Equipping a custom weapon using GiveWeaponToPed in a vehicle does not automatically put it in my hand

burgerballs4 · 2022-01-24T15:32:05.642Z

so when I go to give myself a custom weapon in my inventory which uses GiveWeaponToPed and the bForceInHand flag is true, when on foot it the weapon appears in my hand, but when in a vehicle it does not.

I did some testing for this without the inventory:
If I give myself a default gta weapon, in a vehicle, it forces in hand.
hen if I give myself a custom addon pistol it appears in the tab menu but not automatically in my hand.

is there a meta file im missing or a setting im not enabling in them?

DrAceMisanthrope · 2022-01-24T20:17:40.959Z

Currently at work, so can’t test anything.
But consider testing the following 2 natives;
SetCurrentPedVehicleWeapon
SetCurrentPedWeapon

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head, is that GiveWeaponToPed is not forcing it in hand while in a vehicle, since SetCurrentPedWeapon has the same boolean parameter and SetCurrentPedVehicleWeapon doesn’t. So it’s like you can’t force it in hand while in a vehicle, by default.

I wonder though, if it’s also because when you give a weapon to a ped, usually it only equips it right away if it is more powerful than the rest of their weapons. GTA likes to prioritise, so if you have a powerful weapon like an SMG, then give a pistol, it won’t swap. But if you have a pistol and give an SMG or something, it will. But tinker with those 2 natives, in my opinion. See what’s possible.

burgerballs4 · 2022-01-24T20:57:04.191Z

DrAceMisanthrope:

SetCurrentPedVehicleWeapon

tysm this is exactly what i needed

PeterGreek · 2024-05-30T20:24:14.636Z

burgerballs4:

is there a meta file im missing or a setting im not enabling in them?

Update for those that want to actually fix this the SetPedCurrentWeaponVisible native is needed to be called if you are already in a vehicle.

-- Give weapon to player
if IsPedInAnyVehicle(PlayerPedId(), false) then
	print("I am a fucker in a car")
	SetCurrentPedVehicleWeapon(PlayerPedId(), weaponhash)
	SetCurrentPedWeapon(PlayerPedId(), weaponhash, true)
	SetPedCurrentWeaponVisible(PlayerPedId(), true, false)
end