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getVehicleDummyPosition

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Pair: setVehicleDummyPosition

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This function returns the position of the dummy for the given vehicle.

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  • Method:vehicle:getDummyPosition(...)

Syntax 

float,​ float,​ float getVehicleDummyPosition ( vehicle theVehicle, string dummy )
Required Arguments
  • theVehicle: The vehicle you want to get the dummy positions from.
  • dummy: The dummy whose position you want to get.

Returns

  • float: x
  • float: y
  • float: z

Returns 3 floats indicating the position X, Y and Z of the vehicle's dummy. It returns false otherwise.

Code Examples

shared

This is a command to get the position of the player's vehicle dummy position specified as an argument.

function getDummyPosition (commandName, dummy)
    if not dummy then
        return false
    end
    local veh = getPedOccupiedVehicle (localPlayer)


    if not veh then
        outputChatBox ("You should be in a vehicle to use this command", 255, 25, 25)
        return false
    end


    local x, y, z = getVehicleDummyPosition (veh, dummy)
    outputChatBox ("X: "..x..", Y: "..y..", Z: "..z, 0, 255, 0)
end


addCommandHandler ("getdummy", getDummyPosition)

See Also

Vehicle Functions
Vehicle Events
Reference