Placing a vehicle at the side of the road

[ScottyTooHotty 188]

Hello guys

So I'm just wondering how to place a vehicle at the side of the road and make sure it's lined up with the direction the road is facing too.

Thanks a lot

Scott

[Albo1125 4550]

8 minutes ago, ScottehBoyy said:

Hello guys

So I'm just wondering how to place a vehicle at the side of the road and make sure it's lined up with the direction the road is facing too.

Thanks a lot

Scott

There's no real reliable way. 

For my Traffic Stop backup locations, for example, I collected the Vector3s and headings myself.

[ainesophaur 85]

I'm sure you can get the heading by getting the vehicles with a driver in a sphere around your target. Chances are they'll be lined up with the heading of the road.

[ScottyTooHotty 188]

12 minutes ago, ainesophaur said:

I'm sure you can get the heading by getting the vehicles with a driver in a sphere around your target. Chances are they'll be lined up with the heading of the road.

That's a pretty smart method. Might give it a go.

26 minutes ago, Albo1125 said:

There's no real reliable way. 

For my Traffic Stop backup locations, for example, I collected the Vector3s and headings myself.

Oh wow! All those are manually done?

[PNWParksFan 2441]

You can get the heading fairly easily using the GET_CLOSEST_VEHICLE_NODE_WITH_HEADING native. What I do to get spawn points for Custom Backups is I use the RAGE World.GetNextLocationOnStreet function, then I pass that exact coordinate into the GET_CLOSEST_VEHICLE_NODE_WITH_HEADING native and pull just the heading from that. If the heading is more than 90 degrees away from the direction towards me, then I add 180 degrees and normalize the result.

 However, that won't help you figure out where the edge of the road is... I'm not aware of any reliable way to do that so far. You might be able to use that with the IS_POINT_ON_ROAD native to essentially keep going further from the node until you hit the edge of the road (i.e. where it's no longer on road). You'd have to come up with a pretty complex algorithm though because if you're at an intersection or something like that, then you could go forever (down a different road) and never find the "edge" if one doesn't exist. 

Edited April 23, 2016 by PNWParksFan

[Albo1125 4550]

36 minutes ago, ScottehBoyy said:

Oh wow! All those are manually done?

Absolutely. Doesn't take too much time to do it, you just need a good tool to use that provides output to copy paste into your code.

44 minutes ago, ainesophaur said:

I'm sure you can get the heading by getting the vehicles with a driver in a sphere around your target. Chances are they'll be lined up with the heading of the road.

I did try this however it's hardly as reliable as I hoped.

[ScottyTooHotty 188]

1 hour ago, PNWParksFan said:

You can get the heading fairly easily using the GET_CLOSEST_VEHICLE_NODE_WITH_HEADING native. What I do to get spawn points for Custom Backups is I use the RAGE World.GetNextLocationOnStreet function, then I pass that exact coordinate into the GET_CLOSEST_VEHICLE_NODE_WITH_HEADING native and pull just the heading from that. If the heading is more than 90 degrees away from the direction towards me, then I add 180 degrees and normalize the result.

 However, that won't help you figure out where the edge of the road is... I'm not aware of any reliable way to do that so far. You might be able to use that with the IS_POINT_ON_ROAD native to essentially keep going further from the node until you hit the edge of the road (i.e. where it's no longer on road). You'd have to come up with a pretty complex algorithm though because if you're at an intersection or something like that, then you could go forever (down a different road) and never find the "edge" if one doesn't exist. 

I saw somewhere else that someone used 3f to the right of the original spawn and that was pretty accurate apparently?

Also, rather than starting a new topic I'll just ask here. Do you know of a way to make a ped that I've spawned in attack a vehicle? If I give him a bat, nightstick then do you know of any way that I can make them then start smashing up a vehicle? Thanks. @Albo1125 @PNWParksFan @ainesophaur

[ainesophaur 85]

Nothing I could find in directly attacking a vehicle.. But I did find a task to throw a projectile at a coord which could be the vehicle.

 

http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/func/info/7285951dbf6b5a51

 

Optionally there is a rage task to attack a ped.. If there is a driver you can target them but I doubt that's your end goal.

[Darkmyre 701]

myPed.Tasks.FireWeaponAt(...)

Takes an entity not specifically a ped, so can be used for peds and vehicles.

[PNWParksFan 2441]

2 hours ago, Darkmyre said:

myPed.Tasks.FireWeaponAt(...)

Takes an entity not specifically a ped, so can be used for peds and vehicles.

Hmm I wonder if the weapon is something like a knife or a bat if they'll hit with instead of "shoot". 

[Darkmyre 701]

52 minutes ago, PNWParksFan said:

Hmm I wonder if the weapon is something like a knife or a bat if they'll hit with instead of "shoot". 

Hmm, I missed that bit. I had a look through the FiringPattern enum (last parameter for FireWeaponAt) and all of the firing patterns seem projectile-based, so it might not work for melee weapons.

[ScottyTooHotty 188]

8 hours ago, ainesophaur said:

Nothing I could find in directly attacking a vehicle.. But I did find a task to throw a projectile at a coord which could be the vehicle.

 

http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/func/info/7285951dbf6b5a51

 

Optionally there is a rage task to attack a ped.. If there is a driver you can target them but I doubt that's your end goal.

Considered doing that but I would guess my Ped inside the vehicle would then be pulled out and beaten lol

 

4 hours ago, Darkmyre said:

Hmm, I missed that bit. I had a look through the FiringPattern enum (last parameter for FireWeaponAt) and all of the firing patterns seem projectile-based, so it might not work for melee weapons.

Hmm, I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

[Stealth22 800]

On 23/04/2016 at 4:17 PM, PNWParksFan said:

You can get the heading fairly easily using the GET_CLOSEST_VEHICLE_NODE_WITH_HEADING native. What I do to get spawn points for Custom Backups is I use the RAGE World.GetNextLocationOnStreet function, then I pass that exact coordinate into the GET_CLOSEST_VEHICLE_NODE_WITH_HEADING native and pull just the heading from that. If the heading is more than 90 degrees away from the direction towards me, then I add 180 degrees and normalize the result.

 However, that won't help you figure out where the edge of the road is... I'm not aware of any reliable way to do that so far. You might be able to use that with the IS_POINT_ON_ROAD native to essentially keep going further from the node until you hit the edge of the road (i.e. where it's no longer on road). You'd have to come up with a pretty complex algorithm though because if you're at an intersection or something like that, then you could go forever (down a different road) and never find the "edge" if one doesn't exist. 

This is pretty much what I do. But then I move the vehicle 20 or 30 meters to the right...its not reliable lol, but it works most of the time!