Exports

The following events and exports can be used from your own scripts to interact and/or receive info from the weather script.

Client

zoneUpdated

This event gets triggered when a zone is updated from server, contains the zone name and a table with zone info.

params:

• zone: string

• data: table

AddEventHandler('av_weather:zoneUpdated', function(zone,data)
    print(zone, json.encode(data,{ indent = true}))
    --[[
        data = {
           wind: number,
           zone: string,
           fog: string,
           windState: string,
           label: string,
           weather: string,
           freeze: boolean,
           frozenFog: string,
           temperature: number
        }
    ]]--
end

timeUpdated

This event gets triggered when in game time is updated.

params:

• hours: number

• minutes: number

• seconds: number

AddEventHandler('av_weather:timeUpdated',function(hours,minutes,seconds)
    print(hours, minutes, seconds)
end)

Freeze/Unfreeze Time and Weather for local player

Use this event to freeze or sync the time for a local player, useful for multicharacter, spawn scripts, houses/motel scripts, etc.

params:

• state: Boolean

• hours: number optional

• minutes: number optional

• weather: string optional

• blackout: Boolean optional

• fog: string optional

-- This is an example on how to freeze a player time:
local state = true
local hours = 23
local minutes = 0
local weather = "CLEAR"
local blackout = false
local fog = false
-- Fog options: "automatic", "no", "normal", "low", "medium", "high", "max" or false
TriggerEvent('av_weather:freeze', state, hours, minutes, weather, blackout, fog)

-- This is an example on how to unfreeze player time and sync with server
TriggerEvent('av_weather:freeze', false)

getZone()

Use this export to get the current zone where the player is standing.

returns:

zone: string

local zone = exports['av_weather']:getZone()
-- zone can be "santos", "cayo", "paleto" or "sandy"

getBlackout()

Use this export to retrieve the current blackout state.

returns:

state: Boolean

local blackout = exports['av_weather']:getBlackout()
-- blackout = true or false

setRain()

Removes rain effects from the player, useful for those using YMAPs where rain comes through the roof creating puddles inside their map.

params:

state: Boolean

local state = true -- or false to enable effect again
exports['av_weather']:setRain(state)

Server

generateWeathers()

Use this export to generate random weathers for all zones.

exports['av_weather']:generateWeathers()

getZone()

Retrieve a zone info.

parameters:

name: string

local name = "santos" -- options: "santos", "sandy", "paleto", "cayo
local zoneInfo = exports['av_weather']:getZone(name)
--[[
    zone info returns false or table:
    {
        zone: string,
        label: string,
        weather: string,
        wind: number,
        temperature: number,
        freeze: boolean,
        fog: string
    }
]]--

updateZone()

Not recommended, use the weather menu instead.

parameters:

zone: string

weather: string

freeze: boolean

local zone = "santos"
local weather = "THUNDER"
local freeze = false
exports['av_weather']:updateZone(zone, weather, freeze)

updateTime()

Not recommended, use the weather menu instead.

parameters:

hour: number

minutes: number

freeze: boolean

instant: boolean

local hour = 20
local minutes = 0
local freeze = false
local instant = false -- if false then time will increase progressively
exports['av_weather']:updateTime(hour, minutes, freeze, instant)

setBlackout()

Change the blackout state for all server players.

parameters:

state: Boolean

local state = true -- enable/disable blackout globally
exports['av_weather']:setBlackout(state)

getBlackout()

Get the server blackout state.

returns

state: Boolean

local state = exports['av_weather']:getBlackout()

getTime()

Get server time.

returns

value: table

local serverTime = exports['av_weather']:getTime()
print(json.encode(serverTime, {indent = true}))
--[[
    serverTime = {
        hour: number,
        minutes: number,
        seconds: number
    }
]]--