Problem with spawning objects near a player

[thomas479]

Hello,

At first my excuses for my poor English

My problem is this: I am making for the first time a script, I want to get a object spawning near a player via a command.

I have got it working but I could not get the rotation good.

[lua]

function pest (sourcePlayer, command, who)

local targetPlayer = getPlayerFromName ( who )

if ( targetPlayer ) then

local x,y,z = getElementPosition (targetPlayer)

createObject ( 970, x+3, y+3, z, xp, yp, 0 )

end

local xp,yp,zp = getElementRotation ( targetPlayer )

end

addCommandHandler ( "pest", pest )

[/ lua]

I am hoping it is clear what I mean, and somebody can help me!

Thomas

[proracer]

function pest (sourcePlayer, command, who) 
local targetPlayer = getPlayerFromName ( who ) 
if ( targetPlayer ) then 
local x,y,z = getElementPosition (targetPlayer) 
local xp,yp,zp = getElementRotation ( targetPlayer ) 
createObject ( 970, x+3, y+3, z, xp, yp, 0 ) 
end 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "pest", pest ) 

[thomas479]

Thanks! It works!

[thomas479]

I have got an question, again.

I got the creating of an object working, but now I want to create if any other player then me

tries to do the function, it will launch a rocket to kill him. But I get the error:

Here is the code:

localplayer = getLocalPlayer ()  
source = getLocalPlayer ()   
  
function pest (source, command, who) 
local targetPlayer = getPlayerFromName ( who ) 
if (source) == thomas479 then 
if ( targetPlayer ) then 
local x,y,z = getElementPosition (targetPlayer) 
local xp,yp,zp = getElementRotation ( targetPlayer ) 
createObject ( 970, x, y, z, xp, yp, 0 ) 
else (sourcePlayer) createProjectile ( localplayer, 20, 16, 16, 30, 1, (sourcePlayer), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 20 ) 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "pest", pest )  
  

I am hoping somebody can help me...

Thomas

[karlis]

sourcePlayer is not defined, and also if you want a statement in 2nd part too, you have to use elseif then, not else

  
localplayer = getLocalPlayer () 
source = getLocalPlayer ()   
  
function pest (source, command, who) 
  local targetPlayer = getPlayerFromName ( who ) 
  if (source) == thomas479 then 
    if ( targetPlayer ) then 
      local x,y,z = getElementPosition (targetPlayer) 
      local xp,yp,zp = getElementRotation ( targetPlayer ) 
      createObject ( 970, x, y, z, xp, yp, 0 ) 
    elseif (sourcePlayer) then --define sourceplayer 
      createProjectile ( localplayer, 20, 16, 16, 30, 1, (sourcePlayer), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 20 ) 
    end 
  end 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "pest", pest )  
  

[qaisjp]

  
localplayer = getLocalPlayer () 
source = getLocalPlayer ()   
  
function pest (source, command, who) 
  local targetPlayer = getPlayerFromName ( who ) 
  if getPlayerName(source) == "thomas479" then 
    if ( targetPlayer ) then 
      local x,y,z = getElementPosition (targetPlayer) 
      local xp,yp,zp = getElementRotation ( targetPlayer ) 
      createObject ( 970, x, y, z, xp, yp, 0 ) 
    else  then --define sourceplayer 
      createProjectile ( source, 20, 16, 16, 30, 1, source, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 20 ) 
    end 
  end 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "pest", pest )  
  

[karlis]

  
localplayer = getLocalPlayer () 
source = getLocalPlayer ()   
  
function pest (source, command, who) 
  local targetPlayer = getPlayerFromName ( who ) 
  if getPlayerName(source) == "thomas479" then 
    if ( targetPlayer ) then 
      local x,y,z = getElementPosition (targetPlayer) 
      local xp,yp,zp = getElementRotation ( targetPlayer ) 
      createObject ( 970, x, y, z, xp, yp, 0 ) 
    else  then --define sourceplayer 
      createProjectile ( source, 20, 16, 16, 30, 1, source, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 20 ) 
    end 
  end 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "pest", pest )  
  

true, i forgot the string/nick, but else ... then won't work...

[qaisjp]

No problem

[karlis]

i think we have to post actually working script, so OP doesn't fail

  
  
function pest (sourceP, command, who) 
  local targetPlayer = getPlayerFromName ( who ) 
  if getPlayerName(sourceP) == "thomas479" then 
    if ( targetPlayer ) then 
      local x,y,z = getElementPosition (targetPlayer) 
      local xp,yp = getElementRotation ( targetPlayer ) 
      createObject ( 970, x, y, z, xp, yp, 0 ) 
    else --source will always be there 
      createProjectile ( sourceP, 20, 16, 16, 30, 1, sourceP, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 20 ) --proectile created by source aims for soruce? wtf? 
    end 
  end 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "pest", pest )  
  

[Citizen]

Yeah ok and replace the createProjectile's line by this one:

createProjectile ( sourceP, 20, 16, 16, 30, 1, targetPlayer) 

I think it's what he wanted but if there are an obstacle between 16, 16, 30 and the position of the targeted player, the projectile will crash on it.

So maybe this:

createProjectile ( sourceP, 20, x, y, z+30, 1, targetPlayer)