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warpPedIntoVehicle

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Pair: getPedOccupiedVehicle

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This function is used to warp or force a ped into a vehicle. There are no animations involved when this happens.

Important

If you used setElementPosition to spawn the ped / player , this function will not work and returns false .

OOP Syntax Help! I don't understand this!

  • Note: Set the variable to nil to executeremovePedFromVehicle
  • Method:ped:warpIntoVehicle(...)
  • Variable: .vehicle

Syntax 

bool warpPedIntoVehicle ( ped thePed, vehicle theVehicle, [ int seat = 0 ] )
Required Arguments
  • thePed: The ped which you wish to force inside the vehicle
  • theVehicle: The vehicle you wish to force the ped into
Optional Arguments

NOTE: When using optional arguments, you might need to supply all arguments before the one you wish to use.

  • seat (default: 0): An integer representing the seat ID. 0: Front-left 1: Front-right 2: Rear-left 3: Rear-right

Returns

  • bool: value

Returns true if the operation is successful, false otherwise.

Code Examples

shared

This example creates a vehicle and warps a ped inside immediately.

function setupForRace ( )
    local RacerPed = createPed ( 252, 0, 0, 3 )
    local RaceVehicle = createVehicle ( 411, 4, 0, 3 )            -- create a vehicle.
    warpPedIntoVehicle ( RacerPed, RaceVehicle )                  -- warp the ped straight into the vehicle
end
addCommandHandler ( "startrace", setupForRace )                   -- add a command to start race

Issues

ID Description
475 Network trouble when calling warpPedIntoVehicle on resourceStart

See Also

Ped Functions
Ped Events
Reference