[Spectate on a vehicle/ped/object]

Nice, works like a charm. But is there a way to keep the focus of the camera behind the object when I'm not moving my mouse? I mean, when the object I'm spectating (a ghost car) makes a turn the camera stays at the same spot at which I left it via my mouse. I need it to go behind the object (ghost car) after a few seconds of not moving my mouse. Hope you can help!

[[HELP] Function to force camera movement on/off?]

This did it, camera moves around while spectating ghost vehicle just as if I'm spectating a normal player: 

But is there a way to keep the focus always behind the vehicle (while not moving the mouse)? Right now if the ghost vehicle makes a turn the camera remains facing the spot I left it at with my mouse. It should go back to behind the ghost car automatically. Any help appreciated!

[Spectate on a vehicle/ped/object]

24 minutes ago, orel56000 said:

yea

Thanks a lot for sharing. I guess to disable it i put the same function again? 

[Spectate on a vehicle/ped/object]

And the distance is how far you see around the object, right?

[Change the size of the game like in the ffs server]

A similar effect is done on 6s server. I too would like to know how.

[Spectate on a vehicle/ped/object]

@orel56000 AngX and AngZ are not defined anywhere and give error. Can you give example on how to use these functions to set the camera on an object and make it move freely to look around that object via mouse move (just like it is in normal spectating).

[[HELP] Function to force camera movement on/off?]

Would this work btw? https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p=resources&s=list&name=freecam&descr=&category=

[[HELP] Want to make the Vehicle and Nitro disappear i]

No problem, glad I could help

[[HELP] Want to make the Vehicle and Nitro disappear i]

23 minutes ago, TropicalFrizzy said:

I "fixed it" I changed the "player state" to "state" and == "spectating" to "dead" and it hides it when a player is dead. but if someone joins the server and is in a "waiting" state it shows up for them can I just add =="dead", "waiting" ?? and could I have the sync I want to see how it works anyway, please. 

You can do like this:

local state = getElementData(localPlayer, "player state")
		if state == "dead" or state == "waiting" then
			return
		end

Here's how to sync it (lines 6-10):

function nitroShow()
	if isPedInVehicle(localPlayer) then
		local target = getCameraTarget()
		local car = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
		local nitro = getVehicleNitroLevel(car)
		if target and getElementType(target) == "vehicle" then
			nitro = getVehicleNitroLevel(getVehicleOccupant(target))
		elseif target and getElementType(target) == "player" then
			nitro = getVehicleNitroLevel(target)
		end
		if isPedDead(localPlayer) then
			return
		end
		if nitro ~= false and nitro ~= nil and nitro > 0 then
			dxDrawRectangle(x*1305, y*814, x*126, y*23, tocolor(44, 44, 44, 255), true) -- Nos Show
			dxDrawRectangle(x*1305, y*814, x*126/10*10*nitro, y*23, tocolor(0, 70, 149, 255), true) -- Nos Show
			dxDrawText((math.floor(nitro/1*100)).."% Nitro", x*1290, y*810, x*1454, y*842, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.30, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Nos Show
		else
			dxDrawText("No Nitro", x*1290, y*810, x*1454, y*842, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.30, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Nos Hide
		end
	end
end
addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, nitroShow)

 

[Spectate on a vehicle/ped/object]

lol I needed the exact same thing just a few hours ago  Have a look at my topic: 

 

The functions which did it for me were:

GetCamera()

setElementPosition()

atachElements()

The code example at the first function's wiki is what we're looking for.

[[HELP] Function to force camera movement on/off?]

GetCamera (combined with the other functions in it's example) fixed a huge part of the problem  Thanks @pa3ck, @CodyJ(L) would be nice, only thing left to do is to enable free camera movement while spectating the ghost vehicle.

[[HELP] Function to force camera movement on/off?]

8 hours ago, CodyJ(L) said:

setCameraTarget(localPlayer)

However, toggling movement requires a custom resource.

