Adding Blips

Blips are small icons visible in the minimap. They can be placed in certain positions, or follow entities.

Examples

Functions

blip, id = GMinimap:AddBlip(params: table)

Add your own blip to the radar.

The params table is a key-value dictionary that should contain the initial properties of the blip. You can modify the returned blip with these same parameters at any point.

Key	Type	Description
id	string	A ID that can be used to remove the blip later
parent	Entity	A parent entity the blip will follow, if valid
icon	string	Icon file path, either as a URL or a file on disk
position	Vector	World position (doesnt apply if parent was set)
angle	Angle	World rotation (doesnt apply if parent was set)
scale	number	Blip icon scale
alpha	number	Blip icon opacity
color	Color	Blip icon color
indicateAlt	boolean	Show a altitude indicator when not in the same level
indicateAng	boolean	Show a heading arrow
lockIconAng	boolean	angle will only affect indicateAng, icon does not rotate

blip = GMinimap:FindBlipByID(id: string)

Find a blip created previously by it's ID.

GMinimap:RemoveBlipById(id: string)

Remove a blip created previously by it's id. You can obtain the id either from the second value returned from GMinimap:AddBlip or in the blip itself, blip.id.

GMinimap:RemoveBlipByParent(ent: Entity)

Remove all blips created previously that have ent as their parent.