Incorrect Element

[xDrul]

Hola,

I've been busy recently trying to script a police job including a jailbreak. The triggerEvent is wrong, and i've got no idea what's wrong in it. If anyone could help me out, that'd be much appreciated.

function polices ( attacker, attackerweapon, bodypart, loss ) 
 if attacker and getElementType(attacker) == "player" then 
        theTeam = getPlayerTeam ( attacker ) 
        theWL = getPlayerWantedLevel ( source ) 
        money = theWL * 2.5 
        if (attackerweapon == 3 or attackerweapon == 23) and (loss > 2 ) and (theWL > 0) then 
            if  getTeamName( theTeam ) == "Police" or getTeamName( theTeam ) == "United States Army" or getTeamName( theTeam ) == "Sheriff Academy" then 
                setElementPosition (source, 4076.3999023438, -1788.5, 3.511967, true) 
                theName = getPlayerName ( source ) 
                theCop = getPlayerName ( attacker )   
                outputChatBox( "*INFO* "..theName.." has been jailed and arrested by "..theCop.."", source, 255, 255, 0 ) 
                local playeraccount = getPlayerAccount ( attacker ) 
                givePlayerMoney (attacker, money) 
                setElementData(source, "isJailed", "true") 
                  setTimer ( newEvent, 1000, 1 ) 
                end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
addEventHandler ("onPlayerDamage", getRootElement(), polices) 
  
function newEvent() 
theName = getPlayerName(source) 
if getElementData(source, "isJailed") == "true" then 
setElementData(source, "isJailed", "false") 
setPlayerWantedLevel(source, 0) 
end 
end 
addEvent("releasePlayer", true) 
addEventHandler("releasePlayer", getRootElement(), newEvent) 

So bassicly, i want to trigger this newEvent after a sec being in jail (1 sec just to test it out, will be changed after tho) but then debugscript tells me: Bad argument, expected element at argument 1, got nill (@ newEvent).

All help 'preciated,

cheers.

[Smart.]

With that you're calling the function but not passing the player argument, try:

function polices ( attacker, attackerweapon, bodypart, loss ) 
 if attacker and getElementType(attacker) == "player" then 
        theTeam = getPlayerTeam ( attacker ) 
        theWL = getPlayerWantedLevel ( source ) 
        money = theWL * 2.5 
        if (attackerweapon == 3 or attackerweapon == 23) and (loss > 2 ) and (theWL > 0) then 
            if  getTeamName( theTeam ) == "Police" or getTeamName( theTeam ) == "United States Army" or getTeamName( theTeam ) == "Sheriff Academy" then 
                setElementPosition (source, 4076.3999023438, -1788.5, 3.511967, true) 
                theName = getPlayerName ( source ) 
                theCop = getPlayerName ( attacker )   
                outputChatBox( "*INFO* "..theName.." has been jailed and arrested by "..theCop.."", source, 255, 255, 0 ) 
                local playeraccount = getPlayerAccount ( attacker ) 
                givePlayerMoney (attacker, money) 
                setElementData(source, "isJailed", "true") 
                  setTimer ( newEvent, 1000, 1, source) 
                end 
            end 
        end 
    end 
addEventHandler ("onPlayerDamage", getRootElement(), polices) 
  
function newEvent(player) 
local source = source or player 
if (not source or not isElement(source)) then outputDebugString("Source is false or is not an element") return end 
theName = getPlayerName(source) 
if getElementData(source, "isJailed") == "true" then 
setElementData(source, "isJailed", "false") 
setPlayerWantedLevel(source, 0) 
end 
end 
addEvent("releasePlayer", true) 
addEventHandler("releasePlayer", getRootElement(), newEvent) 

[Citizen]

@Smart: He created the event realeasePlayer and probably want to trigger it properly, so let's use that event ?

function polices ( attacker, attackerweapon, bodypart, loss ) 
    if attacker and getElementType(attacker) == "player" then 
        local theTeam = getPlayerTeam ( attacker ) 
        local theWL = getPlayerWantedLevel ( source ) 
        local money = theWL * 2.5 
        if (attackerweapon == 3 or attackerweapon == 23) and (loss > 2 ) and (theWL > 0) then 
            if  getTeamName( theTeam ) == "Police" or getTeamName( theTeam ) == "United States Army" or getTeamName( theTeam ) == "Sheriff Academy" then 
                setElementPosition (source, 4076.3999023438, -1788.5, 3.511967, true) 
                local theName = getPlayerName ( source ) 
                local theCop = getPlayerName ( attacker )   
                outputChatBox( "*INFO* "..theName.." has been jailed and arrested by "..theCop.."", source, 255, 255, 0 ) 
                local playeraccount = getPlayerAccount ( attacker ) 
                givePlayerMoney (attacker, money) 
                setElementData(source, "isJailed", "true") 
                setTimer(triggerEvent, 1000, 1, "releasePlayer", source) 
            end 
        end 
    end 
end 
addEventHandler ("onPlayerDamage", getRootElement(), polices) 
  
function newEvent() 
    local theName = getPlayerName(source) 
    if getElementData(source, "isJailed") == "true" then 
        setElementData(source, "isJailed", "false") 
        setPlayerWantedLevel(source, 0) 
    end 
end 
addEvent("releasePlayer", true) 
addEventHandler("releasePlayer", getRootElement(), newEvent) 

What did I change ?

- First, I changed all your globals variables into locals variables. Only use global variables if you want that variable to be accessible everywhere on the client-side (if this is a client sided script) or on the server-side (if this is a server sided script).

- Second, I just changed your setTimer to be like this:

setTimer(triggerEvent, 1000, 1, "releasePlayer", source) 

I'm calling the triggerEvent function after 1 second and only 1 time with the arguments: "releasePlayer" as 1st argument and source (which is the guy in jail) as 2nd argument (the source of the "releasePlayer" event)

Regards,

Citizen