Pair: getBlipVisibleDistance

This function will set the visible distance of a blip.

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

Syntax

bool setBlipVisibleDistance ( blip theBlip, float theDistance )

Required Arguments

• theBlip: The blip whose visible distance you wish to set.
• theDistance: The distance you want the blip to be visible for. Value gets clamped between 0 and 65535.

Returns

• bool: result

Returns true if successful, false otherwise.

Code Examples

Example 1 Example 2 (OOP)

shared

This example will set the visible distance of all blips to half the original value.

-- Retrieve a table containing all the blips that exist
local blips = getElementsByType("blip")
-- 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 and divide by 2
  setBlipVisibleDistance(blip, getBlipVisibleDistance(blip) / 2)
end

shared

OOP Required

This example will set the visible distance of all blips to half the original value.

-- Retrieve a table containing all the blips that exist
local blips = Element.getAllByType("blip")
-- 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 and divide by 2
  blip.visibleDistance = blip.visibleDistance / 2
end

See Also

Blip Functions

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

Reference

• Scripting Functions