Proximity Based /me Script?

AttributeError · 2018-08-20T17:25:46.947Z

Hey there!

I’ve got the general basis of the command, sending the message as “ME | player’s name: action”. However, since this is going to be for a relatively big roleplay server, I want the response to only send the people within 20 units.

So, how would I go about grabbing all the players within a 20 unit radius and send them a message?

Thanks in advance!

NOTE: I am using Lua for this, so if any code examples could be in Lua, that’d be appreciated

SaltyGrandpa · 2018-08-20T17:48:36.706Z

Something like this…
Client:

RegisterCommand("me", function(source, args, rawCommand)
    sendMessageInDistance(args[1], 20.0) -- Send with distance radius of 20.0
end, false)

function sendMessageInDistance(message, distance)
	local coords = GetEntityCoords(GetPlayerPed(-1))
	for i = 0, 64 do
		if NetworkIsPlayerActive(i) then
			local ped = GetPlayerPed(id)
		    local playerCoords = GetEntityCoords(GetPlayerPed(i))
			if(Vdist(playerCoords.x, playerCoords.y, playerCoords.z, coords.x, coords.y, coords.z) < distance)then
				TriggerServerEvent('message:inDistanceZone', GetPlayerServerId(id), message)
			end
		end
	end
end

Server:

RegisterNetEvent('message:inDistanceZone')
AddEventHandler('message:inDistanceZone', function(target, message)
    local _source = source
	TriggerClientEvent('chatMessage', target, "ME | " .. GetPlayerName(_source), {255, 0, 0}, message)
end)

AttributeError · 2018-08-20T19:36:14.748Z

Thanks, I’ll give it a try!

AttributeError · 2018-08-20T20:26:08.326Z

Didn’t work… I’m using a ‘custom’ server script (a.k.a I’m not using the RegisterCommand stuffs).
I’ve got it so the function sendMessageInDistance is an event in the client script (called promixityChat) then the command calls it but it just sends at the current player…

Any ideas?

EDIT: I’ve tried experimenting and I think I’ve gotten somewhere…
Server:

AddEventHandler('chatMessage', function(source, name, msg)
    sm = stringsplit(msg, " ")
    if sm[1]:find("^/") then
         CancelEvent()
    end
    if sm[1] == "/me" then
        TriggerClientEvent('proximityChat', table.concat(sm, " ", 2))
    end
end)

RegisterServerEvent("proximityChatServer")
AddEventHandler("proximityChatServer", function(source, id, message)
    TriggerClientEvent("chatMessage", id, "ME | " .. GetPlayerName(source), {200, 0, 0}, message)
end)

Client:

RegisterNetEvent("proximityChat")
AddEventHandler("proximityChat", function(message)
    for i = 0, 32 do
         if NetworkIsPlayerActive(i) then
            local playerCoords = GetEntityCoords(GetPlayerPed(-1))
            local otherPlayerCoords = GetEntityCoords(GetPlayerPed(i))
            if(Vdist(playerCoords.x, playerCoords.y, playerCoords.z, otherPlayerCoords.x, otherPlayerCoords.y, otherPlayerCoords.z) < 20.0) then
                TriggerServerEvent("proximityChatServer", i, message)
        end
    end
end)

BabbaTundaee · 2018-08-21T13:04:14.035Z

Why don’t you just use registercommand?

AttributeError · 2018-08-21T16:58:00.866Z

To be honest, I didn’t realize it was a default FiveM thing until I just looked through some other documentation I’m going to go off and get the working /me command…

BabbaTundaee · 2018-08-21T18:20:25.837Z

It is much easier and in my experience performs faster than the string split function.