Posts made by mcal9909

@M8T keep a reference to the ped when creating it.

Ped ped = World.CreatePed();

If(ped.isDead) doSomething();

Looks like menyoos basic speedo

@josiewales don't use the notification system. Have a look under screen or ui and you will see you can draw text directly to the screen.

My script augmented peds was made to combine with zombie like scripts.. makes combat a lot more challenging.

https://www.gta5-mods.com/scripts/augmented-peds

@specialDude Alot of game like the sims would also fake it, give all tasks a time to complete, keep track of the last time the sim on screen and what that sim was doing, what that sim needs to do, then when they are next on screen. Use the information you have to put that sim where it should be by quickly simulating the time that has passed.

This way nothing is updated when it doesn't need to be on distant sims thus enabling you to handle alot more sims than having all sims running through all there tasks all the time.

This is also how games like terraria handle there map tile updates.

yeah visual range is about the limit for movment based tasks on foot. You can spawn a car in sandy and have it drive to the player in LS, but doing the same with a ped on foot will result in the ped doing nothing.

@JohnFromGWN My guess is reacting to events is a secondary task in its self. Some reactions are permanent. If your driver was unarmed she would run away and never come back.

Come to think of it i have seen this bevior in my script, i have peds that run a patrol task on foot. They have weapons and events are not blocked. They will attack if provoked and carry on with there assigned task after all enemies are dead. Just never thought to try it with driving.

Vehicle based tasks work at a much greater range from the player than a ped on foot. I suspect this is something to do with the nav map, maybe using movement tasks that ignore pathing could be a thing? I know i have seen such a parameter for one of the natives. Also there are ways to load distant regions of the map, might be something to look into.

Personally i would just fake it, have a position that moves over time to simulate the ped going somewhere, and then placing that ped on a path/ground near that position and start the movment task when the player is within range for the movement task to actually work. Then faking it again when the player is out of range.

@JohnFromGWN Indeed it was entertaining, Not behaviour i have seen yet as such a ped in any script i have made will not react to events happening around them Ped.BlockPermanentEvents = true;, from my understanding certain tasks can be layered ontop of each other with primary and secondary tasks. It would be interesting to know what else a ped can do while still keeping the underlying drive task.

Did the ped drive to the correct location? I wonder if the game gave the ped a new drive task or if the original task was still active.

Dynamically adjusting the drivers maximum speed based on the type of road node at the vehicles velocity position can improve the standard driving AI a hell of alot.

static void DriverSpeed(Ped p, Vehicle v) // This is run every tick
        {

            if (v != null && p != null && v.Driver.Handle == p.Handle)
            {
                float roadSpeed = GetRoadSpeed(v.Position + v.Velocity);
                if (roadSpeed != Speed)
                {
                    float increment = 0.01f;
                    Speed = roadSpeed;

                    if (v.Speed > Speed)
                    {
                        p.MaxDrivingSpeed = v.Speed - (increment * Game.LastFrameTime);
                        p.DrivingSpeed = v.Speed - (increment * Game.LastFrameTime);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        p.MaxDrivingSpeed = Speed;
                        p.DrivingSpeed = Speed;
                    }

                }
            }
        }

public static float GetRoadSpeed(Vector3 pos)
        {
            OutputArgument outArgA = new OutputArgument();
            OutputArgument outArgB = new OutputArgument();
            if (Function.Call<bool>(Hash.GET_VEHICLE_NODE_PROPERTIES, pos.X, pos.Y, pos.Z, outArgA, outArgB))
            {
                int busy = outArgA.GetResult<int>();
                int flags = outArgB.GetResult<int>();

                float speed = 8;
                foreach (int flag in Enum.GetValues(typeof(PathnodeFlags)).Cast<PathnodeFlags>())
                {
                    if ((flag & flags) != 0)
                    {
                        switch ((PathnodeFlags)flag)
                        {
                            case PathnodeFlags.Two:
                                speed = 16;
                                break;
                            case PathnodeFlags.Freeway:
                                speed = 35;
                                break;
                            case PathnodeFlags.Slow:
                                speed = 9;
                                break;
                            case PathnodeFlags.Eight:
                                speed = 16;
                                break;
                            case PathnodeFlags.SlowTraffic:
                                speed = 14;
                                break;
                            case PathnodeFlags.FourWayIntersection:
                                speed = 11;
                                break;
                            case PathnodeFlags.Intersection:
                                speed = 11;
                                break;
                            default:
                                speed = 8;
                                break;
                        }
                    }
                }
                int NodeID = Function.Call<int>(Hash.GET_NTH_CLOSEST_VEHICLE_NODE_ID, pos.X, pos.Y, pos.Z, 1, 1, 200f, 200f);
                if (Function.Call<bool>(Hash._GET_IS_SLOW_ROAD_FLAG, NodeID))
                {
                    if (speed > 9)
                    {
                        speed *= 0.7f;
                    }
                }
                return speed; 
            }
            return 5;
        }

@JohnFromGWN I believe ImNotMental also uses VB.Net, alot of his projects are open source on github. Might be of some use to you.

https://www.gta5-mods.com/users/ImNotMentaL
https://github.com/qiangqiang101

Since the latest update to GTA, to use any modified clothes, cars etc (basically if its not a script) You must use a new GameConfig for the latest version, Heap adjuster and a packlimit adjuster. Without these even 1 car will crash the game.

It is possible to display BIK videos on surfaces if i remember correct. Its not something i have done, but someone around here should know.

