Creating hitch points for trailers

[anumaz]

Adding the possibility of creating hitch points for vehicles/trailers.

This feature exists for the Utility Truck, which has attached a Utility Trailer. However, if creating hitch points to any vehicle could be done, that'd be sick. Something like

createHitchPoint(vehelement, offX, offY, offZ)

[Forrest]

+1 to this, would be very useful.

[DiSaMe]

setElementPosition 
setElementRotation 
setElementVelocity 
setVehicleTurnVelocity 

Not saying the suggestion is useless, I'm just saying it can already be scripted.

[anumaz]

setElementPosition 
setElementRotation 
setElementVelocity 
setVehicleTurnVelocity 

Not saying the suggestion is useless, I'm just saying it can already be scripted.

That's a good suggestion, however, that wouldn't follow GTA physics just like a normal trailer.

[rain_gloom]

AFAIK, you can do this by using custom models in single-player, not sure if loading those would work in MTA though. There was a mod that added such points to the ends of trailers, letting the player create chains of trailers. (sry, I can't find it)

I think you just add a dummy object with the appropriate name to the appropriate parent.

But if this was possible from scripts, that would indeed be better. (no dff downloads)

[Blast3r]

I might sound dumb... But shouldn't attachTrailerToVehicle do the trick? I don't think that the function is limited to only truck trailers, should work on all of them.

[Forrest]

I might sound dumb... But shouldn't attachTrailerToVehicle do the trick? I don't think that the function is limited to only truck trailers, should work on all of them.

Nope, since the vehicles need a trailer hitch dummy.

[Woovie]

I might sound dumb... But shouldn't attachTrailerToVehicle do the trick? I don't think that the function is limited to only truck trailers, should work on all of them.

Nope, since the vehicles need a trailer hitch dummy.

And without the dummy, it would try to attach to the vehicle's parent node which is typically at the bottom of the car in the center.

[Forrest]

I might sound dumb... But shouldn't attachTrailerToVehicle do the trick? I don't think that the function is limited to only truck trailers, should work on all of them.

Nope, since the vehicles need a trailer hitch dummy.

And without the dummy, it would try to attach to the vehicle's parent node which is typically at the bottom of the car in the center.

I never tried to get it that far. I had not realized it would do as such. Though I do know that even if you were to move the parent dummy to the trailer hitch position you would then have a car with broken handling & very buggy. Personally I feel this suggestion could open up a tonne of possibilities.

[Guedes747]

+1 for this suggestion.

I was just thinking about this a couple weeks ago when testing out a few mods on my server, I took notice that the vehicle mod I had replaced the Utility Truck with did not support trailer attachment. It would be nice to have a work around this.