Remove destroyed models of vehicles

[Guest]

Hello all,

I recently edited a lua file in such a way which prevented vehicles to respawn, however as a result of this destroyed models still appear in position. What must I delete or add so that these destroyed models do not stay along for long if at all if possible once a vehicle has been destroyed?

[50p]

Use function: destroyElement()

Pass there vehicle element, the vehicle that exploded.

[khepra]

I had the same problem, so I fixed it with this code:

function vehicleExplode () 
    --destroy wreck after 5 minutes 
    setTimer( destroyElement, 300000, 1, source) 
end 
  
addEventHandler ( "onVehicleExplode", getRootElement(), vehicleExplode )  

Of course, if you don't want the wreck at all, you can just call destroyElement(source) instead of the timer.

[Guest]

This is the one I use, it's only a slight variation of the one just posted and the one on the wiki. The differences are it respawns the car in its original position after the given time (6 seconds in this example) - or alternatively if it's a spawned vehicle that isn't part of the .map - it destroys it to stop the map getting cluttered up (also avoids 'andromeda hell' if you use a /createvehicle type command )

  
function vehicleExplode () 
    -- if vehicle is part of the .map 
    if (getElementID ( source ) ~= nil and getElementID ( source ) ~= "" ) then  
            -- respawn it 
            setTimer ( respawnVehicle, 6000, 1, source )                             
    else   -- otherwise 
             -- destroy 
            setTimer ( destroyElement, 6000, 1, source )                   
    end 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onVehicleExplode", getRootElement(), vehicleExplode ) 

[mdm13]

I tried that last script and it seems to delete wrecks which is good, but doesnt respawn cars that are part of the map file. Anyone knows what's the deal?

[DoKtoR]

This works good if cars are in the .map file:

function onVehicleExplode () 
setTimer(respawnVehicle, 5000, 1, source)  
end 
addEventHandler ( "onVehicleExplode", getRootElement(), onVehicleExplode )