[Question] Difference between GetPlayerPed(-1) and PlayerPedId()

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Hi. As title says I want to know what is the difference between these two, because I see that some people use the first one and the others the seconds one in same natives (for example TaskPlayAnim).

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GetPlayerPed(-1) is an old habit from the older games like GTA IV and before, in V there’s PlayerPedId() which should be used and is also much faster.

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Hence in newer games such as RDR3 (Red Dead Redemption 2) GetPlayerPed(-1) doesn’t even work anymore.

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Hi!

Could you tell me the program or how to know the ms from the code?

Thanks

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profiler in the console

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How did you test this? Could you maybe post your code for both? Or is it just:

Citizen.CreateThread(function()
   local a = GetPlayerPedId(-1)
end)

and

Citizen.CreateThread(function()
   local a = PlayerPedId()
end)