SetBlipIcon

This function sets the icon for an existing blip element.

Syntax

bool setBlipIcon ( blip theBlip, int icon )

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Method: blip:setIcon(...)

Variable: .icon

Required Arguments

• theBlip The blip you wish to set the icon of.
• icon: A number indicating the icon you wish to change it do. Valid values are:
• 0: Marker       If higher than player:   If lower than player:
• 1: White_square Note: it's actually white, darkened for display here
• 2: Centre
• 3: Map_here
• 4: North
• 5: Airyard
• 6: Gun
• 7: Barbers
• 8: Big_smoke
• 9: Boatyard
• 10: Burgershot
• 11: Bulldozer
• 12: Cat_pink
• 13: Cesar
• 14: Chicken
• 15: Cj
• 16: Crash1
• 17: Diner
• 18: Emmetgun
• 19: Enemyattack
• 20: Fire
• 21: Girlfriend
• 22: Hospital
• 23: Loco
• 24: Madd Dogg
• 25: Mafia
• 26: Mcstrap
• 27: Mod_garage
• 28: Ogloc
• 29: Pizza
• 30: Police
• 31: Property_green
• 32: Property_red
• 33: Race
• 34: Ryder
• 35: Savehouse
• 36: School
• 37: Mystery
• 38: Sweet
• 39: Tattoo
• 40: Truth
• 41: Waypoint
• 42: Toreno_ranch
• 43: Triads
• 44: Triads_casino
• 45: Tshirt
• 46: Woozie
• 47: Zero
• 48: Date_disco
• 49: Date_drink
• 50: Date_food
• 51: Truck
• 52: Cash
• 53: Flag
• 54: Gym
• 55: Impound
• 56: Runway_light
• 57: Runway
• 58: Gang_b
• 59: Gang_p
• 60: Gang_y
• 61: Gang_n
• 62: Gang_g
• 63: Spray

Returns

Returns true if the icon was succesfully set, false if the element passed was not a valid blip or the icon value was not a valid icon number.

Example

This example resets all blip icons to the default blip icon, 0.

-- Retrieve a table containing all the blips that exist
blips = getElementsByType ( "blip" )
-- Loop through the list, storing the blip from the table in the variable blipValue
for blipKey, blipValue in blips do
	-- Retrieve the blip's icon into the variable 'blipIcon'
	blipIcon = getBlipIcon ( blipValue )
	-- If the blip's icon wasn't the default already
	if ( blipIcon ~= 0 ) then
		-- Set the blip's icon to the default
		setBlipIcon ( blipValue, 0 )
	end
end

See Also

• createBlip
• createBlipAttachedTo
• getBlipColor
• getBlipIcon
• getBlipOrdering
• getBlipSize
• getBlipVisibleDistance
• setBlipColor
• setBlipIcon
• setBlipOrdering
• setBlipSize
• setBlipVisibleDistance