Vehicles created server-side using CREATE_AUTOMOBILE are not persistent

FiveM Discussion Bug Reports
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1. Environment information
Production client, recommended server artifacts (5562), game build 2189
Default FXServer with default resources

2. Description
200 server-side vehicles are spawned server-side throughout Los Santos using ‘CREATE_AUTOMOBILE’. Two clients start moving around / teleporting between the vehicle spawn points every 500msec.

3. Expected behaviour

The created vehicles are persistent and won’t despawn.

4. Actual behaviour

The vehicles start rapidly despawning.

5. Reproducing the bug

  • Launch two clients (-cl2)
  • Make both of the clients move around the spawns - command /startmoving on both clients
  • Spawn the vehicles - command /spawnvehicles

Vehicles start rapidly despawning, detected despawns are printed into the console.

CODE - Reproducing - server.lua 
local vehicleCoords = {
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    { x = -1074.953, y = -1160.545, z = 1.661577, h = 119.0 },
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    { x = 359.45288085938, y = -1110.1260986328, z = 28.628881454468, h = 90.295188903809 },
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    { x = 332.4697265625, y = -1010.6281738281, z = 28.515481948853, h = 358.79641723633 },
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    { x = -981.15142822266, y = -1588.0540771484, z = 4.262481212616, h = 109.12644958496 },
    { x = -1038.7161865234, y = -1593.4896240234, z = 4.0773878097534, h = 124.29933929443 },
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}

local lastKnownVehicleAmount = 0
local vehicleIds = {}

local function spawnServerVehicles()
    for _, v in ipairs(vehicleCoords) do
        local CreateAutomobile = GetHashKey('CREATE_AUTOMOBILE')
        local vehicle = Citizen.InvokeNative(CreateAutomobile, GetHashKey('asbo'), v.x, v.y, v.z, v.h)

        while not DoesEntityExist(vehicle) do
            Wait(0)
        end

        table.insert(vehicleIds, vehicle)
        lastKnownVehicleAmount = lastKnownVehicleAmount + 1
    end

    print('Created ' .. lastKnownVehicleAmount .. ' server-side vehicles at GameTimer ' .. GetGameTimer())
end

RegisterCommand('spawnvehicles', function()
    spawnServerVehicles()
end)

local function getAmountOfExistingVehicles()
    local count = 0

    for _, v in ipairs(vehicleIds) do
        if DoesEntityExist(v) then
            count = count + 1
        end
    end

    return count
end

CreateThread(function()
    while true do
        local count = getAmountOfExistingVehicles()

        if lastKnownVehicleAmount ~= count then
            print('Detected the deletion of ' .. lastKnownVehicleAmount - count .. ' vehicles at GameTimer ' .. GetGameTimer())
            lastKnownVehicleAmount = count
            print('Total amount of deleted vehicles is now: ', #vehicleCoords - lastKnownVehicleAmount)
        end

        Wait(1000)
    end
end)

RegisterCommand('startmoving', function(source)
    while true do
        local randomCoords = vehicleCoords[math.random(1, #vehicleCoords)]
        SetEntityCoords(GetPlayerPed(source), randomCoords.x, randomCoords.y, randomCoords.z)
        Wait(500)
    end
end)

RegisterCommand('deletevehicles', function()
    for _, v in ipairs(vehicleIds) do
        if DoesEntityExist(v) then
            DeleteEntity(v)
        end
    end
end)

Within 77 seconds of starting the script, 75/202 vehicles are despawned. Output from the repro code:

image

This doesn’t happen when the server is empty or only one client is in the server. When at least two clients are moving around, vehicles start to despawn. Presumably something to do with ownership transferring. This happens under ‘normal’ server operation as well. The amount of spawns and the amount of moving here is exaggerated for reproduction.

This is continued from my previous topic, where it was stated that CREATE_AUTOMOBILE vehicles should be persistent and not despawn (until disowned by script):

The goal of this is trying to achieve persisent vehicles which won’t despawn until disowned by script.

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Possibly related to Game build 2699 - Vehicles become despawn when you move away from their scope - #7 by d-bubble

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The solution commit referenced in that thread (fix(scripting/five): script names for b2699 · citizenfx/fivem@7236080 · GitHub) seems to add a different behaviour for game build 2699 only, leaving other builds untouched.

This current issue is occuring on b2189 and has been so for months. But they are still possibly related, yes.

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Not directly, but the same thing with script ownership being accidentally removed, perhaps.

This was a bit fragile in the past, too, and perhaps a quick workaround would be that these entities should just reject any client-side removal/update of script ownership (and only be able to be disowned by server script).

(reason for it being fragile, I believe, is the ‘activation flag’ thing that requires this data node to be sent in a second pass)

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It would be great if we’d have a server-side native to toggle client-side removal / OneSync cleanup for a specific entity.

This would allow us to make other entities (not just CREATE_AUTOMOBILE vehicles) persistent as well after spawning them. Or make them non-persistant with the toggle, once a script is content with it despawning.

However, for the time being, the quick workaround you mentioned for CREATE_AUTOMOBILE would be sufficient - or was this a general workaround for other entities too? (not sure). Anyway, whatever to make the vehicles persistent, as despawning impacts players heavily. Especially in RP servers where you can’t just spawn a new one.

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FWIW, this issue is in the queue to be looked at still.

