CreateBlipAttachedTo
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This function creates a blip that is attached to an element. This blip is displayed as an icon on the client's radar and will 'follow' the element that it is attached to around.
Syntax
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Serverblip createBlipAttachedTo ( element elementToAttachTo, [int icon=0, int size=2, int r=255, int g=0, int b=0, int a=255, int ordering=0, float visibleDistance=99999.0, visibleTo = getRootElement()] )
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- Method: Blip.createAttachedTo(...)
Required Arguments
- elementToAttachTo: The element to attach the marker to.
Optional Arguments
NOTE: When using optional arguments, you might need to supply all arguments before the one you wish to use. For more information on optional arguments, see optional arguments.
- icon: The icon that the radar blips should be. Valid values are:
- 0: Marker
If higher than player: 
If lower than player: 
- 1: White_square
Note: it's actually white, darkened for display here - 2: Centre
- 3: Map_here
- 4: North
- 5: Airyard
- 6: Gun
- 7: Barbers
- 8: Big_smoke
- 9: Boatyard
- 10: Burgershot
- 11: Bulldozer
- 12: Cat_pink
- 13: Cesar
- 14: Chicken
- 15: Cj
- 16: Crash1
- 17: Diner
- 18: Emmetgun
- 19: Enemyattack
- 20: Fire
- 21: Girlfriend
- 22: Hospital
- 23: Loco
- 24: Madd Dogg
- 25: Mafia
- 26: Mcstrap
- 27: Mod_garage
- 28: Ogloc
- 29: Pizza
- 30: Police
- 31: Property_green
- 32: Property_red
- 33: Race
- 34: Ryder
- 35: Savehouse
- 36: School
- 37: Mystery
- 38: Sweet
- 39: Tattoo
- 40: Truth
- 41: Waypoint
- 42: Toreno_ranch
- 43: Triads
- 44: Triads_casino
- 45: Tshirt
- 46: Woozie
- 47: Zero
- 48: Date_disco
- 49: Date_drink
- 50: Date_food
- 51: Truck
- 52: Cash
- 53: Flag
- 54: Gym
- 55: Impound
- 56: Runway_light
- 57: Runway
- 58: Gang_b
- 59: Gang_p
- 60: Gang_y
- 61: Gang_n
- 62: Gang_g
- 63: Spray
- size: The size of the radar blip. Only applicable to the Marker icon. Default value is 2.
- r: The amount of red in the blip's color (0 - 255). Only applicable to the Marker icon. Default is 255.
- g: The amount of green in the blip's color (0 - 255). Only applicable to the Marker icon. Default is 0.
- b: The amount of blue in the blip's color (0 - 255). Only applicable to the Marker icon. Default is 0.
- a: The amount of alpha in the blip's color (0 - 255). Only applicable to the Marker icon. Default is 255.
- ordering: This defines the blip's Z-level ordering (-32768 - 32767). Default is 0.
- visibleDistance: The maximum distance from the camera at which the blip is still visible (0 - 65535)
- visibleTo: What elements can see the blip. Defaults to visible to everyone. See visibility.
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ClientReturns
Returns a blip if the blip was created succesfully, or false otherwise.
Example
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ServerThis example creates a radar blip attached to a random player, visible to everyone. The blip will follow the player around as they move. This could be used for manhunt, to emphasise a random player.
-- Pick a random player function setupRandomRobber () local myPlayer = getRandomPlayer () -- Create a radar blip at the player's position, with a 'cash' icon and only visible to everyone (no 'visibleTo' parameter) local myBlip = createBlipAttachedTo ( myPlayer, 52 ) end
See Also
- createBlip
- createBlipAttachedTo
- getBlipColor
- getBlipIcon
- getBlipOrdering
- getBlipSize
- getBlipVisibleDistance
- setBlipColor
- setBlipIcon
- setBlipOrdering
- setBlipSize
- setBlipVisibleDistance