Link marker with vehicle

[Lloyd Logan]

Is there anyway to link a marker with a vehicle?

I mean, if i were to enter a marker, it would tell me 'something' of a certain vehicle?

Example : Player steps into the marker, and gets details of a certain car?

[Castillo]

local markers = { } -- Define a table. 
local vehicle = createVehicle ( ) -- Create a vehicle. 
local marker = createMarker ( ) -- Create a marker. 
  
markers [ marker ] = vehicle -- Add marker to the table with the value of the vehicle element. 
  
addEventHandler ( "onMarkerHit", root, 
    function ( ) 
        local vehicle = markers [ source ] -- Get the vehicle element using the marker as index for the table. 
        if ( vehicle ) then -- If there is a vehicle... 
            -- Do your thing here 
        end 
    end 
) 

Is that what you meant?

[Lloyd Logan]

Well, because I don't fully understand your code, I cant say for sure, but from looking, i think it's right!

[Castillo]

I edited the code to add comments so you may understand it better.

[myonlake]

You can also set the marker a parent of the vehicle, or the other way around. This way you can just get the child or parent and have the vehicle.

[Lloyd Logan]

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You can also set the marker a parent of the vehicle, or the other way around. This way you can just get the child or parent and have the vehicle.

That's what I was kinda looking for! So if I were to enter a marker, to get the name of a vehicle, would I set the parent vehicle to a marker other vice versa?

[myonlake]

That's what I was kinda looking for! So if I were to enter a marker, to get the name of a vehicle, would I set the parent vehicle to a marker other vice versa?

It's easier to fetch if you set the vehicle the marker's parent. This way you can just call getElementParent -function to get the vehicle, the rest is obvious.

[Lloyd Logan]

Thanks!

[Lloyd Logan]

Solidsnake14 said:

I edited the code to add comments so you may understand it better.

Actually thanks for that! Because of myonlake post I never saw yours! This also helped, thanks!

[myonlake]

You're welcome.