Spawning Player help

[Guest]

hi, ive got:

function PlayerJoin ( passedPlayer ) 
  spawnPlayer ( passedPlayer, -2336.2847,-1614.5179,483.7172, 0.0, 0) 
  outputChatBox( "SERVER: Welcome to DFSFv3 - MTAdm Chilliad test", p, 255, 100, 100 ) 
end 

PlayerJoin IS being called as the chat message appears... but no spawning, the screen just stays black. It gives me this warning when i try and join:

Bad Argument @ 'spawnPlayer' - line 5

line 5 is the line of the spawnPlayer function. thanks

[ChrML]

Do a fadeCamera ( passedPlayer, true ) aswell . Players have their camera faded out by default.

[Guest]

thank you ChrML, but with this

--PLAYERJOIN 
function PlayerJoin ( passedPlayer ) 
  spawnPlayer ( passedPlayer, -2336.2847,-1614.5179,483.7172, 0.0, 0) 
  fadeCamera ( passedPlayer, true ) 
  outputChatBox( "SERVER: Welcome to DFSFv3 - MTAdm Chilliad test", p, 255, 100, 100 ) 
   
end 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), PlayerJoin ) 

it still stays on the black screen and gives 2 warnings (Both Bad argument)

Thanks.

[norby89]

--PLAYERJOIN 
function PlayerJoin ( passedPlayer ) 
  spawnPlayer ( source, -2336.2847,-1614.5179,483.7172, 0.0, 0) 
  fadeCamera ( source, true ) 
  outputChatBox( "SERVER: Welcome to DFSFv3 - MTAdm Chilliad test", source, 255, 100, 100 ) 
   
end 
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerJoin", getRootElement(), PlayerJoin ) 

try this

[ChrML]

Yep, didn't see that, sorry. "source" is the element that the event was triggered on. For onPlayerJoin, http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... PlayerJoin , the source is the player that joined. See information about the event system here: http://development.mtasa.com/index.php?title=Event

[Guest]

ah, thank you that worked perfectly

sorry to be a bother but im having some problems with spawnVehicle.

example of line: spawnVehicle(539,-2247.9392,-1725.0338,479.5452,40.9806, 0.0, 0.0)

error: [17:36:47] WARNING: DFSFv3.lua: Bad 'element' pointer @ 'spawnVehicle'(1) - Line: 186

from what ive read http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... awnVehicle i seem to be doing it right

[norby89]

example of line: spawnVehicle(539,-2247.9392,-1725.0338,479.5452,40.9806, 0.0, 0.0)

error: [17:36:47] WARNING: DFSFv3.lua: Bad 'element' pointer @ 'spawnVehicle'(1) - Line: 186

use createVehicle ( 539,-2247.9392,-1725.0338,479.5452,40.9806, 0.0, 0.0)

spawnVehicle is used to respawn an already existing vehicle, for example:

monter = createVehicle ( 444, 0, 0, 4 )

spawnVehicle ( monster, 1000, 2000, 10 ) <- this function would spawn the monster to a different location

[Guest]

yes, i tried create vehicle before, but for some reason it spawns hundreds of the same vehicle. my vehicles are placed in a function that is called with the event "onResourceStart"

[norby89]

yes, i tried create vehicle before, but for some reason it spawns hundreds of the same vehicle. my vehicles are placed in a function that is called with the event "onResourceStart"

you got addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement ( getThisResource() ), yourFunction )? else it creates a vehicle every time a resource is loaded

[ChrML]

Yeah, onResourceStart triggers every time a resource is loaded. If you attach the eventhandler to the resource root element rather than the global root element, it only triggers when the current resource is loaded, and thus only once .