Detecting Vehicles

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Hey,

I’ve been trying to select a vehicle at a given coordinate. However, none of the functions seem to be working. I have tried GetClosestVehicle, GetRandomVehicleInSphere, and IsAnyVehicleNearPoint. I have tried many different parameters for each. I have also tried on players and NPCs. No luck.

Anybody able to provide any insight?

Thanks

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@Briglair “you tried”

Any samples?

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@Tusticles Some of the things I have tried:

local closecar = GetClosestVehicle(coords2.x, coords2.y, coords2.z, 500, 0, 70)
local nearVehicle = IsAnyVehicleNearPoint(coords2.x, coords2.y, coords2.z, 50)
local gotVehicle, closecar = GetRandomVehicleInSphere(coords2.x, coords2.y, coords2.z, 50, 0, 70)

I’ve tried playing around with some of the coordinates and flags, but as I mentioned, I haven’t been able to get anything to work.

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@Briglair how far you are from those coords?

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@Tusticles Not far. Only about 10 units.

I have the script getting the offset slightly ahead of my player.

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@Briglair have you seen this?

http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/func/info/f73eb622c4f1689b

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@Tusticles Yes. That is what I have been referencing for the most part. In addition, I have read all the additional documentation found in the links of that description.

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@Briglair

I also tried something and it doesn’t work… sadly, worldGetAllVehicles is not implemented in fiver, at least not yet.

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Here a small function that get the car in the direction you specify.

-- From point A to B -- Use GetOffsetFromEntityInWorldCoords for distance
function getVehicleInDirection(coordFrom, coordTo)
	local rayHandle = CastRayPointToPoint(coordFrom.x, coordFrom.y, coordFrom.z, coordTo.x, coordTo.y, coordTo.z, 10, GetPlayerPed(-1), 0)
	local a, b, c, d, vehicle = GetRaycastResult(rayHandle)
	return vehicle
end

Exemple:

if IsControlJustReleased(0, 51) then
	local coordA = GetEntityCoords(GetPlayerPed(-1), 1)
	local coordB = GetOffsetFromEntityInWorldCoords(GetPlayerPed(-1), 0.0, 20.0, 0.0)
	local targetVehicle = getVehicleInDirection(coordA, coordB)
	-- HOLY SHIT THE VEHICLE IS RIGHT HERE ---> targetVehicle 
end

GET_OFFSET_FROM_ENTITY_GIVEN_WORLD_COORDS
http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/func/info/2274bc1c4885e333

_CAST_RAY_POINT_TO_POINT
http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/func/info/377906d8a31e5586

_GET_RAYCAST_RESULT
http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/func/info/3d87450e15d98694

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@Tusticles I even tried that script he wrote up. I was converting it all to Lua then I got to that part and let out a long sigh. Haha.

@Konijima That code works and does exactly what I want it to do. Thanks.

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local _, _, _, _, vehicle = GetRaycastResult(rayHandle)

should be better, i think

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Anyway, this code:

local pos = GetEntityCoords(GetPlayerPed(-1))
local vehicle = GetClosestVehicle(pos['x'], pos['y'], pos['z'], 5.001, 0, 70)
if DoesEntityExist(vehicle) then
   -- do_something
end

works fine.

and you can use this flag list:

00000000000000000 = 0 - Only returns cars and motorbikes. Often returns vehicle already inside. Otherwise only return empty vehicles.  
00000000000000010 = 2 - Only empty vehicles. Only returns cars and motorbikes.
00000000000000100 = 4 - Works like 70. During the testing, this one worked the best i.e. for cars and motorbikes
00000000000000110 = 6 - Works like 70.
00000000000000111 = 7 - Works like 70.
00000000000010111 = 23 - Only finds cars when not inside one.
00000000001000110 = 70 - (Not from scripts. Recommended by the native db). Only works with motorbikes and cars.    
00000000001111111 = 127 - While inside cars or motorbikes, nothing can be found. On foot or inside heli cars can be found.
00000000100000100 = 260 - Works like 70.
00000100001100010 = 2146
00000100001111111 = 2175
00011000000000110 = 12294
00100000000000000 = 16384
00100000000000010 = 16386
00101000000010111 = 20503
01000000000000000 = 32768
10000100000000110 = 67590
10000100001111111 = 67711 - Finds cars when inside heli, not when inside cars.
11000000000000101 = 98309
11000100000000111 = 100359 - Works like 70 but returns the vehicle the player already is in quite often.
11111111111111111 = 131071 - Not from the scripts. Nothing seems to work when testing.
00100000000000000 = 16384 - returns planes only.
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71 returns police vehicles.

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Hello, id to return some function GetClosestVehicle() correspond to what exactly? On an entity of type Player, or is PlayerPed, serverid or other?
How to transform it there playerPed please
i have tested GetPlayerServerId(), GetPlayerPed() and GetPlayerFromServerId()
for get player name (GetPlayerName()) dont work

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How to return a boat?

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did u found out for boat? or maybe heli/planes ? also look for it making heli/plane garage but cant store em atm :frowning:

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I am having a problem as well with trying to find the Plane/Heli & Boat Return.

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I usually use the flag 12294 instead of 70 on get closest vehicle (cant remember why), though, with modded cars I can never use this method, only using cast rays which I have always reverted to using.

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Is it possible to detect a vehicule random, except one vehicle ?

I want to put a car on the flatbed, si i want to check if vehicle ~= flatbed then pur the other vehicle on the flatbed.

Thanks

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IsAnyVehicleNearPoint() only works for me if the radius is a floating point number (50.0 in your example instead of 50).

I know this is probably not relevant for you anymore, but maybe this helps someone who has the same problem sometime.

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