But i don't need to set the target to myself. It should be kept on the ghost car, only need to enable camera movement. I'll try with warpPedIntoVehicle () to put myself in the ghost car and then setCameraTarget () on me. If only setCameraTarget() worked on other objects except players...it would be so easy to achieve this. 

[[HELP] Want to make the Vehicle and Nitro disappear i]

7 minutes ago, TropicalFrizzy said:

I am using dxscoreboard 

Sadly i have no idea why it won't work then. Check to see if the column name is indeed "player state" and not something else. Maybe my scoreboard is so modified that those things work only in it. Who knows

[[HELP] Function to force camera movement on/off?]

Hey guys, I feel a bit awkward asking for a function name but...xd I'm pretty sure there was some function to force the player's camera movement on and off. What I mean is that after i set the camera with setCameraMatrix() I can't use the mouse to look around me. So I need to add that function which forces camera movement to be on after using setCameraMatrix(). Hope some of you remember it, I asked a few guys but none do

 

PS: It's for my race ghost spectating resource.

[[HELP] Want to make the Vehicle and Nitro disappear i]

Weird, works for me. Maybe you're not using the dxScoreboard?

[Emergency Lighting System (ELM,ELS)]

I doubt that you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Better download one of the given resources and edit it with your preferences (on / off switch for everything, adding sirens etc).

[Scoreboard flags not showing]

20 minutes ago, Ryan2233 said:

That would be great! Thank you. 

Here you go: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bk1ipa4vhq1swal/scoreboard.zip

[[HELP] Want to make the Vehicle and Nitro disappear i]

Here you go. By the way instead of removing it when you're spectating you can make it update the health and nitro level of the person you're spectating so it shows their values. Anyway, code to remove both if you're spectating below, let me know if you want to sync it instead and I'll be glad to help you out (it's ready for me, just copy-paste xd).

local sx, sy = guiGetScreenSize()
local px, py = 1600, 900
local x, y =  (sx/px), (sy/py)

function drawHealthAndNOS()
	local playerVehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
	if playerVehicle then
		local vehicleHealth = getElementHealth(playerVehicle)
		local vehicleSpeed = getElementVelocity(playerVehicle)
		if isPedDead(localPlayer) then
			return
		end
		local state = getElementData(localPlayer, "player state")
		if state == "spectating" then
			return
		end
		dxDrawLine(x*1293, y*802, x*1590, y*802, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 3, true)
		dxDrawLine(x*1293, y*886, x*1590, y*886, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 3, true)
		dxDrawLine(x*1293, y*801, x*1293, y*887, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 3, true)
		dxDrawLine(x*1590, y*800, x*1590, y*886, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 3, true)
		dxDrawRectangle(x*1294, y*803, x*297, y*83, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 170), true) -- Rahmen
		dxDrawRectangle(x*1454, y*814, x*126, y*23, tocolor(44, 44, 44, 255), true) -- Health
		dxDrawRectangle(x*1454, y*814, x*126/1000*vehicleHealth, y*23, tocolor(59, 141, 0, 255), true) -- Health
		dxDrawText((math.floor(vehicleHealth/10)).."% Health", x*1440, y*810, x*1604, y*842, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.30, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Health
		sx, sy, sz = getElementVelocity (getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)) -- Speed
		vehiclekmh = math.floor(((sx^2 + sy^2 + sz^2)^(0.5))*180) -- Speed
		dxDrawText(""..tostring(vehiclekmh).." kmh", x*1358, y*857, x*1522, y*877, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.20, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Speed
	end
end
addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawHealthAndNOS)

function nitroShow()
	if isPedInVehicle(localPlayer) then
		local car = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
		local nitro = getVehicleNitroLevel(car)
		if isPedDead(localPlayer) then
			return
		end
		local state = getElementData(localPlayer, "player state")
		if state == "spectating" then
			return
		end
		if nitro ~= false and nitro ~= nil and nitro > 0 then
			dxDrawRectangle(x*1305, y*814, x*126, y*23, tocolor(44, 44, 44, 255), true) -- Nos Show
			dxDrawRectangle(x*1305, y*814, x*126/10*10*nitro, y*23, tocolor(0, 70, 149, 255), true) -- Nos Show
			dxDrawText((math.floor(nitro/1*100)).."% Nitro", x*1290, y*810, x*1454, y*842, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.30, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Nos Show
		else
			dxDrawText("No Nitro", x*1290, y*810, x*1454, y*842, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.30, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Nos Hide
		end
	end
end
addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, nitroShow)

