[Help]Respawning in Hospital problem

[Xierra]

I have been trying to make something, to respawn players on hospitals when that player is dead.

I'm using part of varez's code which was made in 2010. I wanted to post this once, so I tried to copy, and then tweak and improve it a little.

The script(Server-side):

hospitalsTable = { 
{ 1177.7994384766, -1323.0667724609, 14.088536262512 }, 
{ -2656.2421875, 635.99420166016, 14.453125 }, 
{ 1607.1225585938, 1817.8732910156, 10.8203125 }, 
} 
  
    function findNearestHostpital(thePlayer) 
      local nearest = nil 
      local min = 999999 
      for key,val in pairs(hospitalsTable) do 
        local xx,yy,zz=getElementPosition(thePlayer) 
        local x1=val[1] 
        local y1=val[2] 
        local z1=val[3] 
        local dist = getDistanceBetweenPoints2D(xx,yy,x1,y1) 
        if distthen 
          nearest = val 
          min = dist 
        end 
      end 
      return nearest[1],nearest[2],nearest[3] 
      end 
  
function spawn(player) 
local xx,yy,zz = findNearestHostpital(source) 
  spawnPlayer( player, xx,yy,zz) 
  fadeCamera(player,true,3.0) 
end 
  
addEventHandler("onPlayerWasted", root, 
    function() 
    fadeCamera(source,false,6.0,0,0,0) 
    setTimer(spawn, 8000, 1, source) 
    end 
) 
  

Errors that came out:

hospital-respawns\server.lua:11: Bad Argument @ 'getElementPosition'

hospital-respawns\server.lua:15: Bad Argument @ 'getDistanceBetweenPoints2D

hospital-respawns\server.lua:16: Attempt to compare bollean with number

There's a problem though, I can't seem to find a way to fix this problem as I was not so experienced in scripting yet (As it was my first try at server-side script). But I did successfully made the fade in and out part.

Now, how can I fix those? Any help is appreciated.

[Castillo]

hospitalsTable = { 
{ 1177.7994384766, -1323.0667724609, 14.088536262512 }, 
{ -2656.2421875, 635.99420166016, 14.453125 }, 
{ 1607.1225585938, 1817.8732910156, 10.8203125 }, 
} 
  
    function findNearestHostpital(thePlayer) 
      local nearest = nil 
      local min = 999999 
      for key,val in pairs(hospitalsTable) do 
        local xx,yy,zz=getElementPosition(thePlayer) 
        local x1=val[1] 
        local y1=val[2] 
        local z1=val[3] 
        local dist = getDistanceBetweenPoints2D(xx,yy,x1,y1) 
        if distthen 
          nearest = val 
          min = dist 
        end 
      end 
      return nearest[1],nearest[2],nearest[3] 
      end 
  
function spawn(player) 
local xx,yy,zz = findNearestHostpital(player) 
  spawnPlayer( player, xx,yy,zz) 
  fadeCamera(player,true,3.0) 
end 
  
addEventHandler("onPlayerWasted", root, 
    function() 
    fadeCamera(source,false,6.0,0,0,0) 
    setTimer(spawn, 8000, 1, source) 
    end 
) 

[Xierra]

Wow! It worked! Thanks SolidSnake14.

What was changed here? I can't see lots of differences on the script.

[Castillo]

That's true, compare the player arguments

[qaisjp]

I usually store the coordinates as strings and use

  
for i,v in pairs(hospitalsTable) do 
     x = gettok(v, 1, string.byte(",") 
     y = gettok(v, 2, string.byte(",") 
     z = gettok(v, 3, string.byte(",") 
     outputChatBox(x..", "..y..", "..z) 
end 
  

but the code solidsnake provided is better.