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setPedChatWith

Client-side
NEON APINative ped tasks and gang tags

Available in Neon, not standard MTA

Starts GTA's native partner-chat task between two distinct peds.

Syntax

bool setPedChatWith(ped thePed, ped partner, bool leadSpeaker [, bool updateDirection = true, bool conversationEnabled = true])

GTA task mapping

ORIGINAL GTA TASK 0677
CTaskComplexPartnerChat

SCM equivalent: TASK_CHAT_WITH_CHAR

The task is queued through GTA's script-command event path. With conversationEnabled=false, Neon preserves PartnerChat's native timed SimpleChat/StandStill fallback.

Arguments

thePedped

Living streamed ped simulated by this client.

partnerped

Distinct living streamed conversation partner.

leadSpeakerbool

Whether the first ped leads the conversation.

updateDirectionbooloptional · default true

Allow the task to turn the speakers toward each other.

conversationEnabledbooloptional · default true

Enable the native conversation exchange.

Returns

true when the native task was queued; false when either ped, streaming state, liveness, simulation ownership, or task construction is invalid.

Ownership and lifecycle

Low-level ped task calls require the client that simulates the living, streamed ped. Driving tasks also require control of the streamed vehicle. They do not create lifecycle handles; the optional native-task-runtime adds server-owned route epochs and reconstruction for drive_to routes. Gang-tag ownership is resource-exclusive, survives object streaming and recreation, and is released automatically when the owner stops.

OOP aliases

  • ped:setChatWith(partner, leadSpeaker, updateDirection, conversationEnabled)

Where this comes from

SOURCECLuaPedDefs.cppClient/mods/deathmatch/logic/luadefs/CLuaPedDefs.cpp INTRODUCED / EXTENDEDc8176de3cRead the commit and why the change was made TEST RESOURCE tagging-up-turf test-resources/tagging-up-turf
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setPedGoTo Replaces the owned ped's primary task with GTA's native go-to-and-stand-still task. setPedStandStill Queues GTA's simple stand-still task on a simulated ped. setPedJump Starts GTA's native jump, airborne, optional climb, and landing task chain on a ped simulated by this client.

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