[Question] Setting Element Data

[kieran]

Trying super simple script to set a vehicles data and then re-spawn it if the data is true, it SORT of works, but only AFTER the vehicle explodes.  Sorry to bother with so many simple scripts.  

--This will destroy cars with no data, I want second function to give a vehicle data and if it's true to respawn it :P 
function respawnExplodedVehicle()
	setTimer(destroyElement, 1000, 1, source)
end
addEventHandler("onVehicleExplode", getRootElement(), respawnExplodedVehicle)



veh1 = createVehicle( 420, 367.9130859375, 2485.162109375, 17, 0, 0, 90 )--Creating and naming

function vehres()
	veh = setElementData( veh1, "tempdata.check" )
	setVehicleColor ( veh1, 189, 200, 12 )     
	if ( veh == true ) then
	setTimer(respawnVehicle, 1000, 1, source)
	elseif ( veh == false ) then 
	return --trying stuff, thought problem was because the code was in first function

end
end

addEventHandler("onVehicleExplode", getRootElement(), vehres)--respawn it

Debug says it needs argument at argument 3, but I can't think of what to put there...  

 

Edit

Change to 

veh1 = createVehicle( 420, 367.9130859375, 2485.162109375, 17, 0, 0, 90 )
function vehres()
	veh = setElementData( veh1, "tempdata.check", Vehicle )
	setVehicleColor ( veh1, 189, 200, 12 )     
	if ( veh == true ) then
	setTimer(respawnVehicle, 1000, 1, source)
	elseif ( veh == false ) then 
	return

end
end

addEventHandler("onVehicleExplode", getRootElement(), vehres)

But now it says it expects Element at argument one where respawnVehicle is (Line 6). o,o 

Edited July 5, 2017 by kieran

[WorthlessCynomys]

setElementData(theElement, string theNameOfTheData, theData)

It works like, you define the element which you want to set the data of. Then you define a data name in string, so you can access it later, and lastly you define the data. Which can be a string, a number, an element, an object etc.

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respawnVehicle uses only one argument, the vehicle. Use wiki...

respawnVehicle() --Check it and read it carefully.

 

Edited July 5, 2017 by StormFighter
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[kieran]

27 minutes ago, StormFighter said:

respawnVehicle uses only one argument, the vehicle. Use wiki...

respawnVehicle() --Check it and read it carefully.

 

I get that, but I want to re-spawn a vehicle if the data is true, and destroy the element if it's false....  It will either re-spawn a vehicle if I don't have destroyElement in, or destroy it if I do add it to destroy it  

[DNL291]

	if getElementData( source, "tempdata.check" ) then
		setTimer(respawnVehicle, 1000, 1, source)
	else
		destroyElement( source )
	end

 

[kieran]

Thanks  Think I best get back to that page about scripting.  

[pa3ck]

No matter how experienced you are, you always use the wiki, I have been scripting for years and I can never memorize the parameter list for dxDrawText and I don't actually have to.. Whenever I need something, I open the wiki and I can see the full list of needed/optional parameters. 

"Debug says it needs argument at argument 3, but I can't think of what to put there..." -> this is when you go to the wiki and look at the examples for that given function, fortunately almost all function have at least 1 example 

[kieran]

I know @pa3ck, but sometimes I have difficulty understanding the explanations, that's why I personally like videos, you can see what they change and what it does etc, but I think I need to just practice and focus on one thing at a time, I have been trying too much at once...