[HELP] GetEntityBoneIndexByName for Vehicles

NoMotion · 2019-04-01T22:24:04.975Z

The documentation for GetEntityBoneIndexByName states you can use on a vehicle however it returns nil

local bone_index = GetEntityBoneIndexByName(targetVehicle, 'window_lf')
print(bone_index) -- prints nothing

I am guessing getting vehicle “bones” no longer works due to them marked old in the pastebin. Is there an alternative for this?

xander1998 · 2019-04-01T22:33:05.571Z

The native works for me. If you would like to see how I used it you can look on my github spikestrip client script

github.com

xander1998/spikestrips/blob/master/client.lua

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Important Variables --
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
local PoliceModels = {}
local SpawnedSpikes = {}
local spikemodel = "P_ld_stinger_s"
local nearSpikes = false
local spikesSpawned = false

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Checking Distance To Spikestrips --
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Citizen.CreateThread(function()
    while true do
        if IsPedInAnyVehicle(LocalPed(), false) then
            local vehicle = GetVehiclePedIsIn(LocalPed(), false)
            if GetPedInVehicleSeat(vehicle, -1) == LocalPed() then
                local vehiclePos = GetEntityCoords(vehicle, false)
                local spikes = GetClosestObjectOfType(vehiclePos.x, vehiclePos.y, vehiclePos.z, 80.0, GetHashKey(spikemodel), 1, 1, 1)
                local spikePos = GetEntityCoords(spikes, false)

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Hope that helps.

NoMotion · 2019-04-01T22:44:29.396Z

Thanks for the reference. I see what I did now. Leaving the snippet that helped me here:

 local vehicle = GetVehiclePedIsIn(LocalPed(), false)
 local tirePos = GetWorldPositionOfEntityBone(vehicle, GetEntityBoneIndexByName(vehicle, tires[a].bone))
 local spike = GetClosestObjectOfType(tirePos.x, tirePos.y, tirePos.z, 15.0, GetHashKey(spikemodel), 1, 1, 1)
 local spikePos = GetEntityCoords(spike, false)
 local distance = Vdist(tirePos.x, tirePos.y, tirePos.z, spikePos.x, spikePos.y, spikePos.z)

Wetter42 · 2021-06-19T02:42:00.956Z

Well fuckk meeee! I got mine to work! I just needed to enclose my vehicle’s bone name in single quotes.

here’s my successful code snippset:
print(GetEntityBoneIndexByName(GetVehiclePedIsIn(PlayerPedId(), 'wing_l'))