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One fix for this issue is present as of fix(gamestate/server): reject removal of script ownership for server-… · citizenfx/fivem@dd2e1c9 · GitHub.

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… and got reverted as it’s apparently broken, and I don’t want to keep HEAD in a broken state for too long.

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The initial feedback is that it did make vehicles more persistent. Tested in live, had vehicles sitting in some places successfully for 8+ hours with clients coming/leaving. Before this, these would have been despawned for sure, and a lot earlier.

Hope this fix will get reintroduced soon with the problem (which you reverted this for) fixed.

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I have also been working on persistent vehicles for my server, the native one I use now is CreateVehicleServerSetter, but I have noticed the behavior that the vehicles are disappearing as described, does this have a solution?

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did you try finding fix for this?

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For now the solution for me was to generate a small loop on the server side that every so often checks if a vehicle no longer exists and comes back and generates it for me, I know it is not the best solution but for now it is what it is. although I still notice very strange behaviors such as vehicle license plates changing numbers

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yeah, for me after getting a lot of reports that vehicle getting poofed while they are in the vehicle, i found out that the vehicle is still exist in server it just not there, so now i created a server track to see where vehicle goes

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This seems to be back again.

Is this related?

image

Recently we’ve been getting this the past few days. Happens no matter which menu we use to spawn the cars either. Randomly despawns. Each time we spawn a new vehicle, it gives the error you see in yellow. Then saves to cache. Then randomly despawns and gives another error you see in yellow.

IT HAPPENS RANDOMLY.

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Would be nice to know how you handle your vehicle spawns code-wise.

The baseevents problem is related to this line and is unrelated to that problem: cfx-server-data/resources/[system]/baseevents/vehiclechecker.lua at master · citizenfx/cfx-server-data · GitHub
If a vehicle is deleted while you are sitting inside of it, this is the warning you will get. It is missing a simple DoesEntityExist check.
(speaking of: when can we get access to these archived resources to fix/PR them? :wink: )

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One of the menus its happening with, source is here:

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Well, that menu is creating vehicles on client side. They are not persistent at all.

The proper native to use as of now is CreateVehicleServerSetter - FiveM Natives @ Cfx.re Docs. There are still some (known) issues with disappearing vehicles but certainly much less than before using e.g. the threads og topic here.

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Something else new must be going on related to latest artifacts perhaps? Literally all 3 menus we use, and it makes no difference when it happens or not. We cannot think of what else would cause it. At a loss. (hence how we found this thread about the related symptom)

From one of our menus

function SpawnVehicle(Veh, Name, Livery, Extras)
    local Ped = PlayerPedId()
    if (DoesEntityExist(Ped) and not IsEntityDead(Ped)) then 
        local pos = GetEntityCoords(Ped)
        if (IsPedSittingInAnyVehicle(Ped)) then 
            local Vehicle = GetVehiclePedIsIn(Ped, false)
            if (GetPedInVehicleSeat(Vehicle, -1) == Ped) then 
                SetEntityAsMissionEntity(Vehicle, true, true )
                DeleteVehicle(Vehicle)
            end
        end
    end

    local WaitTime = 0
    local Model = GetHashKey(Veh)
    RequestModel(Model)
    while not HasModelLoaded(Model) do
        CancelEvent()
        RequestModel(Model)
        Citizen.Wait(100)

        WaitTime = WaitTime + 1

        if WaitTime == 100 then
            CancelEvent()
            Notify('~r~Unable to load vehicle. Please try again.')
            return
        end
    end
    local x, y, z = table.unpack(GetEntityCoords(PlayerPedId(), false))
    local Vehicle = CreateVehicle(Model, x + 2, y + 2, z + 1, GetEntityHeading(PlayerPedId()), true, false)
    SetPedIntoVehicle(PlayerPedId(), Vehicle, -1)
    SetVehicleDirtLevel(Vehicle, 0)
    SetVehicleModKit(Vehicle, 0)
    SetVehicleMod(Vehicle, 23, -1, false)
    SetModelAsNoLongerNeeded(Model)
    if Livery then
        SetVehicleLivery(Vehicle, Livery)
    end
    if Extras then
        for extraId = 0, 30 do
            if DoesExtraExist(Vehicle, extraId) then
                SetVehicleExtra(Vehicle, extraId, true)
            end
        end
        for _, extra in pairs(Extras) do
            SetVehicleExtra(Vehicle, extra, false)
        end
    end

    if Name then
        Notify('~b~Vehicle Spawned: ~g~' .. Name)
    else
        Notify('~b~Vehicle Spawned!')
    end
end

And the other is vMenu

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This menu also spawns it on client side.
And I’m not sure about vMenu, but I would expect that to also spawn vehicles client side. Though I could be wrong about that.

But again:

  • Spawning vehicles client side does not make them persistent.
  • Spawning vehicles server side using CreateVehicleServerSetter does, however there are still some issues where vehicles can disappear that mainly have to do with network ownership not propagating properly from what I have read in the forum.

That is the reason why there are quite a few “parking” resources out there. Feel free to take a look around, make sure to stop by AdvancedParking v3.11.0 - Persistent vehicles! [ESX] [QB] [Standalone] if you are interested :wink:

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yeah but regardless of it spawning on the client side the issue of them despawning while driving them or standing right next to them is certainly new and seems to happen more often with more networked entities around

perhaps a max NET ID?