[Release] Car spawning via chat commands

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CaesarNero, I hoped someone who knows what they were doing might give you some completed script. I have something working but it’s embedded in a bigger script that I am playing with. When I extract the /spawn vehicle section however it doesn’t act like I expect. It seems to need a loop in the client but I’m not sure why. Anyway, you can use this below until someone does it properly – I think it will work.

Create a folder named ‘Spawn’ in your server ‘resources’ folder and then create these files. First put the following into a file named ‘sv_spawn.lua’:

AddEventHandler('chatMessage', function(source, n, message)
  local args = stringsplit(message, " ")
  if (args[1] == "/spawn") then
    CancelEvent()
    if (args[2] ~= nil) then
      local playerID = tonumber(source)
      local vehicleName = tostring(args[2])
      TriggerClientEvent('VehicleSpawn', playerID, vehicleName)
    else
      local event = 'chatMessage'
      local eventTarget = source
      local messageSender = "SYSTEM"
      local messageSenderColor = {200, 0, 0}
      local message = "Usage: /spawn <Vehicle_Name>  (for example /spawn polmav)"
      TriggerClientEvent(event, eventTarget, messageSender, messageSenderColor, message)
    end
  end
end)

function stringsplit(self, delimiter)
  local a = self:Split(delimiter)
  local t = {}

  for i = 0, #a - 1 do
     table.insert(t, a[i])
  end

  return t
end

Second put the following in a file named ‘cl_spawn.lua’:

RegisterNetEvent('VehicleSpawn')
AddEventHandler('VehicleSpawn', function(vehicleName)
  local myPed = GetPlayerPed(-1)
  local player = PlayerId()
  local vehicle = GetHashKey(vehicleName)
  RequestModel(vehicle)
  while not HasModelLoaded(vehicle) do
    Wait(1)
  end
  local coords = GetOffsetFromEntityInWorldCoords(GetPlayerPed(-1), 0, 5.0, 0)
  local spawned_car = CreateVehicle(vehicle, coords, GetEntityHeading(myPed), true, false)
  SetVehicleOnGroundProperly(spawned_car)
  SetModelAsNoLongerNeeded(vehicle)
  Citizen.InvokeNative(0xB736A491E64A32CF,Citizen.PointerValueIntInitialized(spawned_car))
end)

Citizen.CreateThread(function()
  while true do
    Wait(1)
  end
end)

Third create your ‘__resource.lua’ file in the same folder with the following:

client_script "cl_spawn.lua"
server_script "sv_spawn.lua"

And finally, in the citmp-server.yml file in your main server folder, add “- spawn” to the end of your list of “AutoStartResources:”.

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