Resource:Customblips

The customblips resource allows you to create Blip icons clientside that appear on radar and on the F11 map. Custom blips can be any image or GUI element.

Exported Client functions

This function creates a custom blip using DirectX image functions. If the stream radius is lower than 180, then the blip will only appear when it is visible on the radar.

customblip

createCustomBlip

float worldX, float worldY, int imageWidth, int imageHeight, imagePath, [float streamRadius = 500]

This function creates a custom blip using any GUI element. If the stream radius is lower than 180, then the blip will only appear when it is visible on the radar.

gui-elem

guiConvertToCustomBlip

gui-element blipGUI, float worldX, float worldY, [float streamRadius = 500]

This function gets the current stream radius of a customblip. Note, stream radius does not affect the F11 map.

float

getCustomBlipStreamRadius

customblip theBlip

This function sets the current stream radius of a customblip. Note, stream radius does not affect the F11 map.

bool

setCustomBlipStreamRadius

customblip theBlip, float streamRadius

This function gets the world position of a customblip.

float worldX, float worldY

getCustomBlipPosition

customblip theBlip

This function sets the world position of a customblip.

bool

setCustomBlipPosition

customblip theBlip, float worldX, float worldY

Examples

<section show="true" name="Client" class="class"> This example creates a blip that says 'Spawn' at Toreno's house, using GUI

addEventHandler ( "onClientResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()),
	function()
		local blip = guiCreateButton ( 0, 0, 25, 20, "Spawn", false )
		guiSetFont(blip,"default-small")
		guiConvertToCustomBlip ( blip, -700, 960, 10 )
	end
)

<section show="true" name="Client" class="class"> This example creates an image blip of "icon.png" at 0,0 - assuming the size of the image is 20x20px.

addEventHandler ( "onClientResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()),
	function()
		guiConvertToCustomBlip ( 0,0, 20, 20, "icon.png" )
	end
)