Adding car spawn locations

[TheHeggy]

I thought I might add a spawn location in front of CJ's house so there's always a car there (maybe the SWAT tank ), but when I open the main.scm file the format for generating parked cars seems to be different. Here's what I'm seeing:

 

 

014B: $2335 = init_parked_car_generator  417 -1 -1  1 alarm  0 door_lock  0  0  10000 at  383.178  2538.891  16.53 angle  180.0014C: set_parked_car_generator $2335 cars_to_generate_to  0

 

 

Now, shouldn't there be something in there that defines what car to spawn? If I remember correctly, in Vice City there was a "#CAR_NAME" in there, and that was how the car was defined. So how do you tell it which car to spawn with this new code?

Edited June 11, 2005 by TheHeggy

[Hammer83]

417 is the model name from vehicules.ide

[TheHeggy]

Ah thank you very much I knew it had to be something simple.

 

Apologies if this was already asked before... Search is turned off so there's bound to be some n00b questions...

[kingpug]

Nice idea, but I want to know:

 

Is it hard to edit the main.scm?

You got a list of the car numbers?

 

Well because I want to make that spawn point also, but never even attempted editing the main.scm, and I want to keep the main.scm I have which opens up all cities.

 

Sorry to highjack your thread but its a good idea, could you maybe add that spawn point to the opened up main.scm made by Craig ?..thanks if you can

[gtasanandreasmaster]

Nice idea, but I want to know:

 

Is it hard to edit the main.scm?

You got a list of the car numbers?

 

Well because I want to make that spawn point also, but never even attempted editing the main.scm, and I want to keep the main.scm I have which opens up all cities.

 

Sorry to highjack your thread but its a good idea, could you maybe add that spawn point to the opened up main.scm made by Craig ?..thanks if you can

yes it is fairly easy to do main.scm modding after about an hour you will get the hang of it

and yes you can still keep that everything open scm just edit that one

[TheHeggy]

Sure, once I figure it out for the normal scm I'll do it for that one too. I just need to find out the player position coordinates though... Steve-M's tool might work but I can't find the damn thing...

[gtasanandreasmaster]

which one playerpos?

 

EDIT:

 

playerpos dont work

Edited June 11, 2005 by gtasanandreasmaster

[TheHeggy]

Ack, guess the edit I made didn't go through.

 

I found Steve-M's program but it's not able to work with San Andreas Found another one though on gtagaming.com... Got my player position and I'm in the process of editing the scm. Let's see if this works...

[gtasanandreasmaster]

Ack, guess the edit I made didn't go through.

 

I found Steve-M's program but it's not able to work with San Andreas Found another one though on gtagaming.com... Got my player position and I'm in the process of editing the scm. Let's see if this works...

can you plz post a link to it

[TheHeggy]

Here ya go:

 

http://www.gtagaming.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=954

 

Edit: Woot, it worked I put a red and blue BF Injection in CJ's alley It's facing the wrong way but that's easy to change... If you have a link to that other SCM I'll be happy to change it for you. Just tell me what car you want and where.

Edited June 11, 2005 by TheHeggy

[gtasanandreasmaster]

thankz man

 

oh and is the player position correct then

[TheHeggy]

Yep the player position is 100% correct. My vehicle showed up exactly where it should have been.

 

Edit: Woah... I went back in to change the vehicle orientation and it seems that either the mission editor or the game itself changed my coding.

 

I put in:

 

014B: $cj_alley = init_parked_car_generator  424 -1 -1  1 alarm  0 door_lock  0  0  10000 at  2481.145 -1699.303  13.52679 angle  90.0014C: set_parked_car_generator $cj_alley cars_to_generate_to  101

 

 

And after compiling the file and running the game once it now says:

 

014B: $10949 = init_parked_car_generator  424 -1 -1  1 alarm  0 door_lock  0  0  10000 at  2481.145 -1699.303  13.52679 angle  90.0014C: set_parked_car_generator $10949 cars_to_generate_to  101

 

 

I've never seen this happen before... Maybe it's always happened and I just haven't done SCM editing in a loooong time

Edited June 11, 2005 by TheHeggy

[Aeros]

Stupid question here .. what do you use to open up main.scm? Id do a search but as Heggy said, its down.

[TheHeggy]

With this program:

http://www.janco.si/gtasezana/programi/SA-MB033.zip

 

When you download it, open SASCM.ini located in whatever folder you unzipped the mission builder to. At the end of that file (below everything else), add the following text:

 

 

0A4A=2,%1h% %2h% 0A4B=0,

 

[Aeros]

Thanks alot mate .. but it doesnt seem to be downloading. Says a link couldnt be established. Any other places I can get it from?

 

Edit again : Found a mirror to the one you aimed me at .. cheers.

Edited June 12, 2005 by Aeros

[Craig Kostelecky]

In case other links go down, I've been hosting this for the past month or so. I've even updated the SASCM.ini to include the new opcodes. And I've updated the variables.ini to include a few more variable names.

 

Download

[TheHeggy]

Do you mind if I link to that in my car spawn tutorial?

[Knife]

When I try to click on the link IE crashes

[mageezer]

one last question, what's this "cars_to_generate_to" business? And why did you put "101" there instead of the "0" in the first example?

[kingpug]

Ah nevermind I got it working now.

Edited June 12, 2005 by kingpug

[TheHeggy]

one last question, what's this "cars_to_generate_to" business? And why did you put "101" there instead of the "0" in the first example?

101 tells the game that the vehicles needs to show up EVERY time you come around that location. Anything lower than that and it reduces the chances of it appearing. Something like 51 should make the car show up about half of the time...