Requested Ped functions.

[subenji99]

We were playing with ped functions on my test server today and some functions were missing that we could really have used.

1. allow Weapon functions for peds.

I found it incredible that "setPedWeaponSlot" exists, but weapon functions such as "giveWeapon" only work on players! i assume this is actually an oversight, or there is another method i overlooked.

2. setPedRotateAt

This is what I expected "setPedLookAt" to do,but that only moves the ped's head - not particularly useful. I ended up attempting some complex vector maths to work out the rotation angle to get a created ped to face my player - and failed.

While the ultimate ped functions I would like would be to set a ped's "task", even just the simple primary and/or secondary if complex tasks are not possible, these few functions would help out quite a bit for anyone coding with peds in my opinion.

[darkdreamingdan]

The main issue right now is that peds are unable to use weapons at all. Giving peds weapons has limited use as a result. Its something that we hope to resolve in 1.0.1 latest (may be done for 1.0) as it does cripple ped's functionality somewhat.

[Lordy]

2. setPedRotateAt

This is what I expected "setPedLookAt" to do,but that only moves the ped's head - not particularly useful. I ended up attempting some complex vector maths to work out the rotation angle to get a created ped to face my player - and failed.

You could use arctan for getting the angle. Something like this I guess, if I mess up, don't blame me, technically I've not learned this in school yet. (tan alpha was a/b right?)

  
local x1, y1,_ = getElementPosition(thePlayer) 
local x2,y2,_ = getElementPosition(thePed) 
local xdist, ydist = = x1 - x2, y1 - y2 
local theRot = math.atan(xdist/ydist)   
setPedRotation(thePed, theRot) 
  

Now if someone finds something wrong, please correct me

[Slothman]

heres a bit of code i ripped off of an old script by erorr404. this sounds like what you need.

local targetx, targety, targetz = getElementPosition ( yourtarget ) 
local pedx, pedy, pedz = getElementPosition ( theped ) 
newangle = ( 360 - math.deg ( math.atan2 ( ( targetx - pedx ), ( targety - pedy ) ) ) ) % 360 

as far as i know, its witchcraft, so dont ask me to explain how it works, but it does

[50p]

Take a look here: https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p= ... ils&id=234

[Slothman]

thats actually pretty nice 50p, dont suppose youd mind people using some of that if they give you credit?

[50p]

thats actually pretty nice 50p, dont suppose youd mind people using some of that if they give you credit?

OK. Also, updated description with a link to video.