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setPlayerNametagShowing

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Pair: isPlayerNametagShowing

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This function allows you to set whether a player's nametag visibility both clientside and serverside

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  • Method:player:setNametagShowing(...)
  • Variable: .nametagShowing

Syntax 

bool setPlayerNametagShowing ( player thePlayer, bool showing )
Required Arguments
  • thePlayer: Define the player whos tag visiblity status you want to change
  • showing: Use true or false to show/hide the tag

Returns

  • bool: value

Returns true if successful, false otherwise

Code Examples

shared

This script will turn off player tags for everyone

function onResourceStart ( )
    local players = getElementsByType ( "player" ) -- Store all the players in the server into a table
    for key, player in ipairs ( players ) do       -- for all the players in the table
        setPlayerNametagShowing ( player, false )  -- turn off their nametag
    end
end
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", resourceRoot, onResourceStart )


function onPlayerJoin ( )
      -- Whoever joins the server should also have their nametags deactivated
  setPlayerNametagShowing ( source, false )
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", root, onPlayerJoin )

See Also

Player Functions
Player Events
Reference