NetworkGetPlayerIndexFromPed - nil native

FiveM Discussion Bug Reports
1

Hey! We’ve noticed native being nil on the latest Canary/Beta version of FiveM

Some important info + repro steps

  1. Client - Beta (5413); Server - 5374
  2. Expected to get player id of ped, as native is supposed to.
  3. Error is being thrown, attempt to call a nil value (global ‘NetworkGetPlayerIndexFromPed’)
  4. Native
  5. Code snippet below.
local playerPed = PlayerPedId()
local playerId = NetworkGetPlayerIndexFromPed(playerPed) -- error thrown here
local playerName = GetPlayerName(playerId)

print('Player name is:', playerName)

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Native link: NetworkGetPlayerIndexFromPed - FiveM Natives @ Cfx.re Docs
Screenshot of error

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2

Oddly, this snippet seems to work fine here:

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However, there does seem to be a scenario where Lua scripts that use an ancient resource manifest version (deprecated since… mid-2017?) that try to access a function by a name not defined at the time may ‘leak’ this state persisting for other resources as well.

3

Weird…

This issue is happening across multiple of our servers and multiple clients (all of them using Beta/Latest build)
Resources this is happening in are mostly using ‘adamant’ or ‘cerulean’ fx_version.

Could presence of few resources with old __resource manifest cause this issue server-wide?

4

Additionally, I can try running some tests on empty server.

Also, this started happening ± after this commit:

But that wouldn’t explain the native function being nil…

5

If these also do not specify any (or the initial, low) resource manifest version, yes.

6

Ok, is there any further testing needed or can I mark this as solved?

I can see that you already did some fixing, which is working on the Latest (Unstable) FiveM build.