GetVehicleOccupants

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This function gets all players sitting in the specified vehicle.

Syntax

table getVehicleOccupants ( vehicle theVehicle )

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Method: vehicle:getOccupants(...)
Variable: .occupants


Required Arguments

  • theVehicle: the vehicle of which you wish to retrieve the occupants.

Returns

Returns a table with seat ID as an index and the occupant as an element like this: table[seat] = occupant

Returns false if an invalid vehicle was passed or if the vehicle has no seats (like a trailer)

COUNTING PLAYERS IN A VEHICLE
Don't use an ipairs loop with the table returned by this function. It will skip the driver, as ipairs starts at 1 and the driver seat is ID 0. And if there's an empty seat, ipairs will stop looping. You should use a pairs loop instead. 
local counter = 0

for seat, player in pairs(getVehicleOccupants(pseudoVehicle)) do
    counter = counter + 1
end

outputDebugString("Players in your vehicle: ".. counter)

Example

This example prints all vehicle occupants into the F8 console if "/occupants" is typed: 

function outputOccupants()
    -- Make sure they're in a vehicle
    if (not isPedInVehicle(localPlayer)) then
        outputConsole("You're not in a vehicle.")
        return false
    end
    outputConsole("------------------------------------", player) -- Print a separator for easier reading
    for seat, occupant in pairs(getVehicleOccupants(getPedOccupiedVehicle(player))) do -- Loop through the array
        outputConsole("Seat " .. seat .. ": " .. getPlayerName(occupant), player) -- Print who's in the seat 
    end
    outputConsole("------------------------------------", player) -- Print another separator
end
addCommandHandler("occupants", outputOccupants) -- Add a command "/occupants" which triggers outputOccupants

See Also


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