Issue with EnableDispatchService native

MasiBall · 2022-04-20T13:49:53.697Z

Client (production/canary) and FXServer version
- Client: Beta
- Server: 5503
- Tested with gamebuilds 2372 and 1604
What you expected to happen
- When using the EnableDispatchService native and setting the value to false, it disables the dispatch or ‘police scanner’ in emergency vehicles.
What actually happens
- The dispatch or ‘police scanner’ is still enabled in emergency vehicles, although I tried disabling it.
  I noticed the issue yesterday for the first time. Before yesterday the code below worked and successfully disabled the dispatch.
Category of bug (eg. client, server, weapons, peds, native)
- Client/Native
Reproducible steps, preferably with example script(s)

Below is the code, that I used for a while, and it worked before.

Citizen.CreateThread(function()
   while true do
       Wait(1)
       EnableDispatchService(14, false)
   end
end)

Below is the code, that I downloaded from the forums, and it doesn’t work either.

Citizen.CreateThread(function()
    while true do
        Wait(0)
        for i = 1, 12 do
            EnableDispatchService(i, false)
        end
    end
end)

nta · 2022-04-20T15:36:08.145Z

MasiBall:

What you expected to happen

When using the EnableDispatchService native and setting the value to false, it disables the dispatch or ‘police scanner’ in emergency vehicles.

That’s… not what ‘dispatch service’ does. ‘Dispatch’ in this context is a subcomponent of the population subsystem and refers to the emergency response AI (e.g. spawning fire trucks for fires, spawning police when there’s a wanted level), not the police scanner. In fact, this 14 is documented as DT_ArmyVehicle. Why would ‘army vehicle’ spawning being turned off (every frame, even?!) somehow disable the police scanner?

I wonder why you ‘expected’ such.

One suspicion is that this change may be related, but that rather seems like the police scanner never was enabled and the native just ‘happened’ to do nothing of note, but you somehow thought it did disable it:

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Alternately, if you have a loop of NetworkOverrideClockTime every frame, then this also won’t have the side effect of resetting the police scanner every frame…

MasiBall · 2022-04-20T17:29:35.174Z

nta:

That’s… not what ‘dispatch service’ does. ‘Dispatch’ in this context is a subcomponent of the population subsystem and refers to the emergency response AI (e.g. spawning fire trucks for fires, spawning police when there’s a wanted level), not the police scanner. In fact, this 14 is documented as DT_ArmyVehicle. Why would ‘army vehicle’ spawning being turned off (every frame, even?!) somehow disable the police scanner?

If it was never meant to disable the ‘police scanner’ audio, then I apologize for the false report.

nta:

seems like the police scanner never was enabled and the native just ‘happened’ to do nothing of note, but you somehow thought it did disable it

This might very well be the thing that caused my misunderstanding.

However, some recent change somehow enabled the police scanner. I figured out that the police scanner can easily be disabled by using SetAudioFlag native for example.

nta · 2022-04-20T19:50:39.473Z

MasiBall:

However, some recent change somehow enabled the police scanner.

As said in the post above, my guess:

nta:

a loop of NetworkOverrideClockTime every frame