[Release] [ALPHA] "Arma III" Styled Missions

sixsens · 2019-02-11T06:43:26.388Z

i did reinstall 2.8.9 fresh
i did change what you asking to change in client
i did put blForceCheckForBlips = false

nothing change
But mission does finish and next mission start

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-11T06:45:57.965Z

thanks man, get some rest Have a good day.

sixsens · 2019-02-11T06:46:49.102Z

sorry to come with bad result… I know you work hard for this.

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-11T07:02:32.786Z

when you get a chance, let me know if it works better when you start it with /mission command.
Its really odd, what you are getting, the blips do show… briefly…, so I think it is close. I take it that you were testing by yourself on a remote server, not locally? No hurry, these blips and pickups seem so simple… the code… but such a pain… lol

sixsens · 2019-02-11T07:06:19.008Z

autostart or /mission
samething

On a remote server right
A needle i know… lol

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-11T07:23:22.481Z

fyi…

Blip for everyone Discussion

Hello, Im trying to do a crate drop and for that i need blip for everyone to see if event is triggered. Here is what i have client side: function RemoveBlip() Citizen.Wait(30000) RemoveBlip(crateblip) end ---- RegisterNetEvent('item:drop') AddEventHandler('item:drop', function() print("crate") local coords = GetEntityCoords(GetPlayerPed(-1)) RequestWeaponAsset(GetHashKey("weapon_flare")) while not HasWeaponAssetLoaded(GetHashKey("weapon_flare")) do …

d0p3t’s response… re: blips and network clients… according to him and his testing… entity blips cannot be seen from across the map by other clients (not the host who spawned them), unless the clients are nearby the entities, even when working with more network aware code/resources. But you said, that blips have worked and been seen fine by all players in testing, even from across the map… hmmn… I am using decor which is supposed to be peer to peer, which he might not have tried, but what he writes makes complete sense.

Im going to try and run a second instance on sandboxie when I get time to work on this next to see what is going on, and to see if what I am trying to do ever going to work.

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-11T08:22:32.814Z

based on that article (and what loque suggested earlier), I set all the NPCs and vehicles to be mission entities…
When you get a chance please try again and see if it works…
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1mj25wc1akwoml4/mrp-missions-2.8.9.1.zip/file

Also, keep blForceCheckForBlips = true and teleport to where the NPCs are (before the 30 seconds) and see if they show up. I may be barking up the wrong tree, but its worth a shot. Sanboxie I guess is possible, but did not work for me.
I need to get some rest as well.

Loque · 2019-02-11T09:11:48.327Z

ddraigcymraeg:

My next goals are:
–to have a mission timer working, where you can set times to complete the mission by, and also have the server manage this more. I need to work out when a mission times out, who is the host/best host to choose from to spawn everything for the next mission. Loque, any ideas on how best to test for the best host to use?
–completely random mission generator that will randomly pick a map coordinate (rather than predefined locations) and spawn a mission there. I need to test/probe for water but couldnt get that to work using the test vertical for all water etc…I was getting yes and nos but the accuracy was a little off. Not sure if Loque has any ideas how to use these water test functions? If this was working, I would be able to spawn a random boat mission if water, etc…

For water detection, I don’t have firsthand experience doing this. Depending on how you are going about it, it may or may not help first to GetNameOfZone to check if your chosen coordinates (your random mission area?) is one of the zones with water before looking for it specifically. But then I wonder if this native can be made to work:

Cfx.re Native Reference

Documenting 7157 natives for GTA V and Cfx.re

GTAForums

Native (Place on water)

There is a native for placing vehicles on the ground: GTA.Vehicle.PlaceOnGround() In my case I want to place a vehicle ONLY on water. (boats don't do so good on land lol) What native would I use to do this?The scenario is enemies spawning in boats to...

If being in water returns true as per the note in the native reference guide then hopefully not being above water returns false, or something else consistent. The alternatives seem more challenging (raycast with water flag?): Native Reference - Cfx.re Docs.

https://gtaforums.com/topic/873602-identifying-surface-material-type/

As for host issues I’m not really certain. I think NetworkIsHost() works properly in the latest resource manifest but I’m not sure how you would structure what you are doing.

