[Tutorial] How to make heli searchlight track target

[NoNameSet]

As alot of you already know there are natives that let you control a vehicle weapon & also enable a helicopters search light so I just wanted to show people how to combine those natives and get a script working that lets the search light track an entity.

=> Sorry if this has been shown before and yes I am using RPH

hope this is useful is some kind of way.

//firstly you want to activate the search light on a helicopter and set both toggle and canBeUsedByAI to trueNativeFunction.Natives.SET_VEHICLE_SEARCHLIGHT(helicopter, true, true);//then when you want to make the search light track an entity/position you have do use this native in a loop:NativeFunction.Natives.SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(HeliPilot, TargetPed, TargetVehicle, TargetPosX, TargetPosY, TargetPosZ, 3, 1);orNativeFunction.Natives.SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(HeliPilot, TargetPed, TargetVehicle, TargetPosX, TargetPosY, TargetPosZ, 2, 0);//MUST BE RUN IN A LOOP or it will stop tracking the entity/position after a few seconds//in nativedb the native only has 4 parameters but I guess that has been changed after I looked into a script it has two more

Edited March 30, 2018 by NoNameSet

[OfficerJohnson]

Thank you for this. This is something I've actually been looking into but couldn't fully figure it out. This is the in-game searchlight on a police helicopter, right? The one that tracks you on a Wanted Level?

[NoNameSet]

Thank you for this. This is something I've actually been looking into but couldn't fully figure it out. This is the in-game searchlight on a police helicopter, right? The one that tracks you on a Wanted Level?

Yes it is.

 

Also remember if you are going to use this, that you don't need to use all three of the params for tracking, you can only choose one option and leave the rest on 0...example

NativeFunction.Natives.SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(HeliPilot, Suspect, 0, 0f, 0f, 0f, 3, 1);

Edited March 30, 2018 by NoNameSet

[NoNameSet]

here are examples found in the scripts:

(in the scripts: agency_heist3b.c4, epsilon8.c4, fm_mission_controller.c4, gb_gangops.c4, paparazzo3a.c4)

							BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(Local_441[3 /*88*/].f_1[0 /*20*/], 0, 0, ENTITY::GET_ENTITY_COORDS(Local_441[2 /*88*/], 1), 2, 0);							BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(Local_441[3 /*88*/].f_1[0 /*20*/], 0, 0, 187.76f, -672.66f, 41.41f, 2, 0);								BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(Local_441[3 /*88*/].f_1[0 /*20*/], 0, 0, ENTITY::GET_ENTITY_COORDS(Local_441[12 /*88*/].f_1[0 /*20*/], 1), 2, 0);							BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(Local_441[3 /*88*/].f_1[0 /*20*/], 0, 0, 187.76f, -672.66f, 41.41f, 2, 0);						BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(Local_440[5 /*20*/], 0, 0, vVar2, 2, 0);						BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(iLocal_379, 0, iLocal_395, 0f, 0f, 0f, 2, 0);				BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(iParam0, iParam0, 0, 0f, 0f, 0f, 1, 0);				BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(iParam0, iVar0, 0, 0f, 0f, 0f, 3, 0);							BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(iParam0, iVar3, iVar4, 0f, 0f, 0f, 3, 1);				BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(iLocal_204, Local_316, 0, 0f, 0f, 0f, 2, 0);								BRAIN::SET_MOUNTED_WEAPON_TARGET(iLocal_204, Local_316, 0, 0f, 0f, 0f, 2, 0);

Edited March 30, 2018 by NoNameSet

[OfficerJohnson]

@NoNameSet what is the programming language these scripts are in? If I knew, I could study it and understand better since I want to use this properly.

[NoNameSet]

@NoNameSet what is the programming language these scripts are in? If I knew, I could study it and understand better since I want to use this properly.

c++