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requestVehicleRecording

Client-side
NEON APINative vehicle recordings

Available in Neon, not standard MTA

Acquires and requests one registered GTA carrec recording for the calling resource.

Syntax

bool requestVehicleRecording(int recordingId)

Arguments

recordingIdint

Registered native recording ID.

Returns

true when requested or already owned; false for unknown recordings or load failure.

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.

Important behavior
  • Repeated calls are idempotent and may reload a buffer released by natural completion.

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
RELATED NEON APIS

Continue exploring

Read the system guide →
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. stopVehiclePlayback Stops playback when the calling resource owns the vehicle's active native slot.

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