v0.6.1 - Dry Van Trailer Scenario restart issue

In a scenario which includes a semi and dry van trailer (such as Heavy Delivery Pack:Utah's "Heavy Cargo B" scenario) the landing gear can malfunction upon scenario reset.

If the landing gear is in the up position (such as when it is attached to the semi) and the scenario is reset, the landing gear will remain in the "up" position with no way for the player to correct it. For this reason it can be difficult or impossible to hookup to the trailer after a reset (The front of the trailer is too low to get the fifth wheel under it.). I've attached a screenshot.

This is very easy to replicate, please let me know if there are any questions. For now, a workaround is to be certain to press "L" to disconnect the trailer before resetting the scenario.

 

Try setting the following on the trailer:

Code:

electrics.values.feet = 0

 

Ah, good workaround. I won't be able to update the Lua right away, but it looks like that is going to work!

Generally I feel like the game should probably handle this for us, but maybe it makes more sense to handle this one uncommon thing inside the scenario? I'm trying to remember how other things inside "electrics" are handled on resets.

 

@mumboking - thanks, that definitely did the job. Here's some functioning example code (assuming that the trailer is named 'trailer' in the prefab).

@Scepheo - you may find this interesting, or you may already know this. It seems that the last hook that race.lua currently calls before onRaceStart() is actually onRaceWaypoint. This call is useful because it's where the WP count resets from nil to zero and the call occurs after everything is loaded. I see that onRaceInit is supposedly called around the same time, but that doesn't show in my log for some reason and I haven't tried to use it.

WP 0 seems to be a good place to execute this sort of thing for the moment. EDIT: see the bottom.

Code:

local function onRaceWaypoint(data, goal)
      if data.cur == 0 then
        scenetree.findObject('trailer'):queueLuaCommand("electrics.values.feet = 0")
    end  
end

EDIT: Hmm, so actually WP0 loads right before the countdown starts, eg only 3.5s before onRaceStart is called - not really useful, my mistake. Unfortunately onRaceInit isn't called any earlier either. It seems that if you want something done when the scenario hits the START the best thing to do is use both onScenarioRestarted and onScenarioLoaded. That seems to do the trick.