KillPlayer

	This function is deprecated. This means that its use is discouraged and that it might not exist in future versions, but there should be a more generic way to perform what it does.

This function kills the specified player.

Syntax

bool killPlayer ( player thePlayer, [ player theKiller = nil, int weapon=255, int bodyPart=255, bool stealth ] )

Required Arguments

• thePlayer: The player to kill

Optional Arguments

• theKiller: The player responsible for the kill
• weapon: The ID of the weapon that should appear to have killed the player (doesn't affect how they die)
• bodyPart: The ID of the body part that should appear to have been hit by the weapon (doesn't affect how they die)
• stealth: Boolean value, representing whether or not this a stealth kill (From DP3)

Returns

Returns true if the player was killed, false if the player specified could not be killed or is invalid.

Example

Example 1: This simple example adds a kill command to commit suicide.

function commitSuicide(sourcePlayer)
	-- kill the player and make him responsible for it
	killPlayer(sourcePlayer, sourcePlayer)
end
-- attach our handler to the "kill" command
addCommandHandler("kill", commitSuicide)

Example 2: This example enables 1 hit kills if a player is shot in the head.

function headshotKill ( attacker, attackerweapon, bodypart, loss )
	if bodypart == 9 then --if the bodypart is the head
		--kill the player, emulating the correct killer, weapon and bodypart.
		killPlayer ( source, attacker, attackerweapon, bodypart )
	end
end
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerDamage", getRootElement(), headshotKill )

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