getVehicleOccupants | Multi Theft Auto: Wiki Skip to content
Multi Theft Auto: Wiki

getVehicleOccupants

Client-side
Server-side
Shared

Manual Review Required

Please finish this page using the corresponding Old Wiki article. Go to Contribution guidelines for more information.

This function gets all peds sitting in the specified vehicle.

OOP Syntax Help! I don't understand this!

  • Method:vehicle:getOccupants(...)
  • Variable: .occupants

Syntax 

table getVehicleOccupants ( vehicle theVehicle )
Required Arguments
  • theVehicle: the vehicle of which you wish to retrieve the occupants.

Returns

  • table: value

Returns a table with seat ID as an index and the occupant as an element like this: table[seat] = occupant

Code Examples

shared

This example prints all vehicle occupants into the F8 console if "/occupants" is typed:

function outputOccupants()
    -- Make sure they're in a vehicle
    if (not isPedInVehicle(localPlayer)) then
        outputConsole("You're not in a vehicle.")
        return false
    end
    outputConsole("------------------------------------") -- Print a separator for easier reading
    for seat, occupant in pairs(getVehicleOccupants(getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer))) do -- Loop through the array
        outputConsole("Seat " .. seat .. ": " .. getPlayerName(occupant)) -- Print who's in the seat
    end
    outputConsole("------------------------------------") -- Print another separator
end
addCommandHandler("occupants", outputOccupants, false, false) -- Add a command "/occupants" which triggers outputOccupants

See Also

Vehicle Functions
Vehicle Events
Reference