Helpful function to use fadeCamera in smooth way

[FIY9AL]

Server Side:

function eyeBlink(fadeoutTime, waitTime, fadeinTime, player)
    -- fading time must be in seconds, waiting time must be in milliseconds.
    fadeCamera(player, false, fadeoutTime, 0, 0, 0)
    function fadeIn()
        fadeCamera(player, true, fadeinTime, 0, 0, 0)
    end
    setTimer(fadeIn, waitTime, 1)
end

To use it just write:

eyeBlink(0.5, 500, 0.5, player)

Have a nice day .

Edited April 1, 2020 by FIY9AL

[The_GTA]

Hello FIY9AL,

I think this is a working function, cool! What you could improve though is setting the internal fadeIn function to be a local function, like this:

    local function fadeIn()
        fadeCamera(player, true, fadeinTime, 0, 0, 0)
    end

Then the function does not leak to the global namespace.

If we were to discuss the user friendliness, I could argue that you'd reorder function arguments so that player is the first argument and then default the waitTime and fadeinTime argument to be the same as fadeoutTime (of course multiply waitTime by 1000 to get ms time). This is because then you could simply write:

eyeBlink(player, 0.5)

 

[FIY9AL]

2 minutes ago, The_GTA said:

Hello FIY9AL,

I think this is a working function, cool! What you could improve though is setting the internal fadeIn function to be a local function, like this:

    local function fadeIn()
        fadeCamera(player, true, fadeinTime, 0, 0, 0)
    end

Then the function does not leak to the global namespace.

If we were to discuss the user friendliness, I could argue that you'd reorder function arguments so that player is the first argument and then default the waitTime and fadeinTime argument to be the same as fadeoutTime (of course multiply waitTime by 1000 to get ms time). This is because then you could simply write:

eyeBlink(player, 0.5)

 

Nice job upgrading my function i will use it, thank you for your time 

[The_GTA]

1 minute ago, FIY9AL said:

Nice job upgrading my function i will use it, thank you for your time 

You're welcome!