ShowPlayerHudComponent

This function will show or hide a part of the player's HUD.

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Syntax

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Server

bool showPlayerHudComponent ( player thePlayer, string component, bool show )

Required Arguments

• thePlayer: description
• component: The component you wish to show or hide. Valid values are:

• ammo: The display showing how much ammo the player has in their weapon
• area_name: The text that appears containing the name of the area a player has entered
• armour: The display showing the player's armor
• breath: The display showing the player's breath
• clock: The display showing the in-game time
• health: The display showing the player's health
• money: The display showing how much money the player has
• radar: The bottom-left corner miniradar
• vehicle_name: The text that appears containing the player's vehicle name when the player enters a vehicle
• weapon: The display showing the player's weapon

• show: Specify if the component should be shown (true) or hidden (false)

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Client

bool showPlayerHudComponent ( string component, bool show )

Required Arguments

• component: The component you wish to show or hide. Valid values are:

• ammo: The display showing how much ammo the player has in their weapon
• area_name: The text that appears containing the name of the area a player has entered
• armour: The display showing the player's armor
• breath: The display showing the player's breath
• clock: The display showing the in-game time
• health: The display showing the player's health
• money: The display showing how much money the player has
• radar: The bottom-left corner miniradar
• vehicle_name: The text that appears containing the player's vehicle name when the player enters a vehicle
• weapon: The display showing the player's weapon

• show: Specify if the component should be shown (true) or hidden (false)

Returns

Returns true if the component was shown or hidden succesfully, false if an invalid argument was specified.

Example

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Server

This example hides the ammo and weapon displays for players when they join.

function hudChanger ()
    showPlayerHudComponent ( source, "ammo", false )    -- Hide the ammo displays for the newly joined player
    showPlayerHudComponent ( source, "weapon", false )  -- Hide the weapon displays for the newly joined player
end
-- Make our hudChanger function called when the player joins
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), hudChanger )

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