- Retrieve the blip's visible distance
  distance = distance + getBlipVisibleDistance(blip) or 0 -- "or 0" just incase its false ;)
end
outputDebugString("Combined total of all blips visible distances: "..distance)

shared

OOP Required

This example will combine the total visible distances of all blips.

-- Retrieve a table containing all the blips that exist
local blips = Element.getAllByType("blip")
local distance = 0
-- Loop through the list, storing the blips visible distance with the rest.
for index, blip in ipairs(blips) do
  -- Retrieve the blip's visible distance
  distance = distance + blip.visibleDistance or 0 -- "or 0" just incase its false ;)
end
outputDebugString("Combined total of all blips visible distances: "..distance)

See Also

Blip Functions

• createBlip
• createBlipAttachedTo
• getBlipIcon
• getBlipColor
• getBlipOrdering
• getBlipSize
• getBlipVisibleDistance
• setBlipColor
• setBlipOrdering
• setBlipIcon
• setBlipSize
• setBlipVisibleDistance

Reference

• Scripting Functions