GetElementVelocity

Description

This function returns three floats containing the velocity (movement speeds) along the X, Y, and Z axis respectively. This function can fail if the element is a player in a car. Use the vehicle element in this case. If this function does fail, the first argument will be set to 'false'

Syntax

float float float getElementVelocity ( element theElement )

Required Arguments

• theElement: The element you wish to retrieve the velocity of.

Example

speedx, speedy, speedz = getElementVelocity ( findPlayer ( "someguy" ) )
actualspeed = (speedx^2 + speedy^2 + speedz^2)^(0.5) 
--Raising something to the exponent of 0.5 is the same thing as taking a square root.
outputChatBox ( "Someguy's current Velocity: ", actualspeed, " arbitrary units." )

See Also

• getPlayerTeam
• getPlayerBlurLevel
• setPlayerBlurLevel
• getPlayerSerial
• forcePlayerMap
• getPlayerScriptDebugLevel
• getPlayerFromName
• getPlayerMoney
• getPlayerName
• getPlayerNametagColor
• getPlayerNametagText
• getPlayerPing
• getPlayerWantedLevel
• givePlayerMoney
• isPlayerMapForced
• isPlayerNametagShowing
• setPlayerHudComponentVisible
• setPlayerMoney
• setPlayerNametagColor
• setPlayerNametagShowing
• setPlayerNametagText
• takePlayerMoney
• countPlayersInTeam
• getPlayersInTeam
• isVoiceEnabled
• setControlState
• getControlState