Firstly, I apologize if this doesn't belong here(I felt it'd make better sense to be in questions rather than the scripts showcase.. if I'm wrong I ask that this thread be moved.)

 

I'm finally getting the hang of using the C# scripthook, with just one problem stopping me at the moment. How does one spawn a random ped? Unfortunately I've been unable to find anything like CreateRandomPed() or a model.random flag for CreatePed, and for a bit I thought that World.GetRandomPed() would work, but I haven't been able to make it work properly. It seems to work sometimes, but most of the time it's just causing an error in my script and it's kind of annoying.

 

I also thought about holding an array of the different model names, and calling a random one, but I realized the list would probably be massive. After finding nothing useful on google, I decided to ask here.

 

So, those of you who are familiar with scripthook, what do you do to spawn random peds? 'Cause I'm lost.

I think it's  

GTA.Native.Function.Call("Create_Random_Char")

It was a loooooong time ago I messed with that kind of coding. 

When not passing a model as argument, it will take a random one:

 

GTA.Ped ped = GTA.World.CreatePed(GTA.Vector3.Zero);

Thanks!^ When the LMS gives coding advice, you better take it as the truth. I'm out :p

I think it's  

GTA.Native.Function.Call("Create_Random_Char")

It was a loooooong time ago I messed with that kind of coding. 

 

This would work, but the problem is that I need to interact with these peds by saving them to a variable, and the native calls don't return peds. Thanks though!

 

When not passing a model as argument, it will take a random one:

 

GTA.Ped ped = GTA.World.CreatePed(GTA.Vector3.Zero);

 

My favorite thing about programming.. here I've been jumping through hoops trying to make this work and it turns out the simplest solution is just to drop the model name. Thanks for the help, LMS! This works great!

This would work, but the problem is that I need to interact with these peds by saving them to a variable, and the native calls don't return peds. Thanks though!

 

 

My favorite thing about programming.. here I've been jumping through hoops trying to make this work and it turns out the simplest solution is just to drop the model name. Thanks for the help, LMS! This works great!

 

You can also pass GTA.Gender to it as well to limit to be a random female or male char.