Vehicle individuality >_>

[Deddalt]

I want to make all of my vehicles in a .map, but I want to be able to handle them individually. Also, I want to have a /start and /stop command for turning vehicles on and off. What would be the shortest way to do this?

[Lordy]

What do you mean by "handle them individually"?

And for start/stop, you can destroy the elements when stop and reload the map at start I think (but don't trust me )

[[UVA]Bart]

loop throught all the vehicles and give them a seperate id at the start of the map, or give them all a seperate id when they are created

[Mr.Hankey]

for individuality just add an id attribute to the car's node so you can get the vehicle element directly by using getElementID

e.g:

<vehicle id="first" model="372" posX="0" posY="0" posZ="10" /> 
<vehicle id="2" model="372" posX="0" posY="3" posZ="10" /> 

[Gamesnert]

for individuality just add an id attribute to the car's node so you can get the vehicle element directly by using getElementID

e.g:

<vehicle id="first" model="372" posX="0" posY="0" posZ="10" /> 
<vehicle id="2" model="372" posX="0" posY="3" posZ="10" /> 

ID="1", ID="2" etc is most recommended by me.

And when all of your vehicles have numeric ID's, you can easily loop through them with getElementByID and destroy them by command. Making them appear again is another story... But... Ehm... Store them in tables perhaps..?

[Mr.Hankey]

it really doesnt matter if you use "first" "second", "1" "2" or "bluecheetah" and "redadmiral" string is string =)

[Gamesnert]

Numbers are easier, you can make a table with all the number vehicles and they're easy to loop. You can do a for or a while loop that constantly reads out 1 ID higher, instead of that you have to type words.

So words are more limited, a lot more vehicles are supported by numbers or words+numbers.

[tma]

ID's as strings are pretty handy because they can be more descriptive (as in Mr. Hankey's examples) and they're just as easy to loop through:

  
for index,value in pairs({["apples"] = 50,["pears"] = 99}) do 
    outputChatBox(index .. " are " .. value .. "p guv'ner.") 
end 
  

[Gamesnert]

ID's as strings are pretty handy because they can be more descriptive (as in Mr. Hankey's examples) and they're just as easy to loop through:

  
for index,value in pairs({["apples"] = 50,["pears"] = 99}) do 
    outputChatBox(index .. " are " .. value .. "p guv'ner.") 
end 
  

I don't really see what's better with strings that tostring(number) or something... Oh well, do what's the best choise.

[DiSaMe]

It's not necessary to use numbers for IDs. If it's really needed, it's already possible to loop through all elements, they have their own numerical IDs