[HELP] setElementData

[ViRuZGamiing]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to figure out the setElementData, i've read the wiki and now's my question.

I want to assign some ElementData called ID to a vehicle (which would be possible for me)

But! I want to do it like on the second car it needs to get the next ID + 1.

Example: 
Vehicle Banshee bought! ID = 1 
Next Vehicle! ID = 2 

I hope you'll understand what I'm trying to say.

Regards Viruz

[Et-win]

Well:

currentID = 0 
-- 
currentID = currentID + 1 
setElementData(theElement, "ID", currentID) 

[ViRuZGamiing]

Oh lol, it's just like C#

Thx, i'll try it and let you know if I bump onto any problems

[ViRuZGamiing]

Okay nice, it works great.

I've attached the data Owner and ID to the bought vehicle.

I've noticed that the Data goes away on resource restart, is it possible to keep it?

Regards

[Et-win]

You can save all cars in a XML file or even better a database, but databases are not my thing yet.

[ViRuZGamiing]

I don't use databases, I know they're the best to use and it can be used in every script.

XML seems quite hard, if I could get some basics going on XML I could try it.

Are you known with XML?

[Et-win]

Yes. And XML is quite easy. Just start looking at the Wiki to the XML functions and you will know soon how it works. Maybe you even can use account data.

[ViRuZGamiing]

I've made this already, could I use this to implement it into an XML, and I will take a look at the XML Functions.

function saveYourCar (thePlayer) 
    local vehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle (thePlayer) 
     
    if (vehicle == false) then 
        outputChatBox("Your not in a vehicle") 
    else 
        local idData = getElementData(vehicle, "ID") 
        local ownerData = getElementData(vehicle, "Owner") 
         
        if (thePlayer == ownerData) then 
            local vPX, vPY, vPZ = getElementPosition(vehicle) 
            setElementData(thePlayer, "vehPositionX", vPX) 
            setElementData(thePlayer, "vehPositionY", vPY) 
            setElementData(thePlayer, "vehPositionZ", vPZ) 
            outputChatBox("Position Saved!", thePlayer) 
        else 
            outputChatBox("This vehicle doesn't belong to you!", thePlayer) 
        end 
    end 
end 
  
addCommandHandler("save", saveYourCar) 

[Et-win]

If you want to save vehicles for a player, you can use account data. Just put everything of the vehicle (position, id, etc) into a table and put the table into the player's account. Later you can call it and then you can use functions like setElementPosition and such. (Check or the player is logged in!)

[Feche1320]

Use fromJSON and toJSON, way easier than XML.