PlayerPedId()

[wooziefub]

Hello, im trying to create a script, where the ooc chat is sent to players near me.

AddEventHandler('chatMessage', function(source, name, msg)
    sm = stringsplit(msg, " ");
    if string.find(sm[1], "/") then return end
    CancelEvent()
    local playerPed = PlayerPedId()
    local playerPos = GetEntityCoords(playerPed)
    local targetPos = GetEntityCoords(ped)
    local dist = #(playerPos - targetPos)
    if dist <= 20 then
    TriggerClientEvent('chat:addMessage', -1, {
        color = { 255, 255, 255 },
        multiline = true,
        --args = { text}
        template = '<div style="padding: 0.35vw; margin: 0; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); border-radius: 5px;"><i class="fas fa-user-crown"></i> {0} </div>',
        args = { "> ^5ooc^7 | " .. name .. " [" .. source .. "] : " .. string.sub(msg,1) }
    })
    end
end) 

function stringsplit(inputstr, sep)
    if sep == nil then
        sep = "%s"
    end
    local t={} ; i=1
    for str in string.gmatch(inputstr, "([^"..sep.."]+)") do
        t[i] = str
        i = i + 1
    end
    return t
end

This is the whole script, but the problem is that i get an error:

Anyone have an idea how to make this work? Thank you!

[_4iY]

Wild guess, make sure the resource that block of code is in is running on a fxmanifest.lua (NOT __resource.lua) and it has the latest fx_version defined.

[wooziefub]

This is my fxmanifest.lua:

fx_version 'cerulean'
game 'gta5'

server_script 'server.lua'

Im pretty sure the fx version is the latest one

[Modo]

PlayerPedId isn’t going to work server side is it… it doesn’t know who you are talking about

[wooziefub]

im kinda new to this, i tried to write a simple function on client side but im not sure how to call it so it gets the value… Could you help me out? Thank you

[wooziefub]

any way to make a function on client side that gets the dist value and just get it on server side?