giving a name to a created vehicle

[stalin]

At one point in my mission I want to create a police jeep.
looks like this:

_jeep1 = "JeepPolice" createvehicle getpos g5

Later in the mission i want to delete it (With another script) . How do i give the jeep a name in the createcehicle script so it can easily be deleted later?

[macguba]

Check out createUnit in the command ref, that might help.   You can name the unit in the init field.

Looking at your example it seems to me that you have already named your vehicle _jeep1.     Try naming it jeep1 instead and then deleteVehicle jeep1 to see what happens ..... _jeep1 might not work because of the local variable thing.   (variables starting with _ are local, not global.    Would that make a difference here?  I have no idea.   Suck it and see.)

[Cap]

Or couldn't you have the vehicle already on the map, just on an island out of the way, then use the...

jeep1 setpos (getpos g5)

command. It goes something like that.

[Artak]

There's something fishy in deleting created units and vehicles. I haven't gotten the hang of it yet, and as for the time being it's impossible for me to delete what I have created.

[stalin]

yes it's tricky.. I can't even delete the vehicle in the same script that created it using the local variable..

guess I'll work around it by teleporting vehicles to where they are needed for now

[LCD]

lol

name it in global name w/o underscore @ start

den delete da jeep1

LCD OUT