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isVehiclePlaybackActive

Client-side
NEON APINative vehicle recordings

Available in Neon, not standard MTA

Reports whether GTA's native 16-slot player currently contains the vehicle.

Syntax

bool isVehiclePlaybackActive(vehicle theVehicle)

Arguments

theVehiclevehicle

Streamed vehicle.

Returns

true while native playback is active; false otherwise.

Ownership and lifecycle

Playback stops when the resource shuts down, the native vehicle is destroyed or streamed out, or sync ownership is lost. It uses opcode 05EB directly and does not loop.

OOP aliases

  • vehicle:isPlaybackActive()
  • vehicle.playbackActive

Where this comes from

SOURCECLuaVehicleDefs.cppClient/mods/deathmatch/logic/luadefs/CLuaVehicleDefs.cpp INTRODUCED / EXTENDEDeafc816e6Read the commit and why the change was made RELATED CATEGORY HARNESS native-vehicle-recording-test Category-level coverage · test-resources/native-vehicle-recording-test
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Read the system guide →
requestVehicleRecording Acquires and requests one registered GTA carrec recording for the calling resource. isVehicleRecordingLoaded Reports whether a registered recording currently has a streamed native frame buffer. startVehiclePlayback Starts direct non-looped GTA recorded-car playback on a vehicle owned by the local unoccupied-vehicle syncer.

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