GetLocalPlayer

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This function gets the player element of the client running the current script.

Syntax

player getLocalPlayer ()

Returns

Returns the local player element.

Example

Example 1: This clientside function outputs the player's current location to the console. 

--we get the local player (we do this outside of the function body so it isn't retrieved every time the function is called, since the local player never changes)
local localPlayer = getLocalPlayer ()

function outputLocalPlayerPosition ()
	--we get the local player's position
	local px, py, pz = getElementPosition ( localPlayer )
	--we output it to the console
	outputConsole ( "Your location: "..px.." "..py.." "..pz )
end

Example 2: This clientside script makes the local player's camera flash red after being hit. 

function flashRed ()
	--we fade out the local player's camera to red during a second
	fadeCamera( false, 1.0, 255, 0, 0 )
	--we set a 500 ms (0.5 sec) timer to fade it back in before it has completely faded out
	setTimer( fadeCamera, 500, 1, true, 1.0 )
end
--we attach our 'flashRed' function to be a handler of "onClientPlayerDamage" when its source (that is, the hit player) is the local player
addEventHandler( "onClientPlayerDamage", getLocalPlayer(), flashRed )

See Also



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