And in the post window there are two opposite arrows in the control bar at the top. Something like '<>'. Click that and paste your code there so it looks like in Notepad++

[Scoreboard flags not showing]

I'm from phone so can't give any code but i did notice one thing. You can't set the flag just by setting element data as you can other things. To put flags in the scoreboard you have to use dxDrawImage. I'll give you my scoreboard's flags lines tomorrow so you see how it's made. I can give you my modified scoreboard actually. It puts flags and full country names in column called "Country". Reply here if you want it. (It didn't work by using a 3rd party resource for me neither when i tried to use one from community.)

[[HELP] Want to make the Vehicle and Nitro disappear i]

I used the same resource in my server since the design is so simplistic yet awesome looking. Try this for your case (also fixed up code a bit since it wasn't positioned correctly):

local sx, sy = guiGetScreenSize()
local px, py = 1600, 900
local x, y =  (sx/px), (sy/py)

function drawHealthAndNOS()
	local playerVehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
	if playerVehicle then
		local vehicleHealth = getElementHealth ( playerVehicle )
		local vehicleSpeed = getElementVelocity ( playerVehicle )
		if isPedDead(localPlayer) then
			return
		end
		dxDrawLine(x*1293, y*802, x*1590, y*802, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 3, true)
		dxDrawLine(x*1293, y*886, x*1590, y*886, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 3, true)
		dxDrawLine(x*1293, y*801, x*1293, y*887, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 3, true)
		dxDrawLine(x*1590, y*800, x*1590, y*886, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), 3, true)
		dxDrawRectangle(x*1294, y*803, x*297, y*83, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 170), true) -- Rahmen
		dxDrawRectangle(x*1454, y*814, x*126, y*23, tocolor(44, 44, 44, 255), true) -- Health
		dxDrawRectangle(x*1454, y*814, x*126/1000*vehicleHealth, y*23, tocolor(59, 141, 0, 255), true) -- Health
		dxDrawText((math.floor(vehicleHealth/10)).."% Health", x*1440, y*810, x*1604, y*842, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.30, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Health
		sx, sy, sz = getElementVelocity (getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)) -- Speed
		vehiclekmh = math.floor(((sx^2 + sy^2 + sz^2)^(0.5))*180) -- Speed
		dxDrawText(""..tostring(vehiclekmh).." kmh", x*1358, y*857, x*1522, y*877, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.20, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Speed
	end
end
addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, drawHealth)

function nitroShow()
	if isPedInVehicle(localPlayer) then
		local car = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
		local nitro = getVehicleNitroLevel(car)
		if isPedDead(localPlayer) then
			return
		end
		if nitro ~= false and nitro ~= nil and nitro > 0 then
			dxDrawRectangle(x*1305, y*814, x*126, y*23, tocolor(44, 44, 44, 255), true) -- Nos Show
			dxDrawRectangle(x*1305, y*814, x*126/10*10*nitro, y*23, tocolor(0, 70, 149, 255), true) -- Nos Show
			dxDrawText((math.floor(nitro/1*100)).."% Nitro", x*1290, y*810, x*1454, y*842, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.30, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Nos Show
		else
			dxDrawText("No Nitro", x*1290, y*810, x*1454, y*842, tocolor(255, 255, 255, 255), 1.30, "default-bold", "center", "center", false, false, true, false, false) -- Nos Hide
		end
	end
end
addEventHandler("onClientRender", root, nitroShow)

 

[[QUESTION] setVehiclePlateText() doubt]

Edited a bit and tested with a real-life player (woah ). Everything works perfect, also optimized a bit as you suggested @IIYAMA.

