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Storing vehicle ID into a variable - Tee - 22.07.2012

Would it be wiser to define a variable and store a player's current vehicle ID in that vairable than using 'GetPlayerVehicleID(playerid);' each time or even doing 'new vid = GetPlayerVehicleID(playerid);' each time you need to get the ID more than once.

Example:

And using 'ServerData[playerid][CurrentVehicleID]' throughout the rest of the script.
Would all that be wiser than what I stated above?

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Re: Storing vehicle ID into a variable - leonardo1434 - 22.07.2012

You could do this:
But you didn't explained carefully what do you want to do, at least myself didn't get it.

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Re: Storing vehicle ID into a variable - Tee - 22.07.2012

Instead of having to search (prefer not to use get) for the player's vehicle ID each time I need to use it, would it be wiser and or more efficient to store it into a variable ONCE and get it from that variable each time it's needed?

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Re: Storing vehicle ID into a variable - leonardo1434 - 22.07.2012

Yeh.. i use it, pretty helpful since you won't need to type this again. Normally i do that.

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Re: Storing vehicle ID into a variable - Kindred - 22.07.2012

Yea, I suppose using GetPlayerVehicleID every time is less efficient then using a variable.

Could be possible to see how fast it takes for each, if needed.

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Re: Storing vehicle ID into a variable - [KHK]Khalid - 22.07.2012

I did some benchmarking for this, here are the results if anyone is interested (Note: VehicleID is the player's vehicle variable):

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