SetVehicleEngineState

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This function turns a vehicle's engine on or off. Note that the engine will always be turned on when someone enters the driver seat, unless you override that behaviour with scripts.

Syntax

bool setVehicleEngineState ( vehicle theVehicle, bool engineState )

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Method: vehicle:setEngineState(...)
Variable: .engineState
Counterpart: getVehicleEngineState

Required Arguments

  • theVehicle: The vehicle you wish to change the engine state of.
  • engineState: A boolean value representing whether the engine will be turned on (true) or off (false).

Returns

Returns true if the vehicle's engine state was successfully changed, false otherwise.

Example

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Clientside example

This example lets the driver toggle vehicle engine on/off. 

function toggleEngine()
	local vehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
	if vehicle and getVehicleController(vehicle) == localPlayer then
		setVehicleEngineState(vehicle, not getVehicleEngineState(vehicle))
	end
end
addCommandHandler("engine", toggleEngine)
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Serverside example

This example will turn off a vehicle's engine when the driver gets out of the car. 

function turnEngineOff ( theVehicle, leftSeat, jackerPlayer )
    -- if it's the driver who got out, and he was not jacked,
    if leftSeat == 0 and not jackerPlayer then
        -- turn off the engine
        setVehicleEngineState ( theVehicle, false )
    end
end
-- add 'turnEngineOff' as a handler for "onPlayerExitVehicle"
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerVehicleExit", getRootElement ( ), turnEngineOff )

See Also

FROM VERSION 1.5.7 r19626 ONWARDS
FROM VERSION 1.6 r7485 ONWARDS
FROM VERSION 1.6 r7485 ONWARDS


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