Creates a new vector4 value.
In FiveM's Lua runtime, vectors are real data types, just like numbers, bools and strings are.
This means that type(vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)) will return vector4.
More about this in the Lua runtime manual.
vector4 vector4(float x, float y, float z, float w)
x value of your vector.y value of your vector.z value of your vector.w value of your vector.-- Basic vector with zero length:
vector4(0, 0, 0, 0)
-- Vectors are a real data type:
local v = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
print(type(v)) -- prints `vector4`
-- Vectors support equality operators:
local v1 = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
local v2 = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
local v3 = vector4(5, 6, 7, 8)
print(v1 == v2) -- prints `true`
print(v1 == v3) -- prints `false`
print(v1 ~= v3) -- prints `true`
-- Arithmetic operations between vectors are supported:
local v = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
print(v + 2) -- prints `vector4(3, 4, 5, 6)`
print(v - 2) -- prints `vector4(-1, 0, 1, 2)`
print(v * 2) -- prints `vector4(1, 4, 6, 8)`
print(v / 2) -- prints `vector4(0.5, 1, 1.5, 2)`
-- Or even with another vector:
local v1 = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
local v2 = vector4(5, 6, 7, 8)
print(v1 + v2) -- prints `vector4(6, 8, 9, 12)`
print(v1 - v2) -- prints `vector4(-4, -4, -4)`
print(v1 * v2) -- prints `vector4(5, 12, 21, 32)`
print(v1 / v2) -- prints `vector4(0.2, 0.33, 0.43, 0.5)`
-- Vectors can be inverted:
local v = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
print(-v) -- prints `vector4(-1, -2, -3, -4)`
-- The length of the vector can be retrieved (pythagoras):
local v = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
print(#v) -- prints `5.477`
-- Vectors can be normalized:
local v = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
print(norm(v)) -- prints `vector4(0.1825742, 0.3651484, 0.5477225, 0.7302967)`
-- Unpacking works:
local v = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
local x, y, z, w = table.unpack(v)
-- To get the individual values from a vector:
local v = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
print(v.x) -- prints `1`
print(v.y) -- prints `2`
print(v.z) -- prints `3`
print(v.w) -- prints `4`
-- Vectors support arbitrary swizzling:
local v = vector4(1, 2, 3, 4)
print(v.yx) -- prints `vector2(2, 1)`
print(v.wz) -- prints `vector2(4, 3)`
print(v.xyx) -- prints `vector3(1, 2, 1)`
print(v.ywz) -- prints `vector3(2, 4, 3)`
print(v.yxyx) -- prints `vector4(2, 1, 2, 1)`
print(v.zxwy) -- prints `vector4(3, 1, 4, 2)`