hide_image(3)

💅 hide_image(3) — a Gen Z field guide

okay so real talk, this page is from the Library Functions Manual, section 3 of the man pages, and the star of the show is hide_image. she's short, she's sweet, and honestly bestie the whole page is like four lines. we love a low-effort icon ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

hide_image — literally just an alias for show_image(vid, 0.0, *time)

that's it. that's the name section. she said "I contain multitudes (one multitude, and it's an alias)" 💀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nil
hide_image()

so the return value is nil — like, she gives you nothing back, and honestly? relatable. 🫶 you call hide_image() and that's the whole vibe check.

(the name section is telling you she's an alias, so if you know show_image(vid, 0.0, *time), you already know her. iykyk 💖)

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🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

here's the canonical slay, bestie, this is the whole thing:

function hide_image0()
      hide_image(WORLDID);
end

see how it's called with WORLDID? main character energy. you pass the id in, she does the alias thing, done. no notes. ⭐

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💀 MISUSE 💀

okay so this section exists for a reason and the reason is: this is what not to do 🙈

function hide_image0()
      hide_image(-1);
end

that's the same function but with -1 in there, and it's filed under MISUSE — so like, the docs are literally waving a little red flag at you bestie. don't be that girl. no cap. do not pass -1 💅

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heads up: everything on this page is the actual documented content. there's no hidden lore, no extra options, no environment variables, no exit statuses — the ENTIRE manual page is the name, the synopsis (nil / hide_image()), one example with WORLDID, and one misuse example with -1. that's the tea. 🍓

so yeah, hide_image — an alias, a dream, a very short man page. go forth and pass WORLDID like a good little gremlin 🧚💜

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~ that's the whole page from the Arcan Lua API, dated October 2026. mwah, sending you off with a kiss and a correct function call 😭👑✨