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ShowPlayerNameTagForPlayer

Description

This functions allows you to toggle the drawing of player nametags, healthbars and armor bars which display above their head. For use of a similar function like this on a global level, ShowNameTags function.

Name	Description
playerid	Player who will see the results of this function.
targetid	Player whose name tag will be shown or hidden.
bool:show	'true' for show name tag, 'false' for hide name tag.

Returns

true - The function executed successfully.

false - The function failed to execute. The player specified does not exist.

Examples

public OnPlayerCommandText(playerid, cmdtext[])
{
    // The player who typed /nameoff will not be able to see any other players nametag.
    if (strcmp("/nameoff", cmdtext, true) == 0)
    {
        for (new i = 0; i < MAX_PLAYERS; i++)
        {
            ShowPlayerNameTagForPlayer(playerid, i, false);
        }
        GameTextForPlayer(playerid, "~W~Nametags ~R~off", 5000, 5);
        return 1;
    }
    return 0;
}

Notes

tip

ShowNameTags must be set to 'true' to be able to show name tags with ShowPlayerNameTagForPlayer, that means that in order to be effective you need to ShowPlayerNameTagForPlayer(forplayerid, playerid, 0) ahead of time (OnPlayerStreamIn is a good spot).

Related Functions

ShowNameTags: Set nametags on or off.
DisableNameTagLOS: Disable nametag Line-Of-Sight checking.
SetPlayerMarkerForPlayer: Set a player's marker.