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setVehicleModelDummyPosition

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This function sets the position of the dummies contained in a vehicle model. Use setVehicleComponentPosition to adjust the vehicle component positions.

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Syntax 

bool setVehicleModelDummyPosition ( int modelID, string dummy, float x, float y, float z )
Required Arguments
  • modelID: The model ID which you want to apply the change to
  • dummy: The dummy whose position you want to change
  • x: MISSING_PARAM_DESC
  • y: MISSING_PARAM_DESC
  • z: MISSING_PARAM_DESC

Returns

  • bool: value

Returns true if everything went fine, false otherwise.

Code Examples

shared

Given example will move all the dummies in vehicle that player is sitting in up and down, after he uses /move command.

local dummies = {
  "light_front_main",
  "light_rear_main",
  "light_front_second",
  "light_rear_second",
  "seat_front",
  "seat_rear",
  "exhaust",
  "engine",
  "gas_cap",
  "trailer_attach",
  "hand_rest",
  "exhaust_second",
  "wing_airtrail",
  "veh_gun"
}
local cache = {}


function move()
  local veh = getPedOccupiedVehicle( localPlayer )
  if not veh then return end


  local model = getElementModel(veh)


  for i,dum in ipairs(dummies) do
    setVehicleModelDummyPosition(model, dum, cache[dum][1], cache[dum][2], cache[dum][3] + math.sin(getTickCount()/1500))
  end
end


addCommandHandler( "move", function()
  local veh = getPedOccupiedVehicle( localPlayer )
  if not veh then return end
  local model = getElementModel(veh)


  for i,dum in ipairs(dummies) do
    local v = {getVehicleModelDummyPosition(model, dum)}
    cache[dum] = v
  end
  addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, move)
end)

See Also

Vehicle Functions
Vehicle Events
Reference