The blip thing may or may not pull you into all these complexities of managing persistent and global networked entities across clients. My understanding is it has improved since the March 2018 update. In the blip thread you linked the problem case was a prop, which I thought was handled somewhat differently than peds in the network code, and the solution posed by an element was to set mission entity and possibly use the ‘exotic’ native SetNetworkIdSyncToPlayer. I’m not sure if RequestCollisionAtCoord would also be useful in that case of a distant prop in a not yet loaded map point of a remote client who did not create the prop.

I don’t know if you will need all of that, especially if sixsens tested an earlier version with working blips? Maybe I’m confused on that with the back and forth of versions and testing. But yes, as far as I can gather, the current ‘best practice’ for creating persistent networked entities includes using SetEntityAsMissionEntity. If you plan on using netIDs, for instance to convert back and forth local entityIDs ↔ global netIDs, which seemed to be the direction the ‘blip for everyone’ solution was heading, then you may need more.

[SOLVED?] Assign a net id to an existing world object Discussion

Hello, i was wondering if someone had an idea on how to do this. Let me explain. The game map has already placed al lot of objects. every object that has physics has an entity id so is easy to diference one from other even if it has the same model. For vehicles and peds is fine, because they are synced and they have a unique net id. But when it comes from objects they doesn’t need to be synced because the map already loads the position of them. So it would be a waste of bandwidth to have it on …

As you see it’s advised to use NetworkRegisterEntityAsNetworked (unless that is redundant after SetEntityAsMissionEntity). SetNetworkIdCanMigrate can be used but whether you set it true or false depends upon your usage.

[ QUESTION ] SetNetworkIdCanMigrate Discussion

Seems like you’re asking two questions here. SetNetworkIdCanMigrate(15,false) will stop the entity with network ID 15 from migrating when done on the client that currently has control/ownership. It basically stops the entity from having their owner changed. Note that this means the entity might disappear when it’s owner disconnects. An entity has it’s network ID assigned when it is registered as a networked entity. To get a different network ID it will have to be destroyed (either completely …

And again, some scripts appear to use RequestCollisionAtCoord in cases where a client may not yet have loaded distant map locations/entities. This is ALL a bit murky until there is complete FiveM documentation on networking or at least someone lays out clearly how the post-March 15 “more like GTA IV” networking actually works.

As for your Sandboxie experiement, I guess it didn’t work at all? I wish it were easier to test your own server and script with multiple connections. I’m not sure if someone has devised a way.

sixsens · 2019-02-11T11:49:37.450Z

i think i will let him work on my server…

sixsens · 2019-02-11T17:11:37.828Z

ddraigcymraeg:

based on that article (and what loque suggested earlier), I set all the NPCs and vehicles to be mission entities…
When you get a chance please try again and see if it works…
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1mj25wc1akwoml4/mrp-missions-2.8.9.1.zip/file

Also, keep blForceCheckForBlips = true and teleport to where the NPCs are (before the 30 seconds) and see if they show up. I may be barking up the wrong tree, but its worth a shot. Sanboxie I guess is possible, but did not work for me.
I need to get some rest as well.

test:

Same as yesterday. I did everything you said.
Before and after 30 seconde (same) Blip doesnt appear… They still appear and disapear right away.

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-11T18:11:11.781Z

Thanks Loque. There is a thread on to get fivem working with sandboxie, which is possible evidently. I may try again, or install on my laptop if necessary. Im curious enough.
Yeah, this may not even be a network issue at all, since the blips showed up albiet briefly, which makes me think it is something silly

sxens, I uploaded a ‘debug’ version that you can swap in… https://www.mediafire.com/file/sj5m37q505n637n/mrp-missions-2.8.9.1-TEST.zip/file

Basically, with that version, all I need is you to create a mission with just one enemy ped. Start it, or autostart it when you log in.
Keep blForceCheckForBlips = true, so it will look for peds for 30 seconds.

Let me know what the ped count is in the console after 30 seconds after you connect/start a mission and when the script gets to ‘found enemy peds…’

Also importantly, if it has any text with ‘ENEMY PED…’ in the console… you may need to scroll up. I need to know how many times approximately that gets printed in the console for one enemy NPC.

I also commented out these lines:

AddTextComponentString(“Target ($”…getTargetKillReward(input)…")")

In case something was not right with the lookup there.

