[Help] Vehicles only start moving when player is near the coord in some scripts

Silverman · April 9, 2020, 7:50am

Hey there,

currently trying to find a way to get NPCs to act while far away from a player.

My script basically should work like this:

-- Generates Random Coordinates somewhere on the island
local RandomX = math.random(-3250, 3850) +0.1
local RandomY = math.random(-3350, 7050)+0.1
local RandomZ = GetHeightMapTopZForPosition(RandomX, RandomY)

-- Gets the closest road for vehicles to spawn on
local VehicleSpawn, Heading = GetClosestVehicleNodeWithHeading(RandomX, RandomY, RandomZ, 1.0, 1, false)

-- Load the models to spawn
local pedmodel = GetHashKey('ig_bankman')
local vehiclemodel = GetHashKey('blista')

RequestModel(pedmodel)
RequestModel(vehiclemodel)

-- two while loops to ensure the models are actually loaded before continuing

-- Create vehicle + ped
local pedveh = CreateVehicle(vehiclemodel, VehicleSpawn.x, VehicleSpawn.y, VehicleSpawn.z, Heading, true, false)
local ped = CreatePed(26, pedmodel, VehicleSpawn.x, VehicleSpawn.y, VehicleSpawn.z + 2.0, Heading, true, true)

-- set ped into vehicle and start the car
SetPedIntoVehicle(ped, pedveh, -1)
SetVehicleFixed(pedveh)
SetVehicleOnGroundProperly(pedveh)
SetBlockingOfNonTemporaryEvents(ped, true)

-- Set Target Coordinates Goal.x, Goal.y, Goal.z

-- Let the car move
TaskVehicleDriveToCoordLongrange(ped, pedveh, Goal.x, Goal.y, Goal.z, 17.0, 786603, 2.0)

The vehicle spawns without any problem at the correct position however it will only start to move once I get near it.
A VERY similar script works fine. The only real difference for that script is that I do not randomly generate the coordinates but instead have fixed coordinates to spawn the vehicles at.

Any idea on this? The car is spawned on a street facing the right direction (like 90% of the time :D). I tried using AddNavmeshRequiredRegion(VehicleSpawn.x, VehicleSpawn.y, 100.0) and ArePathNodesLoadedInArea(VehicleSpawn.x-100.0, VehicleSpawn.y-100.0, VehicleSpawn.x+100.0, VehicleSpawn.y+100.0) but no luck with these natives either.

The similar, working script can be found here:

github.com

xSilvermanx/PD5M/blob/master/Service/tow_cl.lua

-- remember to have services flag cars / peds / dead bodies as NoLongerNeeded
-- optional you can have the service remove the entities directly

-- this flag is used to interrupt any and every executing while-loop if a towtruck is cancelled.
-- When calling multiple towtrucks at the same time, cancelling one will also interrupt every other truck.
-- This is a known bug and needs to be fixed.
GlobalFlagTowCar = true

-- NetEvent to select the car to be towed.
-- Checks if the car can be towed. If yes, starts the event 'pd5m:tow:inittowtruck'.
-- Advise: Do not trigger this since it's already set for player control.
RegisterNetEvent('pd5m:tow:calltowtruck')
AddEventHandler('pd5m:tow:calltowtruck', function()
	local playerped = GetPlayerPed(-1)
	local playerpedcoords = GetEntityCoords(playerped)
	local camcoords = GetGameplayCamCoord()
	local lookingvector = GetPlayerLookingVector(playerped, 30)
	local TargetVehNetID = nil
	local TargetNetID = nil
	local target = nil

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Silverman · April 9, 2020, 11:41am

So I restarted the server and the client and changed the CreateVehicle and CreatePed Options, the last boolean is now false.
It works and I’m completely at loss as to why that happened…