GetLocalPlayer

This function gets the player element of the client running the current script.

You can use the predefined variable localPlayer instead of typing getLocalPlayer()

Syntax

player getLocalPlayer ( )

Returns

Returns the local player element.

Example

Example 1: This client side function outputs the player's current location to the console.

-- we get the local player (we do this outside of the function body so it isn't retrieved every time
-- the function is called, since the local player never changes)

function outputLocalPlayerPosition ( )
	-- get the local player's position
	local px, py, pz = getElementPosition ( getLocalPlayer ( ) )
	-- output it to the console
	outputConsole ( "Your location: " .. px .. " " .. py .. " " .. pz )
end

Example 2: This client side script makes the local player's camera flash red after being hit.

function flashRed ( )
	-- fade out the local player's camera to red during a second
	fadeCamera( false, 1.0, 255, 0, 0 )
	-- set a 500 ms (0.5 sec) timer to fade it back in before it has completely faded out
	setTimer( fadeCamera, 500, 1, true, 1.0 )
end
-- we attach our 'flashRed' function to be a handler of "onClientPlayerDamage" when its source (that is, the hit player) is the local player
addEventHandler( "onClientPlayerDamage", getLocalPlayer ( ), flashRed )

See Also

• forcePlayerMap
• getLocalPlayer
• getPlayerBlurLevel
• getPlayerFromName
• getPlayerMapBoundingBox
• getPlayerMoney
• getPlayerName
• getPlayerNametagColor
• getPlayerNametagText
• getPlayerPing
• getPlayerTeam
• getPlayerWantedLevel
• givePlayerMoney
• isPlayerHudComponentVisible
• isPlayerMapForced
• isPlayerMapVisible
• isPlayerNametagShowing
• isVoiceEnabled
• setPlayerBlurLevel
• setPlayerHudComponentVisible
• setPlayerMoney
• setPlayerNametagColor
• setPlayerNametagShowing
• setPlayerNametagText
• takePlayerMoney