Direction where the Player is moving....

[Deepu]

I want a help....

actually I want to get the direction in which the element moves..... (player)

AnyOne got a function like that?

[Karuzo]

I don't know but you could use

  
getElementRotation 

[Deepu]

hmm... I dont think so because with rotation you cant update it. The player can change direction too

[Karuzo]

What do you want to make actually ?

[Deepu]

making farmer job

[Karuzo]

No i mean why do you want to get the direction of the player ?

[Citizen]

making farmer job

He mean't with the rotation ...

Because

getElementRotation 

is the right function but you said it is not because you can't update it, so what do you mean by that ?

[Deepu]

look a player can change his rotation any time he want. Thing is if he turns 30 degree east then the marker shud spawn in 30 degree east so it should be updated each second just like the dxDrawText

[Citizen]

Just use a timer then ?

setTimer 

Note: dxDrawText isn't updating itself. Ht has to be used in a function attached to the onClientRender event which is like a really fast timer (faster that you can do with the setTimer function).

[Deepu]

but even if its a timer should i use this for it to be infinite? to make it update every second?

setTimer(function, 500, 0) 

and can I also update the

local x,y,z = getElementPosition(localPlayer) 

?

[myonlake]

Are you sure you need to update the direction all the time? You can just make it render everything client-side and update some element data with the direction if necessary.

[Deepu]

thing is I had error with my script where if

local x,y,z = getElementPosition(localPlayer) 

and I used it in a function......

s1 = createMarker(x+8, y,z, "cylinder", 1, 255, 2, 0) 

thing is that when I restart script then on ColShapeHit.....

the marker spawns in my previously loaded position before hitting the colShape

[Mr_Moose]

Not sure what you are trying to do here but if you want the marker to be added relative to the position of the player onColShapeHit then you should get the player position just before you create the marker and not in the loading code.

You should also note that onColShapeHit is a server sided event and since you use "localPlayer" in your code I assume that you are trying to make a client sided script. Therefore you should use: "onClientColShapeHit" instead. Maybe you should post the code since it's hard to know what you are trying to do here.

[Deepu]

Son, you mean I don't know what is server sided and client sided?

before asking that question....

Son, what you talking abt? Check the TOPIC NAME.....

and I know that "client" will be added to all events if its in client events and no "client" in server events

[ReDFoX]

Do you mean the serverside function 'getElementZoneName' ?

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/GetElementZoneName

Here the example from the wiki:

  
  
function playerloc ( source ) 
    local playername = getPlayerName ( source ) 
    local location = getElementZoneName ( source ) 
    outputChatBox ( "* " .. playername .. "'s Location: " .. location, getRootElement(), 0, 255, 255 ) -- Output the player's name and zone name 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "loc", playerloc ) 
  
  

//edit

try it with this:

  
function( source ) -- My funciton with the argument source 
     setTimer( -- calling the function SetTimer 
           function() 
                local myZone = getElementZoneName( source ) -- the local variable myZone to get the Zonename of the source player 
                outputChatBox("The Player " .. getPlayerName( source ) .. " is in the direction " .. tostring(myZone), source) -- !!!! And output it to the chatbox !!!!!! 
           end, 500, 0) -- call the function every 0,5 seconds, every time when the function ended 
end 
  

[Citizen]

Son, you mean I don't know what is server sided and client sided?

before asking that question....

Son, what you talking abt? Check the TOPIC NAME.....

and I know that "client" will be added to all events if its in client events and no "client" in server events

Ok lol, just calm down Deepu stop arguing with members who want to help you.

Don't you think that at this moment YOU and not us is the problem ?

Because we still don't understand what you actually want to do after 7 posts from you.

Call other "son" because someone treats you as a beginner (and sorry, but you're still a beginner and you're really close to your 61% of your signature) is disrespectful. Nobody will help you more if you are talking to them like you just do.

And about your problem of your marker position you want to be updated to make it follow the player on his right (that's what I understood so far) use this function and call it with a setTimer:

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Get ... ceRotation

X and Y will be the current player position, the distance will be 8 and angle will be 90 (means right).

[Deepu]

what resource you want? Tell me and I will make it for you.......

If I make the resource just as you want it then give me 200$

ready?

Cuz I am not A freaking beginner scripter got it? And if you guys are jealous of me then please don't reply

PS: Admin Lock this topic so that I figure it out myself

[cheez3d]

You post a topic daily asking for help and you call yourself a good scripter.

Cool story bro.