Mechanic job questions

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Hello, I am making a mechanic job, and instead of making tons of topics when I need help with this system, I will just make 1 topic.

So, I want to make a gridlist with all the vehicles in a colshape, but I don't really know how to get the vehicles within the colshape...

Thanks.

[aka Blue]

You use a table for that and table.insert, table.remove.

Easy

[Revolt]

local vehicleTable = getElementsWithinColShape(colShapeObjectVar, "vehicle") 

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local vehicleTable = getElementsWithinColShape(colShapeObjectVar, "vehicle") 

That works thanks.

Now, I created the gridlist and it shows the vehicles within the colshape, but how do I get the vehicle itself (theVehicle) when the mechanic selects one of the vehicles from the gridlist and then click on the button "Show Tunables"? I know how to get the name, id etc, but I don't know how to get the vehicle itself.

Thanks.

[Noki]

When creating the gridlist, use guiGridListSetItemData to set that row's data to the corresponding vehicle element. That way, when you select the item you can get that selected item's data (which will be a vehicle element) using guiGridListGetItemData.

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-- CLIENT SIDED CODE, REMEMBER! 
  
for _, vehicle in ipairs(vehicleTable) do 
    --guiGridListClear(guiGridlistObject) 
    local Row = guiGridListAddRow(guiGridlistObject) 
    guiGridListSetItemText(guiGridlistObject, Row, 1, getVehicleName(vehicle), false, false) 
end 

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-- CLIENT SIDED CODE, REMEMBER! 
  
for _, vehicle in ipairs(vehicleTable) do 
    --guiGridListClear(guiGridlistObject) 
    local Row = guiGridListAddRow(guiGridlistObject) 
    guiGridListSetItemText(guiGridlistObject, Row, 1, getVehicleName(vehicle), false, false) 
end 

I managed to make it myself, thanks anyway.

What's the best way of making it so that the mechanic will upgrade the vehicle when it gets near it. The thing is that I want the player to be as close as possible to the vehicle, but if I use a marker, it will only be in the center of the car and if I use a colshape, for some vehicles the player will be able to upgrade the vehicle from a distance or not be able to upgrade it as it doesn't get outside the center of the vehicle.

So... what should I use?

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Anyone?

[Revolt]

Can't you just reduce the colcircle radius?

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Can't you just reduce the colcircle radius?

Then the circle won't cover the back and the front of the car, but I used onElementClicked instead.