[[QUESTION] setVehiclePlateText() doubt]

It just refused to work without a slight delay after the map has started  OK, I'll try to fix it up a bit after dinner and report back soon.

 

PS: i just saw there's no need to trigger client event on login logout and namechange will just put licence plate function in server side.

[[QUESTION] setVehiclePlateText() doubt]

Thanks for your input @IIYAMA but setTimer says:

• timesToExecute: The number of times you want the timer to execute, or 0 for infinite repetitions.

And I set it to '1' so that it executes just once on every map start. Am I missing something? Shouldn't it be '0' to be an infinite timer?

[[QUESTION] setVehiclePlateText() doubt]

Here goes. So I wasted ~ 1 hour and did the following things:

Cliend-side stuff:

visual = { -- Standard Settings, 0 = off --
	["plate"] = string.sub(getPlayerName(localPlayer):gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', ''), 1, 8),
}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function visual_ButtonHandler()
	if source == GUIEditor.button["plate"] then
		local nr = guiGetText(GUIEditor.edit["plate"])
		
		if not nr then outputChatBox("Please insert a string to use as your licence plate before clicking ok.") return end
			if nr == nil or nr == "" or nr == " " or nr == "  " or nr == "   " or nr == "    " or nr == "     " or nr == "      " or nr == "       " or nr == "        " then
				outputChatBox("Your licence plate cannot be empty. Changed to default one. ")
				nr = string.sub(getPlayerName(localPlayer):gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', ''), 1, 8)
			end
			local veh = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
			if veh then
				if getElementData(localPlayer, "LoggedIn") ~= true then
					outputChatBox("You need to register and login in order to set a custom licence plate!", 255, 153, 0, true)
					return
				end
				setVehiclePlateText(veh, nr)
				setElementData(localPlayer, "savedPlate", nr)
				setElementData(localPlayer, "plate", nr)
				visual["plate"] = nr
				v_setSaveTimer()
			end
		end
	end
end
addEventHandler("onClientGUIClick", resourceRoot, visual_ButtonHandler)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function visual_LoadSettings()
	for w, c in pairs(visual) do -- Move settings to visual table --
		local theChild = xmlFindChild( v_loadXML, w, 0 )
		if not theChild then
			local theChild = xmlCreateChild( v_loadXML, w )
			xmlNodeSetValue( theChild, c )
		end
		if w ~= "nitrocolor" and w ~= "plate" then -- nitrocolor is not a number value
			local val = xmlNodeGetValue( theChild )
			visual[w] = tonumber(val)
		else
			local val = xmlNodeGetValue( theChild )
			visual[w] = val
		end
		if w == "plate" then
			local veh = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
			setElementData(localPlayer, "savedPlate", c)
			setElementData(localPlayer, "plate", c)
			local pltTxt = c
			if getElementData(localPlayer, "LoggedIn") ~= true then 
				pltTxt = string.sub(getPlayerName(localPlayer):gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', ''), 1, 8)
			end
			if veh then
				setVehiclePlateText(veh, pltTxt)
			end
		end
	end
	setVisualGUI()
end
addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart", resourceRoot, visual_LoadSettings)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
addEvent("changePlateOnLogout", true)
function changePlateOnLogout(veh, pltTxt)
	if veh and pltTxt then
		setVehiclePlateText(veh, pltTxt)
	end
end
addEventHandler("changePlateOnLogout", root, changePlateOnLogout)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
addEvent("changePlateOnLogin", true)
function changePlateOnLogin(veh, pltTxt)
	if veh and pltTxt then
		setVehiclePlateText(veh, pltTxt)
	end
end
addEventHandler("changePlateOnLogin", root, changePlateOnLogin)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
addEvent("changePlateOnNickChange", true)
function changePlateOnNickChange(veh, pltTxt)
	if veh and pltTxt then
		setVehiclePlateText(veh, pltTxt)
	end
end
addEventHandler("changePlateOnNickChange", root, changePlateOnNickChange)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function setVisualGUI()
	for f, u in pairs(visual) do
		if f == "plate" then
			if u ~= nil or u ~= "" or u ~= " " or u ~= "  " or u ~= "   " or u ~= "    " or u ~= "     " or u ~= "      " or u ~= "       " or u ~= "        " then
				guiSetText(GUIEditor.edit["plate"], u)
				local veh = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
				if veh then
					if getElementData(localPlayer, "LoggedIn") ~= true then
						outputChatBox("You need to register and login in order to set a custom licence plate!", 255, 153, 0, true)
						return
					end
					setVehiclePlateText(veh, u)
					setElementData(localPlayer, "savedPlate", u)
					setElementData(localPlayer, "plate", u)
					visual["plate"] = u
				end
			else
				local plate
				local veh = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
				if veh then
					plate =  getVehiclePlateText(veh)
				end
				if plate then
					guiSetText(GUIEditor.edit["plate"], plate)
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

