Vehicle ID

[myonlake]

Hello,

Okay so, I am not sure what kind of functions I should use for this so I hope you'd help me with this.

So my main idea is to make a script that makes a really own ID for a spawned vehicle. For example. I spawn a banshee, and it will have an ID 9000.

I know this is kinda "copying" from vG, but this is really useful for admins to spawn a specific vehicle again.

So, any idea how to do this? What kind of functions I should use.

Edited May 30, 2019 by myonlake

[JR10]

setElementID 

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[qaisjp]

What do you exactly want, I don't really understand.

[myonlake]

Okay well,

Thank you for helping me out with that one function. Tho it just throws me a bunch of bad arguments as I don't know what is that if I want to give every vehicle a ID.

The code I made..

-- Do the vehicle ID 
function idVehicle(theVehicle) 
    setElementID(theVehicle, math.random(1, 9999)) 
end 
addEventHandler("onVehicleRespawn", getRootElement(), idVehicle) 
  
-- Show the entered vehicle's ID 
function showVehicleID(theVehicle, sourcePlayer) 
    local vehicle = getElementID(theVehicle) 
    outputChatBox("* This vehicle's ID is: " .. vehicle, sourcePlayer, 220, 220, 0, true) 
end 
addEventHandler("onVehicleEnter", getRootElement(), showVehicleID) 
  
-- Warp the specified ID to a location (x, y, z) 
function warpVehicle(sourcePlayer, commandName, vehicle, posX, posY, posZ) 
    local veh = getElementID(vehicle) 
    setElementPosition(vehicle, posX, posY, posZ) 
    outputChatBox("* Vehicle ID " .. veh .. " spawned.", sourcePlayer, 0, 255, 0, true) 
end 
addCommandHandler("warpid", warpVehicle) 

[JR10]

This is wrong, first setElementID uses a string.

Your event arguments are wrong.

And at your warpVehicle, what the player types (vehicle) won't be a real vehicle, just a string.

Seriously read the WIKI

-- Do the vehicle ID 
function idVehicle(theVehicle) 
    setElementID(theVehicle, tostring(math.random(1, 9999))) 
end 
addEventHandler("onVehicleRespawn", getRootElement(), idVehicle) 
  
-- Show the entered vehicle's ID 
function showVehicleID(sourcePlayer) 
    local vehicle = getElementID(source) 
    outputChatBox("* This vehicle's ID is: " .. vehicle, sourcePlayer, 220, 220, 0, true) 
end 
addEventHandler("onVehicleEnter", getRootElement(), showVehicleID) 
  
-- Warp the specified ID to a location (x, y, z) 
function warpVehicle(sourcePlayer, commandName, vehicle, posX, posY, posZ) 
    local veh = getElementByID(vehicle) 
    setElementPosition(veh, posX, posY, posZ) 
    outputChatBox("* Vehicle ID " .. getElementID(veh) .. " spawned.", sourcePlayer, 0, 255, 0, true) 
end 
addCommandHandler("warpid", warpVehicle) 

[AGENT_STEELMEAT]

It's not a good idea to literally set the vehicle's ID via setElementID - rather, you should use setElementData(theVehicle, "vehicleID", INSERT_ID_HERE). In this case, you could probably use setElementData(theVehicle, "vehicleID", INSERT_ID_HERE, false) as you probably don't need to sync the vehicle's ID to the client. I'm not sure what your plans for using these IDs are, though.

[JR10]

And another problem is duplicates , you can have two elements with the same ID.