Helicopter flight?

[HouseMD]

i need to know a way to override the helicopter flight so as soon as u get the helicopter/go into the helicopter it's ready to fly, so you don't have to wait for the wings to go fast enough for you to take off... i looked at the vehicle commands, and didn't see anything i could use for it (the engine state change didn't work)

[Mr.Hankey]

Just a guess but you could have a look at the race resource. I think it has to do something similar if you use a vehicle-change pickup that changes your vehicle to a helicopter.

[HouseMD]

tried that.. all the race resource does is make the helicopter setPosition higher, which i have done and it doesn't work...

[norby89]

you can try to speed up the game up until the point the heli is ready to take off

[HouseMD]

umm that would screw up the whole game wouldn't it? since when u speed up the game it speeds up for everyone therefore screwing up the game eg if driving you could kill urself because u drive too fast

[norby89]

that's why setGameSpeed exists clientside as well

[HouseMD]

well i can try that... but wait, wouldn't everything increase also, eg if i was above water i would hit the water even faster

[norby89]

setVehicleFrozen can be used to freeze the heli in mid air

[HouseMD]

getVehicleType doesn't come out until dp3 lol

[norby89]

what do you need that for though?

[HouseMD]

if the vehicle change comes from a map, then its quite hard to know if its a heli or not... or i can just make my own getVehicleType command until dp3 comes out

[norby89]

well you can use getVehicleID for that, you only need to check if the ID corresponds to one of the heli IDs

[50p]

You can also use setElementVelocity and just change Z velocity, that would "shoot" you out into space if set to heigh

[Mr.Hankey]

http://development.mtasa.com/index.php? ... hicleModel

have you tried this?

I haven't tested it yet but i think it could work...

[Ace_Gambit]

Here's an idea that I posted earlier in the wrong thread (must have been drunk or something ).

When DP3 is out you can try to put a dummy ped inside the helicopter (maybe even hide it by setting alpha to 0) and remove it when you start entering (assuming the helicopter engine is turned on by putting a dummy ped inside).

[Mr.Hankey]

Here's an idea that I posted earlier in the wrong thread (must have been drunk or something ).

sry offtopic but lol i did exactly the same with the idea above and even in the same thread^^

[HouseMD]

Tried all of them (before even posting this topic) nothing helps

[eAi]

we should have a function for this soon - we used it in race...

[HouseMD]

Well hopefully it will be out in DP3 and i didn't find any function in "Race"

[eAi]

In MTA:SA: Race not the race mod in DM.

[50p]

In MTA:SA: Race not the race mod in DM.

I think he means there was no function in Race (scripting).

Well hopefully it will be out in DP3 and i didn't find any function in "Race"

I think he means the function was used in the Race itself.

[eAi]

setHelicopterRotorSpeed and getHelicopterRotorSpeed have now been added in DP3.

[50p]

setHelicopterRotorSpeed and getHelicopterRotorSpeed have now been added in DP3.

Cool! You've got control over every piece of GTA!