Server-side stuff:

addEvent("onMapStarting", true)
function setLicencePlate()
	setTimer(function()
		for k,v in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do
			local account = getPlayerAccount(v)
			if account and isGuestAccount(account) then
				return
			end
			local veh = getPedOccupiedVehicle(v)
			local plateText = getElementData(v, "plate")
			if veh and plateText and plateText ~= nil then
				setVehiclePlateText(veh, plateText)
			end
		end
	end, 50, 1)
end
addEventHandler("onMapStarting", root, setLicencePlate)
addEventHandler("onPlayerSpawn", root, setLicencePlate)
addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", root, setLicencePlate)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function onPlayerLogout()
	local vehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle(source)
	local newPlate = string.sub(getPlayerName(source):gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', ''), 1, 8)
	triggerClientEvent(root, "changePlateOnLogout", source, vehicle, newPlate)
end
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogout", root, onPlayerLogout)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function onPlayerLogin()
	local newPlate
	local vehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle(source)
	local savedPlate = getElementData(source, "savedPlate")
	if savedPlate then
		newPlate = string.sub(savedPlate:gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', ''), 1, 8)
	else
		newPlate = string.sub(getPlayerName(source):gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', ''), 1, 8)
	end
	triggerClientEvent(root, "changePlateOnLogin", source, vehicle, newPlate)
end
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin", root, onPlayerLogin)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function onPlayerChangeNick(oldNick, newNick)
	local account = getPlayerAccount(source)
	local savedPlate = getElementData(source, "savedPlate")
	if savedPlate and account and not isGuestAccount(account) then
		return
	end
	local vehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle(source)
	local newPlate = string.sub(newNick:gsub('#%x%x%x%x%x%x', ''), 1, 8)
	triggerClientEvent(root, "changePlateOnNickChange", source, vehicle, newPlate)
end
addEventHandler("onPlayerChangeNick", root, onPlayerChangeNick)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function onPlayerLogin()
	local playeraccount = getPlayerAccount(source)
	if playeraccount then
		if not isGuestAccount(playeraccount) then
			setElementData(source, "LoggedIn", true)
		else
			setElementData(source, "LoggedIn", false)
		end
	end
end
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin", root, onPlayerLogin)

Obviosly this is just the part for the plates (there is a :~load of code for other settings in the resource). For me - it works. No bugs, no problems.

But would it be synced to all other players is my question? Like, when I change my licence plate to a custom one from the GUI, would a player next to me or spectating me see the updated custom plate? If anyone can take a look at the above lines and tell me, I'd appreciate it.

[[QUESTION] setVehiclePlateText() doubt]

46 minutes ago, MrTasty said:

If you do it from clientside, it will only update on the screen of the player on whose client you called the function.

Bummer, that's what I thought too. Will be harder to sync than I though