Auto Vehicle Destroy

[KingMofo]

Hello,

I am trying to find a function to use for automatically destroying the unoccupied vehicles left by the player. I'm not really sure of a way to go about doing this.

Could someone give me some advice or maybe an example? I'd really appreciate it.

Also, how would i add a space in a commandhandler? For example:

addCommandHandler ("do now", blah, blah)

So now i go to console and try "do now" but it doesn't work. I've tried doing _ as a space but that doesn't work either. If anyone can help me on this i'd be so happy!

[50p]

https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtop ... 91&t=25032

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Main_Page

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Scr ... troduction

I'm in a rush.. all I can say is READ wik and LEARN Lua. You come here from space asking for something that is too hard for you without much scripting knowledge. I assure you, spend a few days on reading and learning and you'll become much better scripter who can script a lot because Lua is very easy to learn especially if you have good resource (which you have).

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/OnVehicleExit - to start timer to destroy vehicle

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/OnVehicleEnter - to stop the timer if running already to prevent from destroying vehicle when player is inside

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/SetTimer - to start timer

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DestroyElement - to "destroy" vehicle element (get rid of vehicle from the server)

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/SetElementHealth - if you don't want to remove vehicle from server, use this to change vehicles health to 0 to explode it

[KingMofo]

https://forum.multitheftauto.com/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=25032

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Main_Page

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Scr ... troduction

I'm in a rush.. all I can say is READ wik and LEARN Lua. You come here from space asking for something that is too hard for you without much scripting knowledge. I assure you, spend a few days on reading and learning and you'll become much better scripter who can script a lot because Lua is very easy to learn especially if you have good resource (which you have).

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/OnVehicleExit - to start timer to destroy vehicle

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/OnVehicleEnter - to stop the timer if running already to prevent from destroying vehicle when player is inside

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/SetTimer - to start timer

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DestroyElement - to "destroy" vehicle element (get rid of vehicle from the server)

- https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/SetElementHealth - if you don't want to remove vehicle from server, use this to change vehicles health to 0 to explode it

Thank you 50p, this really did get me started. I already have a bit of knowledge with LUA.

I managed to auto destroy vehicles when someone has left the vehicle for 30seconds via setTimer.

I'm having a big problem though. If the player leaves the vehicle, then decides to re-enter the vehicle, it still destroys it. Also, if someone exits the vehicle as a passenger, it destroys the drivers vehicle. I have tried using getPedOccupiedVehicleSeat but that doesn't seem to work.

Here is the code i'm using.

Client:

function onVehExit ()
      local localPlayer = getLocalPlayer()
local vehCheck = isPedInVehicle (localPlayer)
local theVehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle (vehCheck)
if theVehicle == source then
return
else
triggerServerEvent ("vehExit", source)
end
end
addEventHandler ("onClientVehicleStartExit", getRootElement(), onVehExit)
addEventHandler ("onClientVehicleStartEnter", getRootElement(), onVehExit)

Server:

function leftOverVehicles()
local theSeat = getPedOccupiedVehicleSeat (source)
if theSeat == 0 then
setTimer (destroyElement, 30000, 1, source)
else
       end
end
addEvent ("vehExit", true)
addEventHandler ("vehExit", getRootElement(), leftOverVehicles)

Maybe someone can point out if i'm doing something wrong?

P.S - Sorry for replying so late, 50p.

[manuelhimmler]

Use this code in serverside script, I would never use script with deleting something clientside because it maybe gets unsynchron:

function destroyVehicle(vehicle)
   local check=false
   for i,player in ipairs(getElementsByType("player")) do
       if getPlayerOccupiedVehicle(player)==vehicle then
           check=true
       end
   end
   if check==false then
       destroyElement(vehicle)
   end
end
 
function exitVehicle(vehicle)
   setTimer(destroyVehicle,30000,1,vehicle)
end
addEventHandler("onPlayerVehicleExit",getRootElement(),exitVehicle)

[robhol]

While you're learning MTA scripting, you might also find this: http://robhol.net/guide/basics helpful.

[KingMofo]

Thank you manuelhimmler, that worked flawlessly! You don't know how much time i've spent trying to get it right, so i am very grateful.

Thank you for that link robhol, i have already visited that a few times and found it extremely helpful, thank you.