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isElementVisibleTo

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Pair: setElementVisibleTo

This checks if an element is visible to a player. This does not check if the player can literally see the element, just that they are aware that it exists. Some so-called per-player elements are able to be visible only to some players (see Visibility), as such this checks if this is the case for a particular element/player combination.

Tip

If you want to check whether an element is visible on the screen, use isElementOnScreen.

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Syntax 

​bool isElementVisibleTo ( ​element theElement, ​element visibleTo )
Required arguments
  • theElement: The element you want to check the visibility of.
  • visibleTo: The player you want to check against.

Returns

Returns true if element is visible to the specified player, false if not or an invalid argument was passed to the function.

  • bool: result

Code Examples

server

This checks if the player is visible to them selves.

addEventHandler("onPlayerSpawn", root, function()
    if not isElementVisibleTo(source, source) then -- if the player is not visible to them selves
        setElementVisibleTo(source, source, true) -- then make them visible to them selves.
    end
end)

See Also

Element Functions
Element Events
Reference