Check if there's a vehicle near this position?

FiveM Resource Development Discussion
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Evening all,

So I’m attempting to check whether or not there’s a vehicle within radius of a given position, however GetClosestVehicle doesn’t seem to be aiding me in this as it always returns that there’s no vehicle there.

I’ve read on a few threads that this problem seems to persist, however all solutions point to using RayCasting, which while helpful doesn’t really help me in my case ( I think ) as I’m looking to simply check if there’s a vehicle near a position, rather than checking if the player is looking at a vehicle ( I assume they use this for the likes of removing vehicles ).

Anyway, hopefully someone might have a way I can get around this issue? Thanks all :slight_smile:

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Are you even using it correctly?

GetClosestVehicle(x, y, z, radius, modelHash, flags)

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Yes, believe it or not, I have the capability of using arguments.

Might I ask what unit they use in regards to radius? Are we talking meters? I read on another thread something in regards to “units”, however I’m unsure how that would translate to this.

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GetClosestVehicle is broken AFAIK. You could always try using a raycast to check a certain distance behind the vehicle instead.

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I think somewhat meter… but not really… also it might work but only for a few cars if you put the right flag.

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That’s unfortunate,

Well no matter, I’m sure I’ll find a work around eventually, thanks regardless WolfKnight :slight_smile:

Edit: See I mentioned RayCasting beforehand, but I’m wondering how I could actually check the area before hand, I mean as far as the scripts concerned, there’s no vehicle there.

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Ah yes I read somewhere about all the different flags, how it doesn’t seem to pick up things like planes and boats or something of the sort.

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Check my delete vehicle script, the ray cast I used checked a certain number of units in front of the player and only returned what was between the player and the end point.

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The problem there is that I’m not really looking for vehicles in front of the player, but rather checking if there’s a vehicle within a given radius of a specified position.

In this case, we can disregard the player entirely

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Do you solve your problem ? I have the same problem :confused: I need radius

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Found a working example guys - this served as my north star:

Judging by the working example in github, it looks like it works based on proximity to the CENTER of the vehicle! Sweet!