@Kieran_S Dont set task = Missiontask.pickupGuard; until the player is in the marker and guard.PedGroup == player.PedGroup;

@Kieran_S
try

SHVDN2

UIText debugText = new UIText("current task: " + task, new Point(10, 10), 0.4f, Color.WhiteSmoke, 0, false);
debugText.Draw();

SHVDN3

GTA.UI.TextElement debugText = new GTA.UI.TextElement("current task: " + task, new Point(10, 10), 0.4f);
debugText.Draw();

make sure it runs every frame, outside of any of your tasks.

@Kieran_S Seems to be like the same condition needed to triger a marker being drawn is the same condition needed to move onto the next stage of the mission.

  if (player.IsSittingInVehicle(missionVehicle))

Marker is drawn if you are within 3.5m of the markers position.

Then further down you

task = Missiontask.pickupGuard;

So it looks like you are entering Missiontask.enterVehicle; and aslong as you are in the vehicle, you are leaving on the same frame. So the marker never gets a chance to be drawn.

I would sugest outputting the current state of task somewhere so you can see what your code is doing.

Be aware, markers need to be drawn every frame. If your code isnt running every frame the marker will only be drawn for a single frame.
I would need to see more of the code to understand the problem.

Also, SHVDN has its own implementation of drawmarker, it makes your code much more readable.

if (DrawMarkers) World.DrawMarker(MarkerType.UpsideDownCone, new Vector3(stashPos.X, stashPos.Y, stashPos.Z - 0.5f), Vector3.Zero, Vector3.Zero, new Vector3(1f, 1f, 0.5f), Color.Green);

Cool, i was worried you might hit some roadblock due to not being able to implement examples written in c# into VB and get disheartened.
Work with the language that your most comfortable with, after all, most languages are similar enough that once you learn one, learning another becomes very easy.

@JohnFromGWN It was just an example of how an enum works. GET_CLOCK_DAY_OF_WEEK returns the day in game.

public int DayOfWeek()
{
   return Function.Call<int>(Hash.GET_CLOCK_DAY_OF_WEEK);
};

public enum DayGTA
        {
            Sunday = 0,
            Monday = 1,
            Tuesday = 2,
            Wednesday = 3,
            Thursday = 4,
            Friday = 5,
            Saturday = 6
        };

so if the day in game is Friday.

UI.ShowSubtitle(DayOfWeek().ToString()); will = "5"
UI.ShowSubtitle((DayGta)DayOfWeek().ToString()); will = "Friday"

@JohnFromGWN said in Almost Quit:
A Handle is an entities unique ID in the world entity.Handle, A hash usually refers to the entities model. This can be accessed with entity.Model.Hash. A Ped inherits from Entity so has access to these properties.

PedHash.Micheal is part of an enum called PedHash, enums are effectively named integer numbers in a list of model hashes.

        public enum DayGTA
        {
            Sunday = 0,
            Monday = 1,
            Tuesday = 2,
            Wednesday = 3,
            Thursday = 4,
            Friday = 5,
            Saturday = 6
        }

So

int day = Function.Call<int>(Hash.GET_CLOCK_DAY_OF_WEEK);
DayGta eDay = (DayGta)day; //cast the int to a DayGta

eDay will = DayGta.Sunday if day returns 0. Which is much easier to read than working with pure numbers.
They can also be cast to an int with (int)eDay. Even turn them into a string with eDay.ToString(). Which will return "Sunday"

Ah i see where the confusion may be.

public bool IsVisible
{
   get => Function.Call<bool>(Hash.IS_ENTITY_VISIBLE, Handle);
   set => Function.Call(Hash.SET_ENTITY_VISIBLE, Handle, value);
};

As you can see its a bool, but its also a property and is used the same way any other variable is used. Its not a method, as it does not have any parentheses after the variable name. So if you want to set the property it must be assigned to using = true/false.
As you can see you can also get a value from this property.

If(ped.IsVisible) DoSomething();

This can be similar to a method that returns a value of type bool.

public bool IsVisible(int handle)
{
   return Function.Call<bool>(Hash.IS_ENTITY_VISIBLE, Handle);
};

A method can not be assigned to, but will return a value. So can be used in multiple different ways.

if(IsVisible(ped.Handle)) DoSomething();

For setting outfits the use of this native is required. https://alloc8or.re/gta5/nativedb/?n=0x262B14F48D29DE80

Its the reverse i was warning you about, alot of information you will find online regarding scripting in GTA will be written in c#, so not learning c# is going to hold you back alot as not understanding them examples will mean implementing them is going to be difficult.

This might help you get your head around vectors.

Also the scripthookVdotnet source code is a great help when trying to figure out how a method uses the arguments it requires.
https://github.com/crosire/scripthookvdotnet/tree/main/source/scripting_v3/GTA

One problem your going to have with VB is resources and examples available to you, not many people use it for scripting in GTA. So this may be a problem further down the line. As alot of people who will be able to provide you with help, will only do so with examples written in c#.

There is a wealth of information out there, but you have to dig around to find it, this forum being one also gtaforums com is another good place. Also there are a few youtube videos explaining alot of the basics. The 5mods discord has a scripting section that can also be alot of help when you are struggling. They can be a little hostile, but as long as your not wanting everything spoon fed to you, there is alot of learned just by asking questions.

I was in your position a year ago, dont give up!

Object browser is also a good tool for figuring out what you can do.

View > Object Browser (ctrl + alt + J) > select your reference to scripthookVdotnet > GTA. Then from there you can view a list of all the classes, and the methods, properties these classes contain and how to use them.

You can also use this to view enums used in SHVDN.