Lua table

[diegofkda]

Well, I'm not bad at Lua but I want to know what is a table , I just want to make one because of getVehicleHandling() (or just I want to know how to use it).

[CowTurbo]

Tabel is easy thing, where u can store items, arguments, everything what u would like to.

With tabel, u can make much more easyly big items, lets make u example.

myTabel = {{"Infernus", "0", "0","3"}{"Alpha", "0", "3","3"}}   
-- So, tabel is now done with Car name, and cords. 
function createVehicles () 
  for i,v in ipairs ( myTabel ) do -- gets all items in tabel 
    local carID = getVehicleModelFromName(v[1]) 
    local vehicle[i] = createVehicle ( carID, tonumber([v2]), tonumber([v3]), tonumber([v4])) 
  end 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()), createVehicles ) 

Hope it helps a bit u.

EDIT: Read that too... http://lua-users.org/wiki/TablesTutorial

[diegofkda]

Perfect dude, now I know what's a Lua table yay thank you very much \o/.

[CowTurbo]

-> Lets hack

[Deltanic]

getVehicleHandling returns a table indeed. If you do the following:

local handlingTable = getVehicleHandling ( veh ) 

and you want to get the mass value, you usew the following:

handlingTable["mass"] 

the centerOfMass is a bit trickier, as that returns a table itself. So, in order to get the Z position of centerOfMass, use the following:

vehicleTable["centerOfMass"][3] -- Numbers: 1 = X, 2 = Y, 3 = Z 

Yes, a nested table

But you ifyou dont want to get a complete table, and just retrieve the mass you could also use this:

getVehicleHandling ( veh )["mass"]