I basically just have this resource with a vanilla fivem server. Except for fivem-ipl resource loader and my own simple teleport resource. I am not running ESX etc… So I am wondering if disabling ESX etc… for the test then adding it back in if the test work may help. I imagine ESX, etc… are adding their own blips?

sixsens · 2019-02-11T18:27:50.752Z

looking for enemy peds…1
30 times
then
found enemy peds…1

i did stop es_extended and essentialmode and some more esx core ressource
and start mission… samething.

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-11T18:40:32.451Z

ddraigcymraeg:

ENEMY PED

so no 'ENEMY PED…" at all on the console? interesting… Did the blips flash for you this time? with esx and everything else off?

sixsens · 2019-02-11T18:45:21.499Z

ddraigcymraeg:

so no 'ENEMY PED…" at all on the console? interesting… Did the blips flash for you this time? with esx and everything else off?

i did as you said create a mission with one enemy…
start mission and look how many time it looking for enemy peds…1 … 30 times…
and it found one… as it should… i did a mission with one enemy.

With esx core stop everything was the same… same appear disapear… this time only one little dot appear as a target and disapear right away… Normal i haved only one in this mission!!

With both last version nothing as change
with testing without esx core ressource nothing as change samething too

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-11T18:46:43.842Z

did you have target=true removed and also any other flags/properties like friendly=true removed?
So it is just a regular enemy (red blip)?

Also, the ped is not dead correct? Its alive when you go there… I think I may have found what might be happening…

sixsens · 2019-02-11T18:50:57.929Z

ddraigcymraeg:

did you have target=true removed and also any other flags/properties like friendly=true removed?
So it is just a regular enemy (red blip)?

i just try them all once…
target=true… apear disapear purple
friendly=true… apear disapear green
no flag… apear disapear red

they are not same blip icon as before… maybe what you choose as icon are not okey?

With Discord i could share my screen… and we could work together to make it work
and do those test live…

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-11T19:25:30.221Z

So the ped is definitely not dead when you go to where it is?

i have another debug version you can swap in to test for me…

http://www.mediafire.com/file/sj5m37q505n637n/mrp-missions-2.8.9.1-TEST.zip/file

i basically looked in my code where it removes a blip, and there is an aliveCheck() function that gets called and checks for this resource’s peds and if they are dead to remove the blips.
I disabled that . You should see blips now…

Once the script gets to found enemy peds…’ you will see a large number like 500… dont worry about that…
What I am interested in, is do the blips show now…and… when you go into the client console… are you seeing any ‘ENEMY PED…’ text, any “REMOVE PED BLIP” text, any “FOUND PED BLIP” text, and any “DONE REMOVE PEDS” text

yeah, I think connecting on discord would be beneficial… lets see how this test goes… thanks man.

sixsens · 2019-02-11T19:53:32.178Z

already reply in private message

sixsens · 2019-02-11T21:26:57.199Z

ddraigcymraeg:

So the ped is definitely not dead when you go to where it is?

i have another debug version you can swap in to test for me…

http://www.mediafire.com/file/sj5m37q505n637n/mrp-missions-2.8.9.1-TEST.zip/file

i basically looked in my code where it removes a blip, and there is an aliveCheck() function that gets called and checks for this resource’s peds and if they are dead to remove the blips.
I disabled that . You should see blips now…

Once the script gets to found enemy peds…’ you will see a large number like 500… dont worry about that…
What I am interested in, is do the blips show now… and … when you go into the client console… are you seeing any ‘ENEMY PED…’ text, any “REMOVE PED BLIP” text, any “FOUND PED BLIP” text, and any “DONE REMOVE PEDS” text

yeah, I think connecting on discord would be beneficial… lets see how this test goes… thanks man.

My Bad Found resource NoPlayerBlip bugs the new way you spawn those blip…
Sorry for all this.

im back to 2.8.9

ddraigcymraeg · 2019-02-12T01:53:18.452Z

@Loque… That getwaterheight function seems to work perfectly for detecting water or not, so I am using that to generate completely random locations for missions now. If water, it will generate a boat mission (with potential aircraft support). works with inland water and sea… though rivers evidently do not work with it… which is fine.

@sixsens, no problem! Again, glad it is working for you man. Thank you for all the testing and feedback.