Send Ped Headshot to server ?

[Dr Emixam]

Hi there,

 

I'm currently trying to make a script to send to my server the mugshot/headshot of the player.

 

I started using this very useful topic : http://gtaforums.com/topic/885580-ped-headshotmugshot-txd/

 

Displaying the mugshot onscreen (like in notifications) works great but I don't know how to get the image data of the headshot, I think I need to access this data to be able to send it to my server.

 

(Sending it is not an issue, the format is not an issue either I can convert on the server side)

 

I think I may start with the native GET_TEXTURE_RESOLUTION and then read each pixel value to make a bitmap-like structure I will be able to send to the server ? I don't know if it is possible to read pixel values in a texture

 

If anyone got an idea…

[ins1de]

Why would you even bother to send it over the network?

 

Assuming you're working with FiveM, you need two scripts and at least one event.

1. client-side -> draw the notification with pedheadshot
2. server-side -> send the ped network handle to a player with an event

Note : by "all clients", I mean the players you want to have the mugshot created.

 

Follow these steps, if your selected ped is NOT A PLAYER, ignore step 1 & 2 :

1. Set your ped as a mission entity SET_ENTITY_AS_MISSION_ENTITY, this will stop any unexpected ped behaviour such as disappearing in the middle of the process
2. Get the network ped ID with NETWORK_GET_NETWORK_ID_FROM_ENTITY
3. Send the network ped ID to the selected online players (you need to create an event for this, like TriggerEvent("thisScript:sendpedID",source, destination/player, netPedId)
4. Request ped mugshot/headshot on all clients
5. Not necessary but better for sync : wait for all clients to have the ped mugshot loaded on all clients.
6. Call the function where you need to display the mugshot (for example : drawNotification, etc).on all clients.
7. Eventually, make the ped available for game deletion with SET_ENTITY_AS_NO_LONGER_NEEDED from server-side.

Remember, the mugshot is stored as a string variable and can be used to create a temporary texture file.

This means you can not send the texture to other clients because their game won't know what it means as the texture has not been loaded/created on their own computer.. This is why you use an event to say "Hey, I want you to create a mugshot for this ped for thoses players".

 

In GTA V, there are something like ~34 available ped mugshots that can be requested/created at once (source : scaleforms).

Edited July 8, 2017 by ins1de