[Solved]What does thisScriptCheck do?

imckl · 2019-04-24T01:45:19.051Z

I’ve seen most of the create API have a boolean named thisScriptCheck. And it is described as thisScriptCheck - can be destroyed if it belongs to the calling script.

I’m not fully understand the statement.
For example, what is the “calling script” and when to “destroyed”?
Or it has something to do with sync, like to be destroyed if multiple clients create ped at the same time, and so there is only one ped sync to everyone?

Also, I’ve noticed many of the users use it with true. But in C# World.CreatePed, it use false by default.

So, what does this boolean thisScriptCheck actually do?

blcd · 2019-04-24T02:28:12.035Z

My understanding is that in GTA:O setting thisScriptCheck to true would prevent other scripts from deleting the entity. However this check is disabled in fivem so thisScriptCheck does nothing and you can pass either true or false. You can see the check being disabled in the code here. fivem/code/components/gta-core-five/src/EntityDeletionHacks.cpp at db9daac01a024825f8da97304f94f9e41acfb5f5 · citizenfx/fivem · GitHub

flerovium:

It actually is “missionEntity”, and does a number of things with script handlers. Since script handlers are not implemented fully in here (in normal networking, script instances have their own hosts, sets of participants, etc.), you will typically want to set it to false on FiveM to prevent e.g. entities not actually being created or having weird migration/retention handling.

imckl · 2019-04-24T02:44:07.665Z

Thanks, I’ve marked as solved in case anyone trying to find relative answer.

flerovium · 2019-04-24T05:49:26.650Z

It actually is “missionEntity”, and does a number of things with script handlers. Since script handlers are not implemented fully in here (in normal networking, script instances have their own hosts, sets of participants, etc.), you will typically want to set it to false on FiveM to prevent e.g. entities not actually being created or having weird migration/retention handling.

imckl · 2019-04-24T06:27:16.957Z

Thanks, I’ll set it to false when using it.
Does it have something to do with API.SetEntityAsMissionEntity or so?
And is this a param that would be refined by FiveM Team?