Position script

[Zonex Favel]

Made this position script because I wanted an easier way for spawn points too. It can use improvement but here it is

  
function getPos(thePlayer, command, place) 
    local x,y,z = getElementPosition(thePlayer) 
    local placeFile = place..".txt" 
    local posTxt = fileOpen(placeFile) 
    local mycoordinates = "X="..x.." Y="..y.." Z="..z 
    if posTxt then 
        fileWrite(posTxt, mycoordinates) 
    else 
        posTxt = fileCreate(placeFile) 
        fileWrite(posTxt, mycoordinates) 
    end 
    fileClose(posTxt) 
    outputChatBox("worked", thePlayer) 
end 
  
addCommandHandler("save", getPos) 
  

to use it just type "save " in the console and it will create a text file with that location name and the coordinates your at. You can also use "/save " in the chat window to execute it. If anyone has a better script or improvements to mine please post it!

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You might want to add a check whether the data really got saved to the file. Currently, it (is supposed to) always report "Worked!" back to the player

(a file could be read-only)

[rjcnz333]

Ok, and this is my version of the script, that saves your current position. I think, that it is better to keep all positions in one file.

function savePos(thePlayer,command,comment) 
    local x, y, z = getElementPosition(thePlayer) 
    hFile = fileOpen("pos.txt", false) 
    if hFile then 
        local temp 
        while not fileIsEOF(hFile) do 
        temp = fileRead(hFile, 500) 
    end 
        fileWrite(hFile,x .. ',' .. y .. ',' .. z .. ',' .. comment .. '\n') 
    else 
        hFile = fileCreate("pos.txt") 
        fileWrite(hFile,x .. ',' .. y .. ',' .. z .. ',' .. comment .. '\n') 
    end 
    outputChatBox("Saved!", thePlayer) 
    fileClose(hFile) 
end 
addCommandHandler ("pos", savePos) 

[Zonex Favel]

Cool Like your's better. Thanks for the help. I was trying to do that all day but I ended up with my script because I couldn't get it done.

EDIT: Having trouble getting this to work, did you use other scripts?

[idiot]

rjcnz333 whats the meta? yes i am a noob... but i could need this script for a stunt/freeroam server

[rjcnz333]

<meta> 
   <info name="savePos" description="Save your current position" author="333"/> 
   <script src="savepos.lua"/> 
</meta> 
  

You can use this resource only in folder. MTA: DM dp1 doesnt support fileCreate for zipped resources.

[idiot]

okay thx. but what are the commands to save & load positions? ;O

/load ?

[rjcnz333]

Write /pos to save your current position in pos.txt

[idiot]

what is wrong here? where must i create that pos.txt? i created it there where the savepos.lua is... is that the mistake?

[rjcnz333]

You don't need to create any files. Just unzip this resource.

[idiot]

load positions? ;O

i can save positions the "Saved!" appears but how to teleport to there ?

in the server window of developers preview 2 there comes an error: Attempt to concatenate local 'coment'

[ChrML]

fileCreate and fileOpen should now work inside zipped resources from DP2 and newer. You also have a fileGetSize, so you can find the end of file without actually reading all of it.

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load positions? ;O

i can save positions the "Saved!" appears but how to teleport to there ?

in the server window of developers preview 2 there comes an error: Attempt to concatenate local 'coment'

Assuming "comment" was spelled correct:

This means the variable comment has no value (it points to nothing). The script in the first post here, doesn't check if the value of comment exists. To do this add something like:

if( comment ~= nil ) then

...

end

[hihohihohiho]

Write /pos to save your current position in pos.txt

What is "" what are we suppose to put into this?