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setVehicleHeadLightColor

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Pair: getVehicleHeadLightColor

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This function will set the headlight color of a vehicle. valid Red Green and Blue arguments range from 0-255

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  • Method:vehicle:setHeadLightColor(...)

Syntax 

bool setVehicleHeadLightColor ( vehicle theVehicle, int red, int green, int blue )
Required Arguments
  • theVehicle: The vehicle that you wish to set the headlight color of.
  • red: An integer indicating the amount of red for the vehicle's headlights
  • green: An integer indicating the amount of green for the vehicle's headlights
  • blue: An integer indicating the amount of blue for the vehicle's headlights

Returns

  • bool: value

Returns true if vehicle's headlight color was set, false if an invalid vehicle or invalid color ranges were specified for red,green or blue.

Code Examples

shared

It shows error if player isn't in vehicle or color failed to change. It shows a message if color changed successful.

function changeCarLightsColor ( thePlayer, command, red, green, blue )
  local theVehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle ( thePlayer )
  if ( not theVehicle ) then
    return outputChatBox( "You don't have vehicle!" )
  end
  red = tonumber ( red )
  green = tonumber ( green )
  blue = tonumber ( blue )
  -- check if the colour values for red, green and blue are valid
  if red and green and blue then
    local color = setVehicleHeadLightColor ( theVehicle, red, green, blue )
    if(not color) then
      outputChatBox( "Failed to change vehicle lights color" )
    else
      outputChatBox ( "Vehicle lights color changed sucessfully" )
    end
  else
    outputChatBox( "Failed to change vehicle lights color" )
  end
end
addCommandHandler ( "carlights", changeCarLightsColor )

See Also

Vehicle Functions
Vehicle Events
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