[Help] Colshape Issue Returns nil

[Ben_Sherman]

Hello,

I'm trying to create colshape that detects cars within it, however since /showcol and SetDevelopeMode(true) doesn't do anything for me I can only guess the colshape is correct placed as I took it from getElementPosition of myself.

However everytime I run the colshape function it returns back 0 objects within which makes the function return back as nil. Can't figure it out what the problem is, I've tried vehicles I've tried players. I'ver tried it all and I some how can't get a return back value.

  
local tempCol = { 
    [1] = createColCuboid ( 1367.1826171875, -1659.076171875, 13.3828125, 23, 12.5, 10), 
} 
  
function getVehicleWithinColShap() 
    local cars = getElementsWithinColShape(tempCol[1], "vehicle") 
    outputDebugString(tostring(#cars)) 
    for i, veh in pairs(cars) do 
        return veh 
    end 
end 
  
function testCommand(player, cmd) 
    local found = getVehicleWithinColShap() 
    if not found then 
        outputChatBox(" ERROR ", player, 255, 255, 255, false ) 
    end 
end 
addCommandHandler("test", testCommand) 

[Addlibs]

/showcol and setDevelopeMode(true) doesn't do anything for me

I have no idea why that might be other than that you may have missed out a minus or something in the position. Try teleporting to the exact position of the colshape (i.e. [OOP] Player("your nickname").position = tempCol[1].position, preferably on a command handler)

[Ben_Sherman]

/showcol and setDevelopeMode(true) doesn't do anything for me

I have no idea why that might be other than that you may have missed out a minus or something in the position. Try teleporting to the exact position of the colshape (i.e. [OOP] Player("your nickname").position = tempCol[1].position, preferably on a command handler)

I've verified the position of the colshape however still not working, I've even tried getElementsWithinColShape for players within that colshape and it still returns 0

[Revolt]

local tempCol = { 
    [1] = createColCuboid ( 1367.1826171875, -1659.076171875, 13.3828125, 23, 12.5, 10), 
} 
  
function getVehicleWithinColShap() 
    local cars = getElementsWithinColShape(tempCol[1], "vehicle") 
    outputDebugString(tostring(#cars)) 
    for i, veh in ipairs(cars) do -- it should be ipairs, not pairs 
        return veh -- however, you are returning only the first vehicle, since return actually stops the function execution 
    end 
end 
  
function testCommand(player, cmd) 
    local found = getVehicleWithinColShap() 
    if not found then 
        outputChatBox(" ERROR ", player, 255, 255, 255, false ) 
    end 
end 
addCommandHandler("test", testCommand) 

Edited December 30, 2015 by Guest

[Ben_Sherman]

Thank you all for all the help I could get, after more debugging I returned results however it had to be in the exact coordinates the colshape where created in or it wouldn't work. I then switched to createColPolygon and from there it worked perfect.

So I have no clue what the real problem was however it got solved with createColPolygon